Tagged: europe

December 7, 2023 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

KPMG has shared its response to the latest UK Q3 M&A data. Rob Baxter, UK Head of Corporate Finance at KPMG, commented: “A combination of domestic and global factors continues to suppress UK dealmaking. But while the cost of borrowing will remain high, slowing inflation… Read More

December 7, 2023 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) is launching a Crypto app, which will be offered to all eligible customers in the European Union (EU). According to a blog post by Robinhood, it is “the only custodial crypto platform where customers will get a percentage of their trading volume… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 10:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Horiz.io, an SaaS platform aiming to simplify real estate investment for property search, yield calculation & rental management, has secured over €200,000 from more than 210 investors at the time of writing via its crowdfunding campaign, carried out via Crowdcube with currently less than two… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 9:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mondu, the fast-growing B2B payments company, today announces a new collaboration with Mangopay, a modular and flexible payment infrastructure provider for marketplaces and platforms. Through the partnership, the two companies will “offer marketplaces across Europe a proven, modular payments infrastructure which can be tailored to… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Casavo highlights that technology is redefining the way in which individuals and professionals interact “with the real estate market: from algorithms that project the future value of properties to virtual experiences through augmented reality.” Proptech identifies sustainability as “a crucial element  influences home buying and… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Research from the British Business Bank, UK Venture Capital Financial Returns 2023, finds UK venture capital funds continue “to perform well overall compared to their US and European counterparts, but top performing UK funds lag behind leading US funds.” Historically, US VC financial returns “were… Read More

December 5, 2023 @ 10:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart Pension, one of the UK’s workplace pension schemes, has been appointed to provide a workplace pension by ISS UK, the nation’s workplace experience and facility management company. The appointment reportedly “represents some 19,000 active and 43,000 deferred employees and £200m in Assets Under Management.”… Read More

December 5, 2023 @ 10:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The majority of UK consumers are unhappy with high-street banks, believing they have prioritized profits over “passing higher interest rates on to savers, new research has revealed.” A survey of 2,000 UK adults commissioned by SmartSave, run by Chetwood Financial, found that 65% of people… Read More

December 5, 2023 @ 8:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The pan-European Fintech Fourthline selected as Qonto’s technology solution in the verification of customer compliance during onboarding (KYC) in France, Spain and Italy. Fourthline is a European fintech founded in 2017 that “has developed a technology suite enabling financial services providers to carry out KYC… Read More

December 5, 2023 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Allica Bank (LSE:WISE) has partnered with Wise Platform, Wise’s global payment infrastructure for banks and major enterprises, in order “to offer our established business customers a simple and low-cost way to send money overseas.” Now clients can seamlessly make and “manage their global payments directly… Read More

December 5, 2023 @ 7:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Halfords Group PLC, the UK’s largest provider of motoring and cycling products and services has selected Kriya, the embedded finance provider, “to power payments and credit for its trade account customers.” Under the partnership Kriya will “embed its financial tools across Halfords stores, customer teams,… Read More

December 5, 2023 @ 7:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nucleus Financial Platforms Group, one of the UK’s independent, adviser platform groups, has appointed Alexander Filshie as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), “subject to regulatory approval.” He starts taking over from Mike Regan who, as previously announced, “has been appointed as Chief Commercial Officer.” Mike Regan… Read More

December 4, 2023 @ 11:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alchemy Pay, the crypto payment solutions provider, has expanded its payment options in the Europe and UK regions. The introduction of the Euro Instant solution SEPA Instant and the UK fast e-money transfer solution Faster Payments enhances its On-Ramp service, “allowing users to swiftly execute… Read More

December 4, 2023 @ 9:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Assetz Capital has appointed Ciaran McGivern as Relationship Director for Northern Ireland following growth of our developer client base. Assetz Capital claim they have “provided £152m of property lending to the region focusing on residential development projects, office to residential refurbishment schemes and commercial mortgages.” As… Read More

December 4, 2023 @ 9:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered payments network and shopping assistant, has partnered with  airline Cathay Pacific in order “to offer fairer, flexible payments to travellers in six countries across Europe.” The agreement is the latest in a series of travel tie-ups for Klarna “as the company aims… Read More

December 4, 2023 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

S Group, the Finnish retail market firm, is set to enhance customer experiences through an extensive partnership with Adyen (ADYEN:AMS), the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses. S Group offers everyday services “at grocery stores, hotels and restaurants, department stores, service station stores,… Read More

December 4, 2023 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto.com, which claims to be “trusted” by more than 80 million customers worldwide, announced that it has been authorized as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). This approval follows Crypto.com’s registration “as a cryptoasset business with the FCA in… Read More

December 3, 2023 @ 6:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Estateguru reveals that they have now added Google Authenticator, which should help with providing additional security for clients’ accounts. As noted in a blog post by Estateguru, cybercrime is on the rise “in the digital age, and the days when a simple password was enough… Read More

December 3, 2023 @ 3:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

INTELLITHING, which aims to develop customized applications of Generative AI With no code, has raised 132% (£265,325) of its £200,000 target from 116 investors (at the time of writing) via its crowdfunding campaign, carried out via Seedrs with 12 days left in the offering. Located… Read More

December 3, 2023 @ 2:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhod (NASDAQ: HOOD) Chief Executive Officer Vlad Tenev recently said that he does not think that the payment for order flow (PFOF) model of market-maker routing that the firm incorporates in the United States is under any type of threat. This would be despite suggestions… Read More