News

2022 was a busy year for Fintech Sandbox! We're excited to share some highlights from the past year and carry the momentum forward into 2023.

Residents and alumni of FinTech Sandbox report success with funding, customer acquisition, employment growth and revenue according to our recent survey.

Kelly Fryer discusses our increased emphasis on financial inclusion, sustainability, and geographic expansion.

MassMutual continues its support for local and global FinTech communities with this sponsorship. Mike Fanning joins FinTech Sandbox advisory board.

We are pleased and excited to announce that Kelly Fryer has joined us as Executive Director and Mike McCluskey as Head of Partnerships! Welcome, Kelly and Mike!

In addition to that great news, we are getting ready for Demo Day 7.0 and a week of free, virtual FinTech Talks starting September 22, 2020.

Data from Informa Financial Intelligence subsidiary will be made available to support FinTech startups.

We revealed the names of the nine FinTech startups chosen for Demo Day 7.0, to be hosted at Moody’s Analytics offices on April 2nd, in conjunction with New York FinTech Week.

Tiingo Inc., an award-winning online financial data analytics tool and market data provider, has joined FinTech Sandbox as a Data Partner in support of innovation in financial services.

FinTech Sandbox announced today that QUODD Financial Information Services (“QUODD”), a unit of Financeware and a leading provider of financial market data and information analysis tools for the wealth management industry, has signed on as a Data Partner.

FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams and president and CEO of John Hancock, Marianne Harrison, will deliver keynotes and the event will be held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Babson College, and the Boston Public Library.

Bloomberg Radio will be broadcasting live at the Boston Federal Reserve on Monday, September 9th. Programs on-site include Bloomberg Surveillance (9:00 - 10:00 a.m. ET) and Bloomberg Markets AM (10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET) co-hosted by Paul T. Sweeney and Lisa Abramowicz.

FinTech Sandbox announced today that Dow Jones, a trusted source of business news and financial information globally for more than 130 years, has joined as a data partner. Dow Jones is providing access to its trusted, renowned content, as well as thousands of licensed news and data sources, to FinTech Sandbox startups via DNA, its developer platform.

FinTech Sandbox today announced its final line-up for Demo Day 6.0 in New York City on April 4, 2019. The group of nine startups that will demo live at the event represent a diverse, global group of innovators in fintech, ranging from real estate tech to institutional investor tech to banking tech for the underserved.

Ernst & Young LLP (EY) announced today that it has become a lead sponsor of FinTech Sandbox and the exclusive advisory services provider of the Boston-based nonprofit organization. Dan New, EY’s New England FinTech Lead, will also be joining the FinTech Sandbox advisory board.

FinTech Sandbox is pleased to announce today a partnership with Euromoney TRADEDATA, a leader in providing trusted reference data solutions to the global future and options industry. Euromoney TRADEDATA will provide data to promising startups selected by FinTech Sandbox for use in the development and testing of a wide range of exciting and transformational products and services. 

AccuWeather, the largest and fastest-growing weather media and business company in the world, today announced a partnership with FinTech Sandbox, a nonprofit organization that promotes innovation in the financial sector.

FinTech Sandbox today announced it has entered into a partnership with TransUnion to help early-stage financial technology firms launch in the marketplace. As part of the partnership, TransUnion’s Startup Credit Kit will enable startups to test business model concepts and refine their go-to-market strategies.

March 20, 2018 |

FinTech Sandbox announced today that Sageworks, which offers lending, credit risk, and portfolio risk solutions to banks and credit unions, will make banking and indices data available to early-stage financial technology startups selected by the Sandbox. This data will be used in the development and testing of cutting-edge innovations.

December 12, 2017 |

FinTech Sandbox today announced that Franklin Templeton Investments, a leading global asset management firm, has signed on as a sponsor of the Boston-based nonprofit organization.

July 11, 2017 |

 FinMason, a Boston-based FinTech and investment analytics firm, is partnering with FinTech Sandbox, a non-profit accelerator that makes financial data and infrastructure provided by its partners available for free to FinTech start-ups. FinTech Sandbox participants will utilize FinMason's enterprise solution, FinRiverTM, a set of flexible and lightning-fast investment analytics APIs with access to more than 700 analytical data types, including risk and performance metrics, aggregate factor exposures, scenario analyses and stress testing.

June 23, 2017 |

Today Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) and Boston-based FinTech Sandbox, signed an historic memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate and expand the FinTech Sandbox model into Canada, starting in Ontario.