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Fintech Savings App Kaldi Secures £472,875 via Crowdcube

Kaldi App, whose developers are on a mission is to transform the savings habits of Gen Z & Millennials by getting them to save earlier & better, has raised £472,875 from 140 investors at the time of writing with 25 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding… Read More

Kvarn Capital, a Digital Asset Firm, Selects Talos as Technology Provider

Kvarn Capital, a digital asset firm licensed under the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA), has chosen Talos as its technology provider to empower Kvarn X, its brokerage platform, to “provide advanced brokerage services to its individual and institutional clients.” This integration includes access to Talos’s… Read More

Banco Santander Appoints Petri Nikkilä as CEO of Openbank and Head of Digital Bank’s Consumer Business

Banco Santander has announced the appointment of Petri Nikkilä as the new global CEO of Openbank and head of the Digital Consumer Bank’s non-auto consumer business. Mr. Nikkilä succeeds Ezequiel Szafir, who “was Openbank’s CEO until last year, and will report to Daniel Barriuso, head… Read More

Bank of Ireland Invests Over €60M in Branch Improvements and ATMs

Bank of Ireland has announced an investment of more than €60 million in a range of branch improvements, including the Bank’s largest single investment in ATMs in the last decade. Starting later this year, a new fleet of ATMs will “be rolled out to all… Read More

UK’s Lloyds Banking Group Teams Up with Dynatrace, a Unified Observerability and Security Firm

Dynatrace (NYSE: DT), which claims to be among the leaders in unified observability and security, has recently announced that it is working with Lloyds Banking Group, which is reportedly one of the UK’s largest financial services providers, in order “to measure the environmental carbon impact… Read More

ClearBank, the Enabler of Real-Time Clearing and Embedded Banking Services, Releases Report on EMI Market

ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking for financial institutions, announces a new report on the Electronic Money Institution (EMI) market in the UK and Europe. The independent report, commissioned by ClearBank and produced by leading analyst house Celent, finds “that EMIs now… Read More

AML – KYC: Centralis Selects Fenergo

Dublin-based Fenergo has been selected by the Centralis Group to improve its client and investor onboarding process. Fenergo is a company that provides “Client Lifecycle Management” (CLM) solutions, including Know your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) services. Fenergo offers a regulatory-compliant service for onboarding and… Read More

UK’s Digital Bank Tandem Announces Key Executive Appointments

Tandem, a UK digital bank, has announced the appointment of Maria Khan, as Director of Product and Digital, and Chris Parker, as Head of Marketing. As Director of Product and Digital, Maria leads “the development of Tandem’s exciting digital offering, working with the team to… Read More

UK Fintech Kriya Upgrades Debt Facility to Support £1 Billion in Payments

Kriya, a B2B payments Fintech, has announced that it has secured a new £50 million debt facility from debt partner Viola Credit. This will allow the fintech “to power over £1 billion of B2B Payments over the next 24 months.” With this facility, Kriya intends… Read More

HeavyFinance, a Climate Tech Investment Marketplace, Reportedly Financed €50M in Agricultural Loans

HeavyFinance, a climate tech investment marketplace, has successfully financed €50 million in agricultural loans across Europe. This significant sum has been allocated “across the current markets where HeavyFinance operates, including Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Portugal.” The €50 million has been “distributed across almost 1,700… Read More

European Digital Bank bunq Reports Net Profit of €53.1M in 2023

bunq, which claims to be the second largest neobank in Europe, reports a net profit of €53.1 million in 2023. A “testament” to bunq’s sustainable business model proven to yield record profits throughout 2023, the challenger will “direct its net profit to propel its global… Read More

Bitpanda Wealth Introduced to Address Requirements of HNWIs, Corporate Treasuries

Bitpanda is announcing the launch of Bitpanda Wealth, which is described as the specialized service tailored specifically to meet the unique needs of High-Net-Worth Individuals (HNWIs), Family Offices, External Asset Managers and Corporate Treasuries. Responding to the demands of investors in our current markets in… Read More

European Digital Banking Platform CaixaBank Extends Financial Services Network

CaixaBank extended the coverage of its financial services network in 2022 and 2023 to a total of 484 new towns in rural areas where the bank previously had no presence. These service points have been “incorporated through the arrival of new mobile branches and the… Read More

Bank of England and HM Treasury Release Response to Consultation on Digital Pound

The Bank of England and HM Treasury have published their response to the consultation on a digital pound that was launched in February 2023. No final decision has been made “to pursue a digital pound – also called a central bank digital currency (CBDC).” Work… Read More

UK Private Equity Investment Declines as Challenging Macroeconmic Conditions Persist – Report

Mid-market private equity investment activity in the UK declined by 10% in 2023, as challenging macroeconomic conditions presented few glimmers of hope for recovery, according to KPMG UK’s Mid-Market Private Equity report. The firm’s most recent M&A study “has revealed that 675 mid-market transactions were… Read More

Bank of Ireland Credit and Debit Card Data Reveals Spending Surged Compared to Last January

Bank of Ireland credit and debit card data for the first two weeks of January reveals that ‘New Year, New You’ spending in gyms and sports clubs shot upwards “compared to last January.” As noted in the update shared by the Bank of Ireland, many… Read More

Token.io Becomes Participant in SEPA Payment Account Access (SPAA) Scheme

Account-to-account (A2A) payment infrastructure provider, Token.io, has announced it has become an official participant in the SEPA Payment Account Access (SPAA) scheme: a commercial API initiative that will enable greater innovation and unlock wider adoption of A2A payments in Europe. Through leveraging open banking and… Read More

Fiserv Polska Introduces New SmartPOS Device into its Product Offering in Poland

PAX Global Technology, the payment terminal solutions provider, is pleased to announce that Fiserv Polska, the owner of the PolCard brand, has introduced the PAX A920Pro SmartPOS device into its offering in Poland. The cooperation marks another milestone “between Fiserv and NOVELPAY – FinTech Software… Read More

Digital Assets Firm Elwood Technologies Now Authorized as Service Company by UK’s Financial Conduct Authority

Elwood Technologies LLP, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that provides institutional-grade access to digital asset exchanges and liquidity venues, announced it has been authorized as a service company by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). This authorization applies to Elwood’s execution management system (EMS) in “relation… Read More

Axyon AI, an Italian Fintech Leveraging AI, Closes New Funding Round led by Montage Ventures

Axyon AI, an Italian AI fintech company, has closed its latest funding round led by the US-based venture capital firm Montage Ventures and accompanied by The Techshop SGR, alongside other angel investors. The investment round marks a new chapter in Axyon AI’s journey “towards revolutionising… Read More

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