| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.09.2026 | Scottish Fintech Awards 2026 Finalists Revealed | The finalists for the Scottish Financial Technology Awards 2026 have been announced, with organisations and individuals from across Scotland’s financial services and fintech ecosystem shortlisted for this year’s honours.
A total of 68 final... |
| 21.07.2026 | FinTech Scotland Festival 2026 Announced For September | FinTech Scotland has today announced that the ninth FinTech Scotland Festival will take place from 30 September to 7 October 2026, with in-person and online events across the central belt of Scotland.
The Festival will bring together intern... |
| 01.07.2026 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | June 2026 | Welcome to June 2026’s DIGIT Deal Roundup.
As the Tartan Army returns home, Scotland has been busy with other success stories with major deals for AI firms and huge investment backing in fintech.
This month also featured major investments i... |
| 26.06.2026 | Who Made the Inaugural Sunday Times Scotland Fast 50? | The inaugural Sunday Times Scotland Fast 50 has landed, highlighting companies growing across sectors ranging from AI and fintech to engineering, healthcare and consumer goods.
The new index, backed by Cazenove Capital and supported by S&am... |
| 08.06.2026 | Europe's AI Revolution: Billions Fuel Tech Boom, Factorial Leads $2.5B Charge | European tech is booming. Billions in capital flow weekly into innovative startups. AI innovation powers this massive surge. Workforce management giant Factorial just secured $150 million in Series D funding. Its valuation hit $2.5 billion.... |
| 08.06.2026 | European tech weekly recap: Over €2.3B invested in the tech ecosystem in the first week of June | Last week, we tracked more than 55 tech funding deals worth over €2.3 billion and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
📊 The top three industries that raised the most were analytics (€862.2 m... |
| 04.06.2026 | Scotland Backs Fintech with £3.18M in Funding | The Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FRIL), the UK’s centre of excellence for innovation in technology to efficiently meet financial regulation requirements, has secured £3.18 million from Scottish Enterprise to deliver three years of t... |
| 04.06.2026 | Edinburgh Fintech Aveni Raises £12m for AI Assurance Platform | Edinburgh-based Aveni has raised £12 million in a funding round led by PXN Ventures to accelerate the development of its Unified Assurance Platform and launch new products designed to assess the conduct risk of AI agents in financial servic... |
| 24.09.2025 | Scottish Fintech Awards 2025: Winners Revealed | The winners of the 2025 Financial Technology Awards have been announced, with Loveelectric, the electric car affordability firm, securing the prestigious “Fintech of the Year” award on the evening.
Hosted live at the Edinburgh International... |
| 27.08.2025 | GenAI Could Save UK Banks £1.8BN | UK banks are predicted to invest over £1.8 billion in generative AI (genAI) by 2030 to boost productivity, reduce costs, and improve customer experience, according to new research from Zopa and Juniper Research.
These deployments are projec... |
| 08.08.2025 | Scotland's Tech Surge: Investment Fuels Innovation, New Leadership Drives Growth | Scotland's tech sector is booming. Significant investment fuels expansion across key industries. New leadership appointments reshape the landscape, driving innovation. Space tech firm Bright Ascension secured over £2.3 million and named a n... |
| 08.08.2025 | Movers and Shakers | July 2025 | Welcome to the July 2025 edition of DIGIT’s Movers and Shakers!
Last month saw a flurry of activity in the Scottish tech ecosystem, with top-level appointments and major partnerships.
This month features some key government partnerships and... |
| 25.07.2025 | UK Loses its Second Position in Global FinTech to UAE | Global fintech investment is stabilising, Innovate Finance says, but the UK dropped to become now only the third-largest FinTech market globally, losing its second-place spot to the UAE.
In the first half of 2025, global FinTech investment ... |
| 03.07.2025 | Scotland Strengthens Grip as European Finance Hub | Scotland has strengthened its position as a European financial and professional services hub, with these sectors now a critical driver for both jobs and economic growth across the nation, according to the latest research from industry body ... |
| 02.07.2025 | Scots Fintech Aveni Taps FS Leaders to Steer AI Innovation | Edinburgh-based fintech firm Aveni has launched a new industry group to help shape the future of AI in financial services.
