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Berlin’s Upvest to Provide Smart Money App Plum with Investments API, Enabling More Investment Opportunities

Berlin-based fintech Upvest is set to provide Plum, the smart money app, with its investment API, enabling Plum to expand its range of investment opportunities to EU customers. Plum currently offers 3,000 US stocks to EU customers. Following this partnership, Plum will have the functionality… Read More

Berlin’s Open-Source Web Builder Anytype Announces $13.4M Round Following Launch of Open Beta

Anytype – the peer-to-peer web builder designed to “restore our digital freedoms and put the power of our digital lives back in our hands” – is announcing it has raised a $13.4 million round led by Balderton Capital. Inflection and Square One also “participated, as… Read More

European Investment Platform Shojin, LINUS, Reinvest24 to Focus on Real Estate Initiatives

Investment platform Shojin has teamed up with LINUS as well as Reinvest24 in order to expand various real estate opportunities. Shojin, a UK-headquartered FCA-regulated investment platform, has announced its partnership with LINUS Digital Finance, a Berlin-based real estate investment platform, and Reinvest24, an Estonia-based real… Read More

European SME Financing: Silvr Signs Securitized Facility of Up to €200M with Citi, Channel

Founded in 2020, Silvr‘s mission is to make financing more accessible to SMEs. Silvr claims that it has rapidly become a European leader in short-term lending due “to its technology and innovative data processing tools.” This new securitized facility will “increase Silvr’s financing capacity., which… Read More

Berlin-based Fintech Savings Platform SaveBetter Rebrands as Raisin

The final phase of a multi-stage process is now complete, and online savings platform SaveBetter has officially rebranded as Raisin. This change comes as the Berlin-headquartered Fintech platform “streamlines its identity across all markets to capitalize on brand awareness.” Globally, Raisin operates “as a free… Read More

Berlin’s Upvest, Shares to Offer European ETFs, Stock Investments Across Europe

Shares, Europe’s community-powered investment app, chooses Upvest, the Berlin-based infrastructure fintech, “to expand its investment product offering and geographical presence.” Following its successful launch and rapid growth in the UK, Shares will “bring its social investment experience to the European stage through Upvest’s Investment-API.” For… Read More

Digital Bank N26 Chief Growth Officer Alexander Weber to Leave His Role By End of June 2023

After 9 years at the company, N26’s Chief Growth Officer, Alexander Weber, will be leaving his role at the end of June “to pursue his own entrepreneurial journey.” Having joined N26 in 2014 as one of its first team members, Alexander has “been an important… Read More

European Digital Bank N26 Welcomes Déborah Carlson-Burkart to Supervisory Board

Earlier this week, N26 announced the appointment of international regulatory compliance and governance professional Déborah Carlson-Burkart to its Group Supervisory Board. Déborah will reportedly work closely “with existing board members Marcus W. Mosen, Jörg Gerbig, Dr. Barbara Roth and Dr. Julian Deutz, as well as… Read More

Digital Bank N26 Introduces Instant Savings Account, Offering Spanish Clients Competitive Interest Rates on Deposits

The digital bank N26 announced the launch of its new N26 Instant Savings account in Spain, offering eligible customers “with a Spanish IBAN 2.26% AER (2,26% NIR) on deposits with no conditions of permanence, no minimum deposit amounts required, no additional fees, and no need… Read More

Berlin based Fintech Raisin Appoints Cetin Duransoy as CEO for US Division

Berlin-based Fintech Raisin has appointed Cetin Duransoy as the new CEO of Raisin US, effective 1 May 2023. Cetin Duransoy reportedly “brings over 20 years of experience, having served in senior positions at companies including Capital One and Visa.” Before joining, Cetin served “as president… Read More

Berlin-based Fintech Raisin Announces €60M Series E

The Berlin-based Fintech Raisin has raised €60 million in a series E funding round, from existing and new investors. The global savings and investment specialist recently “exceeded 1 million customers, for which a total of €850 million in interest has been generated since founding the… Read More

Berlin’s Upvest Supports Vivid in Launching European ETF, Stock Offering

Berlin-based infrastructure fintech Upvest supports the mobile banking and investment app Vivid with its Investment-API, “enabling Vivid to expand its range of investment opportunities for private investors.” Upvest’s API solution allows Vivid’s end-customers “to invest in European ETFs and stocks with all relevant shareholder rights… Read More

Berlin-based Fintech Pliant Finalizes $28M Series A

Berlin-based Pliant claims it is looking back at a very successful year 2022. While entering seven additional European markets, it also “recorded a sixfold growth of its customer portfolio.” With the closing of this Series A investment round, the company is “now setting itself up… Read More

Dr. Torsten Stuber: CTO at Pendulum Explains How Use of Stablecoins Affects Developments of DeFi Apps

We recently caught up with Dr. Torsten Stüber, Co-Founder and CTO at Berlin-based Pendulum, an initiative focused on traditional finance infrastructure blockchain solutions, which is “the missing link between fiat and DeFi.” Pendulum is an open-source blockchain built on the “proven” Parity Substrate framework, establishing… Read More

Solaris, Handelsblatt Research Institute: Key Opportunities for Embedded Finance in European Mobility Sector

Solaris, which claims to be Europe’s “leading” embedded finance platform, published a new report on the evolution of embedded finance. The study, conducted in cooperation with the Handelsblatt Research Institute, “analyzes the market potential for the mobility sector in the four largest European markets of… Read More

Digital Bank N26 Appoints Supervisory Board, Strengthening Corporate Governance

N26, The Mobile Bank, announced the appointment of its new group Supervisory Board “as it continues to evolve its governance structures in preparation for the next stages of development.” The latest appointments “will see Marcus W. Mosen, Jörg Gerbig, Dr. Barbara Roth, Dr. Julian Deutz… Read More

Berlin’s AAZZUR, Channel Capital Enter Embedded Lending Partnership

Embedded finance integrator AAZZUR and alternative asset manager Channel Capital have formed “an embedded lending partnership.” The multi-faceted partnership will “see AAZZUR supporting Channel’s digital SME lending strategy.” Channel has invested significantly in “developing proprietary systems using APIs, Open Banking and cloud-based technologies to provide… Read More

Berlin-based Crypto-focused Neobank Nuri to Shut Down Business Operations

Nuri was founded in 2015 under the name Bitwala with the purpose “to make Bitcoin spendable.” Over the years, the business has “gone through several transformations and re-positionings, ups and downs,” until it has become Nuri, the bank account “to grow your money.” The team’s… Read More

Berlin’s Solaris Becomes New Partner for ADAC Credit Card

ADAC Finanzdienste GmbH and Solarisbank AG will cooperate on the ADAC credit card program in the future. Solaris will “replace Landesbank Berlin (LBB) as co-branding partner for the ADAC credit card in the second half of 2023.” Until then, the partnership with LBB “will continue.”… Read More

Berlin’s Grover Receives €270M in Funding from Asset Manager M&G

Grover, the consumer-tech subscription platform, has finalized a new €270 million debt financing facility with M&G, the international asset manager. With the fresh capital, Grover will “expand its product inventory to serve rising demand from customers in existing markets such as Germany, Spain, Netherlands, and… Read More

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