Modulr is joining Edinburgh's 'bonnie' fintech scene

We will be celebrating the launch of our new office in Edinburgh with a series of events during Fintech Fortnight. These will include hosting an exclusive panel discussion on scaling fintech businesses and speaking at the Fintech 2018 conference.

Panel discussion: scaling fintech businesses

Modulr will be hosting a panel discussion on the 18th September with four fintech entrepreneurs. They will share their experiences of growing the right teams for scaling businesses and the need to invest in talent for the future. Speaking on the panel will be:

Rob Devey: Chairman Modulr; Advisory Partner at Blenheim Chalcot, NED Octopus. Previously CEO Towry and CEO, UK and Europe, Prudential Assurance.
Jude Cook: CEO and co-founder, ShareIn. Previously a career in strategic planning and corporate finance including six years at BT.
Stephen Ingledew: CEO, Fintech Scotland. Previously MD Marketing and Customers, Standard Life.
Myles Stephenson: CEO and founder, Modulr. Previously MD Europe WEX Inc. following the acquisition of CorporatePay which Myles founded and led as CEO.

The panel discussion will be facilitated by Lisa Thomson, Founder of Purpose HR; Director for Scotland of Startup Grind; and Ambassador for Women’s Enterprise Scotland.

Fintech 2018 conference

We're also proud to be a sponsor of the Fintech 2018 5th Annual Financial Technology Conference in Edinburgh on the 19th and 20th September. During the conference, we will be hosting some break out sessions as well as the drinks reception on the first day. We will also have a stand at the event, so if anyone attending would like to meet us, you will be able to find us there.

About Modulr

Modulr has grown to become the leading provider of embedded payments to organisations across the UK and Europe. Embedded payments is a new category that permits payments to become part of organisations’ technology stack, upgrading them to become payments companies themselves. Modulr enables hundreds of enterprise customers and thousands of SME customers to embed account creation, payment out, reconciliation of payment in, card issuing and many open banking and similar features into their own business process flows via API calls and webhooks into Modulr’s cloud platform. Core to Modulr’s success has been the platform itself, Modulr’s regulatory status as an EMI in the UK and Europe, its connections to payments and other financial service schemes, its ability to operate at scale, and its compliance rigour. Today Modulr handles over £100bn of annualised payment volume and its platform handles on average 30 API calls per second.