Tagged: manchester

March 20, 2023 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Manchester-based Fintechs, BankiFi and Financielle have announced the joint launch of a new playbook for small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), “giving business owners back their most valuable asset – time.” The new playbook has been designed “to help SMEs, especially those that are female led, to… Read More

November 23, 2022 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hydr, which creates software to enable invoice finance at scale for SMEs, optimizing cash flow, fueling growth, has secured 95% (£332,826) of its £350,001 target via Seedrs with 29 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign (with 31 investors so far making contributions to the… Read More

July 21, 2022 @ 4:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BankiFi, an embedded banking solutions provider, announced its expansion into North America with “the launch of BankiFi Americas.” The organization’s growth and expansion into the U.S. market “will support the unique digitization and payment modernization requirements of SMBs, while placing financial institutions at the heart… Read More

May 17, 2022 @ 10:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Starling Bank has launched a campaign that “celebrates” women’s football as part of its national support of the UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 tournament. The ‘Our Time’ campaign highlights the glass ceilings that continue “to be broken for the women’s game, while nodding to Starling’s… Read More

April 3, 2022 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK’s Sourced Capital notes that one of the “best” reasons for investing in property is the “potential” financial returns. However, what if you were not able to commit to “hands-on” investments? Sourced Capital has shared some of the alternative property investments. With… Read More

March 9, 2022 @ 7:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BankiFi, the Manchester-headquartered technology firm focused on putting banks at “the heart” of business, has announced that it joined Visa Fintech Partner Connect in Europe – a program that assists Visa`s customers with offering the next-gen of virtual banking solutions. The partner program mainly focuses… Read More

January 13, 2022 @ 10:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tandem Bank has reportedly acquired consumer lending platform Oplo. The strategic acquisition has formed a combined business with £1.2 billion of total assets, £1 billion of funding and 171,000 clients being serviced by a UK-headquartered team of 500 professionals. Tandem was established back in 2014… Read More

January 13, 2022 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  Fintech startup Hydr has developed its proprietary invoice finance platform to integrate with more Cloud accounting software providers such as Sage and QuickBooks. After launching “exclusively” with Xero back in May, the Hydr platform may now be accessed by many more SMEs in 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

December 22, 2021 @ 9:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Providing a smarter way to perform monetary transactions, PollenPay, a UK-headquartered Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) firm is pleased to confirm its launch plans. Led by company founder and CEO, Leon Wilson, the team at PollenPay plans to ease pressure on purchases, while at the… Read More

December 1, 2021 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Co-operative Bank has reportedly invested £500,000 in Manchester-headquartered Fintech platform Bankifi as part of a large co-development deal. BankiFi is “putting banks at the heart of business.” As noted by its management: “BankiFi is a technology platform designed to make business banking better, enabling… Read More

October 8, 2021 @ 9:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Manchester-based payments Fintech Total Processing has reportedly made three new hires with the appointment of Phil Astall as Chief Operating Officer, Harry Luscombe as Commercial Director and Jonathan McGee as Finance Manager. Previously a Global Senior Director at travel company Expedia, Phil Astall joins with… Read More

July 21, 2021 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Planixs, an established provider of real-time, intraday cash, collateral and liquidity management services, reveals that it has introduced the Strategic Reporting Module which comes as part of its Realiti suite. The newly-introduced module will open up Realiti’s extensive dataset to all client queries, thus helping… Read More

May 24, 2021 @ 7:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Manchester-headquartered Fintech firm Hydr (pronounced Hi-der) revealed on Monday (May 24, 2021) that it has launched its proprietary invoice finance platform in order to assist small businesses with streamlining their cash flow management. Co-founded by experienced Fintech industry professionals with extensive knowledge of the challenges… Read More

February 17, 2021 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cloud-based clearing bank ClearBank will be offering access to the United Kingdom’s Faster Payments network, allowing payments that would normally take three working days to be settled within minutes. Cloud-powered ClearBank will be teaming up with Manchester Credit Union in order to streamline digital payment… Read More

January 8, 2021 @ 9:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm B-North, which facilitates loans for small businesses and is currently seeking a banking license, has reportedly entered a deal with Channel 4 Ventures. Manchester-headquartered B-North confirmed that it has acquired a follow-on investment of £250,000 from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. The challenger… Read More

June 12, 2019 @ 11:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Payment processing brand Klarna announced on Wednesday the expansion of its UK operations with a new office located in Manchester. According to Klarna, the new office will open in Summer 2019 and will be located at the Old Granada Studios, which is a payments and… Read More

April 18, 2018 @ 10:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The House Crowd, a UK property crowdfunding platform, announced on Wednesday raised just over £1.3 million over a 24-hour period for housing developments in Lees, Greater Manchester. The funding portal reported that this is the first time it has broken the £1 million mark in a day…. Read More

May 26, 2017 @ 5:24 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Shortly after the terrorist attack, The Manchester Evening News partnered with the British Red Cross to launch a donations campaign on JustGiving to raise £2 million to support the families of the victims killed and wounded in the tragic Manchester Arena attack. The campaign has… Read More

November 8, 2016 @ 10:19 am By Erin Hobey  |  

 PROSPI, a new shared property investment platform launched by Manchester-based property expert McCafferty Asset Management, seeks  to enable investors with as little as £500 to take a proportionate holding alongside other stakeholders in specific, fully-tenanted residential properties managed by McCafferty’s team of experts. Investors will benefit from predictable… Read More