Tagged: uk

December 16, 2025 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest Mortgages (LSE: LINV), an alternative platform for property finance, announces the launch of a long-term development finance funding partnership with AB CarVal and HSBC, intended to scale the company’s development finance proposition and enable the delivery of new homes across the nation. The funding… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The British Business Bank announced a £15 million investment into PolyAI, a key player in enterprise conversational AI, as part of an $86 million Series D round. The round has reportedly been co-led by Georgian, Hedosophia, Khosla Ventures, with additional investment from NVentures (NVIDIA’s VC… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 11:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

United Fintech, the fintech infrastructure and ecosystem for financial institutions, asset managers & wealth managers reportedly secured an investment from Barclays, strengthening its shareholder base of “global banks, including BNP Paribas, Citi and Danske Bank and most recently Standard Chartered, which have all joined in… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aberdeen Investments has reached agreement with MFS to acquire the management of closed end fund (CEF) assets totalling £1.5bn, further cementing Aberdeen’s position as the “fifth largest” asset manager of CEFs internationally. Via a series of mergers and reorganisations, nine MFS funds, in addition to… Read More

December 13, 2025 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Morpheus Lending has announced a new £110m senior funding line with leading alternative asset manager, Pollen Street Capital. Launched this year, Morpheus has built a “digital-only” bridging platform centred around speed and efficiency, for both clients and brokers. Building on their progress to date, the… Read More

December 13, 2025 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

KPMG UK has commented on the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) final rules on targeted support. Sharing insights and perspective on the publication of the FCA’s final rules on targeted support, Jane Wilson, Targeted Support Lead, KPMG UK, says that this is considered to be “a… Read More

December 11, 2025 @ 9:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Mollie has signed an agreement to acquire GoCardless, a UK-based bank payment company that offers solutions for businesses to collect recurring and one-off payments directly from customer bank accounts using direct debit and open banking. The terms of the deal were not revealed, but reports… Read More

December 11, 2025 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As major jurisdictions across the globe continue exploring the feasibility and effectiveness of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), 2025 has seen a notable shift in emphasis from relatively early retail-payment pilots toward broader infrastructure, cross-border initiatives as well as strategic policy objectives. For the United… Read More

December 11, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zilch, a payments platform, says that it has secured a payments services license from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Zilch states that the licensing marks a key milestone for them, removing the reliance on third-parties and “enabling the business to build payments methods in-house, develop… Read More

December 11, 2025 @ 1:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Online lender LoanTube (trading as Tiger Lion Financial Limited) says its credit marketplace is now available via ChatGPT. Of note, LoanTube’s ratings on TrustPilo are pretty good. According to a release, LoanTabe states that loan applications can be completed via chat in a “conversational interface…. Read More

December 10, 2025 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking, announces its partnership with Finseta plc , a foreign exchange and payments solutions company, to deliver agency banking services supporting GBP and multi-currency (MCCY) accounts. Under this partnership, Finseta will leverage ClearBank’s virtual IBAN tech in… Read More

December 10, 2025 @ 12:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking, recently announced a channel partnership with Plaid, a data network that serves as the analytics layer for financial services. This collab will reportedly aim to deliver faster, and frictionless Pay by Bank experiences for businesses and… Read More

December 9, 2025 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Transaction data from digital payments provider Checkout.com reveals how consumers shopped during the Black Friday Cyber Monday weekend, with international spending surging by 36% compared with the equivalent weekend in October of this year. During this particular period, Checkout.com reports that it has experienced a… Read More

December 9, 2025 @ 2:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Some key findings from the latest KPMG UK jobs report highlight the fast-evolving activities in the nation’s business and hiring sectors. The main takeaways are as follows from the latest KPMG report: Weaker, but still marked, reduction in permanent worker demand Uncertainty and higher staffing… Read More

December 8, 2025 @ 11:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bain Capital, a global private investment firm, announced a joint venture with bookrunner SMBC to establish a new European loan platform providing up to € 1.5 billion in senior secured credit to corporate borrowers across Europe and the UK. The platform is structured as a… Read More

December 8, 2025 @ 10:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Winterflood has announced that it has been approved as a Registered Auction Agent [RAA] on the LSE’s Private Securities Market or PISCES [Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System] market. The LSE was the first market to gain approval under the new rules. PISCES is… Read More

December 8, 2025 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

The British Business Bank says it has committed $100 million to SV Health Investors’ new flagship fund, SV8 Biotech Fund LP. This is said to be the Bank’s largest commitment to date. The investment is to support the UK’s Life Sciences Sector Plan. SV Health… Read More

December 8, 2025 @ 1:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lloyds and WaveBL, a blockchain-powered platform intended for digital trade documents, have now reportedly completed a digital Letter of Credit (LC) transaction. The latest transaction, a Documentary Credit in favour of West Yorkshire-based laboratory equipment business, Labtex, was completed by Lloyds and an Indian bank…. Read More

December 5, 2025 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK economy is set to slow to around 1.0% in the coming year, down a bit from 1.4% in 2025, as a combination of a “softening labour market and subdued consumer confidence” constrain household spending, according to KPMG UK’s Economic Outlook. As noted in… Read More

December 5, 2025 @ 12:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The British Business Bank announced that in the two years since its launch the £70million Investment Fund for Northern Ireland has directly invested £30million into local firms. Additionally, these new investments into smaller businesses on differing stages of their growth journey have “crowded in co-investment… Read More