Essentia Analytics Clare Flynn-Levy of Essentia Analytics.

London has become a global colossus for financial startups: the UK and Ireland accounted for more than half of Europe’s Fintech deals in 2013, with the capital taking the lion’s share of that. There are other pockets of Europe where financial startups also seem to thrive.

Many of these companies are working at the intersection of tech and finance. Some are aiming to market a product to everyone, some just to businesses, and some to the biggest banks and financial institutions.

What’s common among all the companies is that they’re actively making their own markets, fulfilling demand where there previously might have been none – especially since the financial crisis in 2008. But they’re all offering something new, exciting, and financially promising.

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