{"id":54330,"date":"2015-02-25T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7b8554821cf12904e898b4341f308aa2"},"modified":"2015-02-25T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T15:34:00","slug":"news-story-funding-for-digital-solutions-to-financial-sector-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=54330","title":{"rendered":"News story: Funding for digital solutions to financial sector challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK is looking to fund digital ideas with commercial potential that address 5 challenges in the financial sector:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>personal financial management &#8211; partnering with Money Advice Service and Experian<\/li>\n<li>cyber security &#8211; partnering with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-business-innovation-skills\">Department for Business, Innovation and Skills<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>consumer financial literacy &#8211; partnering with Lloyds Banking Group<\/li>\n<li>hyper-local transactions &#8211; partnering with American Express<\/li>\n<li>compliance and regulation &#8211; partnering with Accenture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Successful applicants will not only get funding but the chance to work with financial sector partners to trial their proposed solutions &#8211; and support and advice on how to get their innovations to market quicker.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition opens on Monday 2 March 2015<\/li>\n<li>the deadline for submissions is midday on 22 April 2015 <\/li>\n<li>there will be briefing events for potential applicants in\n<ul>\n<li>London on 4 March 2015  <\/li>\n<li>Cardiff on 5 March 2015  <\/li>\n<li>Edinburgh on 10 March 2015  <\/li>\n<li>Belfast on 11 March 2015  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/interact.innovateuk.org\/competition-display-page\/-\/asset_publisher\/RqEt2AKmEBhi\/content\/financial-technologies\">Find out more about this competition<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/connect.innovateuk.org\/events\">Register for briefing events<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses could win up to \u00a335,000 to develop their ideas and work with top firms such as Accenture, American Express and Experian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}