The Innovation Lab is back! We’re delighted to announce the return of BNP Paribas Personal Finance’s FinTech Incubator programme, in collaboration with SuperTech WM, for the third year running.

The return of the Innovation Lab forms part of our renewed commitment to drive financial services innovation in the West Midlands region. As the FinTech industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace, enabling innovation through collaboration is essential to unlocking new opportunities across the financial services sector.

We believe that SuperTech WM is the first cluster organisation in England to achieve Bronze Award status within the European Cluster Management Excellence accreditation scheme from the European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis (ESCA) - fantastic recognition for how we have supported our ecosystem and our innovative ambitions for the future. 

A timely opinion piece from Jof Walters, WM FinTech Leader and CEO of Greater Things on the recent launch of PISCES, the FCA and LSE’s response to the new market context, where companies remain private longer and IPO activity has slowed significantly.

We are at a BPFS crossroads  - further public sector support for technology-led innovation would bring even greater benefit to our region through strengthened, inclusive growth. SuperTech shared learnings from the UKs only ProfTech cluster.

Five fintech firms have each been awarded £50,000 to propel developments that support financial inclusion, accelerate financial resilience and deepen consumer engagement in financial services.

As part of the Financial Regulation Innovation Lab, a UK wide innovation call aiming to create an environment for collaborative innovation in order to tackle financial crime challenges is launched.