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ARTICLE · 14 APRIL 2016

Spring Has Sprung For Scottish FinTech…And Summer Is On Its Way

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On a cold winter's morning in December last year, Bela from The Infinite Kind and I sat down and started to plan the next FinTech Hackathon in Edinburgh.

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Kent Mackenzie
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On a cold winter's morning in December last year, Bela from The Infinite Kind and I sat down and started to plan the next FinTech Hackathon in Edinburgh. 

I suggested we host in the Deloitte office...now for those of you that have been here you will know that it is a beautiful, gleaming, space that we spend time with our clients in...all very civilised...and in my mind perfect to invite and help 50+ 'hackers' to run riot and create new applications for the changing world of Finance!

What we saw over the weekend was FinTech poetry in motion - watching the rapid storming and forming of teams, apps, and prototypes whilst at the same time witnessing the gleaming office disappear under pizza boxes, empty cans of red bull and imaginative scrawls of paper outlining the next "uber-type-disruption" about to storm financial services.   

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