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FinTech Week and the Microsoft Cloud

Matthew Adams By Matthew Adams Co-Founder
FinTech Week and the Microsoft Cloud

Today marks the start of the UK's #fintechweek - a programme of events focused on innovation in financial services.

Endjin have a busy week - much of which is FinTech related.

To kick off, we're speaking this afternoon at Microsoft's TVP campus on Disruptive Innnovation in Financial Services. We did a version of this talk at Future Decoded at the end of last year, and you can read a booklet covering off some of the content here.

Programming C# 12 Book, by Ian Griffiths, published by O'Reilly Media, is now available to buy.

We'll be doing a series of short posts this week, looking at aspects of FinTech and the cloud; tomorrow, for example, we'll be considering the FCA's draft guidance on Cloud adoption, and the implications for FinTech companies.

If you're interested in exploring the disruptive opportunities of FinTech in the Cloud, then ping me on Twitter or drop us an email. This week's as good as any to start!

Also worth reading:

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Co-Founder

Matthew Adams

Matthew was CTO of a venture-backed technology start-up in the UK & US for 10 years, and is now the co-founder of endjin, which provides technology strategy, experience and development services to its customers who are seeking to take advantage of Microsoft Azure and the Cloud.