Fresh data says London has overtaken San Francisco and New York as the leading fintech hub by current funding momentum. The deeper story is less about hype than structure: a city where finance, regulation, talent and capital still meet at unusual density.
A striking lead, but not the whole story
London has spent much of the past decade being described in two contradictory ways. In one version, it remains Europe’s unavoidable financial capital: dense, global and unusually good at turning complexity into business. In the other, it is a city living partly on memory, bruised by Brexit,
