6 days left to register for the European Fintech Awards

Jan 18, 2016 By Huy Nguyen Trieu in Curated Articles Tags: Awards, Fintech, Ranking

“Join the European FinTech Awards and Conference where innovative and disruptive FinTech companies are awarded. Meet 400 hand picked entrepreneurs, bankers, investors and advisors, extend your network and develop business.”

Source: www.fintech.nl

The European Fintech Awards (Amsterdam, April 14) should be one of the interesting Fintech events of 2016. There are obviously a lot of Fintech awards, rankings, etc. and they should be taken with a pinch of salt – in my opinion, the only important award really is the commercial success of the startups.

But in an industry where there are now thousands of startups, there is a certain merit in having other people do the work, scan the market and discover promising projects.

So I’ll be one of these people who likes to spend hours reviewing startups (together with a stellar panel of judges) and tries to identify the next Googles of finance. The selection process in itself will have two different steps. First, an online voting process will determine the initial list of 100 Fintech startups, then the judges will interview the startups in Amsterdam and announce the overall winners.

So if you are a startup and want to participate, you have until January 24th to register…

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