Description  

Over the years, Barcelona has become an European hub for startups. However, it is not considered a preeminent city for the installation of entities related to the Fintech sector.  

With the collaboration of the Barcelona Centre Financer Europeu, the Asociación de Empresas Financieras y Tecnológicas de España and the Spanish Committee of the European League of Economic Cooperation, during three sessions on January 2017, 63 participants, experts in the fields of finance and insurance linked to the technological world, as well as consultants, lawyers and entrepreneurs, worked to identify the different factors that we must develop in the city to play a role in the global scenario of the Fintech sector.

Objectives 

1. Identify the different factors that we must develop in the city to be able to host and propose global solutions that impact on the transformation of the financial and insurance sector.
2. Promote a working group with the administration to power the sector in Barcelona. 

Conclusions 

1. Promote a "Fintech Desk" with the participation of Fintech entities, financial and insurance entities, investors, city integrators to facilitate business relations between them and create a reference ecosystem with the main agents of the Fintech value chain.
2. Together with the Fintech Desk, promote a periodic work seminar in Barcelona with the regulators and other agents closing the fintech ecosystem to analyze the technical aspects of the business and regulation.
3. Promotion actions of Barcelona as an optimal city for the sector with international actions, national actions and presence in events of the sector. 

Promoters 

- Alain Enault (Efma)

- Philippe Gelis (Asociación de Empresas Financieras y Tecnológicas de España)

- Francesc Homs (Comité Español de la Liga Europea de Cooperación Económica)

- Antoni Massanell (Barcelona Centre Financer Europeu)

- Enric Picanyol (Cuatrecasas)

Participants

María José Alvarez (Grupo Catalana Occidente), Francisco Ambrós (Deloitte), Elisenda Baldris (Cuatrecasas), Oriol Barrachina (Cushman & Wakefield), Gemma Batlle (Eurecat), Anna Maria Birués (Economist), Jaume Bonet (EADA Business School), Pepe Borrell (Crowdcube), Héctor Bros (Cuatrecasas), Oriol Cordón (Crowdcube), Maarten de Jongh (Norgestion), Pilar De Torres (Puentis), Alain Enault (Efma), Francesc Esteve (LECE), Francesc Fajula (Banc Sabadell), Luis Fernandez-Goula (Crowdcube), Xavier Foz (Roca Junyent), Carles Fradera i Riera (Eurecat), Lander Gamboa (Bluecap), Adrián García (Caja de Ingenieros), Philippe Gelis (Kantox), Enric Gilabert (Bluecap), Roberto Gili (Crowdcube), Oriol Giró (LECE), Xavier Gispert (Institut Català de Finances), Roy Gunter (Mobility Ventures), Mateu Hernández (Barcelona Global), Francesc Homs (LECE) Ana Hoyos (Caja de Ingenieros), Walt Joosten (EXIN Group), Jordi Juan, Ronan Lescop (Tokio Marine - HCC), Johan Lundberg (NFT Ventrues), Fatima Martin (ITNOW), Jordi Martínez (Institut d'Estudis Financers), Toni Mascarò (eMascarò), Antoni Massanell (Associació Barcelona Centre Financer Europeu), Eugenio Molina (Dedomena), Pere Monrás (Bluecap), Josep Nebot (Arboribus), Marc Palà (Cuatrecasas), Miquel Perdiguer (Pensium), Enric Picanyol (Cuatrecasas), Jose María Piera (SCPF), Marta Plana (Digital Origin), Mª Julia Prats (IESE Business School), Benjamí Puigdevall (CaixaBank Digital Business), Josep Maria Pujals (Ponti, Intellectual Property), Gonzalo Rodés, Luis Manuel Saiz (EY), Josep Maria Sánchez (Economist in Finances Department of GenCat), Jose Luis Sánchez Rabaneda (Caja de Ingenieros), Joan Sendra (Accenture), Vanessa Servera (Insitut Català de Finances), Josep Soler (IEF), Àngel Tello (Barcelona Centre Financer Europeu), Núria Vilajeliu (LECE), Àgata Viloca (Arquia Banca), Antonio Virzì (biid) and Daniel Wuhl (EADA).