July 24, 2024 @ 12:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

British Business Investments announces a further commitment to Claret Capital Partners Limited, with a new co-investment fund. The fund will invest in high-growth technology enabled smaller businesses across the UK. British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, aims to improve… Read More

 Tagged british business investments, claret capital partners, uk, united kingdom

July 24, 2024 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  We recently connected with Kelvin Tan, CEO of audax, a corporate venture backed by Standard Chartered Bank. Before transitioning to a full-time career as an entrepreneur, Kelvin held multiple roles at Standard Chartered Bank — from Transaction Banking to Retail Products and Payments to… Read More

 Tagged audax, banking, fintech adoption, fintech trends, interview, kelvin tan, singapore, standard chartered

July 24, 2024 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking for financial institutions, today announced it has expanded its partnership with PayDo, an Electronic Money Institution (EMI), offering personalised solutions to businesses and individuals with a suite of financial services. The partnership with ClearBank will allow… Read More

 Tagged clearbank, embedded banking, paydo, real-time clearing, uk, united kingdom

July 24, 2024 @ 9:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest Mortgages, the UK’s platform for mortgages, announces the launch of a streamlined range of residential mortgage products, delivering simpler and faster options for homeowners. This enhancement follows the “introduction of improved criteria in June and includes significant rate reductions, making LendInvest’s mortgage offerings more… Read More

 Tagged lendinvest, mortgages, online lending, uk, united kingdom

July 24, 2024 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK is a significantly more entrepreneurial society than it was at the start of the millennium, the world’s largest survey of entrepreneurship has found. This, according to an update from NatWest. For the first time since the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor records began “a quarter… Read More

 Tagged entrepreneurship, natwest, research, uk, united kingdom

July 24, 2024 @ 9:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK challenger bank Monzo is diversifying its product suite with a new pension consolidation solution that tracks old pensions and brings them into one fund. The launch of the product comes after research from Monzo reveals that more than half of UK adults (51%) don’t… Read More

 Tagged banking, digital bank, monzo, pensions, uk, united kingdom

July 24, 2024 @ 9:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

D•One, the open banking unit of The ClearScore Group, has announced a partnership with Zopa Bank. The latest integration will see Zopa Bank add D•One to its partners that offer open banking connectivity as well as transaction categorization intelligence. D•One will be focusing on Zopa’s… Read More

 Tagged banking, clearscore, d•one, digital bank, open banking, uk, united kingdom, zopa, zopa bank

July 24, 2024 @ 6:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

American retail investors are significantly more likely to ignore ESG (environmental, social & governance) factors than consider them when investing, according to data from the latest Retail Investor Beat (RIB) from trading and investing platform eToro. In a study of 1,000 American retail investors, just… Read More

 Tagged esg, investing, retail investors, survey, trading, us

July 23, 2024 @ 11:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE: NU) announces the expansion of the cryptocurrency price alert service available on Nubank Cripto, the crypto trading platform on the Nubank app. Throughout August, all of the company’s 92 million customers in Brazil “will have access to the feature.” Through the new tool,… Read More

 Tagged brazil, Crypto Adoption, latam, nubank, nubank cripto

July 23, 2024 @ 10:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With the development of this new project, Telefónica Tech has become one of BBVA‘s main strategic partners in cybersecurity. The bank will incorporate the latest advances of the technology company, “supported by its global experience and the advantages offered by intelligence to detect, identify and… Read More

 Tagged bbva, cybersecurity, mexico, telefónica tech