I’m so excited to be a part of the first Women in Finance awards in Asia. As someone who’s made a career placing stellar candidates — half of whom are women — in the fin-tech industry, this event means so much to me. Growing up in rural England, I didn’t have a blueprint for what a
Global financing for the fin-tech industry hit a new record in 2018, according to a recent report from CB Insights. The amount of venture capital money pouring into fin-tech climbed to US$39 billion, more than double what it was in 2017. After the 2008 financial crisis the banking industry needed a face-lift. Even ten years later, many
Before you decide you want to get a job in fin-tech, do you really understand what that means? Broadly speaking, it is the the innovative use of technology in the design and delivery of financial services and products. Fin-tech is already widely used in areas such as lending, financial advice, investment management and payments. There
Many of our candidates at Pathfinder are telling us they want to work in fin-tech, but how many of us actually know what that means? Financial technology is a newly defined industry space made up of companies that use technology to make financial services more efficient. Initially, fin-tech referred to startups that were trying to displace existing financial systems and
