Visakhapatnam is among the top five centres of innovation in fintech along with Edinburgh of the United Kingdom. An interaction between fintech firms of the two cities will be beneficial to both the cities, said British Deputy High Commissioner Andrew Fleming.
Mr. Fleming, along with his Political Economy Adviser Nalini Raghuraman, visited the office of The Hindu here on Wednesday and interacted with journalists. Mr. Fleming, who is incharge of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, was in the city in connection with a national seminar on gender equality being organised by the British High Commission in Guntur on Thursday.
Sri City
Mr. Fleming said he wanted to visit places in Andhra Pradesh that had become centres of activity. The British High Commission was closely tracking the growth of Visakhapatnam and Amaravati. He said that he also wanted to visit Sri City which was close to Chennai, a major business Centre in India. He said that he would recommend the establishing of British Library in Amaravati to the British Council. The British Council Libraries were self-funded and the High Commission did not have much of a say in it.
The British High Commission was providing services from eight cities, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Goa, Kolkata, Mumbai and New Delhi and three offices in South India in Hyderabad, Bengaluru e and Chennai, more than any other country. And in the UK Indians formed the largest Asian population.
