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The West Midlands is now recognised as one of three FinTech hubs in the UK, according to a new report revealing that the sector supports more than 11,000 jobs in the region.

The Impact Report, commissioned by SuperTech, the UK’s only tech supercluster founded in the West Midlands, also highlighted how Birmingham and the region’s FinTech businesses have generated £474m in economic output, and are on track to achieve £1bn.

The UK Government is paving the way towards a successful future in IT as it ramps up digital skills with 2,500 new tech recruits. The new recruits will be in digital roles in government by June 2025 through new apprenticeship and early talent programmes, the Cabinet Office has announced.

This new initiative announced by the Government is being kickstarted by the new digital apprenticeship programme, which will support the recruitment of 500 early career entrants into digital roles this financial year across government.

Yi Ding, Ashkan Eshghi, Ram Gopal, Yifei Wang have been working on this paper and presented this Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark 2022.