Technology
Global Incubator, Outsourced Compliance House Creates Launchpad For Budding Fintechs

The fintech world continues to expand as regulatory requirements and client demands for more digital offerings proliferate. Here is an example of a firm supporting that trend.
Lawson Conner,
the financial service incubator and provider of outsourced
compliance offerings, has rolled out a support-and-launch service
for fintech firms.
The new programme is called FinTechPLUS, billed as “a
comprehensive programme to help fintech start-ups to launch their
new businesses quickly, compliantly and cost-effectively, with
the support of an experienced team of entrepreneurs, compliance
and regulatory experts”.
The programme is aimed at firms offering e-money, payments,
consumer loans, crowdfunding and other financial
technology-related services affecting banks and other financial
services firms. Advice, preparation for launches, regulatory and
compliance guidance and capital-raising services are part of the
programme, Lawson Conner said in a statement last week. There is
also assistance with applications to the UK’s Financial Conduct
Authority and dealing with legislation such as European rules on
hedge funds and private equity.
Lawson Conner, with offices in London, New York, Boston and Hong
Kong, said it has launched almost 100 firms in the past three
years.