Singapore’s a long way from Sunderland right? So why’s a Mackem playing such a pivotal role in establishing the digital arm of the giant United Overseas Bank that serves most of southeast Asia?

Join the Dynamo Fintech Friends crew to hear how Stuart Smith came to work thousands of miles away from his native north east, and light years away from his former work in the North East.

To give Stuart time to acclimatise, we’ll also be hearing from Richard Smith of Codification – a Newcastle-based company specialising in ”federated-cloud strategy and implementation” (or ‘containers’ as your gran might say), the type of “bleeding edge” tech to which fintech and enterprise companies aspire. Before that Kani Payments will talk about how they identified a market need for their particular type of reconciliation platform, and what came next.

If all this tech talk is a bit hard to digest, Global Processing Services are kindly providing a free beer and even some food to make it more palatable - and there’ll be enough fintech festive spirit (and Grinch-y gossip) to sustain you until around 8pm when we can retire to the bar next door. Really hope you can come – yule be amongst friends.