Tagged: european

June 29, 2021 @ 2:01 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

European IPO activity has surged during the pandemic, data from BuyShares.co.uk shows.  In 2020 investors saw many IPOs along with outsized average returns, with total IPO deal value up 64 per cent to more than $300 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal and Dealogic…. Read More

January 3, 2021 @ 11:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Governance.com, a Luxembourg-based fintech that provides technology-enabled governance solutions, has raised nearly €450,000 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. The funding round, which originally sought to raise €250,000, has so far attracted more than 355 Crowdcube investors. As previously reported, Gorvernance.com was founded… Read More

January 20, 2020 @ 4:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Tink, a Sweden-based fintech that provides APIs to create next-generation banking services, announced on Monday it secured €90 million through its latest investment round, which was co-led by Dawn Capital, HMI Capital, and Insight Partners. The latest funding comes less than a year after Tink… Read More

July 5, 2019 @ 10:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Online lending platform Funding Circle announced on Thursday the launch of its first direct lending private fund focused on German and Dutch small businesses. According to Funding Circle, The Funding Circle European SME Direct Lending Fund I (European SME Fund) provides institutional investors including pension… Read More

February 8, 2019 @ 11:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK challenger bank Starling Bank announced earlier this week it has launched its Euro Account. According to Starling Bank, the Euro Account has been designed for UK residents who are the following: Are European expats living in the UK and sending money back home Work… Read More

January 18, 2016 @ 4:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Peter Thiel, Paypal’s co-founder and first outside investor in Facebook, has reportedly made an investment in Deposit Solutions GmbH, which is considered the first open architecture platform for retail deposits in Europe. Since its establishment in 2011, Deposit Solutions has already mediated deposits in excess of… Read More

October 13, 2015 @ 2:22 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have access to nearly twice the amount of funding as their U.S. counterparts, yet bank loans remain the most common form of SME finance in Europe, according to a recent press release. This leaves huge scope for small businesses… Read More

July 10, 2015 @ 11:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “European Peer-to-Peer Lending: Market Insight 2015 “ report to their offering. Peer-to-peer (P2P)lending has continued to grow rapidly across Europe as lenders seek higher returns than are available from banks and borrowers embrace willingness to lend to sectors the… Read More