We sat down with long time FTT Fintech Festival partners, Invest Northern Ireland, to catch up on all things related to the country’s fast growing fintech sector.

As the regional economic development agency for Northern Ireland, they play an important role in supporting and growing businesses, attracting foreign investment, and fostering innovation across various sectors

As shared by Jenny Liu, GB Trade, Technology, the fintech sector is comprised of foreign direct investment and home grown companies, born and bred in the country.

Invest NI supports their innovative fintech companies by understanding their unique value proposition, growth trajectory and their quest for expansion beyond their borders. With specialisms like regtech, insurance, banking, data analytics, AI and more, there is clearly a lot of innovation happening.

Invest NI bring their delegation of fintechs to events like the FTT Festival to showcase their leading edge products and services to our innovative community of financial services providers and a fascinating range of non-financial brands

What are some of the unique characteristics of the fintech ecosystem in Northern Ireland? Quite a lot actually – listen to the full interview below to find out what those are.

Did someone say #1 destination in the world for fintech investment projects and the highest concentration of people employed in fintech in the UK.

Yowza – no wonder the FTT Fintech Festival aligns so well with the needs of the companies in their delegations over the years.

The interview is a great example of how to support and help drive growth for innovative start ups.

For more on fintech and financial services innovation, join us for FTT Lending on 19 March (in London) and, further down the track, FTT Embedded Finance & Super Apps,  FTT Payments and Customer Alpha on 13 May.