Sponsors & Supporters

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.

Eversheds Sutherland’s Fintech group works closely with financial services clients around the world to understand the thematic shifts and surrounding regulatory environment shaping products, processes and business models. With a multi-disciplinary, multi-jurisdictional team which is at the forefront of change across the global themes of M&A, AI, Biometrics, Blockchain and crypto, cloud, cybersecurity, digitisation, payments, operational resilience and Regtech and which transcends traditional areas of practice.

Peel Hunt is a leading specialist in UK Investment Banking, ranked number one broker for UK mid and smallcap companies in Institutional Investor’s latest Europe Survey. Our purpose is to nurture and guide people through the evolution of business. We achieve this through a proven, joined-up approach that consistently delivers value to UK corporates, global institutions and trading counterparties alike.

We have 163 corporate clients (including 32 in the FTSE 250), with an average market capitalisation of approximately £693.57m. Our award-winning research is distributed to over 1,200 institutions across the UK, Europe and the US and has ranked No. 1 for UK Small & Mid-cap Research for the last five years in Institutional Investor’s Europe Survey. Our trading platform makes markets in over 10,000 instruments in 38 markets and is an increasingly important provider of trade execution services to the UK retail platforms and brokers

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.

OpenPayd is a global provider of infrastructure for embedded financial services within the digital economy. OpenPayd’s clients are delivering seamless user experiences and building a new generation of digital services, using embedded finance.

Deloitte 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.

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.

We’re providing borrowers with alternative type of lending. How are we doing this? By using a completely new method of affordability assessment removing the need for a strong credit score. We assess our applicants on the here and the now, because when it comes to lending money….. You’re more than your score!

We are London’s business growth and destination agency. Our mission is to create economic growth that is resilient, sustainable and inclusive.

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.

Project Nemo is a catalyst for change. A 12-month campaign connecting disability inclusion experts with FinTech decision makers who want to accelerate their disability inclusion journey.

Founded in 2023 by a group of experienced investors and operators with proven track record, FinTech Growth Fund enjoys access to differentiated opportunities enabled by the partners’ deep connectivity with strategic capital and the Fintech & Financial Services ecosystem.

FinTech Growth Fund have partnered with a number of leading financial institutions including Barclays, Mastercard, Peel Hunt, NatWest and London Stock Exchange.

Cardiff Capital Region has one of the fastest growing Fintech clusters outside of London (Khalifa Review, 2021). The Region is home to the FTSE 100 Admiral Group and comparison brands Confused.com and Gocompare.com, and also hosts numerous Fintech innovators and challenger banks with national and international footprints. The Region itself consists of the ten councils of South East Wales and accounts for half of the Welsh population and half of Wales’ economic output, making it increasingly attractive for Fintech startups and established companies.

Innovate Finance is the independent industry body that represents and advances the global FinTech community in the UK. Its mission is to accelerate the UK’s leading role in the financial services sector by directly supporting the next generation of technology-led innovators.

Innovate Finance’s membership ranges from seed stage start-ups and global financial institutions to investors, professional services firms, and global FinTech hubs. All benefit from Innovate Finance’s unique position as the single point of access to promote enabling policy and regulation, talent and skills, business opportunity and growth, and investment capital. By bringing together and connecting the most forward-thinking participants in financial services, Innovate Finance is helping create a global financial services sector that is more transparent, more sustainable and more inclusive.

CFIT’s purpose is to unblock barriers to growth for financial technology by bringing together the best minds from across the UK in order to drive better outcomes for consumers and SMEs.

CFIT wants to lead the world in financial innovation, and in doing so, maximise economic growth across all regions of the UK.

1fs Wealth is an innovative UK WealthTech company set up in 2019. We have been featured prominently in the press for our excellence in delivering wealth management solutions. Our cutting-edge and secure B2B digital SaaS platform enables wealth owners to consolidate assets, control risk, manage ownership and analyse performance of their complex portfolios and family assets through the efficient use of data and innovative technology.

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.

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