{"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='Bankers expect open banking to increase profits 10-20%'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/bankers-expect-open-banking-to-increase-profits-10-20\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/bankers-expect-open-banking-to-increase-profits-10-20-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-13039\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-13039'>\n\t\t\t\tBankers expect open banking to increase profits 10-20%\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Sberbank joins IoT consortium'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/sberbank-joins-iot-consortium\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sberbank-joins-iot-consortium-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-11864\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-11864'>\n\t\t\t\tSberbank joins IoT consortium\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Video: how Israel is ruling the cybersecurity world'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/video-how-israel-is-ruling-the-cybersecurity-world\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/How-Israel-Rules-The-World-Of-Cyber-Security-VICE-on-HBO-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-11156\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-11156'>\n\t\t\t\tVideo: how Israel is ruling the cybersecurity world\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}]}}