NEWS
HP inducts ITEC Group into ‘HP for Education’
partner programme
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echnology managed services provider,
ITEC Group, has been selected to
join HP’s ‘HP for Education’ partner
programme to deliver a comprehensive
suite of educational resources to support
schools across the UK. This adds to ITEC’s
accreditations as a HP Enterprise Partner, HP
Gold Partner and HP Premier Print Partner,
and will help to support and grow ITEC’s
presence in the education market. ITEC Group
has served educational establishments for 30
years and currently supports more than 500
schools and colleges.
The HP for Education trade-in scheme has
invested around £6 million in over 6,000
schools in just two years, giving students
access to tools that deliver an enhanced
educational experience.
Nick Orme, CEO at ITEC Group, said: “We’re
particularly grateful to HP for giving us
the opportunity to work with it to deliver
these services and help schools at a time
of competing demands on their budgets.
Our partnership with HP reaffirms our
commitment to deliver cutting-edge
technology solutions and cements our
position as a trusted technology partner in
the Managing Print Services industry.”
In the modern era, it
is crucial that every
school has excellent
digital infrastructure
ITEC Group is one of just 27 resellers out of
over 6,000 trading resellers in the UK to be
selected for the programme. The programme
includes a trade-in scheme which gives schools
the opportunity to exchange old devices for
HP equivalents and cashback rewards that can
be transferred to an online wallet where it can
be put towards the purchase of other services
from the HP Marketplace.
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London on track to become global FinTech hub,
new report finds
Of the 29 FinTech unicorns* worldwide (*companies worth more
than US$1 billion), nine are in San Francisco, while seven are
housed in the UK.
E-money firms (as defined by the FCA) grew by 51% between 2017
to 2018 and it is predicted that by 2020, over half of payment
service providers in the UK will be digital-only.
In fact, the city has firmly cemented itself within Europe with over a
third (39%) of European venture capital funding going to London
FinTechs. That is almost double any other city in Europe – Berlin
(21%), Paris (18%), Stockholm (5%), Barcelona (4%), Amsterdam
(4%), Zurich (3%), Copenhagen (2%) and Dublin (2%).
T
his year, London will be home to just as many FinTech ‘unicorns’
as current global leader San Francisco – according to a new
report from global recruiter, Robert Walters, and market analysis
experts, Vacancy Soft.
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James Murray, Director of Financial Services at Robert Walters, said:
“When spotlighting the UK’s leading FinTech unicorns, the income
growth they have achieved over the past 12 months is phenomenal –
increasing from a combined £77.1 million to £177.6 million revenue.
That’s a revenue growth of 130% in just one year.”
Such is the growth of the industry, that in 2018 job creation within
the FinTech space increased by 61% – making it the fastest growing
sector in the London economy.
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