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Fintech Cadence Partners with Fintel Connect

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On February 2, Fintech Cadence announced its partnership with Fintel Connect. Through this partnership, it aims to enhance resources, capabilities, and offerings that it provides to the fintech startups across Canada. Fintech Connect, as a service provider and marketing specialist, will leverage its marketing expertise in financial services to assist fintech companies within the Fintech Cadence ecosystem.

"Fintech cadence is a great supporter, and essential contributor, to the innovation ecosystem in Canada. This partnership with Fintel Connect will reinforce the support they provide to fintech startups. Fintel Connect helped me by leveraging their powerful network of publishers to grow my user base and improve the financial health of more Canadians," shares Olga Morawczynski, Founder of Bounc3.

With the boom in fintechs offering digital-first solutions, we've noticed that many still don't have the marketing resources to reach new customers online. Our partnership with Fintech Cadence will help us further our mission of helping fintech companies achieve their growth goals and financial brands along their digital transformation journey. Because we're built specifically for the financial services niche, we understand the obstacles and complexities that fintech startups face, and we're looking forward to helping them grow."

Nicky Senyard, Fintel Connect's CEO

Fintech Cadence wants to offer support to startups in as many ways as possible through targeting and functional services crucial to their success. Partnering with Fintel Connect will help them address the pain points of fintech startups. It puts Fintel Connect in the ranks of technology providers like Plaid, Zendesk, AWS, Hubspot, and IBM.

"We're thrilled to partner with Fintel Connect." remarks Layial El-Hadi, Executive Director at Fintech Cadence. "Their expertise is unmatched in the intersection of fintech and marketing. It's such a specific niche, and it's the same niche we support here at Fintech Cadence. It's a pleasure to work with partners that understand the challenges of the fintech space and the journey these companies are on; it's helpful for us and, most importantly, helpful for the startups we work with."

Founded in 2017, Fintech Cadence fosters innovation in the Canadian fintech sector. Its goal is to stimulate collaboration, bring together talent, startups, researchers, universities, VC’s, incubators, accelerators and financial institutions to work and innovate together. It is Canada’s fintech hub that provides multiple resources, events, and programs to the fintech community.

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