| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| Mar 3, 2026 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | February 2026 | Welcome to February 2026’s DIGIT Deal Roundup.
It proved to be a tough month for the Scottish National Investment Bank, with news that two firms on its books faced the administrator’s axe after successive funding crunches – but while the da... |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Smart Data Foundry Launches FINDS Research Fellowships | Edinburgh’s Smart Data Foundry has announced the launch of the Financial Data Service (FINDS) Fellowships, offering up to £300,000 to support pioneering research to address the UK’s most pressing economic, societal and health challenges.
Th... |
| Sep 4, 2025 | Movers and Shakers | August 2025 | Welcome to August’s jam-packed edition of Movers and Shakers!
The summer has only just finished and the kids are barely back to school, but Scotland’s tech scene has wasted no time getting back to business, with a fresh crop of high-level a... |
| Aug 20, 2025 | Smart Data Foundry Appoints New Chief Data Scientist | Gordon Baggott has been appointed as Edinburgh-based Smart Data Foundry’s new Chief Data Scientist.
He will be responsible for the development of the data science strategy for the University of Edinburgh subsidiary, driving forward research... |
| Apr 16, 2025 | New Platform Reveals Key Insights Around Scottish Economic Wellbeing | A new platform called the Economic Wellbeing Explorer, launched today by Scots not-for-profit Smart Data Foundry, offers fresh insights around financial hardship in Scotland.
Using near real-time data from around 5 million bank accounts, th... |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Movers & Shakers | March 2025 | Welcome to the March 2025 edition of DIGIT’s Movers & Shakers!
Each month, our Movers & Shakers feature gives you the low-down on recent news in the Scottish tech ecosystem.
Last month saw plenty of major awards being won, some top ... |
| Mar 6, 2025 | Edinburgh’s Smart Data Foundry Appoints New CEO | Edinburgh’s Smart Data Foundry has appointed Dougie Robb as its permanent chief executive officer.
Robb, who has been interim CEO since May, will be responsible for the next phase of growth for the University of Edinburgh subsidiary, which ... |
| Mar 3, 2025 | Scotland's Tech Landscape: A Flourishing Ecosystem of Innovation and Growth | Scotland's tech scene is buzzing. It's a vibrant tapestry woven with innovation, ambition, and collaboration. In February 2025, the Scottish tech ecosystem showcased its strength through a series of significant developments. From strategic ... |
| Mar 3, 2025 | Movers & Shakers | February 2025 | Welcome to the February 2025 edition of DIGIT’s Movers and Shakers!
Each month, our Movers and Shakers feature gives you the low-down on recent news in the Scottish tech ecosystem.
This August has been another bumper month, with many innova... |
| Feb 5, 2025 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | January 2025 | Welcome to the latest edition of the DIGIT Deal Roundup.
A whirlwind start to the year saw big news in funding, with millions invested into the Scottish space sector and select financial service firms, while major acquisitions promise to pr... |
| Jan 20, 2025 | Smart Data Foundry Secures £3M for Financial Data Service | Smart Data Foundry (SDF) has been awarded £3 million funding to operate a new Financial Data Service, enabling more researchers to study the financial health of millions of households across the UK, by providing secure access to financial b... |
| Jan 15, 2025 | £600K Smart Data Prize Launches to Drive Innovation | The Department for Business & Trade, Challenge Works, the Open Data Institute and Smart Data Foundry are calling on innovators to enter the new Smart Data Challenge Prize.
The prize will award up to £600,000 to accelerate the most innov... |
| Oct 16, 2024 | The Rise of FinTech Innovation: A New Era for ESG and Data Collaboration | In the world of finance, change is the only constant. Recently, two significant developments have emerged from the UK, highlighting the growing intersection of technology, finance, and social responsibility. FinTech Scotland's recent ESG in... |
| Oct 15, 2024 | Smart Data Foundry & Research Data Scotland Announce Partnership | Smart Data Foundry (SDF) and Research Data Scotland (RDS) have announced a new partnership to make it easier for researchers to securely access public sector and financial data for the good of society.
The collaboration, which will initiall... |
| Sep 30, 2024 | Comment | Shining a Light On Open Banking in Scotland | Scotland is taking a leading role in showcasing how the fintech sector is thriving across the UK, contributing around £568m in Gross Value Added (in real terms) to the economy, and open banking has played its part in that growth.
