Tagged: uk

August 6, 2020 @ 9:08 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Curve, a banking platform that consolidates multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and even smarter app, is seeking to raise between £100 million and £120 million through its Series C round, Sifted reports.  Founded in 2015, Curve is on a mission to simplify… Read More

August 6, 2020 @ 9:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Assetz Capital, a peer to peer lender providing secured loans to businesses, has applied for a £10 million Banking Competition Remedies (BCR) Pool E grant, according to a note from the company. Assetz Capital states that it has submitted an application for Pool E that… Read More

August 6, 2020 @ 8:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Banked, a UK based payments start-up is partnering with British Airways Executive Club to allow people to collect Avios by using Banked when they checkout online. Avios is the “rewards currency” of the British Airways Executive Club – an old school digital asset. British Airways… Read More

August 6, 2020 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Sync., a bank account aggregation and personal financial management service established by Ricky Lee, who’s Revolut’s former head of product design and strategy, has secured £5.5 million through a seed funding round as the company plans to further expand its operations into European. Sync…. Read More

August 6, 2020 @ 12:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Leeds-based Rebuildingsociety, a peer to peer (P2P) lending platform that’s focused on financing options for SMBs, has teamed up with Virtual Finance Director (VFD) so that Rebuildingsociety’s borrowers are able to get updated reports on their accounts. The P2P lender’s borrowers will also receive future… Read More

August 5, 2020 @ 10:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Today the British Business Bank has announced that it has approved Allied Irish Bank, Investec Bank plc, and Mercedes-Benz Financial Services UK Limited have been accredited under the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS). These three new CLBILS lenders will be able to provide… Read More

August 5, 2020 @ 7:49 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, a mortgage finance Fintech, has funded a £10 million bridge loan on an LTC of 90% for a South London development. The property is in Abbey Wood, within the London borough of Greenwich – 11 minutes away from Canary Wharf. The company says it… Read More

August 4, 2020 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK based Fintech firm Wiserfunding is expanding its operations into markets in India. The company is introducing its AI enhanced, cloud-powered credit risk assessment tool for SMEs. Wiserfunding’s entry into Indian markets has come at a time when small businesses across the nation are struggling… Read More

August 4, 2020 @ 10:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Plant-based meat substitute firm “THIS” is reporting strong interest in its forthcoming securities offering on Seedrs. Several weeks ago, THIS revealed its intent to list a crowdfunded securities offering on Seedrs. The investment opportunity follows a recent VC round where the company raised £4.7 million… Read More

August 4, 2020 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Fintech iwoca, a company focused on lending to SMEs, is calling for closer collaboration between the country’s largest financial institutions, after securing £100 million to support the operations of small businesses looking for financing via the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS). The COVID-19… Read More

August 3, 2020 @ 10:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ian Bradbury, CTO for Financial Services, Fujitsu UK, has surprisingly claimed that the COVID-19 outbreak has “changed very little” when it comes to the Fintech and the larger financial sector, in general. He argues that the financial industry’s digital and systemic transformation had already begun,… Read More

August 3, 2020 @ 10:51 am By JD Alois  |  

RateSetter, a leading UK based peer to peer lender, has been acquired by Metro Bank. The purchase of RateSetter has long been anticipated as the P2P lender messaged earlier that it was exploring “strategic options” – a euphemism for a sale. In June, there were… Read More

August 2, 2020 @ 9:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Laura Whateley, a real money management correspondent at Zopa, a Fintech lender and digital bank, notes that at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, it wasn’t really clear how our finances would be affected, and that might still be the case for many individuals and… Read More

August 2, 2020 @ 9:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Property crowdfunding platform CapitalRise has raised more than £1.9 million through its latest equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, which is set to close later this week. The funding round was launched last month, originally seeking £1 million. The initiative made its debut just a little… Read More

August 2, 2020 @ 9:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a little over two years after raising more than £1.3 million through its first Crowdcube round, UK cleantech Polysolar returned to the equity crowdfunding platform and has already surpassed and doubled its initial £250,000 funding target. Polysolar notably makes transparent architectural solar glazing. Now… Read More

August 2, 2020 @ 12:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The London Stock Exchange (LSE), which is based in the City of London, England and has a market cap of around $4.6 trillion, is reportedly looking into whether it should sell its Borsa Italiana business, so that it can appease certain European Union regulators, and… Read More

August 1, 2020 @ 3:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Abundance, which claims to be the UK’s first crowdfunding platform that allows people to earn money by investing in UK renewable energy projects, is asking low-risk investors to look into community municipal investments or CMIs provided through its platform as an alternative to National Savings… Read More

August 1, 2020 @ 2:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IFN Islamic Fintech, a “one-stop-shop” for industry knowledge, networking, and communication in the global Islamic financial technology space, revealed on July 30, 2020, that there are now at least 142 Fintech firms globally that reportedly provide Shariah-compliant products and services. As reported in late June… Read More

July 31, 2020 @ 5:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has posted a document regarding the standardization of security tokens. Comments are being requested by interested parties until the 28th of August. The BSI is the UK’s National Standards Body representing UK economic and social interests across all European and… Read More

July 30, 2020 @ 4:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

Losses at UK based digital bank Monzo continue to mount, according to a report. Monzo is said to have generated £113.8 million in losses versus year prior losses of £47.1 million. Simultaneously, top-line revenue rose to £67.2m from £19.7m for the fiscal year-end February, according… Read More