Northern Eire fintech firm Seopa Ltd has introduced the winner of this 12 months’s Fintech Scholarship.
Winner Kenna White, an Environmental Science scholar from Ulster College, Coleraine campus, wrote an intuitive piece, entitled Bitcoin’s Environmental Parlay, pertaining to the sustainability components influencing the fintech sector.
Kenna wins a £1,000 bursary to assist cowl any instructional charges corresponding to textbooks, course supplies and dwelling bills.
The initiative is designed to assist foster larger variety within the sector by asking college students to discover from exterior the world of fintech to discover what it may doubtlessly supply them.
Northern Eire has been hailed as a key epicentre for progress within the fintech sector, using 39,000 folks with Belfast rating because the world’s prime vacation spot for monetary expertise funding initiatives.
Danielle McWall, head of the division of accounting, finance and economics at Ulster College, defined: “The area has an exceptionally excessive focus of FinTech employment with the proportion of FinTech roles increased than wherever else within the UK, producing proportionally 2.5 to five instances extra Gross Worth Added than some other area.”
Guardian firm of monetary comparability platform CompareNI.com, Seopa’s method to fostering larger variety in its sector has been hailed by politicians, teachers and enterprise leaders throughout the UK.
Alex Lee, chairman of FintechNI, continued: “We’re delighted to endorse this necessary initiative from one among our member corporations Seopa. Northern Eire is now recognised as a number one international fintech hub, however sustaining that place into the longer term depends on the continued provide of high quality expertise into the sector.”
Greg Wilson, the fintech entrepreneur behind CompareNI.com, added: “Congratulations to our Fintech Scholarship winner, Kenna White, from Ulster College. Kenna’s insightful weblog publish was one among many attention-grabbing entries of their 12 months’s scholarship.
“It’s encouraging to see so many college students proactively researching and discovering fintech from all instructional backgrounds. Range is essential to constructing an progressive group for the longer term. I studied mechanical & manufacturing engineering and began my profession as a stress engineer at Bombardier Aerospace earlier than I created Seopa, now our manufacturers CompareNI.com and Quotezone.co.uk are family names in monetary comparability expertise.”
Seopa has been recognised with six Deloitte Expertise Quick 50 Awards, and has been awarded a Deloitte Greatest Managed Firm Award every year for the previous 5 years – now a Gold Normal Greatest Managed Firm since 2020.
As a number one fintech employer, Seopa has been investing in recruitment all through lockdown, with new fintech roles at the moment obtainable.
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