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Fintech start-ups eye life outside the sandbox

UK fintech companies have come of age during the current crisis, but there are calls for regulatory change to help them grow even faster.

Among those selected by the state-owned British Business Bank to process applications were online bank Starling, peer-to-peer platform Funding Circle, asset-based lender Ultimate Finance, and alternative credit group ThinCats. To some, this was a greater recognition of UK fintechs’ progress than the 500 per cent increase in investment they have attracted in the past three years.

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