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The 17 hottest fintech companies in Britain ranked

Oscar Williams-GrutSep 21, 2015, 17:30 IST

MarketInvoice co-founders Anil Stocker, left and Ilya Kondrashov.MarketInvoice

Financial technology - also known as fintech - is one of the hottest areas of investment at the moment and Britain is at the forefront.

The UK & Ireland accounted for 2/5ths of all fintech investment in Europe last year, according to Accenture.

Startups are beating the banks by offering cheaper, quicker, online services - and both investors and users love it.

We asked some of Britain's top venture capitalists who they thought were the most exciting fintech businesses out there right now and supplemented the list with some of our own personal favourites.