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As consumer and B2B customers continue to demand the instant digital payment solutions on offer from fintech players, will the big banks get left behind?

In our latest Fintech report, we reveal that 2019 shifted towards blockbuster M&A transactions, historically high deal count levels and impressive valuations.

After years of sitting on the side lines, 3D technology, and the software that makes it a reality, is attracting investment from major strategic buyers and tech giants.

As our most recent Enterprise Software M&A Report has confirmed, investor confidence is riding high in the sector. The most recent reporting period saw an 18% surge in the number of transactions, reflecting a strong appetite among acquirers for tech companies meeting the rising demand for software tools which drive workplace efficiencies – whether that’s in terms of customer relationship management, document management or design testing and simulation. The leveraging of AI by Enterprise Software companies has certainly fuelled momentum in the sector. However, there has been a notable shift when

At the start of this year, headlines were generated by research showing that the value of the UK tech industry had crossed the USD 1.2 tn mark. This was a 20% increase since 2023, confirming the impressive resilience of the British market in the face of considerable countervailing factors such as inflationary pressures, geopolitical turbulence and post-pandemic caution on the part of investors. Now, a little deeper into 2025, the picture continues to be a rosy one, with news that the amount of venture capital raised in the UK in the first quarter was USD 4.2bn . Not only is this 8% higher than what

Hampleton Partners, the international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for technology companies, has advised FAST LTA AG, leading provider of zero-loss archiving and backup solutions for mission-critical data, on its acquisition by Afinum Management GmbH, a leading investor with a 20-year track record of successfully investing in Germany SMEs.

Just over a year ago, we posted on this blog about “ why defence tech is no longer taboo ”, noting that the grim reality of conflicts and rising tensions around the world had eroded much of the traditional stigma around investing in the sector. We noted how funding for startups such as Mach Industries, ARX and Quantum Systems had in fact “accelerated in recent years, with the importance of defence tech being impossible to deny in an age of dramatic geopolitical turbulence”. Now, as we approach the mid-point of 2025, the sector is looming larger than ever on the venture capital landscape, with Jack