Tagged: uk

July 10, 2023 @ 11:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Archax, the global, regulated digital asset exchange, brokerage, and custodian, announces the launch of its Crypto OTC Desk. This new service offering “further strengthens Archax’s position as a credible bridge between the blockchain-centric crypto community and the traditional investment space.” Archax claims that it has… Read More

July 10, 2023 @ 7:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a statement on its ongoing crackdown of crypto ATMs in the UK that are not authorized. The FCA says it has investigated 34 locations in the UK since the start of the year, typically working with other law… Read More

July 10, 2023 @ 3:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SumUp, the financial partner for over 4 million businesses worldwide, has selected Form3, the cloud-native account-to-account payments platform, in order “to provide direct access into the UK Faster Payments Scheme (FPS) and Bacs Scheme to further enhance its business account offering for UK customers.” SumUp… Read More

July 10, 2023 @ 10:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global fintech SumUp has announced the appointment of Anna Kuriakose as Chief Product Officer. She joined SumUp in mid-June 2023 and will be “based in London.” Anna was formerly at Meta, “where she was the product director for Messenger on Windows and Mac and web-based… Read More

July 10, 2023 @ 9:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bundlee, which claims to be a sustainable and scalable kidswear rental subscription, creating a better future to grow into, has secured 101% (£335,986) of its £330,001 target (at the time of writing) from 106 investors with 4 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign, carried… Read More

July 9, 2023 @ 2:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ampergia Limited, which aims to enable businesses’ net-zero transitions, has reportedly acquired 58% (£117,100) of its £200,000 fundraising target with 5 days left in the sale (at the time of writing) from 92 investors through its crowdfunding campaign, carried out via Crowdcube. Based in the United… Read More

July 8, 2023 @ 3:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CrowdProperty revealed recently that it has now “funded more than £700m of property projects and the development of over 3,000 homes.” Having agreed £24m in June alone, the business has now “closed in excess of £400m of facilities to support the construction of residential and… Read More

July 7, 2023 @ 3:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

From romance scams to fictious online deals, impersonation scams of all kinds have plagued people and businesses over recent years and “shaken the confidence of victims.” However, the tide is turning. Mastercard (NYSE: MA) is taking the fight to the fraudsters “with its one-of-a-kind AI… Read More

July 7, 2023 @ 12:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has commented on the rate spread between what banks are receiving in interest rate returns and what they are giving their deposit holders.  The regulator said in a studied, underwhelming tone that the “decision-making has been slow” for banks… Read More

July 7, 2023 @ 11:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Demand for rental properties continues to rise across the UK, with more than four-million people renting privately. As landlords look to identify new opportunities in the rental market and provide high-quality homes, the team at Molo are pleased “to announce an expansion to their existing… Read More

July 7, 2023 @ 9:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Assetz Capital is pleased to announce a development exit deal in partnership with Healdan, a property development and construction business based in Bedfordshire. The deal involves the financing of a barn conversion project, “consisting of six homes, in the idyllic location of Millbrook, Bedfordshire.” Under… Read More

July 7, 2023 @ 9:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Finance has released a report which sets out three key missions “to accelerate the digital transformation of the UK’s capital markets.” The report ‘Unlocking the power of securities tokenization’, produced in conjunction with Oliver Wyman, looks at “how securities tokenization (the digital representation of… Read More

July 6, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tandem, which claims to be the UK’s greener digital bank, has secured £20 million in Tier 2 capital from Quilam Capital – a growth investor with expertise in the speciality finance sector. The investment by Quilam further “re-enforces the growth trajectory of Tandem as the… Read More

July 6, 2023 @ 10:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) recently announced that Maha El Dimachki will join the BIS Innovation Hub (BISIH) team as “the new head of the Singapore Centre, starting on 1 October 2023.” Ms El Dimachki is currently Head of Early and High Growth Oversight… Read More

July 6, 2023 @ 12:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is to play a pivotal role in tackling sanctions risks in global shipping following a partnership between LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) and Windward AI (LSE: WNWD) announced recently. Windward’s maritime AI-powered technology will “augment existing shipping analytic capabilities available on the… Read More

July 6, 2023 @ 11:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra, a global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, announces that Melton Building Society has selected Finastra Essence, “deployed on Microsoft Azure cloud, to digitally transform its operations and provide the agility required to quickly implement new services.” Finastra‘s SaaS solution will “enable the… Read More

July 6, 2023 @ 7:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nuggets, a self-sovereign identity, and payment platform, recently announced that it is working with the Bank of England on a technology experiment to design a possible privacy and identity layer for the UK’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). If a CBDC – also known as… Read More

July 5, 2023 @ 10:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On the back of a solid start to 2023, embedded banking platform BankiFi has denounced three misconceptions around a new class of digital only neobanks that continue “to persist despite ample evidence to dispel them.” As part of its efforts to highlight the issues faced… Read More

July 5, 2023 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Part of the largest securities crowdfunding operation in the world, Seedrs has announced that it has topped 2000 successful securities offerings on the platform. Part of the Republic group of companies, the combination of the various platforms make Republic/Seedrs the largest online capital formation provider… Read More

July 5, 2023 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a report published on ‘The (Unmet) Potential of Open Banking’, Oxera identifies the key economic obstacles that are “holding back the wider adoption of Open Banking and the development of new innovative use cases that go beyond the regulatory mandate.” NatWest Group commissioned Oxera,… Read More