About Simon Hardie

Simon Hardie is co-founder and CEO of findexable – the new digital platform for fintech insight and benchmarking, and home to the Global Fintech Index. As AI and analytics re-shape business, findexable’s mission is to make it easier to gather, interpret and benchmark fintech activity and enable unmoderated, real-time insight. Simon Hardie has two decades of experience producing financial intelligence content, research and events for global financial publishers including The Economist, Euromoney Institutional Investor and IFR (part of the Thomson Reuters Group), as well as boutique research publishers and media companies across Europe and the Middle East. Simon Hardie was previously a director of banking events and publishing house VRL (now Global Data) before setting up Eurasia Insights, a regional communications and content creation business focussed on emerging Europe, the Middle East and Turkey. In 2015 he joined MagnaCarta Communications to build the company’s research and analytics capabilities to help financial technology firms define their proposition and tell their story, before setting up Findexable in response to growing customer demand for an easier, more efficient means of gathering insight and analytics. Global financial services and innovation research & analytics expert. Scale-up and innovation acceleration practitioner in MENA, Africa and Emerging Regions. Currently leading a fintech & startup acceleration, advisory and analytics firm: - Insight & analytics, corporate identity and positioning - Scale-up acceleration - Innovation thought leadership strategy & content development - Founder of the Global Fintech Index Current projects include: - Global trade and investment programme development for Dubai Chamber of Commerce - Content strategy for leading African fintech provider - Supervising fintech research programme across EMEA and Nordic regions - Report on the link between fintech and financial inclusion for Newsweek