FinTech50
FREEAGENT ED MOLYNEUX, FOUNDER & CEO
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FIXNETIX
HUGH HUGHES,
CHAIRMAN & CEO
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ixnetix has become the leading
financial technology provider
because of the people we select
to represent our business. It’s ironic
to rank the number one success factor
for a technology vendor as man rather
than machine. When I started my
career nearly 50 years ago, firms were
built on the premise of making good
relationships and always putting the
customer first. I’ve been able to carry
this mantra through to Fixnetix whilst
choosing the right variety of team
members and inspiring all of them
with the freedom to innovate and win.
Today, we are one of the last independent providers worldwide and the
early adapter types consider us to be
a veteran and somewhat of a legend.
About
Fixnetix is a 2013, 2012 and 2011
award-winning company providing
outsourced managed services across
multiple asset classes to leading
global banks, hedge funds and proprietary trading groups seeking ultra-low
latency trading, market data, hosting,
infrastructure connectivity and risk
management solutions. The company
is in 33 co-location and proximity
hosting centres across Europe, USA,
Asia-Pac and Africa and offers trading
access to over 89+ markets.
@Fixnetix
SIXTEEN
t FreeAgent our vision is to
‘Democratize
Accounting’.
Back in 2007 when I started
the company with my co-founders
Olly and Roan, we were just trying to
build something that would help us
run our own businesses.
Back then we were naïve enough to
set out a bold scope for our product: to
streamline everything from timeslip to
tax return. But the software-as-a-service model allowed us to rapidly build
out from our initial product and we’re
now well on our way to delivering
against our ambition. We’re currently
launching our Self Assessment Filing
tool, initially just for Sole Traders,
that automatically fills in 90% of their
income tax return - the bane of most
business owners’ lives.
We’re reinventing what accounting software means for very small
businesses and also redefining their
relationship with accountants. By
providing real-time access to microbusinesses’ financial health data, we’re
also poised to transform the small
business financing landscape as well.
About
FreeAgent are pioneers of cloud
accounting for freelancers and
micro-businesses, and are currently
the UK market leader with over 34,000
paying subscribers. FreeAgent are
ranked #8 in the Deloitte Fast50 2013
and are winners of the AccountingWeb
2013 Software Satisfaction Awards in
both the Accounting Software and
Expense Management categories.
@FreeAgent @edmolyneux