Which UK companies are rewriting the rules and redefining their marketplaces? Earlier this year, The Spectator and Julius Baer launched the inaugural Economic Disruptor Awards to celebrate the most creative entrepreneurs in the UK.
Over the past six months, over 100 nominations have been reviewed by our panel. Last night, we announced the winners at a gala dinner hosted by Andrew Neil, Chairman of The Spectator, and attended by over 120 guests from across the world of business.
We are delighted to announce that the 2018 Economic Disruptor of the Year is Pockit – a low-cost, easy-access banking app aimed at helping Britain’s ‘unbanked’.
Pockit is billed as ‘a bank for the financially excluded’ – many of whom are currently unable to shop online, secure a credit line or send money to family abroad without extortionate fees.
‘What stood out about Pockit was that it clearly had a social purpose,’ said Martin Vander Weyer.
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