The Investment Association’s (IA) FinTech hub and accelerator, IA Engine, has announced the latest cohort of firms to join its Innovator and Advanced Access Programmes at its EmTech Global 2025 conference.

The twelve-month Innovator Programme selects FinTech firms to receive support and mentoring from the Engine Advisory Panel, a group of experts from across the investment management industry, as well as opportunities to showcase solutions at industry events. The following five firms have been chosen to join this year’s cohort:

• InTick is a marketplace for blocking Listed Derivative transactions. As an independent, centralised hub for price dissemination and discovery, InTick improves transparency and enhances best execution outcomes for investment managers and all market participants.
• Sibli’s tech mimics and scales investment research and analysis workflows to provide institutional investors with insights from unstructured data using Generative AI. Its tools process data and connect it directly to portfolio managers’ financial forecasts, allowing it to track trends and quantify their impact on assets, giving analysts an information edge and ability to do dynamic scenario analysis.
• WeeFin is the first SaaS platform 100% dedicated to sustainable finance. It allows financial institutions (AM, AO, Banks) to build their ESG golden source, monitor the sustainable impact of their portfolios, and automatically generate regulatory and client reports to meet sustainability requirements and achieve their targets.
• Level E Research has built an advanced AI platform that fully automates the investment lifecycle, from strategy development and ESG integration to risk management and compliance. Merging Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI, it replaces operationally inefficient and cost heavy processes with intelligent agent automation.
• Pontoro is a digital asset platform that gives institutional investors improved access to private market assets, market information, transparency and liquidity. It offers Limited Partner portfolio customisation through a periodic auction to effectively create a bespoke Separately Managed Account (SMA), enhancing asset price transparency and improved reporting, as well as providing more efficient and timely secondary liquidity to LPs and enhanced return for capital providers.

Engine’s Advanced Access Programme, designed for larger and more established FinTechs, will be welcoming two new firms to join the 3-month programme:

• Droit, whose patented platform Adept provides institutions with solutions for pre-trade and post-trade controls, evaluating the permissibility of transactions, compliant regulatory reporting, and more.
• Ediphy was founded to solve key problems around liquidity, trading workflow and data fragmentation in capital markets – with a focus on Fixed Income. Combining proprietary technology with deep market microstructure experience, Ediphy helps its clients optimise market access, automate trade execution via advanced analytics.

Through the Advanced Access Programme, Droit and Ediphy will receive support and guidance from the Engine Advisory Panel and FinTech Growth Panel, as well as advice and support from IA experts and access to the IA knowledge centre. The successful firms will be announced at IA Engine’s EmTech Global Conference, held today at The Minster Building in London. Attendees also had the opportunity to hear a keynote address from Lauren Dixon, Chief Data Officer at the Financial Conduct Authority and Chi Onwurah MP, Chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee.

Gillian Painter, Director of Engine at the Investment Association, commented:

“Innovation is at the heart of our industry’s growth mission. Keeping pace with the latest technological advances is key to ensuring that the UK is able to deliver for customers and clients and continues to be a global hub for investment management.

“Engine’s latest Innovator and Advanced Access Programme cohorts highlight the extensive value new technologies can bring to the investment management industry – whether that’s harnessing AI to drive operational efficiencies, automating data management to enhance regulatory compliance or broadening access to alternative asset classes. I look forward to working with these firms to accelerate their growth journey and develop innovative industry solutions.”

Chi Onwurah MP, Chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee and MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central & West, commented:

“Initiatives such as the Engine Innovator and Advanced Access Programme offer a platform for emerging FinTechs to showcase their solutions to the industry and receive guidance from experienced professionals. Connecting smaller firms with the wider industry can help facilitate progress, creating opportunities for businesses, consumers, and the economy to benefit from new technologies.”

Source: IA