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Less than a week ago the UK voted to leave the EU. This comes against a background of severe problems for listed US marketplace lenders, a worlwide tailing off of institutional capital into the sector and only a tiny number of Fintechs having achieved profitability (many years after launch).
I thought it time to take a big picture look at Fintech – is Fintech 1.0 flagging? Do we need Fintech 2.0 to take us onward and upwards? Will Brexit be a positive force or a negative force for Fintech?
I could think of no better figure to discuss this with than Giles Andrews who has been at the top of perhaps the UK’s oldest Fintech Zopa per se as well as one of the most blue-chip today.
It’s a wide-ranging conversation but one that lays out some of the parameters of the territory ahead – one which right now may be shrouded in fog but one which we all, including the Fintech sector, will travel through.
It’s a longer episode than normal and there is plenty on the show. Some main topics we discuss include: