Investing in the digital economy

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Digital world

As the digital economy continues to grow exponentially, the financial technology providers with the specialist expertise to help people participate in it are moving centre-stage. These fintechs provide the infrastructure that underpins the way in which digital technologies are changing the way we work, live and play.

In the UK alone, fintech businesses attracted $11.6bn of investment last year according to the CBI – a 217% increase on 2020 – and the number of billion dollar “unicorn” businesses in the sector more than doubled. And this is a global phenomenon – because the digital economy is expanding fast all around the world, so too are the fintechs that support it.

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