{"id":420396,"date":"2026-02-11T19:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420396\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T19:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:07:12","slug":"uk-investment-in-fintechs-falls-by-a-fifth-in-one-year-guido-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420396\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Investment in Fintechs Falls by a Fifth in One Year \u2013 Guido Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investment in the UK\u2019s fintech sector took a sharp knock last year, falling by 21% as investors increasingly opted for the US over Labour\u2019s higher-tax, higher-regulation Britain, according to accounting firm KMPG. The lowest level since the start of the pandemic\u2026<\/p>\n<p>UK fintech drew in just under $11 billion across the year, down from $13.4 billion in 2024. There were 109 fewer deals closed in 2025 than the previous year. A big chunk of all fintech investment in 2025 came from Revolut\u2019s fundraising \u2013 with the firm raising around $4 billion. Meanwhile Rachel Reeves has remained rather quiet recently\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investment in the UK\u2019s fintech sector took a sharp knock last year, falling by 21% as investors increasingly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,11700,1634,467,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-420396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-fintech","11":"tag-labour","12":"tag-markets","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}