{"id":12512,"date":"2019-03-26T11:59:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T11:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=12512"},"modified":"2019-03-26T11:59:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T11:59:26","slug":"london-retains-title-as-top-european-city-for-fintech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/london-retains-title-as-top-european-city-for-fintech\/","title":{"rendered":"London retains title as top European city for FinTech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2018, tech firms in London raised over GBP 1.8 billion in venture funding and public listings, higher than anywhere else in Europe and reinforcing London as a major destination for tech growth. Year after year, the FinTech cluster has remained London\u2019s most attractive tech industry sector, accounting for GBP 1.0 billion in funding raised in 2018 and hosting over 90% of the United Kingdom\u2019s financial startups. This has resulted in London attracting top talents and investment opportunities in new technologies. In short, London is poised to remain a strong technology player well into the foreseeable future, especially within the burgeoning FinTech sector. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-12512 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='China\u2019s peer-to-peer lending crash'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/china-s-peer-to-peer-lending-crash\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/china-s-peer-to-peer-lending-crash-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-12241\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-12241'>\n\t\t\t\tChina\u2019s peer-to-peer lending crash\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Mastercard and Getir power payments bot for Facebook Messenger'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/mastercard-and-getir-power-payments-bot-for-facebook-messenger\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mastercard-and-Getir-power-payments-bot-for-Facebook-Messenger-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-7566\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-7566'>\n\t\t\t\tMastercard and Getir power payments bot for Facebook Messenger\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Can X Become a Financial Super App?'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/can-x-become-a-financial-super-app\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/c7db78cd-8bc6-ecd8-6f5a-7946c58c1fa91-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-17275\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-17275'>\n\t\t\t\tCan X Become a Financial Super App?\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, tech firms in London raised over GBP 1.8 billion in venture funding and public listings, higher than anywhere else in Europe and reinforcing London as a major destination for tech growth. Year after year, the FinTech cluster has remained London\u2019s most attractive tech industry sector, accounting for GBP 1.0 billion in funding raised &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,292],"tags":[193,335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12513,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512\/revisions\/12513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}