April 17, 2024 @ 7:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Latest NatWest Regional PMI survey data showed business activity rising almost universally across the UK in March, “supported by a general upturn in demand.” Trends in employment remained “more mixed, with just over half of areas seeing growth in job numbers amid still-strong cost pressures.”… Read More

 Tagged natwest, research, uk, united kingdom

April 17, 2024 @ 7:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitpanda recently announce their strategic partnership with Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW), which is reportedly Germany’s largest federal bank and with a balance sheet of more than 330 billion Euros (as well as a key institution in the German banking sector). Through this collaboration, LBBW will “utilize… Read More

 Tagged bitpanda, digital assets, europe, germany

April 17, 2024 @ 5:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today announced a partnership with URBN to power online and in-person retail payments for Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie Group, Free People, and FP Movement. With Stripe as its primary payments infrastructure, URBN will “introduce a more consistent checkout experience… Read More

 Tagged fintech trends, payments, stripe, urbn

April 16, 2024 @ 4:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Launched in November of 2023, SoFi (NASDAQ:SOFI), a multi-faceted Fintech that provides banking services, introduced an ETF [exchange traded fund] that aims to emulate the higher returns expected from bigger money. The ETF, THTA, was launched in partnership with Tidal Investments LLC and ZEGA Financial… Read More

 Tagged etf, sofi

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