Bringing together C-suite executives from the UK’s wealth management and financial planning sector, Aveni’s Customer ... |
| 18.06.2025 | The Fintech Surge: A New Dawn for UK Innovation | The UK is at a crossroads. The government’s recent Spending Review, led by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, has set the stage for a fintech revolution. With a £16.5 billion budget for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), t... |
| 14.06.2025 | Was Reeves’ Spending Review a fintech endorsement? | Rachel Reeves has promised to back UK fintech and in Labour’s inaugural Spending Review, she piled billions into the tech sector.
The Chancellor handed the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) a hefty £16.5bn budget as s... |
| 19.05.2025 | Scots Fintech Aveni Launches GenAI for Financial Services | Edinburgh-based fintech firm Aveni has announced the release of a new domain-specific large language model (LLM), purpose-built for the UK financial services sector.
Developed over six months by the specialist team at Aveni Labs, FinLLM has... |
| 03.03.2025 | Scotland's Tech Landscape: A Flourishing Ecosystem of Innovation and Growth | Scotland's tech scene is buzzing. It's a vibrant tapestry woven with innovation, ambition, and collaboration. In February 2025, the Scottish tech ecosystem showcased its strength through a series of significant developments. From strategic ... |
| 03.03.2025 | Movers & Shakers | February 2025 | Welcome to the February 2025 edition of DIGIT’s Movers and Shakers!
Each month, our Movers and Shakers feature gives you the low-down on recent news in the Scottish tech ecosystem.
This August has been another bumper month, with many innova... |
| 05.02.2025 | Aveni: AI Key to Unlocking £50BN Financial Advice Opportunity | With the largest generational transfer of wealth expected to take place in the UK by 2050, financial advice firms have the opportunity to start capturing a significant market of those currently not using an adviser with bespoke AI tools.
A ... |
| 15.01.2025 | New US Boost for Scottish Tech Firms | The founders of five science and tech companies have gathered in Edinburgh to begin a journey that will see them take their Scottish innovations all the way to Silicon Valley.
Through Scottish Enterprise’s US MarketBooster Programme the fir... |
| 10.12.2024 | The Biggest Scottish Tech Deals of 2024 | Despite strong economic headwinds, a hostile investment environment, geopolitical tensions and….. 2024 has – against all odds – been a strong year for Scotland’s tech, life sciences, and business sectors, marked by transformative acquisitio... |
| 26.09.2024 | Can AI Help Financial Services Firms Meet Customer Responsibilities? | A highlight of this year’s DIGIT FinTech Summit was a panel discussion chaired by Caroline Stevenson, head of FS regulatory at Burness Paull, around the duty of care financial services firms have for vulnerable customers, and the role that ... |
| 25.09.2024 | Winners Announced at 2024 Scottish Financial Technology Awards | The winners of the 2024 Scottish Financial Technology Awards have been announced, with Aveni.ai, the AI fintech firm, securing the prestigious “Fintech of the Year” award on the evening.
Hosted live at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Edinburgh,... |
| 17.09.2024 | Comment | Market Trends Bolster Scottish FinTech Aspirations | Scotland’s fintech sector continues to thrive. Earlier this year FinTech Scotland, the cluster management organisation, reported a 24% increase in jobs within the sector since 2021.
Scottish-based fintechs now employ over 10,500 people acro... |
| 29.07.2024 | Scots Fintech Aveni Secures £11M Investment | AI fintech Aveni.ai has announced one of the largest Series A investments in a Scottish business this year, amounting to £11 million.
The investment is led by Puma Private Equity with participation from Par Equity and financial services ind... |
| 01.07.2024 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | June 2024 | Welcome to the June edition of DIGIT Movers and Shakers, 2024!
Every month, our Movers and Shakers feature gives you the low-down on recent news in the Scottish tech ecosystem, from recruitment and partnerships to expansions and awards.
Thi... |
| 31.01.2024 | Edinburgh Fintech Partners With Lloyds Banking Subsidiary | Aveni.ai, an artificial intelligence fintech company based in Edinburgh, enters a strategic partnership with Cavendish Online, which is looking to become one of the first protection distributors to leverage AI technology aimed at enhancing ... |
| 10.07.2023 | How Has One of Scotland’s Most Influential Tech Investors Evolved? | Having noticed their potential and backed the likes of DirectID, Aveni, and Gigged.AI — companies who are all making waves in Scotland and beyond due to their innovative ideas and technologies — it’s fair to say that Par Equity, the Edinbur... |
| 10.05.2023 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | April 2023 | Welcome to the latest edition of DIGIT’s monthly Movers and Shakers column.
