London, UK, 19 September 2019: HQLAᵡ has been included in The FinTech50, the first list in the world to recognise innovative European fintechs. Now in its seventh year, the annual list is selected by an international panel of experts. Last year’s list received over 1M views worldwide and companies listed on the 2018 FinTech50, Hot Ten and Hall of Fame raised a combined total of $2.53Bn in just 12 months.
Leaders from Standard Chartered, Silicon Valley Bank, UBS, Accel, Mastercard and Barclays UK Ventures, as well as Heads of Fintech hubs across Europe, reviewed over 2000 Fintechs on a long list compiled through independent research and personal recommendations.
The 2019 list features established brands Monzo, Revolut and N26 alongside 21companies new to the list who reflect this year’s focus on innovation for consumers, business and financial services. They include London-based SalaryFinance, founded with asocial purpose to offer salary-linked employee benefits, Stockholm’s Minna Technologies, offering subscription management through European banks, Arabesque S-Ray, monitoring the sustainability of 7000 large companies, and Luxembourg’s Tokeny, a white-label platform to issue, transfer and manage tokenised securities.
The Top 10:
1. Onfido – London: Identity Verification
2. Monzo – London: Digital Banking
3. Revolut – London: BankingAlternative
4. Raisin – Berlin: pan-European deposits Market place
5. Tink – Stockholm: Open Banking
6. OakNorth – London: BusinessBanking
7. Monese – London: Digital Banking
8. solarisBank – Berlin: Open Banking
9. N26 – Berlin: Digital Banking
10. Alan – Paris: Health Insurance
The Hot 10:
Apiax
Regulation & compliance
Zurich – Founders: Ralph Huber, ThomasSuter, Nicholas Blanchard
Transforming complex regulations into digital compliance rules, which are constantly up-to-date and verified, accessible via an API.
Aryze
Digital cash
Copenhagen – Founders: Jack Nikogosian, Morten Nielsen
Digitizing cash through a range of cryptographically secure stable coins linked to the value of an underlying national currency.
Bankifi
Amsterdam and Manchester – Founders: Conny Dorestijn / Mark Hartley
AllowsSMEs to bundle sets of micro services to build the right solution for their business segments.
Gardenia Technologies
Working capital finance
Luxembourg - Founders
Iimproves profitability through data-driven advanced analytics and ML-driven working capital finance and risk management.
Circular Economy
London - Founder: May Al-Karooni
Creating social value by being the world’s largest reuse marketplace
Neufund
Investing
Berlin - Founder: Zoe Adamovicz
Building a blockchain-based and investor-directed platform which bridges the world of cryptocurrency and equity.
OKO Finance
Crop Insurance
TelAviv - Founders: Shehzad Lokhandwalla, Simon Schwall
Usingsatellite and mobile technologies to bring crop insurance to emerging markets
Swoop Funding
SME Funding
Dublin / London – Founders: Andrea
Simplifies and speeds-up access to loans, grants and equity funding for businesses in theUK & Ireland.
Tully
Financial wellbeing / debt
Nottingham – Founders:
Financial welling service designed to help the 23 million people in the UK who are worried about money.
11:FS Foundry
Banking as a Service
London: CEO: Dr Leda Glyptis
A cloud-based and modular digital banking toolset that allows customers to deploy an entire banking stack or select services to suit.
FinTech50 Founding Director Julie Lake said: “We wanted this year’s 50 to represent the value delivered by fintech innovation to individuals, employees, businesses of all sizes, as well as to traditional providers of financial services This year's 50 this are meeting the demands of wider social, environmental and economic trends - the subscription economy, sustainable investing, financial wellbeing - as well as continuing to transform traditional financial services for the benefit of their customers.”
Craig Fox, Director, Fintech, at SiliconValley Bank, said: “Silicon Valley Bank is a key partner to the tech community in the UK and across Europe. We’ve supported the growth and the evolution of the fintech industry for over a decade to help companies disrupt all corners of financial services. The sector is increasingly competitive, meaning that this year's FinTech50 list is even more diverse and far-reaching. This reflects the talent and creative ideas within the industry in an environment of ongoing socio-economic changes resulting from macro trends. At Silicon Valley Bank, we work with some of the industry’s most talented business leaders and know what it takes to succeed and move bold ideas forward, fast; this year’s 50 represents the very best."
The full list of FinTech50 companies inalphabetical order:
*New to the list this year
Alan
Arabesque S-Ray*
Azimo
Bunq
Calastone
Chainalysis*
ClauseMatch
ClearBank
Clearmatics
ClearScore
CloudMargin*
ComplyAdvantage
Cuvva
Cytora*
EigenTechnologies*
Everledger
Farewill*
Featurespace
Fluidly*
Form3 FinancialCloud*
Habito
HQLAˣ*
IDnow
Minna Technologies*
Modulr*
Monese
Monzo
Mosaic SmartData
N26
Nivaura*
OakNorth
Onfido
PensionBee
Pleo*
Previse
Railsbank
Raisin
Revolut
SalaryFinance*
Simudyne*
solarisBank
Sonect*
StarlingBank
Tessian*
ThoughtMachine
Tink
Tokeny*
Tractable*
Truelayer**
Zego*
About The FinTech50
The FinTech50 was the first list in the world to recognise Fintech in Europe for innovation and is now a global top ten fintech organisation. We founded our annual list of 50 Fintechs "to watch" in 2012 as a guide to an emerging sector. Seven years on, it is selected by an international panel of experts and is seen as a guide to quality within a super crowded one.
The FinTech50 2019, selected from over 2000 Fintechs across Europe, will be live on Wednesday 18th September. For the first time, we will share the reveal video on our YouTube channel from 19.15 GMT on18 September: https://www.youtube.com/fintechcity
For more information about The FinTech50, visit: https://thefintech50.com/