The Fintech50 2018 List
From trade wars between the US and China to increasingly dire warnings about climate change, 2018 has been a rocky year so far. For Fintech, however, things have been exceptionally positive.
Fintech combines finance and technology and is a term used to refer to global businesses that utilize the latest technology to provide a cutting-edge financial experience for their users. Fintech has been a rapidly growing industry in recent years, and 2018 was no exception.
Fintech boomed enormously in 2018. A variety of serious deals and investments across Europe, Asia, and the Americas saw the global investment into the industry more than double from $50.8 billion in 2017 to $111.8 billion in 2018.
The year has marked yet another positive addition to the Fintech industry. As we move towards 2019, there is expected to be even more investment for in-demand Fintech services, particularly amongst the unbanked populations of developing countries in Africa and Asia, for example.
But which were the most successful Fintechs that really made a name for themselves in 2018? Through meticulous analysis and in-depth research of over 1800 different Fintechs, our international panel has compiled the top 50 Fintech companies.
5FinTech50: The Top Companies Disrupting The Financial Ecosystem [2018]
The Financial Technology industry has continued its non-stop disruption of the banking sector. For some finance experts, this booming industry has the potential to render traditional banking obsolete in a few years. Whether this will happen is not something we can tell, but we agree, traditional banking is slowly losing the grip it previously had.
According to Forbes, digital banks, blockchain technology and crypto companies have been at the frontline of this revolution. In this article, we will look at the organizations that Forbes believes are part of FinTech50 of 2018. That said, we noticed something familiar to most of these companies.
They are either offering borderless payment solutions, low transaction fees, or providing users with the freedom to transact without regulation. Cryptocurrency seems to play a vital role in this development. Maybe, we really won't escape the “crypto is the future” talk
All said and done, let's look at the world's most innovative FinTech companies of 2018. Here they are.
- Acorns
- Addepar
- Adyen
- Affirm
- Ayasdi
- Better Mortgage
- Betterment
- Blend
- Blockchain
- Bitfury
- Cadre
- Chain
- Chainalysis
- Circle Up
- Coinbase
- Common Bond
- Credit Karma
- Digital Reasoning
- Earnin
- Ellevest
- Enigma
- Feedzai
- Forter
- Fundrise
- Green Sky
- Guideline
- Gusto
- iCapital Network
- IEX Group
- Kabbage
- Kensho
- Lemonade
- Lending Home
- Metromile
- Plaid
- Qapital
- Quandly
- Remitly
- Ripple
- Robinhood
- Shapeshift
- Stripe
- Symbiont
- Symphony
- Tala
- TransferWise
- Trumid
- Upstart
- Veem
- Xapo
Of all these companies, over 25 of them have made crypto their primary source for driving innovation. You can check out their respective websites for more information.
This year's FinTech 50 can feel very very pleased with themselves. They were selected from over 1800 FinTechs across Europe by some of the biggest names in the sector, our international panel. See also, The 2018 Hot Ten and Hall of Fame.
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From trade wars between the US and China to increasingly dire warnings about climate change, 2018 has been a rocky year so far. For Fintech, however, things have been exceptionally positive.
Fintech combines finance and technology and is a term used to refer to global businesses that utilize the latest technology to provide a cutting-edge financial experience for their users. Fintech has been a rapidly growing industry in recent years, and 2018 was no exception.
Fintech boomed enormously in 2018. A variety of serious deals and investments across Europe, Asia, and the Americas saw the global investment into the industry more than double from $50.8 billion in 2017 to $111.8 billion in 2018.
The year has marked yet another positive addition to the Fintech industry. As we move towards 2019, there is expected to be even more investment for in-demand Fintech services, particularly amongst the unbanked populations of developing countries in Africa and Asia, for example.
But which were the most successful Fintechs that really made a name for themselves in 2018? Through meticulous analysis and in-depth research of over 1800 different Fintechs, our international panel has compiled the top 50 Fintech companies.