The Hi everyone welcome to scouting for growth. Today we'll be welcoming

Tristan Pelo and expert passionate about FinTech and innovation.

After several years, in corporate strategy and finance at Virgin Money,

Tristan decided to launch strategy why an independent management consultancy

focus on scallops and startup and helping them shape executable strategies. He is also the chief pencil officer of FinTech review and online

media focused on the FinTech industry. On this episode of scouting for Growth, we will be targeting everything FinTech.

But let's start with a few stats. There are more than 30,000 startups in the world, of which almost 10,000 startups are in the MEA.

When you think about FinTech, global FinTech funding rich which some say 75 billion U.S.

dollars in 2022.

Others say up to 100 billion U.S.

dollars and I think it depends as to whether you involve or include

the smaller investment deals, making a 46 percent drop from 2021, but up to 52% up compared to 2020 CB inside shared in a recent state of the FinTech review world. In the introduction of this podcast series, I also share that there were

over 100,000 FinTech startup out there, and so it would probably disappear this year, but 30% of these ventures get investment funding from investors. And if you consider all the sub sectors within FinTech,

including in Shell Tech, Health Tech, Wealth Tech,

Wealth Tech, to date, over 675 billion U.S.

dollars have been pulled into FinTech ventures and whilst the market is

resettling, we'll see how those ventures are raising more funding this year or maybe going through

MNA or other form of transition. Today we will recover with Tristan a few points.

I wanted to know Tristan's path from Virgin Media

to becoming now a FinTech, resilience expert

supporting scale- ups and startups.

Then I wanted to look into FinTech into more details and some of the disconnects

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