What if we could design a truly modern city with the character of a Medieval hill town? If technology is becoming more and…
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There is an old adage that says the days go slow and the years go fast. Such wisdom is often quoted by parents,…
Nancy Hungerford, Simon Allen, Will Shuckburgh and Stephen Howard This week, we hosted a #hackingfinance breakfast with our partners Erevena. We held the…
“Education is not about filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.” –William Butler Yeats The application for the Spring 2017 Anthemis Fellowship, the…
Azeem Azhar, a strategist, inventor, product entrepreneur and writer, and Vice President, Venture and Foresight of Schibsted Media Group, hosted our December #hackingfinance Breakfast on…
This October’s #hackingfinance breakfast concerned Open Banking: what it is and how startups and incumbents alike can maximize its opportunities. More than 70…
Today, I’m pleased to share the news of our latest investment, kWh Analytics, a leading provider of data analytics for the solar financing…
The 2016-17 Anthemis Fellowship program is now open for applications. The Fellowship is our effort to spot and nurture talent in financial services;…
One of the benefits of placing early bets on promising startups is the opportunity not just to witness companies come into their own,…
Anthemis Group and Temenos, the market leading software solutions provider for the financial services sector, joined forces to investigate the assertion that the…
Anthemis is pleased to announce a new advisory offering designed to help large financial institutions build strategic investment platforms. This new business line,…
The Economist Intelligence Unit recently surveyed 203 senior retail banking executives and found that the digital revolution has moved from an existential threat…
As we enter 2016, there is no shortage of startups in the United States aiming to build technology-led, purpose-build products and businesses for…
Selling credit or selling televisions? If you are a retail customer in most European countries, it is likely that you are quite familiar…
2016 will prove to be a pivotal year for financial services. In many ways, we are coming to the end of the most…
Anthemis #hackingfinance Breakfasts are highly curated gatherings of industry leaders from across the financial services spectrum. In these monthly power mornings, held in…
It feels like the historical “fear” around artificial intelligence is receding, and that the discussion has evolved toward what AI can actually do…
If you’re anything like us, you have probably read 20 or 30 articles about what millennials need, and your eyes probably glaze over…
Late last year, Anthemis invested in Eris Industries. Eris was known in the Bitcoin world for having worked on DOUG, a smart contract-based…
Azimo, the London based digital money transfer service, announced today that it has raised an additional $20 million in financing. The funding will…
At Anthemis Group, we’re focused on driving and shaping the evolution of financial services for the digital age. In order for this to…
There is no doubt that insurance is a massive industry. Net premiums for life and property & casualty insurance in the US alone…
Artivest , a cutting-edge technology platform that connects leading private equity and hedge funds with a wider audience of suitable investors, announced today…
Payoff is a next generation financial services company, designing products that help people pay off their credit cards faster and save money. Here’s…
“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.” ― John Marsden, The Dead of Night Chances are, if you work in…
The Government Office of Science has published the findings and recommendation from its review of Financial Technology (FinTech). Anthemis Group was part of…
In the summer of 2014, British Chancellor George Osborne vowed: “The government is determined to drive increased competition in the banking market, so…
Trov (pronounced trove) helps people easily organize, value and protect the things they own. With Trov, people can easily reference receipts and other important…
Online financial adviser Betterment has raised new funding that values it at around $400 million to $500 million. New York-based Betterment is closing a…
Bento is a flexible platform that will bring true digital financial innovation to over 28 million SMBs in the US alone. The first…
The future of financial services – and of many other industries – will be a future dominated by dynamic, overlapping ecosystems – of…
Atom Bank is an online only, innovative UK bank with a focus on retail and SME customers. It is expected to launch in…
QuanTemplate, a pioneering cloud-platform bringing sophisticated analytics to the wholesale insurance industry, has secured seed funding from Anthemis Group and existing investors.
Alpha Card, Credit Suisse, Suncorp and UKTI come together to develop the next generation of financial services
Seedcamp is Europe’s leading seed and growth investment fund and mentoring programme. Yearly, it invests in about 20 companies with investments of €5,000 to…
Moven is the first direct banking model that has been built from the ground up for mobile and social generation. Moven launched CREDScore™,…
This worldwide research project reveals that domestic payments schemes above all can offer their participants lower costs and products better suited for the local market than international card schemes. Read more in the full report
Betterment, the ground-breaking online investment management service, has raised $32 million in Series C funding from Citi Ventures, Northwestern Mutual Capital and Globespan…
Launched to market in 2012, Currency Cloud provides xBPaaS (cross-border Payments as a Service) to regulated businesses such as banks, currency brokers and…
To give a few numbers, non-life insurance market world-wide in 2011 was estimated at $1,877.2 billions. The global life insurance market had total gross written premiums of $2,464.2 billion the same year.