Tagged: uk

May 23, 2022 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ePOS Hybrid, which claims to be a “disruptive” SaaS and Fintech platform that delivers “next-gen” automation, digital ordering and ops management solutions to the hospitality F&B industry, has secured 110% (£551,662) of its £500,000 target from 135 investors (at the time of writing) with 22… Read More

May 23, 2022 @ 1:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The partnership will leverage the platform’s machine learning capabilities “to deploy new funding to UK small businesses over a two-year period.” Funding Circle, which claims to be the UK’s largest small business loan platform, and Waterfall, an institutional asset manager, recently announced their lending partnership… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 11:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueLayer, which claims to be one of Europe’s “leading” open banking platforms, recently announced that The Credit Thing has successfully “implemented its recurring payments API and made the first consumer Variable Recurring Payments (VRP) transactions in the UK.” The Competition and Markets Authority has mandated… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 6:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

This past week, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Chairman Charles Randell reviewed the challenges of securities regulation in a speech delivered at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London.  The FCA has played a key and vital role in enabling Fintech innovation… Read More

May 21, 2022 @ 3:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MarketFinance, the Fintech credit and payments firm, recently announced a debt raise from Deutsche Bank which the company will use to part “fund up to £100m of lending to support strong, well-managed SME businesses with their investment and working capital needs.” The announcement comes at… Read More

May 21, 2022 @ 2:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s Atom Bank has reportedly appointed Andy Sturrock as the banking platform’s new Chief Technologist. Andy joins Atom from BP plc, where he ran the firm’s Digital Consumer Channels and Offers teams, including the BPMe app and loyalty schemes. During his time working at BP,… Read More

May 20, 2022 @ 9:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) recently announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire MayStreet, a market data solutions provider. Founded in 2012, MayStreet provides “high-quality” global low latency technology and market data to more than 65 industry participants, “including banks, asset managers and… Read More

May 20, 2022 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Modulr, an embedded payments platform for digital businesses, recently announced that it has raised $108m (£83m) in Series C funding that was led by General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm. The investment round also “included significant participation from existing investors including Blenheim Chalcot, Frog… Read More

May 20, 2022 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Thought Machine, the Cloud native banking tech firm, recently announced it has closed its series D funding round, led by Temasek, the global investment company headquartered in Singapore, “with participation from Intesa Sanpaolo and Morgan Stanley.” Existing investors following-on in this investment round reportedly include:… Read More

May 18, 2022 @ 8:29 am By JD Alois  |  

After a painful drop where Bitcoin crashed below $30K and many other cryptocurrencies chased it down, GlobalBlock (TSXV:BLOK) sees light at the end of the tunnel – at least for now. Marcus Sotiriou, Analyst for GlobalBlock, operating in the UK has distributed a comment on… Read More

May 18, 2022 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zumo, the Edinburgh-based crypto wallet and payments platform, recently appointed Jonathan Sepulchre to serve as Head of Growth, a newly-created function “to drive the next stage of the company’s development.” An experienced “growth leader” with a comprehensive background in digital marketing, Jonathan will work closely… Read More

May 18, 2022 @ 2:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mindtree (NSE: MINDTREE), a global tech services and digital transformation company, and Finastra, a financial technology provider, has announced a partnership to bring Finastra’s Fusion Payments To Go payments technology “to banks in the Nordics, the UK and Ireland, as a managed service.” As part… Read More

May 17, 2022 @ 11:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tide, the United Kingdom’s business financial platform and Sage, a key player in accounting, financial, HR and payroll technology for small and mid-sized businesses, has announced the “launch of a complete end-to-end accounting and tax solution for small businesses.” In an effort to simplify business… 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

May 17, 2022 @ 10:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Griffin, a UK Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) Fintech, recently announced the completion of a key step in its application for a banking license. Griffin has submitted its application to the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). John Weguelin, Griffin Chair, stated: “This is… Read More

May 17, 2022 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Following a £10 million equity funding round late last year and a period of “rapid expansion” at Blend Network, the team is now expanding their UK local and regional footprint “with the opening of a number of satellite offices across the UK regions.” In March,… Read More

May 17, 2022 @ 8:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Following its “successful” growth in the British market, Getsafe is expanding its portfolio and “introducing its digital buildings and contents home insurance product.” As noted in an update shared with CI, the new product “bears much of the DNA which has made Getsafe so popular… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The group including Capital.com, the trading and investing platform “leading” the UK leveraged trading industry in “client satisfaction,” announced the appointment of Peter Hetherington as its Group Chief Executive Officer. Peter will “succeed Jonathan Squires, who was Group CEO during the Group’s early growth phase.”… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 1:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Millions of Brits hold a driving license but don’t have “access to a car,” according to an update shared with CI. The “rigid” nature and upfront cost of annual car insurance combined with continuously rising costs of running a car “prompted” car insurance provider, Cuvva… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 7:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Monoova, a B2B payments solutions provider, and TrueLayer, a key player in open banking, are teaming up to harness financial and identity insights using Australia’s Consumer Data Right (CDR) “for smarter, faster, data-enabled payments in the Australian market.” The benefits of the combination of CDR… Read More