With $9m in funding, the stock trading and financial management platform provides its Asian customer base with over 15,000 US, Hong Kong and China equities and funds in a single click. Customers can trade in RMB, HKD and USD from one account.

AI based financial market prediction. The company’s artificial general intelligence (AGI) technology identifies patterns and predicts price movements in global financial markets & then recommends action

AMP enables banks and other institutional lenders to profitably offer short-term, unsecured loans to small businesses based upon electronic cash flow and other data points – in both developed and emerging markets.

An award-winning FinTech that provides the banking industry with information security and tracking services.

Winner of The Best Company of the Year for Electronic Payment Solutions & Innovation 2016 by IAIR. mPayment solution and payment gateway vendor AsiaPay brings advanced, secure and cost-effective electronic payment processing solutions and technologies to banks, corporate and SMEs across 12 countries.

A mobile social app which allows person-to-person payment with no fees, using NFC, QR code or online.

P2P FX specialist that provides businesses with cost effective and transparent foreign exchange services.

Credit referencing that scores and analyzing factors such as customer identity and behavior to provide lenders with an additional mechanism of knowing who their customers are and measuring financial risk and customer value. $5m VC backing & offices HK & NYC.

A mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) company enabling debit and credit card payments through smart phones or tablets.

A global trading technology platform that gives investors, retail brokerage firms, wealth management businesses and financial institutions highly configurable sophisticated tools for global trading of any equity, option, or commodity. $10m funding from investors including Citibank.

A SaaS provider of interactive, real-time data visualization combined with multi asset class portfolio, order and execution management system for institutional finance. In March 2016 they partnered with a global vendor of risk management and connectivity software.

Caters to the unbanked with a lack of credit history - the big data company specializes in using non-traditional data for credit scoring and on-line verification to help borrowers not included in the financial system, unlock loans. Operating in HK, The Phillippines, India, Columbia, Mexico. $14m VC backing from Accel, Blumberg and Omidyar Network.

A P2P lending marketplace with a focus on transparency and convenience through best-in-class technology. Hong Kong is its first market and its first product is focused on property owners who can borrow against rental income.

In less than one year of operations MoneyHero the personal finance comparison platform has partnered with over 75 banks, insurance companies and telco’s. It is the most comprehensive financial comparison service in HK.

Mobile banking for the Millennial generation that makes sure you keep on top of your spending budget automatically.

Mobile wallet marketing and customer engagement technologies for banks and FS companies. Recognised as world-class experts in unlocking new revenue from mobile wallet content, proximity marketing, beacon technology and big data.

An integrated wealth management platform and winner of The Asian Private Banker Technology Award 2015 - Best Provider of External Asset Management Solutions.

Digital wealth management solutions / Robo platform offering a white label platform to online brokers, consumer banks and wealth managers.

An online low interest lending platform that enables users to borrow money on a personal loan.

A peer-to-peer decentralized transaction network using blockchain. In March it partnered with Freecharge which has 1 million users per day.

BankBazaar’s neutral online marketplace allows users to search for, compare and apply for loans, credit cards and insurance products. BankBazaar generated a funding of $60m in its C-Series funding, and announced its international expansion with a move into Singapore in February 2016.

Founded in Jan 2015, and with a recent investment by a former Google India head, BetterPlace offers services such as personal, employment, educational, criminal and training verification services using data analytics and application tools.

The payment gateway company has over 15m users. In March 2016, it announced a tie-up with Facebook for cards and net banking transactions.

Online insurance portal helping users to search, buy, compare and understand insurance.

Ezetap enables merchants to accept payments from any mobile wallet through their Ezetap mobile point-of-sale application. In March, Ezetap partnered with mobile Freecharge, which has over 15m registered users for its Freecharge wallet.

ftcash enables offline transactions by aggregating all payment gateways including credit cards, debit cards and mobile wallets under one channel. Founded by former CFO of Deutsche Bank India, ftcash was judged the winner at Paypal’s Start Tank Competition and Village Capital Program.

With 70,000 investors on their platform, FundsIndia is India’s first online platform created specifically for mutual fund investing. Founded in 2009, it believes that every family needs a retirement portfolio, and that most need to save for higher education needs and medium-term goals like buying a house.

Get Fiscal is an invoice and cashflow management for small businesses that enables timely working capital loans by connecting to strategic lender partners.

A digital lending marketplace connecting borrowers and lenders to facilitate an instant loan transaction.

Juspay aggregates services across net banking, wallets and cards and offers payments technology solutions to merchants. Clients include Amazon India and Snapdeal. The Bengaluru-based mobile payments startup secured a $5.8m series-A round funding from Accel Partners in February.

