Firms with women founders have, on average, more than double the internal rate of return than those with all men founders, according to a survey of 91 U.K. financial sector companies. (Bloomberg)

Talking point: KPMG acknowledges that one large woman-founded firm—London-based Starling Bank, which has raised US$303 million—may have skewed the findings. But even though women-founded fintech firms do better, there are far fewer of them and they raise less money than those started by men. That’s a pattern seen across the technology industry, including in Canada. According to a report from Move The Dial, women comprise 13 per cent of the average Canadian tech company’s executive team, and only five per cent of Canadian tech companies have a solo woman founder.