The search for new financial technology solutions is heating up as the FinTech Innovation Lab for New York City launches its 2020 call for applicants, and the CFTC holds its second annual Fintech Forward conference this week.
In its 10th year, the innovation lab of the Partnership Fund for New York City and Accenture is accepting applications to bring together new school fintech solution providers with senior executives at “the largest financial and insurance institutions for deep mentorship and feedback” for a 12-week laboratory environment.
The lab targets “early- and growth-stage fintech companies” that need to speed up product and business development via “in-depth collaboration with top financial services and venture capital firms.” The lab has the support of 43 major institutions.
Over the past decade, the lab has helped 69 technology companies work with CEOs, CTOs and chief information officers from more than 40 financial and insurance institutions, and provided access to venture capitalists and technology luminaries.
The graduates of the lab program “have created more than 1,100 jobs and raised more than $1 billion in venture financing…
