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We are thrilled to share with you the launch of theme one of our first report, A View From The Leading Edge in partnership with Rainmaking ‘Financial products for changing needs’. 🚀 Within this theme we explore banks product offerings needing to be more than just standard transactions to meet the needs of an evolving and more technologically savvy customer base. Read here: http://ms.spr.ly/6043lKmQx #Fintech #Innovation

The City, University of London's fintech master's students joined us at Rise London where they heard from Rise members Alex Housley (Seldon) and Calypso Harland (Fintech Fringe) on their company visions and insights. It was inspiring to see the next generation of fintech talent so curious and engaged. #Fintech #FutureofFinance

Last week Rise London wrapped up another incredible fintech mentoring session! 🚀 It was so wonderful to see our mentors sharing insights on navigating the fintech landscape, providing founder advice and more. Thank you to our June mentors Antony Bream, Alexander Ford, Myriam Hofri, Karthik Kuchimanchi and Kibriya Rahman for joining us. We look forward to continuing the inspiration at our July fintech mentoring session, found here: http://ms.spr.ly/6041lDsPV #Founder #Fintech #Londontech

Looking to receive fintech mentorship in London? Apply for our in-person sessions on 25 July! These sessions are free and give fintech start-ups and scale-ups the opportunity to meet 1:1 with an industry expert. Our experts range in areas of expertise from marketing to legal to business development and more. Meet our July mentors: - Adam Sokratous - Asya Kuznetsova - Binu Paul - Dimitrios Emmanoulopoulos - Jas Shah Apply here: http://ms.spr.ly/6043YCer3 #Mentoring #Fintech

This week we welcomed PicPay to Rise London! PicPay is a fintech that reinvents the way people deal with money, shop and communicate. Their CEO and entire executive team joined us as Rise members Circles powered by StepLadder, Viable and Ctrl Alt pitched to the audience and received great feedback. Well done Matthew Addison, Franklyn Martin and Robert Andersen on your presentations! #Fintech #Innovation

Join us on Tuesday, 2 July at Rise London for our AI Breakfast Club, alongside TwinPath Ventures and Barclays Eagle Labs. The AI breakfast club in a series of monthly meetups to network and listen in on a themed panel. This month we're looking at how AI is impacting VC and investment. TwinPath Ventures' Katie Lockwood will chair a panel of top tier VCs from the London scene asking them how the latest in AI has changed their investment theses. We'll discover what VCs are now investing in, and how they source, select, and support a portfolio using and integrating AI. Register here: http://ms.spr.ly/6048YAVCQ #HomeofFinTech #AI #VC

This month's FinTech Mentoring session at Rise New York was a blast! Our mentor, Kenneth A. Goodwin Jr., MBA, CCI, CFE held a small group session where he shared insightful information on his career journey and growth advice. Thank you to all of those who attended, and we hope to see these amazing smiles again at the #HomeofFinTech.

We are excited to announce our Rise Growth Academy (RGA) cohort. 🎉 Congratulations to Anonybit, Data Safeguard Inc., Fennel, FinCrime Dynamics, Flexys Solutions, Heka Global, Juice, Mall IQ, Inc., Louisa AI, Odynn, Pockyt, Scribe, Singlify and Spendbase. Learn more about RGA here: http://ms.spr.ly/6040Y0TnC #Fintech #FintechFounders

It was fantastic having KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)-UCL Digital Finance Immersion Program students visit us at Rise London this week. Our very own Tony Margiotta kicked off the event with an introduction on Rise, followed by presentations from Rise members Sarah Sinclair, Tony Hughes and Karan Shanmugarajah, CFA. Thank you to our speakers for such insightful discussions, and our visitors for joining us at the #HomeofFinTech. #KAIST #DigitalFinance