Tagged: europe

June 14, 2022 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Starling Bank has upgraded its Spending Insights tool in order to help consumers with improving their money management skills. Thirty-six new spending categories have been introduced, “giving customers instant access to monthly spending data across each category.” Starling is also rolling out a search capability… Read More

June 14, 2022 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) announced a new Start Path initiative that has been designed for Ukrainian Fintech firms and entrepreneurs “to enable Ukrainian startups to accelerate growth and contribute to the rebuilding of the country’s economy.” The initiative – announced at Money 20/20 Europe in Amsterdam… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 7:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) and Matter, a Danish Fintech specializing in sustainability insights, recently announced the launch of ‘SDG Fundamentals’, an innovative data solution. This dataset “enables investors to analyze the extent to which company[1] revenues are aligned – or misaligned – with… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 7:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Equifax, one of the UK’s big three credit reference agencies, is entering a partnership with Fintech Paylink Solutions in order to automate its digital affordability solution using Open Banking data and APIs. Paylink Solutions provides innovative tech across the financial services and utilities sectors. Its… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sentinels, a Fenergo company and Europe’s intelligent transaction monitoring platform, has been appointed by payments fintech kevin. “to handle transaction monitoring compliance.” The relationship means kevin. now “detects suspicious transactions in real-time while ensuring compliance with local anti-money laundering (AML) regulations.” kevin.’s account-to-account (A2A) payment… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 7:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

During an internal “All Hands” meeting held this past Thursday (June 9, 2022), the challenger stockbroking app, Freetrade, revealed that it will be implementing redundancies for around 15% of its staff members. Freetrade‘s management recently noted that it is planning to make up to 15%… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 2:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: FLT), a global business payments company, recently announced it has signed a definitive agreement “to acquire the Global Reach Group, a UK-based cross-border payments provider.” With the acquisition, FLEETCOR increases its cross-border payments scale and strengthens its position “as one of… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 2:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Scroll Finance, a “next-generation” Fintech offering “smart” financing solutions to homeowners, recently announced that Modulr, the embedded payments platform, will be powering its underlying payments infrastructure. The partnership will “enable Scroll to accelerate its mission to disrupt the homeowner financing sector in the UK.” Scroll… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 1:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dutch Fintech firm Factris recently acquired €10 million in capital following their partnership with NN Investment Partners (NN IP). This investment will be used to help finance trade-related invoices for European SMEs. Currently among the largest alternative factoring firms operating in the Netherlands, Factris has… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 12:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Supporting Italian SMEs in their business projects of growth, development and competitiveness, taking advantage of the key opportunities offered by digital export: this is reportedly the purpose of the agreement made by Banca Sella and Business Vision, a firm focused on e-commerce development and an… Read More

June 12, 2022 @ 10:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nexi, the European Paytech, and Zuora, the Cloud-enabled subscription management platform provider, announced a partnership in the e-commerce sector: XPay, the gateway of Nexi for e-commerce, is now powered by payment services from Zuora. With Zuora, which powers the “full” quote to cash and revenue… Read More

June 12, 2022 @ 5:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mambu, the cloud banking platform, has partnered with Western Union, a global “leader” in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, in order to integrate its solution “into the latter’s next-generation real-time multi-currency digital wallet and digital banking platform in Europe.” Mambu will “enable Western Union… Read More

June 12, 2022 @ 2:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

wefox, the Berlin-headquartered digital insurance firm, has appointed Hanna Jacobsson to the Board. Jacobsson will be serving as a Non-Executive Director with immediate effect. Julian Teicke, CEO and Founder of wefox stated: “As we continue to double our revenues and maintain our focus on growth… Read More

June 11, 2022 @ 5:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Silicon Valley Bank, the financial partner of the innovation economy, has provided a $22.5 million debt financing package to Keepit in partnership with Vaekstfonden. The funds should help with supporting further global expansion, hiring, and product development as it continues to scale operations and… Read More

June 11, 2022 @ 1:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cashplus Bank, the Fintech bank for UK-based small businesses, recently revealed that it has become the first UK bank to introduce a Mastercard-powered Digital Health Check tool for SMEs. The Digital Health Check, which will reportedly be available to the public for free, offers a… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 2:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Instant payments are at “the top” of P27’s agenda. And more than a dozen banks connected to Swedish instant payments solution Swish are “set to test the Nordic payments platform by the end of the year.” Customer Relations Director Jacob Groth said: “We’re doing everything… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 10:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Januar, the compliant gateway to the new digital economy for crypto businesses and institutional investors, has chosen Tuum as the core banking platform “to power its pan-Europe goals.” Tuum’s banking core will be used “to build account and payment solutions for crypto companies, in order… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Swedish firm Juni, a neobank focused on digital commerce entrepreneurs, has finalized a $206 million Series B and venture debt funding. The $100 million Series B investment round has been led by Mubadala Capital, whose international Fintech initiatives reportedly include investments in SpotOn, Brex, C2FO,… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Satago, a provider of invoice financing and Lending as a Service software solutions, has signed a LOI “to enter into a three-way partnership with Sage and Lloyds Bank.” The partnership will formalize plans “to create an embedded finance solution within Sage, the leader in accounting,… Read More

June 9, 2022 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bloomberg has announced that Baader Bank AG, an investment bank in Germany, has adopted Bloomberg’s Rule Builder (RBLD), in order to automate its equities trading processes and streamline the performance of the company’s buy-side trading desk by leveraging key insights obtained from Bloomberg Transaction Cost… Read More