Tagged: europe

January 10, 2022 @ 2:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest, a leading digital financing platform for the UK market, has commented on updates related to delivering complex bridging and development deals in 2022 (and the landscape in general). Tom Madden, Director of LendInvest‘s Structured Property Finance team, has taken a look back on 2021… Read More

January 9, 2022 @ 9:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Zego says that 2021 was a year for “the books” at the firm. They’ve reflected on some of the main achievements that have taken place at Zego over the past year. These include their Series C round of fundraising, strategic partnerships, as… Read More

January 8, 2022 @ 8:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK Fintech Modulr has done some research in order to find out what “makes paying passengers leave, and what makes them come back.” As noted in a blog post by Modulr, digital transformation has “been on the collective agenda for years.” It’s… Read More

January 8, 2022 @ 8:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at EstateGuru, an online investment marketplace that matches borrowers to investors with secured debt securities, notes that Investment Strategies is the next “evolution” of Auto Invest, which it replaces. EstateGuru wrote in an update that they’ve now “removed the €250 minimum limit for… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 6:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Railsbank APAC Marketing Manager Darren Thang has taken a look at how property buyers are about to get an enhanced experience. Thang writes in a blog post that increasingly, nonbank firms are “warming to the idea of embedded finance experiences, offering banking-like services that provide… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 10:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ned Barker, who has considerable experience in the payments sector, notes in a blog post published by UK-based cross-border payments Fintech CurrencyCloud that remittances are one of the “single most powerful financial forces in existence today, with workers sending hundreds of billions of dollars to their… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jack Wilson, ex-FCA advisor and TrueLayer’s Head of Public Policy, notes that he’s responsible for coordinating how the firm “influences” public policy (government and regulators) to ensure the appropriate conditions for the company’s growth across the United Kingdom, European Union, internationally. A lot of the… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK’s Blend Network, a specialist development finance lender, notes that as 2022 gets underway, they’ve reflected on the “strength” and “resilience” of the UK property market. With property prices and rents surging to double digit growth in some areas of the UK,… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 1:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Mintos, an investment firm that claims to be the leading alternative investment platform in the European Union, says they’ve made “big things” happen at Mintos in 2021, resulting in “a lot of transformative change.” According to Mintos, the loans asset class (for… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 12:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Landbay, the buy-to-let mortgage market that leverages the latest Fintech and claims to be one of the fastest-growing tech firm in Europe, notes that 2021 started in the middle of a lockdown and at that time, no one would have “wanted to bet on prospects… Read More

January 6, 2022 @ 2:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European lender Bondora notes that the secondary market ended 2021 with a relatively slow December. Bondora writes in an update, dated January 4, 2021, that after picking up slightly again in November, Secondary Market transactions “fell to €250,404” in December 2021. According to Bondora, this… Read More

January 6, 2022 @ 1:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Praxonomy, the “go-to” collaboration platform for boards of pre-IPO, small-cap and mid-cap listed firms as well as regulated private businesses, has raised 91% (£459,930) of its £500,000 target from 235 investors via Crowdcube (at the time of writing) with 9 days left in the firm’s… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 11:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Croatian P2P lender Robo.cash writes that while you’re busy summing up the results of the year, they’ve taken a look back on what December 2021 could be most remembered for. Robo.cash notes that last month, their investors “funded €18 M loans.” The platform’s investor base was… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 11:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s digital bank Starling has reportedly launched a new advertising campaign that “encourages small business owners to break free from their incumbent bank.” As mentioned in a release, the campaign, created specifically for Starling Bank by Wonderhood Studios, is the second “under Starling’s new platform… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finland’s card-as-a-service (CaaS) platform Enfuce, which recently finalized a €45 million Series C round, notes that client expectations and competition in the banking sector are “getting tougher all the time.” Denise Johansson, Co-Founder, Chief Commercial Officer & Deputy CEO at Enfuce, writes in a blog… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Findingaplace, which claims that it’s “revolutionizing” the rental search experience, removing the need to “even search at all,” has secured 88% (£221,870) of its £250,001 target from 225 investors (at the time of writing) via Seedrs with 5 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign. Here… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at London-based CoinShares, a digital asset manager focused on expanding access to the cryptocurrency ecosystem while serving as a “trusted partner” for its clients, notes that for the week ending December 31, 2021, the firm saw yearly inflows of “US$9.3bn in… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European Fintech bunq reveals that with the new year and “new you,” they will help clients with  saving even more money in 2022, which means “having more to spend on the things that you love” or care about. The team at Fintech challenger bunq has… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 3:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

AS Mintos Marketplace (Mintos) has shared an update from Lime Zaim, a cooperation partner of Mintos that provides investment opportunities via Mintos.com. On 22 December 2021, Lime Zaim reportedly placed its debut bonds on the Moscow Exchange (MOEX) in the “amount of 300 million rubles.”… Read More

January 3, 2022 @ 11:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at ChargeBee notes that for the year it had to follow, 2021 had “a relatively low benchmark to beat in terms of popularity.” ChargeBee, a San Francisco-based financial services firm that’s helping subscription-based businesses stay “agile and adapt their revenue operations workflows to… Read More