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Holvi ZooZ Sonovate 4 The FinTech50 2015 panel Pierre Suhrcke Director, Acorus Capital Santiago Tenorio Director Innovation & Roy Vella Payments, American Express Managing Director, V2 Ltd Nasir Zubairi Venture Partner, FinLeap Debu Purkayastha Entrepreneur in Residence, Octopus Gareth Lodge Dave Birch Senior Analyst, Celent Consult Hyperion Travers Clarke-Walker Managing Director EMEA, Alex MacPherson Fiserv Head of Ventures, Octopus Ian Morgan Richard Peers Christian Erlandson Chris Skinner Industry Director Financial Banking Industry Lead EMEA, European Leader, Chairman, The Financial Services, Google Microsoft Dun & Bradstreet Services Club 5 Alex McCracken Managing Director, Venture Services, Silicon Valley Bank James Cameron Associate, Accel Partners Nicky Cotter John Chaplin Co-Founder, ICON, Chairman, Ixaris The FinTech50 & FinTechCity Alex Batlin Group CTO Applied Innovation (R&D) & Market Research Director, UBS Conny Dorrestijn Shiraz Partners Jon Barrett Product Adviser, Fearghus Barkley Silicon Valley Bank James Le Brocq FinTech50 Research Adviser, Ensygnia Andrew Vorster Eddie Harding Menno Van Leeuwen Julie Lake Technology Foresight Head of FinTech, Team Lead Innovation Centre, Co-Founder, The FinTech50 Consultant ICON Corporate Finance ABN AMRO & FinTechCity Anyone can have an idea, it takes vision to make it happen Now, more than ever, the world needs entrepreneurs with skill, drive and imagination – people who are ready to turn their innovative ideas into successful businesses. Every year Barclays helps entrepreneurs of all kinds realise their ambitions and create a future that’s better for everyone. We are proud of the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars, helping FinTech startups fast track their businesses. Visit barclaysaccelerator.com to find out more Barclays Bank PLC is registered in England and authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Registered No. 1026167. Registered Office: 1 Churchill Place, London E14 5HP. 7 The FinTech50 2015 Julie Lake and Nicky Cotter Founders, The FinTech50 Here’s a big financial forecast to begin with. According to Silicon Valley Bank research, FinTech will be one of three sectors predicted by the CBI to deliver, between them, a whopping £300bn to the UK economy by 2020. In anyone’s money, that’s a phenomenal trajectory by the sector since we launched the first FinTech50 in 2012. Back then we had just 150 FinTechs on our long-list. This year we considered just shy of 800. 2012 was the year of the ‘start-up’. In 2015, we not only saw even more potential game-changers than ever before, we are also witnessing the birth of the billion-dollar FinTechs. It is these characteristics that distinguish this year’s 50 from previous ones. In a nutshell, it’s a tale of new and ingenious technologies (of course), but also of maturity and scale – in a truly global sense. It is also very much about Europe – if, admittedly, our geographic scope owes more to Eurovision than to Google Earth. The UK dominates the list with 27 companies, but it’s now impossible to ignore the rise of FinTech cities across Europe who are emerging as powerhouses of innovation – and collaboration. FinTechs from The Netherlands, Germany and Sweden make up 30% of this year’s list. Cyprus, Finland, Ireland, Israel, Lithuania and Poland are also represented. We have grouped this year’s list into four mini sector parcels: Banking, Platforms, Payments and Big Data/ Risk. Platforms and payments predominate this year, but the 2015 50 also highlights hotspots such as analytics, insurance, microfinance, aggregation and virtual currencies. A lot of people helped us to deliver this year’s list: our partners and sponsors, our ever-collaborative global community of innovators, financial services, VC investors and global techs. And, of course, our always-insightful panel (see p4-5) who had the very tall order of reducing a long list of 800 inspirational FinTechs to the 50 who appear in this book. If you would like to get involved in our 2015 programme, we would love to hear from you. fintechcity.com “Payments are moving from the domain of the banks to next generation platforms that can combine acquiring, processing and payment gateway services under one roof, across all channels, globally. This need is driven by the global nature of the internet and eCommerce, the need of merchants for a smooth service with maximum conversion and the desire of consumers for simplicity of transacting.” Jan Hammer, Partner, Index Ventures Payments 9 Adyen KEY PEOPLE CEO & Founder: Pieter van der Does Co- Founder: Arnout Schuijff FOUNDED Blockchain 2006 KEY PEOPLE SECTORS CEO & Founder: Nicolas Cary Payments Co-Founders: Ben Reeves, HEADQUARTERS Peter Smith Amsterdam, The Netherlands FOUNDED ON TWITTER 2011 @Adyen SECTORS ON THE WEB Payments adyen.com HEADQUARTERS London, UK Adyen provides a single platform to accept payments anywhere in the ON TWITTER world through any sales channel. @blockchain The company enables businesses ON THE WEB to process payments across online, blockchain.com mobile, and POS (Point-of-Sale) with over 250 payment methods Blockchain is a Bitcoin platform in 187 transaction currencies. New and currently the provider of the payment methods this year include world’s most popular Bitcoin wallet, SEPA direct debit, POLi, Interac, the most widely used Bitcoin APIs DragonPay, and Apple Pay. Clients and the most popular block explorer include Airbnb, Spotify, Groupon, and search engine. It also has Vodafone, Mango, SoundCloud, what is widely recognized as the Indiegogo and KLM. strongest, most trusted brand in Bitcoin, with 2.5m users. 10 Earthport KEY PEOPLE CEO: Hank Uberoi Currency Cloud FOUNDED 1997 KEY PEOPLE SECTORS CEO: Mike Laven Payments Founder: Nigel Verdon HEADQUARTERS FOUNDED London, UK 2012 Cybertill ON TWITTER SECTORS KEY PEOPLE @Earthport Payments & FX CEO & Founder: Ian Tomlinson ON THE WEB HEADQUARTERS FOUNDED earthport.com London, UK 2001 ON TWITTER SECTORS Earthport provide white-label cross- @currency_cloud Retail Payments Software border payment services delivering ON THE WEB high volumes of low value payments currencycloud.com HEADQUARTERS efficiently, cost-effectively and Knowsley, UK transparently. In December 2014 Currency Cloud is a B2B platform ON TWITTER it announced a global partnership providing administration and @cybertillretail with Ripple to offer real-time control features to automate ON THE WEB international payments capability, the entire payments lifecycle of cybertill.co.uk (Ripple is the open-source payments businesses. The company delivers protocol for free and instant Cross-Border Payments-as-a- Cybertill has developed an exchange of any form of money or Service, providing access across award-winning fully hosted value). Earthport’s clients include a multitude of payment networks multi-channel cloud-based retail two of the top five banks globally and exchange rate providers. software product, offering retailers and four of the top 20 US banks It also provides comprehensive a fully integrated end-to-end including Bank of America Merrill administration and control eCommerce, EPOS and Enterprise Lynch, Western Union and HSBC. features and fully automates Supply Chain Management solution. the entire payments lifecycle In 2014 Cybertill teamed up with from compliance, pricing and MercuryPay to bring their cloud- beneficiary management, through based POS system to the US. The execution and receipt to settlement company’s software is currently and reporting. installed at over 4,000 locations with over 4,500 Points of Sale and 250 websites across the UK, Europe and the USA. 11 Ixaris Systems KEY PEOPLE CEO & Founder: Alex Mifsud Klarna Co-Founders: William Lorenz, Damon Hart KEY PEOPLE