Ketto is a social network or NGO/social enterprises in India, serving as a platform for companies to raise funds, recruit volunteers, and build partnerships domestically and internationally.

Milaap, which means ‘connecting people’ in Hindi & Urdu, is India’s largest funding platform for social and personal causes. It has shifted its HQ to Singapore, but its operations remain firmly focused on India.

Founded in 2013, Paynear is a complete payment solution provider, enabling individuals & businesses of all sizes to easily manage their payment activities.

With 128 million registered users, Paytm is the consumer brand of India’s leading mobile internet company One97 Communications. India’s largest mobile commerce platform anticipates 500m users in the next five years.

Bengalaru-based Razorpay’s payment gateway features an easy to use API, quick integration and simple pricing. Founded in 2013, it raised $9.8m in Series A funding last year.

Mobile Wallet with a unique growth strategy around loyalty and coupons.

Four-year old Scripbox provides an algorithmic decision based on quantitative data about which mutual funds to buy. Last year, it raised $2.5m Series A funding from Accel Partners and angel investors.

The smart trading and Investing portal is ranked India’s #1 in this field with over 50,000 registered users.

Founded in 2013, Unocoin is India’s first and largest platform for simple, secure and seamless trading/exchange of bitcoins.

Founded by Anshulika Dubey and Priyanka Agarwal, Mumbai-based Wishberry is a rewards-based crowdfunding platform that enables users to raise funds for their creative and innovative ideas.

Yet-to-launch Brolly is a personal insurance concierge powered by artificial intelligence. Founded by Aviva alumnus Phoebe Hugh, its mission is to tell customers if they are over or under-insured, have duplicate or missing cover, and if they can get the cover they need at a better price.

Clearmatics is developing next-generation clearing machines for financial OTC markets. Its blockchain platform brings together custodians and end-users on a single platform, where members can settle securities trades and automate the performance of derivatives and other financial contracts using Clearmatics’ Decentralised Clearing Network (DCN) technology.

Hong Kong UKTI winner now based in London. Fund managers look set to benefit from technology that promises to give them unprecedented control over portfolio construction and management using the Lattice EPD Platform. Customers include Hermes Asset Management that run the giant BT Pension Scheme.

Monzo (previously Mondo), developers of a mobile banking application designed to offer banking services.

The company's application uses smartphone technology to update balances instantly, give intelligent notifications and track day-to-day financial transactions without any usage fees, enabling customers to get a graphical timeline of their overall expenditures and get control over their spending.

Paradoxically for the brainchild of a quantum physicist, Moo.la is staunchly in favour of making things simple. With a high-profile founder – former Brookes Macdonald Head of Investment Strategy Gemma Godfrey – and a smart-looking platform whose medium adroitly underpins the message, the yet-to-launch online investment manager is an unequivocal one to watch in 2016.

OptioPay is an online payment platform that increases payments by offering higher-value gift cards as a payment method. The Berlin-based startup is backed by international venture capitalists and banks and now has a team of 30.

With UK SMEs waiting an average 72 days before the invoices they send out are settled, Ormsby Street provides a platform for small firm bosses seeking to limit their exposure to the cash flow issues caused by late payment. SMEs can now check the financial health of potential customers before extending lines of credit to them. Chosen as one of UKTI’s 33 Tech Ambassadors to attend SXSW 2015 in Austin, Texas. Customers include Barclays Bank.

Savedo is an online financial marketplace that allows savers to invest in safe and high-return financial products within the EU. Based in the heart of the Berlin’s tech-scene, Savedo was one of the first ventures launched by startup incubator Finleap.

SETL is an initiative to deploy a multi-asset, multi-currency institutional payment and settlements infrastructure based on blockchain technology. The SETL system will enable market participants to move cash and assets directly between each other, facilitating the immediate and final settlement of market transactions. The SETL system maintains a permissioned distributed ledger of ownership and transaction records, simplifying the process of matching, settlement, custody, registration and transaction reporting. In July 2016, Rachel Lomax, the former deputy governor of the Bank of England, and Ed Richards, the former chief executive of broadcast regulator Ofcom joined ex-Barclays chairman Sir David Walker on the board. In February 2017 Setl opened an office in Paris to bring its blockchain offering to the French market, with its strong asset management community, and the wider region. The firm says that the move will improve its capacity to deal with any future regulatory or other changes in the EU financial markets. The Paris office is headed by Pierre Davoust, formerly Deputy Head of the Financial Markets Unit at the French Treasury.

