Fintech & subsectors
- Financial Management Solutions
- Payments
- Banking & Lending Technology
- Crypto & Blockchain
- Wealth & Capital Markets Technology
Hampleton‘s Fintech practice is spearheaded by Miro Parizek, Jonathan Simnett and Dr. Jan Eiben, with decades of digital payments and enterprise software experience in financial services industry.
Hampleton’s team members have significant strategic and operational experience gained while working amongst other at board level internationally across banking, insurance, retail and government, and have led transactions in e-invoicing, EDI, product & casualty, life insurance, governance / regulatory, risk management, compliance and back office management systems for banks, insurers, gaming companies, online and brick & mortar retailers, as well as government.
We have worked for and closed transactions with companies such as BancTec, BBVA, Descartes, FICO, GLI, Visa, Zurich Insurance and others.
Hampleton Partners has advised Banking Software Company s.r.o., a 300-person strong leading provider of digital banking solutions, on its transaction with PortfoLion Zrt., a leading investor with a track record of successfully investing in Central and Eastern Europe and W.UP with its AI-based digital personalisation platform which complements BSC's portfolio perfectly.
Founder & Senior Partner
Miro Parizek
Miro Parizek established Hampleton in 2013 with a group of fellow deal makers and technology industry entrepreneurs, uniting hands-on industry expertise and seasoned transaction experience together for the optimal M&A advisory. Miro has been providing M&A advisory services to the technology industry since the pre-dot.com era and has managed scores of transactions supporting privately-held sellers and publicly-traded companies, ranging from 20 to over 2,000 employees.Miro has 30 years of experience in the software and IT industry.
Managing Director
Jonathan Simnett
Jonathan has been involved in the enterprise technology business for over three decades, managing and turning around existing business and helping management and their investors in fast-growth technology segments to grow, manage change, enter markets, transfer technologies, acquire, merge and sell. He’s worked with large and public infrastructure and system integration companies including: AT&T, Avaya, BroadSoft, BT, C&W, Cisco, HP, Global Switch, GMC, Huawei, Informix, Infosys, Intel, Myriad Group, Novell, IBM, IGT, Nortel, OpenReach, Pace, TCS, and Sybase.
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Fintech Report 2H2022
The fintech industry continues to grow and break records. Changes are being accelerated by the shift away from cash, the boom in electronic payment transactions, and the application of innovations in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
News
Why Embedded Finance Is a Major Momentum Driver in Fintech
One of the first eye-catching deal announcements of 2025 has come from credit rating and loan referral company ClearScore, which has acquired fellow fintech firm Aro Finance. Based in Manchester, Aro is a credit broker which embeds its marketplace platform within the digital infrastructure of clients such as Argos, Very and Asda. This allows customers to obtain personal credit and other financial products and services while they shop for, say, clothes and groceries.
The purchase represents a major expansion by ClearScore into the B2B2C sphere, and also underscores the surging appeal of embedded finance propositions to acquirers and investors. Back in 2020, TechCrunch published an article suggesting that “embedded finance might represent fintech’s future” and that “every tech company is potentially a fintech company”. All the signs are that this trend is now going from strength to strength.
