April 16, 2024 @ 12:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lisbon, Portgul-based Bison Bank says it has seen revenues increase by 240% in 2023 when compared to the year prior. Bison Bank is focused on providing a range of Wealth Management, Custody, and Investment Banking services to individual and institutional clients. Affiliated firm, Bison Digital… Read More

 Tagged banking, bison bank, bison digital assets, portugal

April 16, 2024 @ 11:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Finance has announced work on a new UK Regulated Liability Network (RLN) experimentation phase with eleven of its members. The UK RLN is envisaged as a common ‘platform “for innovation’ across multiple forms of money, including existing commercial bank deposits and a shared ledger… Read More

 Tagged europe, regulated liability network, uk, uk finance, united kingdom

April 16, 2024 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PineGap.ai is reporting a $2.5 million seed funding round that is said to have been led by Silicon Valley Quad (SVQ) (BV Jagadeesh), Inventus Capital Partners (Manu Rekhi) with participation from DeVC (Aakash Kumar , Divyanshi Chowdhary). Notable Silicon Valley serial entrepreneurs and investors: Mohit… Read More

 Tagged funding round, pinegap.ai

April 16, 2024 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lloyds Bank has completed its first transaction using an electronic Bill of Lading (eBL) on the WaveBL trade documentation platform, in a cross-border deal that featured entirely digital exchanges of documentation. The deal closely follows Lloyds Bank “becoming the first UK bank to join the… Read More

 Tagged lloyds bank, uk, united kingdom

April 16, 2024 @ 7:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Berlin-based Fintech finmid has announced a €35 Million funding round following its emergence from stealth mode. Investors include Blossom Capital, Earlybird VC, and N26-founder Max Tayenthal.  finmid is an embedded finance platform that aims to provide platforms with an alternative to working with banks. The… Read More

 Tagged embedded finance, finmid, germany

April 16, 2024 @ 7:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global Fintech Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) announced that SBI SECURITIES Co., Ltd. has selected Broadridge’s post-trade solution to launch its equities brokerage services to clients in the UK, through its subsidiary SBI Shinsei International Limited. This is in addition to the existing relationship with… Read More

 Tagged broadridge, sbi securities, uk, united kingdom

April 16, 2024 @ 7:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Once a top UK peer-to-peer lender and today a digital bank, Zopa Bank has announced its first full year of profitability. Zopa announced a pre-tax profit of £15.8 million for the financial year ending 31 December 2023, up from a pre-tax loss of £26 million for… Read More

 Tagged banking, digital bank, uk, united kingdom, zopa, zopa bank

April 16, 2024 @ 6:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OakNorth, the digital bank for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs, has provided a further £12.2m loan to returning customer and SME housebuilder, honey, to part fund the acquisition and development of two of its latest major residential schemes. Founded in October 2022 by former Avant Homes CEO,… Read More

 Tagged digital bank, oaknorth, private equity, uk, united kingdom

April 15, 2024 @ 10:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

GoCardless reveals that it has set up a purpose-built space in the Central District so thatthe Fintech can cement its’ commitment to the region, while providing a good employee experience to its growing team GoCardless, the bank payment company, has opened its new Riga-based headquarters… Read More

 Tagged gocardless, latvia, riga, uk, united kingdom

April 15, 2024 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions, provider of a disruptive and scaled technology platform built to enhance efficiency and transparency in financial services, announced that it will begin making its DART System, a combined lien and eNote registry service, available to private and wholesale lending partners, “initially for… Read More

 Tagged dlt, figure technologies, lending, mortgage