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Robinhood Legend Trading Platform Now Available in UK

Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) says its Legend Trading Platform is now available for UK customers. Robinhood Legend is free to use for anyone with an account with the brokerage. It allows customers to trade 6,000 US stocks from their desktop browser, with no FX fees. Options trading… Read More

Tink, Adyen Offer Pay by Bank in Germany

Vodafone customers may now Pay by Bank in Germany due to a partnership between Tink and Adyen (ADYEN:AMS). Tink is part of Visa (NYSE:V). Pay by Bank is an open banking process that allows for immediate transfers between two banks in a secure environment. Tink… Read More

Tribe Payments to Work with Finmo to Bridge Europe and Asia Pacific

Tribe Payments has announced a partnership with Finmo to offer end-to-end payment and treasury services to banking and Fintech clients across key growth markets, specifically the Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Europe. Tribe’s issuer and acquirer processing platform will be integrated with Finmo’s treasury and financial management… Read More

UK Payments Firm TrueLayer Partners with Tebex on Gaming

TrueLayer, a UK-based payments firm, is now working in the gaming sector following an agreement with Tebex. According to a company statment, Tebex is utilizing TrueLayer’s services in Germany, France, Spain, Belgium and the UK. TrueLayer offers a “Pay by Bank” network that enables immediate… Read More

Vertis Announces Investment in DunPort Capital Management to Enable European Private Credit Expansion

DunPort Capital Management, a private credit manager, and Vertis Capital Partners, a UK-based alternative investment firm focused on asset-backed finance and private credit, announced a partnership. As part of the transaction Vertis will take an initial minority stake in DunPort which is expected to “increase… Read More

OpenFX Announces $23M Round to Enhance Cross-Border Payments

OpenFX, the FX infrastructure company revolutionizing cross-border payments, announced its emergence from stealth with $23 million in funding led by Accel, with participation from NFX, Lightspeed Faction, Castle Island Ventures, Flybridge, Hash3 and strategic fintech investors. This milestone follows the company’s “growth from $0 to… Read More

eToro Adds 12 New Crypto-Assets for US Investors

Trading and investing platform, eToro, announces the addition of 12 cryptoassets to the U.S. platform. In addition to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ethereum, U.S. users now have the option “to invest in: Aave, Cardano, Chainlink, Compound, Dogecoin, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin, Ripple, Stellar, Shiba Inu, Uniswap,… Read More

UK Payments Fintech Dojo Announces $190M Investment from Vitruvian Partners

Dojo, the UK payments technology provider, announces it has secured an investment of $190 million from Vitruvian Partners, a global growth investment firm. The investment marks the first equity raise in Dojo’s history. The funds enable Dojo to accelerate the company’s growth in the UK… Read More

UK Adults Increasingly Focused on Savings, Investments – Survey

A quarter of adults in the UK are ‘silent savers’, preferring to keep financial matters private and rarely discussing savings or investments with others, according to research by KPMG UK and the charity National Numeracy. The study of 2,000 UK adults which also found that… Read More

UK’s NatWest Group Introduces Initiative to Help Younger Consumers Take Control of Finances

NatWest Group has announced the expansion of NatWest Thrive with a new digital platform designed “to empower the next generation to take control of their financial futures.” NatWest Thrive, which started as a youth club program, now “combines over 30 years of community initiatives –… Read More

Fintech Stripe Enables UK Business Growth with Global Money Management Capabilities

Programmable financial services company Stripe showcased its latest products to accelerate the growth of British businesses, “including a major expansion of its money management capabilities, tools to make it easier to trade internationally, and the world’s first AI foundation model for payments.” UK businesses are… Read More

Palla Secures $14.5M Series A to Enhance Cross-Border Payments

Palla, an international payments platform that enables instant cross-border payments for global financial institutions and fintech firms, announced today that it has raised $14.5 million in a Series A funding round. The funding round was led “by Revolution Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Ardent,… Read More

Conduit Announces $36M Series A to Leverage Stablecoins for Cross-Border Payments

Conduit, a cross-border payments platform powered by stablecoins, announced it closed a $36 million Series A funding round. The funding round was co-led by Dragonfly and Altos Ventures, “with participation from Sound Ventures, Commerce Ventures, DCG, Circle Ventures (the issuer of the USDC stablecoin) and… Read More

Merge Gains EMI License, VASP Approval Granted by France

UK-based Fintech Merge has received approval to operate under an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licence and Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) granted by the AMF and ACPR in France. Merge states that it is one of the few firms to hold both regulatory approvals. Merge… Read More

Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance Celebrates 10 Years of Operation

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), part of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, is celebrating ten years of operations, having launched in 2015. While there have been several academic entities that have sought to journal the emergence and development of alternative finance, CCAF is the one that… Read More

Global Fintech Adyen Enables Tap to Pay on iPhone in Additional European Markets

Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, has officially enabled Tap to Pay on iPhone in seven new markets: Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta. The functionality allows businesses such as Suitsupply, an international men’s fashion brand with… Read More

Deloitte Introduces Global Agentic Network to Enhance Digital Workforce Solutions

Deloitte announced the launch of its Global Agentic Network to help scale AI-driven digital workforce capabilities in organizations around the world. The initiative leverages Deloitte’s global alliances and technology relationships to create “a connected ecosystem of AI business agent offerings, which will augment and automate… Read More

Mambu Payments to Extend Composable Banking Beyond Core

Global cloud banking firm Mambu unveils Mambu Payments, expanding its composable banking platform to include end-to-end payment capabilities. Following its acquisition of “payments technology provider Numeral in December 2024, this marks a significant step forward in Mambu’s mission.” The launch of Mambu Payments means Mambu… Read More

Gemini Crypto Report Finds Europe Leading the Way in Digital Assets Ownership

Gemini has released their 2025 Global State of Crypto report in partnership with Data Driven Consulting Group. The report offers a breakdown of investor awareness around cryptocurrencies, motivations for “owning and trading, crypto ETF adoption, the impact of the Trump administration’s policies on crypto, and… Read More

Zopa Bank and ClearScore-led Coalition Completes Initiatives Addressing Cost-of-Living Crisis

UK’s digital bank Zopa and the ClearScore-led coalition has completed initiatives addressing the cost-of-living crisis. The 2025 Fintech Pledge has completed its campaign goal of “driving 25 million actions that help UK consumers improve their financial resilience.” The achievement is “more than double the campaign’s… Read More

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