Tagged: savings

June 17, 2024 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) announced the relaunch of Visa SavingsEdge, aimed at delivering greater value to small businesses (SMBs) across the United States and Canada. For more than a decade, Visa SavingsEdge has provided “eligible Small Business cardholders with the savings, tools and resources to… Read More

June 17, 2024 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Prosper, the savings and investments wealthtech founded by Nick Perrett and Ricky Knox, formerly of Tandem Bank, has reached its £800,000 Crowdcube target before launching to the public. Nick Perrett, Prosper’s CEO said: “We have been overwhelmed by the early show of support in the… Read More

June 10, 2024 @ 8:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut, the global fintech with over 8 million UK customers and 40 million globally, is  introducing Wealth Protection, which is described as an extra layer of in-app identity verification, designed to prevent thieves from accessing customer savings within the Revolut app. Wealth Protection will help… Read More

June 4, 2024 @ 7:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Playing the lottery can be fun – there’s a slim chance you might win a life-changing sum of money, the PensionBee team notes in a blog post. However, new modelling from PensionBee, reveals if the approximately 50% of UK adults who regularly “enter the National… Read More

June 2, 2024 @ 8:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Westpac claims that it has helped customers earn $21 million in interest through savings prompts. To provide greater transparency around savings interest rates, Westpac says that it “has introduced mobile phone push notifications which alert customers about how they can earn bonus interest on their… Read More

May 27, 2024 @ 11:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pension savers are strongly backing shareholder calls for Shell to further reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, according to an update from PensionBee. A survey of pension savers by PensionBee revealed “that almost 60% of respondents – equal to nearly 18.5 million pensions savers… Read More

May 16, 2024 @ 8:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK consumers are expecting to save more this year yet are unaware that the interest earned on their savings could result in being eligible to pay tax, according to an update from NatWest. Almost a third (31%) of savers are “expecting to save more and… Read More

May 14, 2024 @ 10:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

According to the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), 24% of UK adults have expressed low confidence in handling their money, and 38% admitted to having low knowledge of financial matters. But as the cost-of-living crisis rumbles on, with precious little relief offered by the Government’s… Read More

April 22, 2024 @ 10:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Workplace savings programs should be simple and streamlined, both for employers to manage and for employees to monitor and contribute to their financial growth, according to an update shared by Rippling. That’s why Rippling says it is pleased to announce a new integration with Wealthsimple… Read More

March 17, 2024 @ 9:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

N26 has reportedly launched Instant Savings in 13 new markets, offering customers up to 4% interest on deposits. Digital bank N26 recently confirmed in a blog post “the launch of its Instant Savings accounts in a further 13 markets across Europe.” From now onwards, customers… Read More

March 11, 2024 @ 9:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Estancia Capital Partners LP is reportedly acquiring a minority stake in cash deposit platform Flagstone, so that it can provide more firepower to the UK startup’s line of savings products. Flagstone reportedly stated that the £108 million (appr. $139 million) investment from the private equity… Read More

March 10, 2024 @ 1:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

‍Smart Pension, one of the UK’s workplace pension providers, has announced that its master trusts have reached £5 billion in Assets Under Management (AUM). Smart Pension, which operates the Smart Pension Master Trust, says it “serves over 1.4 million members and more than 70,000 employers… Read More

February 27, 2024 @ 11:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

UK consumers can take advantage of savings rates of more than 5%, yet some remain stuck at financial institutions that offer far lower returns. After publicly chastising firms that fail to pass on higher rates to savers, the UK Financial Conduct Authority is now launching… Read More

February 19, 2024 @ 10:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A study from Juniper Research, the researchers focused on payments markets, has found that savings from the adoption of payment automation systems will “allow reinvestment in revenue-generating activities; driving an 18% growth in UK B2B payments by 2028, from 8.7 billion in 2024.” Automation of… Read More

February 16, 2024 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

More employees than ever — nearly 9 out of 10 — are feeling stressed about their finances, with almost half saying they’re just getting by. Despite budgets for salary increases reaching a 22-year high in 2023, 48% of workers are worried they “don’t have enough… Read More

February 15, 2024 @ 10:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ClearBank Ltd., the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking for financial institutions, announces its partnership with digital investment platform Wealthify, which has enabled the company to launch its first Instant Access Savings Account. The partnership allows Wealthify to “provide this innovative savings account to… Read More

February 3, 2024 @ 10:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kaldi App, whose developers are on a mission is to transform the savings habits of Gen Z & Millennials by getting them to save earlier & better, has raised £472,875 from 140 investors at the time of writing with 25 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding… Read More

January 3, 2024 @ 9:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Buying a home and paying off the mortgage are the “biggest financial wins” that make people proud, while living in debt and spending beyond one’s means are the “nation’s biggest regrets,” according to research shared by online pension provider PensionBee. A survey by PensionBee has… Read More

December 27, 2023 @ 8:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) has published the 7th edition of its Savings and Investment Barometer on investment trends. After the sharp fall seen in 2022, more retail investors are “planning to invest in equities in 2023.” This renewed interest is being driven in… Read More

December 21, 2023 @ 7:41 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Saudi Arabian fintech savings platform Hakbah has successfully raised $5.1 million in a Series A funding round, a substantial boost for the savings platform’s growth and innovation strategies. The round was anchored by venture capital firm VentureSouq and backed by new investors M-Capital and Bunat… Read More