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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Oscar Williams-Grut

City comment: London needs another wave of innovation like the post-2008 boom

The founders of TransferWise, one of the businesses born out of the post-2008 start-up boom

(Picture: TransferWise)

Where are the next wave of London success stories?

Hundreds of businesses were set up in the wake of the financial crisis as laid off finance staff and other disaffected City folk decided they were better off doing it themselves. That spawned the rise of fintech, a field in which the UK has become a world leader.

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