20 of Europe’s hottest fintech start-ups to watch in 2018

admin Blog January 5, 2018 | 0

Who are the fintech start-ups in Europe worth banking on in the year ahead?

Europe is in the grip of a fintech revolution and 2018 is set to be a pivotal year, with seismic developments ranging from Brexit ructions to the onset of GDPR, the implementation of PSD2 and the ongoing evolution of blockchain-based services.

In many ways, Europe represents the perfect storm in terms of the challenges and opportunities that fintech portends.

Fintechs were once seen as a potential threat to the stability of traditional financial services but now, banks are emerging as major supporting pillars for the fintech community as the diversity of new services and apps actually dovetails nicely with banks’ strategic goals.

Everything from peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers, know your customer (KYC) and clever APIs, to open banking and the use of blockchain to sit atop banks’ legacy infrastructure and more, will bring about the biggest changes to the financial system in decades.

And start-ups are in the driving seat. Here are the ones we consider worth watching in 2018.