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British Business Investments Announces £20M Tier 2 Facility with Cambridge & Counties Bank

British Business Investments announces a new £20m Tier 2 capital facility for Cambridge & Counties Bank Limited. Funds raised from the facility will enable Cambridge & Counties Bank “to increase its volume of competitive lending to smaller businesses over and above levels it might have… Read More

Cambridge Mobile Telematics Acquires European Firm Amodo

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), which claims to be the world’s largest telematics service provider, announced that it has acquired Amodo, a telematics company based in Europe. The acquisition brings together two telematics companies “with large and growing footprints in Europe, giving Amodo’s customers access to… Read More

UK’s Blend Network, a Development Finance Lender, Funds Residential Project in Cambridge

UK’s Blend Network, a specialist development finance lender, has reportedly funded a £4 million residential scheme located in Cambridge, which is focused on developing nine apartments that cover an area of 5,457 sq. ft. As reported by Mortgage Introducer, Blend Network’s management noted that the… Read More

AI and Machine Learning Network Fetch.ai Introduces DabbaFlow, a File-Sharing Platform

Fetch.ai, a Cambridge-based artificial intelligence lab building an open-access “decentralized” machine learning network for smart infrastructure, has released DabbaFlow, the “first of its kind” end-to-end encrypted file-sharing platform. Advanced data-sharing and privacy-preserving technologies are “ushering in a new era of data monetization,” the developers claim…. Read More

SEC Fines 8 Firms for Cybersecurity Lapses

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today sanctioned eight firms in three actions for failures in their cybersecurity policies. The companies were also penalized for faulty procedures that resulted in email account takeovers exposing the personal information of thousands of customers and clients at each… Read More

UK Fintech Monavate Acquires £5M in Seed Funding, Now Focused on Rapidly Expanding Operations

UK-based Fintech firm Monavate says it’s focused on rapidly expanding its operations after securing £5 million through a seed funding round. Cambridge-based Monavate offers a “new-to-market” payment solution. The company confirmed in a release that it has managed to acquire funding from a “major” US… Read More

AI and Machine Learning Network Fetch.ai Integrates Chainlink (LINK) Decentralized Oracles on its Mainnet

AI and machine learning network Fetch.ai has integrated Chainlink (LINK) Oracles. The integration is now live on mainnet. It connects real-world asset price data to autonomous software, according to a blog post published by Fetch.ai on October 8, 2020. Fetch.ai is a Cambridge-headquartered artificial intelligence… Read More

Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance: Asia Pacific Alternative Finance Sector Grows to $358 Billion Dominated by China

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) is out with their 3rd Asia Pacific Region Alternative Finance Industry Report. According to CCAF, the alternative finance sector in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region increased to $358 billion in 2017 but overall growth has slowed. As in previous… Read More

Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance Launches Benchmarking Study for Blockchain

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at the Judge Business School at Cambridge University in the UK, has launched their second annual Blockchain study following their first successful blockchain benchmarking report in 2017. CCAF recently completed their 2nd Global Cryptoasset Benchmarking Study and is in… Read More

Queen Máxima of the Netherlands to Address Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance Annual Event

Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands will address the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) next week as part of its annual event at the University of Cambridge. Queen Máxima will be speaking in an official capacity as the UN Secretary General’s Special Advocate… Read More

CCAF: Startups & SMEs are Big Beneficiaries of UK Alternative Finance as Market Grows by 43% Year over Year

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), the leading global research institute for all things Fintech, has published its fourth annual survey on UK alternative finance. According to the report, entitled Entrenching Innovation: The 4th UK Alternative Finance Industry Report, the sector of emerging financial… Read More

The UK Punches Above its Weight in Alternative Finance & Crowdfunding Can Provide a More Robust Funding Ecosystem

The global crowdfunding ecosystem is still quite young. When you compare traditional forms of capital formation to emerging online models crowdfunding is very much in its infancy and will take many years to fully mature. Prognosticators abound as to the success, or failure of, alternative… Read More

Deadline Nears for 3rd European Benchmarking Study by Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance

  The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) is in the midst of its third European benchmarking survey that measures all forms of alternative finance across the European continent.  CCAF, part of the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, is the leading researcher in the global alternative… Read More

The University of Cambridge Launches the 2016-17 European and Africa & Middle East Alternative Finance Industry Surveys

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School has launched its third European benchmarking survey and the second survey for Africa and the Middle East. The two separate research initiatives will review the emerging alternative finance markets in each… Read More

Research: Americas Alternative Finance Grows to $35.2 Billion in 2016

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) and the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Booth School of Business Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago have revisited the alternative finance market once again with a benchmark study. The research which covers… Read More

Americas Alternative Finance Research to be Revealed at CME Event

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), will release their anticipated Americas Alternative Finance Survey at an event hosted by CME Group on May 25.  The data is anticipated to definitively reveal the status and growth of… Read More

Seedrs Success Cycle.Land Expands Into Cambridge

Just a few months after securing £408,315 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, social marketplace for bicycle sharing Cycle.Land announced it has expanded into Cambridge. Cycle.Land was founded in early 2016 and received support from Oxford University Innovation Incubator and launched in Oxford shortly after. The website claims… Read More

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Monash Business School & Tsinghua University, Join on 2016 – 2017 Asia Pacific Alternative Finance Industry Study

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at University of Cambridge Judge Business School, Australian Centre for Financial Studies at Monash University and Tsinghua University Graduate School at Shenzhen have teamed up to launch the 2016-2017 Asia-Pacific Region Alternative Finance Industry Survey.  The consortium has gained the… Read More

Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance Publishes Africa & Middle East Alternative Finance Report

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) has published its first benchmarking report covering alternative finance in the African and Middle East markets. Produced with the support and backing of Energy4Impact, UKAid and CME Group Foundation, the CCAF report states that alternative finance totaled more… Read More

2017 Americas Alternative Finance Industry Study: The University of Chicago & University Cambridge Partner on Research

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago and the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School have partnered again on the 2017 Americas Alternative Finance Industry survey. Research… Read More

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