Squawker provides high-touch, negotiation platforms for investment banks, agency brokers, inter-dealer brokers and proprietary trading firms to find liquidity, negotiate and execute trades that are difficult to execute on the order books or in dark pools. The negotiation platform brings together more than 100 sell-side firms, across 13 European countries, to find, negotiate and execute difficult blocks on an anonymous basis.

Adyen provides businesses with a single solution to accept payments anywhere in the world. The only provider of a modern end-to-end infrastructure connecting merchants directly to Visa, MasterCard, and 250 other payment methods globally, Adyen delivers frictionless payments across online, mobile, and in-store. Headquartered in Amsterdam and San Francisco, with offices across North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia, Adyen serves more than 4,500 businesses, including 7 of the 10 largest U.S. Internet companies. Customers include Facebook, Uber, Netflix, Spotify, Dropbox, Evernote, Booking.com, Yelp, Vodafone, Superdry, Mango, Crocs, O’Neill, SoundCloud, KLM and JustFab.

Currencycloud acts for businesses to provide cheaper, more streamlined FX and cross-border payments services. Founded in 2012, processes in the business processes in excess of $10B in payments every year, across more than 40 currencies in 212 countries. The firm has on-boarded around 250 cents, including brokers, tier-2 banks, payment service providers and marketplace operators.

eToro created the first global market place for people to trade currencies, commodities, indices and CFD stocks online and today has over 4.5 million users in more than 170 countries. In February, eToro signed a joint venture agreement with SBerbank to provide its social trading services to Russian investors.

Funding Circle has a simple proposition: companies get funding at better rates, while savers get a higher return on their cash than if they left it in the bank. Since it was founded in 2010, Funding Circle has lent more than £5bn to 50,000 small businesses, with funds collected from more than 80,000 investors. The company has raised $422 million of equity capital from some of the most sophisticated investors in the world. In September 2018, Funding Circle debuted on the London Stock Exchange: (Lon:FCH).

Following a €60m funding in 2015, Swedish Mpos vendor iZettle announced its move into small business financing by providing SMEs with an advance based on future card sales. IZettle was acquired by PayPal in May 2018 for £2.2Bn in a move intended to help accelerate growth and deliver a seamless commerce experience for PayPal’s merchants. PayPal and iZettle brands and operations will be held separately, pending completion of a review. by the UK Competition and Markets Authority.

Klarna (its name means clear) was founded in Stockholm in 2005 with the idea to simplify buying. Klarna is now one of Europe’s largest banks and provides payment solutions for 60 million consumers across 90,000 merchants in 14 countries. Klarna offers direct payments, pay after delivery options and instalment plans in a smooth one-click purchase experience that lets consumers pay when and how they prefer to.

Nutmeg launched the UK’s first online discretionary wealth manager in 2011. Specializing in investments, ISAs and pensions, Nutmeg's online investment management service is intelligent, straightforward and fair. It is the first wealth manager with a 6 year performance track record in the UK. With $1.5 billion in assets under management, Nutmeg has become a scale wealthech player. In February, it secured a Series E investment from Goldman Sachs ($58M) to fuel global expansion.

TransferWise is a money transfer service allowing private individuals & businesses to send money abroad without hidden charges. One of the original FinTech revolutionaries, TransferWise continues to innovate, opening up services to China and forging a partnership with Germany’s Number26. TransferWise now serves 4 million customers now and moves more than $4 billion dollars every month. (Saving customers $4 million in bank fees every day.). Richard Branson, and PayPal founders Max Levchin and Peter Thiel, among others, are investors.

TransferWise has opened 11 offices, with over 1,300 employees, across 4 continents.

Funding raised in June 2019 make TransferWise Europe’s most highly valued FinTech.

Worldwide, WorldRemit’s 800,000 customers send 1.2m money transfers every month. In September 2018, WorldRemit became the first fintech company in the UK to integrate with WhatsApp. The integration supports WorldRemit’s goal of serving 10 million customers connected to emerging markets by 2020.

The first UK lender of its kind, and the pioneer of the peer-to-peer industry, Zopa launched in 2004 with the idea of creating the ‘e-bay for money’. To date, the P2P pioneer’s total lending exceeds £1.3bn, with £530m lent in 2015 alone, double the total of 2014.

Zopa has lent $3.6m to UK borrowers, lending $996m in the past year. It has over 60,000 active individual investors (average amount lent: £13,000) and over 311,000 borrowers, borrowing on average £7,700. Zopa is one of the three initial members of the UK's Peer-to-Peer Finance Association, together with FundingCircle and RateSetter.