Movers and Shakers gives you the low-down on recent news in the Scottish tech ecosystem, from recruitment to partnerships to awards.
This month’s column features a ... |
| 14.12.2022 | Deal Roundup 2022 | Biggest Investments of the Year | Welcome to our end-of-year edition of the DIGIT deal roundup, showcasing the strength of the Scottish technology sector.
In this article we have selected the largest investment deals from January to November, 2022, showcasing the funding ap... |
| 07.11.2022 | Movers and Shakers | October 2022 | Recruitment CodeClan
CodeClan made two major announcements in October: firstly that current CEO Melinda Matthews-Clarkson was to step down from her role, and that Loral Quinn would be taking up the post.
Matthews-Clarkson plans to take a sa... |
| 25.10.2022 | Aveni Appoints New Chairman and Announces Major Investment | UK fintech company Aveni.ai has announced appointment of investment heavyweight Colin Clark as Chairman of its newly formed Board.
The strategic appointment comes after a recent successful funding injection of £2.75 million to grow the comp... |
| 05.07.2022 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | June 2022 | Funding Earth Blox
Scottish tech firm Earth Blox will push forward with plans to expand its global reach and develop its no-code Earth observation (EO) cloud-based SaaS thanks to £1.5 million in funding.
The company’s services help users cr... |
| 16.02.2022 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | January 2022 | Recruitment and Appointments The Data Lab
Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, The Data Lab, has a new Interim CEO at the helm.
Brian Hills will be responsible for leading the 50+ strong team, driving the growth of AI and data scie... |
| 12.11.2021 | DIGIT Movers & Shakers | October 2021 | Recruitment Aveni
Speech analytics firm Aveni has appointed Elizabeth Gooch, MBE, as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer.
Shortly after its recent funding round, the speech analytics company also announced a raft of key design and engineeri... |
| 12.11.2021 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | October 2021 | Recruitment Aveni
Speech analytics firm Aveni has appointed Elizabeth Gooch, MBE, as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer.
Shortly after its recent funding round, the speech analytics company also announced a raft of key design and engineeri... |
| 23.08.2021 | Seven Dynamic Fintechs Making Waves in Scotland Right Now | From cryptocurrency and digital assistants to AI and cybersecurity, hundreds of Scottish fintech firms have found a home here.
Our country has nurtured an environment of innovation and opportunity, and Scottish fintech has been accelerating... |
| 14.07.2021 | Aveni Seals Seven-Figure Investment to Launch Aveni Detect | 0 shares
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| 08.07.2021 | DIGIT Deal Roundup Column | June 2021 Edition | Funding and Investment Desana
Edinburgh-based PropTech startup, Desana, has raised $4 million (£2.9m) in funding as the firm looks to capitalise on the post-pandemic flexible working boom.
Desana secured the investment from a range of inves... |
| 22.06.2021 | Aveni Detect Raises £1.1M in Funding | Aveni Detect, an Edinburgh, Scotland, UK-based provider of a speech analytics platform for financial services, raised £1.1m in funding.
The round was led by the TRICAPITAL Angel syndicate, supported by Scottish Enterprise’s Growth Investmen... |
| 21.06.2021 | Aveni Detect AI Tool Gains Investment to Help Identify Vulnerable Customers | Scottish fintech firm Aveni has secured £1.1 million to launch its ‘ground-breaking’ Aveni Detect AI tool to help support vulnerable customers across the country.
The tool uses up-to-date AI and natural language processing (NLP) tech to aut... |
| 23.09.2020 | Three Scottish Fintech Startups Join Tech Nation Cohort | Tech growth platform Tech Nation has announced that three Scottish fintech startups will join the 31 tech companies that make up its new Fintech Cohort 3.0.
The Scottish fintech companies include Aveni, Squarebook and Vistalworks.
Edinburgh... |
| 23.09.2020 | Introducing: The 31 companies selected for Fintech 3.0 | Today we are excited to announce the 31 companies selected to join Fintech 3.0, our growth programme for the best and brightest UK fintechs. As the global pandemic and its effects roll on, it has become even more important for scaling compa... |
| - | Aveni | “Automate compliance and streamline workflows with Aveni's AI for financial services. Drive productivity with industry-leading solutions.” |
| - | Aveni | “The latest in NLP innovation for the financial services industry to drive automation and understand customers and agents better.” |
