Tagged: europe

February 6, 2022 @ 1:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Earlier this week, payments platform Modulr announced a partnership with Ripple, which claims to be the leader in enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, in order to enable payments into the UK and Europe. Trust Payments, the international unified payments group, is reportedly the first customer… Read More

February 5, 2022 @ 5:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HM Treasury, which is the UK government’s economic and finance ministry (maintaining control over public spending, setting the direction of the nation’s economic policy and working to achieve strong and sustainable economic growth), announced that they have begun the search for a new Chairperson of… Read More

February 5, 2022 @ 1:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-headquartered Fintech Fiat Republic recently announced that it has acquired $3.5 million in seed funding from EU tech investors Speedinvest, Seedcamp, and Credo. The startup, which is building a compliance-first, e-money-regulated banking and payments API, is looking to “drastically reduce the time and cost of… Read More

February 4, 2022 @ 9:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European Fintech iwoca reports that small business owners are feeling confident about “taking on larger amounts of finance” in order to support their growth objectives this year. iwoca’s quarterly SME Expert Index (the source of these findings) is reportedly based on key insights from UK… Read More

February 4, 2022 @ 9:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European Fintech Bunq has reportedly become one of Europe’s first neobanking platforms to offer its clients a straightforward and sustainable way to invest their funds. The Dutch firm was recently valued at €1.6 billion and has now introduced ‘Easy Investments’ as part of the most… Read More

February 3, 2022 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paysend, the card-to-card pioneer and global payments platform, has announced that the company is expanding its peer-to-peer money transfer services internationally. Via the implementation of Visa Direct, a real-time push payment platform, Paysend’s U.S. clients can send money to eligible Visa cards in 107 countries… Read More

February 3, 2022 @ 10:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fast-growing enterprise adoption of business finance technology has helped Sonovate to report “record” funding volume in December of last year, “capping an overall record-breaking year for the UK lender.” Sonovate, a Fintech lender that offers finance and tech services to businesses that engage contractors and… Read More

February 3, 2022 @ 9:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueLayer, which is one of Europe’s Open Banking platforms, has announced its expanding operations into Sweden with the appointment of ex- Adyen executive Karl Hagner as its Country Manager. An experienced commercial manager, with a sharp focus on payments in digital commerce, Stockholm’s Karl will… Read More

February 3, 2022 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Proprietary straight-through processing (STP) payments platform Billhop – which provides businesses process and capital efficiencies based on credit card infrastructure –  has acquired €10.5 million in capital, via a round led by EQT Ventures along with contributions from Element Ventures (currently awaiting SFSA approval). The… Read More

February 3, 2022 @ 3:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Capchase, a provider of non-dilutive capital for recurring-revenue firms, recently announced that it has expanded to the Netherlands and Belgium. The move comes on the back of Capchase’s expansion into the Nordic region last month, “building out headcount in Finland, Sweden and Denmark.” As noted… Read More

February 2, 2022 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Royal Park Partners, which claims to be one of the leading financial advisors to the Fintech sector, recently announced that it is expanding its leadership team following a year of steady growth. Abhimanyu Toor and John Clark will reportedly join co-founder Aman Behzad as Managing… Read More

February 2, 2022 @ 3:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at ComplyAdvantage has released their new report, titled The State of Financial Crime 2022. ComplyAdvantage’s outlook for 2022: From supply chains in crisis to “high-wire” geopolitical standoffs and the implementation of updated regulatory frameworks, it’s going to be “a landmark year for compliance… Read More

February 2, 2022 @ 9:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Republic Realm, one of the “most active” developers of the Metaverse and NFT ecosystem, recently announced the introduction of the inaugural collection of GFTs in collaboration with Atari, one of the most “iconic” brands. GFTs are NFTs specifically designed for gifting, and they “initially appear… Read More

February 2, 2022 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global Fintech SumUp and PrestaShop – the digital commerce platform in Europe and Latin America – have announced a partnership that will aim to give thousands of merchants on the PrestaShop platform access to SumUp’s product suite of business tools (thanks to PrestaShop’s SumUp Payment… Read More

February 2, 2022 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The 2022 list of firms making up the French Tech Next40/120 indices was recently announced by the nation’s government. As a reminder to industry participants, these initiatives provide support intended specifically for French scaleups that are capable of becoming “world-class” technological leaders. The Next40 and… Read More

February 1, 2022 @ 10:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Euroclear has announced a new investment in Greenomy, a Belgium-headquartered sustainable finance technology platform (completed on January 31, 2022). Financial terms of the deal have not been shared publicly. Established in 2020, Greenomy assists corporates, credit institutions and asset managers with adhering to updated EU… Read More

February 1, 2022 @ 10:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sourced Capital, a UK property investment platform and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Sourced Group, has announced that it received direct authorization from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and “acquired Peer Funding Limited, a peer-to-peer business platform.” Sourced Capital says that it proved its solid track… Read More

February 1, 2022 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Leaving the Coronavirus outbreak to one side, the BTL sector is in “good health,” according to an update from Landbay. The value of the private rented sector (PRS) in England, Wales and Scotland surged by 5.8% to £1.4 trillion during the past year, according to… Read More

February 1, 2022 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has introduced its central database for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT). This European reporting System for material CFT/AML weaknesses, EuReCA, will be key to coordinating ongoing efforts by relevant authorities and the EBA to prevent and combat money laundering… Read More

January 31, 2022 @ 3:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Embedded finance experiences platform Railsbank has driven a stake into the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) market by “giving retailers a greater share of the spoils.” Current BNPL providers brand their own offerings which “take the customer away from the original retailer’s website and onto… Read More