Sponsors & Supporters

EY acts as an integrator across the whole financial services industry, leveraging the best that Fintechs have to offer, fuelling growth and innovation with sustainability at its core.

Refresh is a web design agency that helps businesses thrive online. Independent UX design services available too.

Recruit 121 (Finance, Technology & Executive) is a specialist Finance, Technology & Executive recruitment provider. We pride ourselves on providing a professional and consultative approach to the recruitment of Finance (from part-qualified to CFO), Technology (from Jr tech roles to CTO) and Executive attracting and introducing the most talented professionals, whilst operating in a friendly, highly ethical, and totally transparent environment.

Our expertise, experience and unique approach means we’re a trusted recruitment partner to hundreds of businesses.

We specialise in Permanent and Contract recruitment. We represent the highest caliber candidates in the following fields:

• C-Suite: CFO, CTO, CIO, COO and CMO
• Finance: Finance Directors, Financial Controllers, Management Accountants, Financial Accountant and Analysts
• Fintech: Head of IT, Head of product, Dev op’s, Architects, cloud engineers, BI Developers, Java engineers

Specialists within the UK and Europe.

Grapevine Event Management delivers high quality creative and innovative events for corporate clients throughout the UK and beyond. We offer bespoke corporate event planning, management and production supported by effective marketing and communications strategies that fulfil our clients aims and objectives.

Deloitte in the South West offers the full range of business advisory services – audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax and related services – to a diverse client base. Our people work with clients of all sizes, from individuals, to start-ups, scale ups, SMEs, fast growing and family businesses, as well as corporate clients through to public sector institutions, right across the South West.

Deloitte is proud to support the FinTech ecosystem, by helping incumbents to adapt, start-ups to grow, policy makers to develop FinTech hubs and investors to seize the next opportunity, while also creating ways for FinTech to benefit society as a whole.

W Legal is a boutique law firm that offers top City-trained lawyers who will treat you like you are our ‘only’ client.

You won’t meet your lawyer at a first meeting and then only again at a deal signing or in court – your W Legal lawyer will act for you throughout your matter, without delegating to a large team of associates. We will work from your offices or from ours, use your email address or ours… Be as integrated into your business as you require – and even when acting entirely externally, we will always advise in a thoroughly commercial manner with your direct interests at the forefront.

We offer entirely bespoke billing so will work ‘on the clock’, for a fixed fee, take equity, DBAs, CFAs, work fully-contingent – whatever you require. Ultimately, we limit the number of clients we take on, so that every client has their own trusted, personal lawyer.

With offices in 158 countries and more than 250,000 people, we are among the leading professional services networks in the world. We help organisations and individuals create the value they’re looking for, by delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services.

Hargreaves Lansdown is the UK’s number one platform for private investors, looking after £132.0 billion of savings and investments on behalf of 1.8m million clients (31 March 2023). With over 40 years’ experience in empowering people to save and invest with confidence and helping them build their financial resilience over the long-term, we provide a lifelong, secure home for people’s savings and investments that offers great value and an incredible service making their financial life easy.

We provide well-designed, contemporary private offices, shared workspaces and meeting rooms with brilliantly flexible membership plans. We zero in on the details, so you can zoom out to the big picture, When work is more than just a job, you need more than just an office.

Evelyn Partners are experts in wealth, accountancy, tax and business advice. We work with a wide range of fast-growth UK fintech businesses and their founders, including a number of fintech unicorns, operating in the UK and internationally. We can help you thrive by supporting you in devising and implementing financial strategies that are fully aligned to your business plans, as well as managing tax opportunities and risk and compliance in a streamlined and effective way.

We provide an extensive range of services meaning that we can have a holistic view of a business. We use a core client team that has an understanding of all the services that a business requires and how they all piece together, aiming to act as an extension of your finance team. Our teams have a significant breadth of experience, with experts in a number of areas and we often assist clients with the full suite of services, for example tax, R&D, VAT, Audit, Employer Solutions, Corporate Finance, Valuations and Personal Tax.

Evelyn Partners is a lead partner of Innovate Finance, an independent industry body that represents and advances the global Fintech community in the UK.

The Fintech Power 50 is the annual guide to the most influential, innovative, and powerful figures in the Fintech industry. Shining a spotlight on those who are transforming financial services for the better, It serves as the go-to hub for fintechs and provides an exclusive accelerator programme designed to support a company’s global growth, including PR amplification and increased brand awareness, business development, talent acquisition, and business investment.

Navos Technologies is an expert in technology solutions, specialising in the financial services industry and founded by the former CIO of Hargreaves Lansdown, David Davies. Our team has over 120 years of combined Fintech expertise and a truly unique service offering, combining regulatory know-how with comprehensive technical knowledge. We fully understand your business and pain points, helping you to develop a superior, secure, fully compliant technology approach. From building an innovative digital strategy to implementing dependable cyber security, we can be the trusted technology partner for your business.

Established in 2016, The Fintech Times is a global multimedia news outlet centred around our print newspaper the first and only dedicated Fintech newspaper.
 
Chronicling the latest developments in cutting-edge financial technologies including Payments Innovation, RegTech, Banking Transformation, AI, Cryptocurrencies, WealthTech, Cybersecurity, Insurtech and many more.
 
Fintech needs an authoritative voice that gives the industry exposure and integrity.
 
We have been building that voice over the years together with the main players in finance, international thought leaders and global Fintech firms, with the support of our 75,000+ unique online readers per month and over 150,000+ copies of the print & digital newspaper circulated around the world.
 
Our mission is clear and simple – to make Fintech understood and celebrated.