FinTech Global’s Editorial mission
FinTech Global’s editorial mission is to provide senior level leaders and tech innovators in the FinTech industry with essential news, insights and analysis about the latest developments in the sector so they can make better business decisions.
Our target audience:
Our primary audience consists of FinTech industry experts that want to stay informed about market trends. This includes senior leadership at financial institutions, including banks, wealth and asset management firms, insurers, investment firms and brokerages. Another key audience
for FinTech Global are the innovators and founders across all facets of FinTech, such as InsurTech, RegTech, WealthTech, PayTech, ESG FinTech and Marketplace Lending.
To cater to our audience, our articles must be market-focused and be relevant. For instance, a relevant story for our RegTech readers would be how a new regulation will impact them or the launch a new product that can streamline compliance. Meanwhile, the InsurTech readers would
be interested in topics such as how AI can help the underwriting experience or an insurance firm partnering with an InsurTech.
Where possible, we include research and statistics to support claims. This can either be from our own market research or from industry reports.
The topics we cover:
Here is an overview of the FinTech areas we cover on the website:
– RegTech
– InsurTech
– WealthTech
– Marketplace Lending
– PayTech
– ESG FinTech
– Data & Analytics
– Infrastructure & Enterprise Software
– CyberTech
– Funding Platforms
– PropTech
For topics like CyberTech, ESG, PropTech and Data & Analytics, coverage is exclusively focused on use cases within the financial sector. For instance, we would only feature a story about a cybersecurity company if their services were used within a financial institution. Similarly, ESG companies would need to have products that work within financial services – so a product helping with reforestation would not be suitable unless it was tied to spending via a bank card.
The types of stories we like:
Our biggest priority is thought leadership interviews with industry experts. These articles aim to get expert opinions on current and trending topics to ensure our readers can stay on top of innovation and change in the sector.
On the other side is our FinTech news coverage. We exclusively focus on the FinTech sector, meaning stories must have a FinTech angle and cannot simply be about finance. For instance, an article about a traditional bank closing branches is not relevant. However, if the closures are part of a digital transformation strategy, the FinTech angle makes it relevant to us.
Our primary focus in the news coverage is funding rounds or other instances of a FinTech company raising capital. We aim to cover all funding rounds to provide readers with a clear insight of the sector and some of the companies poised for growth. This is backed up by our FinTech research division.
Other stories are prioritised based on importance. Typically, we like to cover acquisitions, partnerships, industry developments and product launches. We will also cover people stories if it involves a prominent player in the sector that most people are likely to know.
What we avoid
Content must be informative and educational. An article must be about a relevant industry development, whether that is a funding round, partnership or product launch.
If it is not a news story, the article must be educational. This means it cannot be overly promotional and must provide the reader with genuine insights into the FinTech world. It can reference and explain company products but must not serve as just an advertisement.
Style and Grammar
British English – FinTech Global uses British English across the board. This includes organisations rather than organizations, behaviour rather than behavior and centre rather than center.
Abbreviations – When you wish to abbreviate a phrase, write it out in full the first time. E.g., Anti-money laundering (AML).
Citations – If you are using information from another media platform, you must clearly cite the source and include a link to that atory.
Company names – These should be kept Keep company names as they like them with lower caps or no spaces. (E.g. benTech would stay benTech, not become Ben Tech)
Companies are always singular. Ie. FinTech Company has raised a new round. NOT FinTech Company have raised a new round.
Currencies – Currencies should use their corresponding symbol. ($2 and not US$2).
US Dollars, Sterling and Euros can all appear as they are – other currencies should also include a conversion into US dollars.
Figures – Spell out from one to nine; numerals from 10 to 999,999; thereafter 1 million, 3.2 billion; spell out ordinals from first to ninth, thereafter 10th, 31st, etc.
For currency, millions, billions and trillions should be abbreviated as “m”, “bn” and “trn”.
For instance, $1m, $1bn, $1trn.
FinTech – Always FinTech (not fintech, Fintech etc), same goes for others like InsurTech, RegTech, etc.
Headlines – All titles should be in lower case, except for proper nouns and names
Hyphenated words – Words that can be hyphenated, should be. E.g, e-commerce, ebook.
Job Titles – Job roles are lower cap (ie. managing partner) unless it’s a government position. (i.e. Minister of Finance)
Where possible abbreviate job titles – (ie. CEO not chief executive office etc.)
Write out less common titles (chief product officer not CPO)
Oxford commas – We do not use oxford commas. E.g. Shopping list: eggs, milk and tea.
Series A, B etc – Capital ‘S’ for ‘Series A round’ same for B, C etc; seed rounds are lower case.
URLs – URL should only show the domain and not the full link
