- We asked several major venture-capital investors to tell us which European fintechs will boom in 2019.
- The companies cover a wide variety of products and services across the financial industry as digital disruption re-shapes everything from banking to insurance.
Business Insider spoke with some of the most prominent voices in venture capital to pick out the most exciting companies in European financial technology industry this year.
The experts also highlighted what to look out for going forward.
Major fintech names to date have mostly been challenger or neo-banks which provide payment services, particularly related to foreign exchange and low-fee transfers. However, there have been some major new trends in the market, such as open banking, the rise of compliance, and a big move towards insurance technology.
Similarly, companies are leveraging their own platforms to weed out a variety of issues within financial services, often serving other fast growing fintechs with AI and machine learning.
Here are the fintechs that VCs think will blow up in 2019.