Edinburgh ... |
| Aug 21, 2024 | Innovations in Financial Planning: A New Era for Later Life Management | In the world of finance, innovation is the lifeblood that keeps the industry vibrant. Recently, two companies emerged as champions in the Later Life Financial Planning Innovation Challenge, hosted by Smart Data Foundry and FinTech Scotland.... |
| Aug 19, 2024 | Later Life Financial Planning Innovation Challenge: The Winners | Doquit Technologies LrD and Planda AI have won the Smart Data Foundry and FinTech Scotland UK Fintech Challenge, designed to encourage data-led innovation and accelerate the development of products to assist with Later Life financial planni... |
| Aug 14, 2024 | The Rise of Innovation: Bengaluru and Beyond | Bengaluru is buzzing. The city, often dubbed the Silicon Valley of India, is witnessing a surge in corporate investments and technological advancements. At the heart of this growth is NatWest Group, a major player in the banking sector. The... |
| Aug 13, 2024 | Smart Data Foundry Launches “World First” Synthetic Data Product | Smart Data Foundry (SDF), the Edinburgh-based data innovation organisation, has launched what’s been called the world’s first self-service, agent-based synthetic data generation product.
SDF has released version 2.0 of its Aizle platform, w... |
| Jul 17, 2024 | Smart Data Foundry Becomes First Tenant of Edinburgh Futures Institute | The University of Edinburgh has welcomed its first commercial tenant to the new Edinburgh Futures Institute, in the capital’s historic Old Royal Infirmary in Lauriston Place.
Smart Data Foundry (SDF) has moved from the nearby Bayes Centre t... |
| May 2, 2024 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | April 2024 | Welcome to the April edition of DIGIT Movers and Shakers, 2024!
Every month, our Movers and Shakers feature gives you the low-down on recent news in the Scottish tech ecosystem, from recruitment and partnerships to expansions and awards.
Th... |
| Apr 30, 2024 | FinTech Scotland and Smart Data Foundry Partner for Innovation Challenge | FinTech Scotland and Smart Data Foundry are collaborating to bring an industry-wide UK fintech innovation challenge to the market.
The challenge seeks to inspire the development of inclusive financial services for consumers, empowering them... |
| Oct 26, 2023 | Gov-led Coalition Launches Open Call for Smart Data Innovation | The Department for Business and Trade, Challenge Works, the Open Data Institute (ODI) and Smart Data Foundry are calling on individuals, innovators, entrepreneurs, academia and civil society to share ideas for ambitious and feasible solutio... |
| Oct 17, 2023 | How Is Smart Data Foundry Unlocking the Power of Data for Positive Change? | Financial data is as inherently interesting as it is illustrative. When examined en-mass, it offers profound insights: what knock-on effects various events and factors, such as economic downturns, have on peoples’ financial situations, for ... |
| Jul 13, 2023 | CFIT Reveals Open Finance Coalition, Includes Two Scots Firms | The Centre for Finance, Innovation, and Technology (CFIT) — the private sector-led finance innovation body — has revealed the partners of its Open Finance coalition, which includes Scotland’s Smart Data Foundry and MBN Solutions.
According ... |
| Jun 1, 2023 | Все события в мире синтетических данных за 2022 год
Новые игроки и анализ рынка синтетических данных
Стратегические разработки
Развитие экосистемы | В течение прошлого года мы наблюдали существенный рост в мире синтетических данных и радостные изменения на этом рынке. В своей статье я поделюсь своими заметками о годе мониторинга рынка. Из неё вы узнаете о новых игроках, разработках и пе... |
| Feb 8, 2023 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | January 2023 | Welcome to the January 2023 edition of the DIGIT Movers and Shakers column.
This month features another bumper crop of Scottish awards, relocation, partnership, and recruitment news.
Here’s all the latest news in one place.
Recruitment
Mico... |
| Jan 31, 2023 | Smart Data Foundry Appoints Inaugural Board | Smart Data Foundry, based in Edinburgh, has unveiled its inaugural board as it accelerates its mission to unlock the power of financial data to drive innovation and solve big societal issues.
As a data innovation organisation serving the pu... |
| Oct 4, 2022 | Smart Data Foundry Provides Synthetic Data to Reduce Fraud | Smart Data Foundry is to provide synthetic data sets to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) in a bid to reduce the growth of Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud.
Now the UK’s number one finance fraud ty... |
| May 9, 2022 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | April 2022 | Recruitment The Data Lab
Brian Hills was announced as the new CEO of The Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI in April.
He was most recently interim CEO following the departure of Gillian Docherty OBE in January this year,... |
| Mar 16, 2022 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | February 2022 | Recruitment Novosound
Simon Patterson has been appointed Chief Commercial Officer at Novosound, joining from Innospection in Aberdeen to drive the remote sensor specialist’s UK and international growth strategy.
An MSc graduate in materials... |