The history of fintech

Inno­va­tions in the finan­cial sec­tor have trans­formed the way we save, spend and trade. Bank­ing sys­tems, which once relied on Lon­don bank clerks meet­ing in the Six Bells tav­ern to exchange cheques, are now auto­mat­ed thanks to advances in tech­nol­o­gy. Cus­tomers have also ben­e­fit­ted, with a slew of fin­tech com­pa­nies bring­ing the ben­e­fits of dig­i­tal bank­ing to the mass­es. We trace the his­to­ry of fin­tech from Morse code trans­ac­tions to Mon­zo.