Financial services & Fintech

As part of the UK’s second largest financial centre, the banks, insurance companies, and pension providers within the City Region are ideally placed to benefit from the Data-Innovation Programme and respond to the challenges and opportunities of the data revolution.

Building plans

Centre for Investing Innovation

The Centre for Investing Innovation is a strategic partnership between global asset management company aberdeen and the University of Edinburgh. It is addressing challenges facing the investment and asset management sector, including how to improve demonstrable societal benefit.

Building plans
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New research calls for a rethink of financial services for young people in a digital age

A new report from the Compassion in Financial Services Hub and Young Scot is calling on banks, policymakers and financial providers to overhaul how they design products, services and education for young people.

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Our Financial Services Hub

Edinburgh Futures Institute

Edinburgh Futures Institute offers data-rich learning, teaching, research and innovation – and does so in an open environment that fosters collaborations with communities, public, private and third sector organisations. EFI’s mission is to harnesses academic expertise to make a step change in society’s ability to respond to the world’s greatest challenges and deliver benefits locally and around the world. EFI’s ethos is that the development and use of new technologies is too often seen as a purely technical challenge. EFI sees human and social needs as an equally important part of the challenge and brings expertise in ethics, law, policy, philosophy and creativity in conversation with technical expertise to create a better future.

Our Expert Profiles

Tobi Schneider

Financial Services and FinTech

Tobi is the Sector Engagement Lead for Financial Services & FinTech at the Edinburgh Futures Institute and the Co-director for External Engagement and Partnerships at the Edinburgh Centre for Financial Innovations.

He is responsible for leading the strategy and engagement with organisations involved in enabling and delivering financial services, ranging from small start-up companies to large corporations, from policymakers to trade associations, and from industry practitioners to academics.