FinTech Atlanta

Organization-wide accomplishments. - added three new board members, expanding reach and diversified board. - held 4 board meetings and 9 executive committee meetings. - employed two interns throughout the course of the year who provided value across all areas of the association. We're pleased to say that both young professionals secured full-time positions after completing their time with Fintech Atlanta. - fundraising from board members. - developed new strategy with clarity of mission, increased engagement, and measured impact. Initiative accomplishments. Innovate - in november 2022, we partnered with the Georgia Fintech academy to relaunch our in-person student summit. Hosted at blackrock's innovation hub in midtown, we brought students from the university of Georgia, Georgia southern university, Georgia state university and kennesaw state university for a day of learning and networking. - additionally, Fintech Atlanta member companies fleetcor, global payments, gartner, and truist brought their offices to the classroom by participating in the gennext insights program with university of Georgia students who worked to solve these companies' real life business challenges. Just this past fall, 150 students worked with seven leading Fintech companies on projects ranging from the next evolution of emerging technology of payments, to practical applications in the metaverse, to decentralized finance. - supported Georgia Fintech academy and their initiatives. Talent - Fintech Atlanta hosted three of our signatures run it by the buyer programs. These events brought together large georgia-based corporations and investors with early/growth stage fintechs to discuss commercial collaboration and key industry issues, opportunities, and challenges. In 2022, our run it by the buyers events set record breaking attendance numbers and engagement. We packed the rooms at atlantic capital bank (now southstate), the home depot, and comcast, connecting audience attendees, 17 earlier stage companies, and 15 unique buyers, including blackrock, comcast, cox, deluxe, equifax, fis, fleetcor, global payments, the home depot, incomm, regions bank, southstate bank, truist, ups capital and wells fargo. Telling Atlanta's Fintech story - this fall, just prior to Georgia's takeover of money 20/20 usa, Fintech Atlanta launched our new and improved website and social media presence to better tell our story locally and abroad. As a part of this initiative, we rolled out our mobile content studio, creating content at activations around the globe, editing in real time, and pushing out on social media, creating additional exposure and credibility for our region. - grew linkedin followers by 283%. - continued fta partner newsletters. - educated the fta community with the august 2022 gartner event. - throughout the year, we activated at events such as money 20/20 europe, money 20/20 usa, and most importantly, Atlanta's own Fintech south. These activations showcased and supported Atlanta companies and told the story globally of why other fintechs should do business in our region. - hosted foreign trade and political delegations from eight key countries around the globe. We used these engagements as an opportunity to reinforce Atlanta's position as a global capital for financial technology innovation and leadership. Public policy - Fintech Atlanta and our member organizations have worked closely with founding partner, american transaction processors coalition (atpc) to stay connected with elected officials, educating them on our industry's economic impact and advocating for positive legislation for our industry. In march 2022, our Fintech contingency held a payments 101 session for the Georgia senate banking committee which will be conducted again in 2023 to educate the more than 50 new members of Georgia's general assembly. - Fintech Atlanta, joined by the atpc, Georgia chamber, and metro Atlanta chamber, sent a letter to the Georgia congressional delegation encouraging their support for investment from congress in the manufacturing of semiconductors domestically. In july 2022, congress passed the chips and science act which directed approximately $90 billion towards domestic semiconductor manufacturing.