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April 03, 2023

FinTech Wales celebrates 81% success rate in its first year of Coding and Data Academies 

FinTech Wales, in partnership with training provider iungo Solutions, has recorded an 81% success rate from individuals who attended their ten-week Coding or Data Academies. A substantial 62% of those who successfully completed the course have entered roles in FinTech or Technology, and 19% have gone on to undertake further training. Read more about the success of our Data Academies.

March 09, 2023

FinTechs in Wales actively seeking more women in tech

FinTech Wales and Chwarae Teg have partnered with Code First Girls, a social enterprise that provides free coding courses to women and non-binary people across the UK, to offer exclusive training and employment opportunities for females in Wales. 

October 19, 2022

FinTech Wales Meets with Chwarae Teg to discuss the Code First Girls Programme

Recently our Head of Skills, Gemma Hallett, sat down with Cerys Furlong, CEO of Chwarae Teg, to discuss an exclusive employment opportunity for FinTech Wales’ members seeking female Full Stack, Software, or Data talent through their New Futures project. 

August 31, 2022

Golfer to Coder; a new career is on par thanks to new Coding Academy

A new fast-track training programme launched by FinTech Wales and Cardiff and Vale College (CAVC) has already helped 28 people to become front or back-end developers, and ex-PGA Golfer, Richard King, is the first of four programme graduates to be offered a job opportunity with Principality Building Society.