Highlights of Swiss Fintech Tour 2025

At the recent Swiss Fintech Tour, leaders showcased innovative finance solutions, including real-time support for vulnerable customers and platforms for decarbonising homes. These initiatives reflect a commitment to inclusive & sustainable finance

Highlights of Swiss Fintech Tour

At the recent Swiss Fintech Tour, leaders showcased innovative finance solutions, including real-time support for vulnerable customers and platforms for decarbonising homes. These initiatives reflect a commitment to inclusive & sustainable finance

Date: 20 February 2025
Author: FINTECH Circle

At FINTECH Tours, we provide an immersive experience designed to connect you with the minds shaping tomorrow’s financial landscape.

On February 13th, 2025, FINTECH Circle hosted Swiss delegates to another insightful Fintech Tour. Susanne Chishti, the Founder & Chair of FINTECH Circle & Prof. Andreas Dietrich, extended a warm welcome to all attendees & outlined the day’s agenda.

Susanne Chishti discussed the global trends in Fintech, highlighting the market’s size, impressive growth trajectory, and the diverse players within the ecosystem. She provided an insightful breakdown of Fintech sub-sectors & UK’s Fintech framework, touching upon its political landscape, the role of the FCA regulator, and the tax system.

This year’s Fintech Tour featured presentations from five innovative Fintech startups, each addressing unique challenges with their solutions.

Lloyds:

Lloyds is the largest UK retail and commercial financial services provider, with 26 million customers and a leading digital presence.

Kirsty Rutter, Lloyds Group Strategic Investment Director and Head of the Corporate Venturing Arm will share her knowledge and expertise on how a leading bank works with the fintech sector in terms of collaborations and investing via its own Corporate Venture Arm.

Kirsty Rutter, Group Strategic Investment Director - Lloyds Banking Group

Ekko:

Real-time carbon tracking and offsetting. Embed Ekko at any bank, retailer, or employer in the world for the highest quality, real-time carbon footprint tracking.

Oli Cook (CEO)

Oli Cook, CEO & Co-Founder - ekko

eaGlobal.AI

Use EA to rapidly complete any diligence process end-to-end, including RFI/RFPs, bids/tenders, as well as ESG disclosures such as CDP, EcoVadis, and B Corp certification. Established in 2020 by Charles Radclyffe, former head of AI at Fidelity.

Charles Radclyffe, CEO & Founder

Charles Radclyffe, CEO - eaGlobal.AI

Kana Earth:

Kana offers fully integrated products to scale up UK natural capital consisting of a HUB offering project developers, verification and validation bodies a platform to manage, market, and collaborate, and SEED offering asset and investment managers a platform to manage natural capital investment and land portfolios seamlessly.

Andy Creak, CEO & Co-Founder (Serial entrepreneur with multiple exits)

Andy Creak, CEO & Co-Founder - Kana Earth

Carbonlaces Solutions:

Climate change and energy costs cause billions of pounds of damage to our society, and we need to reduce our emissions fast. Reducing emissions requires real money, transparent data, and innovation, which translates into purposeful and personalised products.

Welcome to CarbonLaces, a unique D-MRV2.0 for enabling climate change by showcasing today’s energy-carbon intelligence for regenerating finance by delivering a resilient and equitable society in the future. We deliver scale and transparency to your Real Estate decisions with AI.

Madhuban Kumar, CEO

Madhuban Kumar, CEO - CarbonLaces Solutions

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