Tagged: uk

June 8, 2025 @ 10:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s Starling Bank has reported steady financial performance, strategic leadership enhancements, and plans for international expansion, while continuing to support female entrepreneurship and urging customers to optimize their savings. These developments underscore Starling’s commitment to innovation, diversity, and customer-centric growth. In its latest financial update,… Read More

June 7, 2025 @ 12:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Metro Bank has launched a new commercial mortgage, offering an 85% loan-to-value (LTV) for loans up to £5 million. The loan is open to all businesses in England and Wales “with at least two years trading history.” Metro Bank also launched its 75% LTV commercial… Read More

June 7, 2025 @ 12:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

British shoppers refuse to be parted from physical payments cards, despite the popularity of digital services like Apple Pay and Google Pay, new figures from ad enabled payments company Zilch reveal. The research findings from a Zilch poll come as Zilch launches its “first physical… Read More

June 6, 2025 @ 3:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Wise (LSE:WISE), a leading UK-based Fintech, published annual results this week, showing a 23% increase in cross-border volume to £145.2 billion, driven by customer growth and greater adoption of the Wise account. Wise started as a platform for transferring money globally, aiming to be a… Read More

June 6, 2025 @ 11:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TransactPay, a provider of UK & European BIN sponsorship and modular payment, debit, credit and prepaid services, has partnered with Griffin, the UK’s bank for fintechs and platforms. This partnership strengthens TransactPay’s banking infrastructure and enhances its “product offering for card programs in the UK.”… Read More

June 6, 2025 @ 10:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PEXA, the digital property exchange platform, announces the completion of the UK’s fully digital Purchase transaction. The transaction took place as part of the testing of PEXA’s Sale & Purchase proposition “ahead of its full launch and wider market roll out later this year.” It… Read More

June 6, 2025 @ 9:34 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is erasing its ban on crypto-based Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) as government policy aims to support digital asset innovation. ETNs are different from ETFs in the US. A breakdown of the assets is available here. In a release, David… Read More

June 6, 2025 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cashflows, the platform that makes it easy for businesses to accept payments, and Cardstream Group, the UK’s independent Fintech provider, have entered into a partnership to “accelerate Cashflows embedded payments solutions for Independent Sales Organisations (ISOs), software platforms, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Payment Facilitators… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK economic outlook could brighten over the next two years as the economy stands to benefit from easing trade tensions and lower uncertainty arising from potential trade agreements with some of its key trading partners according to KPMG’s European Economic Outlook. A temporary pick… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 7:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

In general, celebrities and influencers are typically most beneficial when others are telling them what to do and how to act. Otherwise, they really should be ignored. This is even more important when it comes to policy and financial advice. Well, the UK Financial Conduct… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bolt, the global shared mobility platform, today announced a strategic partnership with global payments and financial platform, Airwallex, to build a new payments system for its drivers. The new product will initially focus on digital wallets, before “scaling out additional financial services in the future.”… Read More

June 4, 2025 @ 11:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Since 2015, Scalable Capital has provided retail investors with access to simple and cost-effective investment options. Today, clients in Europe can invest “in ETFs, stocks, funds, bonds, cryptocurrencies, derivatives, and Private Equity.” Broker clients receive attractive interest rates “on their cash from our partner banks… Read More

June 4, 2025 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK’s tech sector continues to thrive, with startups and scaleups driving innovation and economic growth. However, securing funding remains a critical challenge, particularly for growth-stage companies looking to scale without diluting ownership. A recent report by Beauhurst, in collaboration with Gilion, titled Beyond Equity:… Read More

June 3, 2025 @ 10:11 am By JD Alois  |  

The British Business Bank has surpassed £5 billion of lending across its guarantee programmes, ENABLE Guarantees and ENABLE Build. The bank noted that much of the funding was for firms based outside of London. The ENABLE program is designed to encourage additional lending to SMEs… Read More

June 2, 2025 @ 11:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK housing market has experienced a significant surge in activity in 2025, driven largely by changes to stamp duty thresholds, according to a recent update from UK Finance. Separately, the organization’s Annual Fraud Report 2025 highlights a notable decline in fraud losses, reflecting advancements… Read More

June 2, 2025 @ 10:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LSEG announces that Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has joined LCH CDSClear as the first Canadian clearing member, providing them access to the broadest range of credit products “eligible for clearing, enabling them to benefit from margin and operational efficiencies across their CDS portfolio.” RBC… Read More

May 31, 2025 @ 7:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OakNorth, the digital bank for entrepreneurs, has provided an $21m note-on-note facility to New York-based real estate investment firm and lender, EquityMultiple. Co-founded in 2015 by Charles Clinton and Marious Sjulsen, the firm specializes in building investor wealth “through streamlined access to diverse real estate… Read More

May 31, 2025 @ 3:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New research from iwoca reveals big ticket loans are set to see increased interest from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as growth ambitions resurface. The Q1 2025 SME Expert Index, a survey of finance brokers “conducted quarterly by iwoca — one of Europe’s largest SME… Read More

May 31, 2025 @ 3:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest has advised Birmingham Airport in a £230m debt raise across banks and institutional investors. NatWest has acted as Sole Debt Advisor and Sole Private Placement Agent to Birmingham Airport, “supporting the structuring and execution of a new £150 million Capex facility and £80m institutional… Read More

May 30, 2025 @ 2:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The level of identity fraud prevented in the first three months of the year has soared by 10%, insights from Experian reveal. Nearly £130 million of third-party fraud “was stopped by financial institutions in Q1 of 2025, up from £118 million compared to the same… Read More