Tagged: europe

September 11, 2022 @ 5:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tech Nation recently welcomed what they claim to be the UK’s 51 “most exciting” Fintech companies to their fifth Fintech growth program, as UK fintech investment “reaches a record high.” As mentioned in the announcement, 51 companies were accepted into Tech Nation’s fifth Fintech growth… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 9:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Yapily is looking forward to teaming up with fintech unicorn Pleo, which offers a smart business spending solution, “to enable a simplified payments experience for its UK users.” Research shows that 82% of businesses that fail “do so as a result of… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 8:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Easy Payment & Finance, which claims to be a leading financial payment and technology enabler in Spain, announced it has chosen digital payments platform, Carta Worldwide, a subsidiary of Mogo Inc. (NASDAQ:MOGO), to support its new card offering. Easy EP is reportedly among Spain’s major… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 4:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut, the global financial super app with over 20 million retail customers, has launched Revolut Pay – a new secure online checkout feature which “allows UK and EEA merchants to present ‘Revolut Pay’ as a payment method across product, cart, and checkout pages.” Revolut Pay… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 7:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Neo has announced a new partnership with Simplex by Nuvei, an EU-licensed financial institution that “empowers its vast network of partners to accept the widest range of payment methods.” This partnership will “provide users around the world with seamless onramps and offramps to NEO, GAS,… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 10:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OneSpan (NASDAQ: OSPN), the digital agreements security company, announced a significant expansion of its OneSpan Cloud Authentication service with BankID. BankID first launched with OneSpan in September 2021 and has already “reached a multi-million user milestone that is expected to continue growing as BankID’s technology… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FNZ, the global wealth management platform, announced that it has agreed to acquire DIAMOS AG, the specialized Wealthtech provider for the asset and wealth management industry, “to further enhance its global wealth management platform.” The acquisition will “strengthen FNZ’s global client proposition adding advanced product… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle, which claims to be the United Kingdom’s largest small business loan platform, has announced its results for the six months “ended 30 June 2022.” As noted in an update shared with CI, Funding Circle delivered “a financial performance ahead of expectations, finishing the… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 11:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IDF Eurasia, a lending company specializing in consumer loans, has reportedly introduced a new cashback campaign. For a limited time, users are able to “earn a cashback of up to 2% for investments in IDF Eurasia Notes.” For IDF Eurasia’s entity MFO FintechFinance LLP, you… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Investment platform PeerBerry reported that it will be listing CashXpress loans from the Philippines again. CashXpress will reportedly “offer double guaranteed 180 days term loans with a 12% ROI.” PeerBerry pointed out that you may review “the term and the loan type of CashXpress loans,… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 7:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kudo Insurance, which claims to be a “revolutionary” motor insurer founded by Peter Graham, insurance veteran and former CEO of esure, has raised 71% (£462,020) of its  £650,000 target from 130 investors (at the time of writing) with 27 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign,… Read More

September 7, 2022 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

One of Debitum platform business partners, invoice factoring company FLEXIDEA, which operates in Latvia and Poland, has revealed that this summer, private equity fund HELENOS, managed by INPULSE INVESTMENT MANAGER (Brussels-based investment manager, Belgium), “acquired a 14,67% share in the capital of FLEXIDEA.” The acquisition… Read More

September 7, 2022 @ 7:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Economic uncertainty, which peaked in the first half of 2022, “challenged investors to reconsider finance instruments in terms of risk-reward ratio,” according to an update from Robo.cash. The analysts at Robo.cash recently commented on “popular” assets and how they have been performing since the beginning… Read More

September 7, 2022 @ 7:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Mintos has shared key insights, as part of their monthly publication that summarizes what’s been happening on the platform, including broader market activities. As noted in the update from Mintos, energy prices, inflation, and interest rates “continued to dominate the global investment… Read More

September 7, 2022 @ 1:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mihkel Stamm, Chief Operating Officer at EstateGuru, recently commented on how his team supports a real estate lending platform with a focus on crowdfunding. Mihkel Stamm explained that they “mediate loans secured by real estate to the international investor community across Europe.” On one side are… Read More

September 6, 2022 @ 7:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aquis Exchange, the pan-European large and mid-cap equities trading arm of Aquis Exchange PLC, is pleased to announce “the launch of its European dark trading venue, the Aquis Matching Pool (AMP) EU.” This marks the expansion of Aquis Exchange’s dark trading service, which was previously… Read More

September 6, 2022 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Easy4Cloud, which conducts operations in Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain and the US, digitizing different business areas and simplifying their management, has selected Fabrick to expand its offer and introduce BancheinCloud, a Business Intelligence platform for the aggregated management of Current Accounts through which personal,… Read More

September 5, 2022 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital financial advisor Selma Finance has reportedly extended its Series A round with an additional CHF 7 million. This investment has been led by TX Ventures, the venture capital division  of Swiss media firm TX Group, bringing its Series A fundraise to a total of… Read More

September 5, 2022 @ 2:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paper, which claims that it is focused on bringing the insurance industry into the 21st century, has secured 101% (£152,615.27) of its £152,000.00 target (at the time of writing) via Crowdcube from 102 investors and has 16 days left in its crowdfunding campaign. Located in… Read More

September 5, 2022 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PropertyLoop, which enables landlords to find tenants, manage their properties & stay “compliant” all in one place, has raised 101% (£1,221,194) of its £1,200,000 target from 129 investors via Seedrs with 23 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign at the time of writing. Located… Read More