FinTech Wales

FinTech Wales is an independent membership association for fintech and financial services in Wales. It has more than 100 member organisations from fintech, cyber, data, AI, investment services, banking, insurance, professional services, government and education.

Four pillars

Skills and talent, funding and investment, ecosystem and community, and promotion and amplification of Welsh fintech worldwide. Its accelerator, The Foundry, has run since 2021 and has won awards.

News feed

The site posts several items a day. On 15 October 2026 it reported Starling Bank building an AI model with NVIDIA support on UK-owned cloud, Recruit 121 Finance rebranding as Corestone Talent after ten years, Ogi partnering with Glamorgan Cricket and the "£130m Investment Fund for Wales". A day earlier it covered Creditsafe and Seiza partnering on privacy-first financial data. A longer feature looked at how Finxplor is redefining payments.

Events

North Wales FinTech Roundtable and Future Finance Hackathon (20 October), a networking breakfast and Tech Talk Wales (22 October), and the Clockwise FinTech Mingle (5 November), in addition to Wales FinTech Festival 2026.

For payments readers

A route into Welsh payments talent, pilots and partners, and a local read on funding.