Tagged: united kingdom

April 5, 2023 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cowbell, the provider of cyber insurance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has launched its UK operations and appointed cyber insurance expert, Simon Hughes, as General Manager for Cowbell UK. Hughes joins Cowbell “with a unique blend of experience across the U.S. and the UK,… Read More

April 5, 2023 @ 1:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Remote working firm Reskube has raised its £500,000 goal via a securities offering on Crowdcube. The company sold a 5.88% stake in the firm at a pre-money valuation of £8 million. The offering was hidden on the Crowdcube website as it was pitched to s”elected… Read More

April 5, 2023 @ 10:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Interactive Brokers (NASDAQ:IKBR) has integrated Wise (LSE:WISE) into its platform to allow account holders to benefit from Wise’s global transfer services. Interactive Brokers supports clients from over 200 countries and territories, so partnering with Wise makes a lot of sense. Interactive Brokers is a regulated… Read More

April 5, 2023 @ 6:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Embedded Banking provider announces full-year results “including 46% increase in transaction volumes and 22% growth in customers.” ClearBank Ltd., enabler of bank accounts, real-time clearing, and Embedded Banking for financial institutions, presents “the results from its 2022 Annual Report revealing the bank nearly tripled… Read More

April 4, 2023 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Molo Finance is pleased to launch Rapid remortgage, a new service helping investors “get an offer on their buy-to-let mortgage in just 24 hours.” A typical remortgage process “takes a lengthy time, which is why they’ve streamlined their approval process for customers… Read More

April 4, 2023 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Acre, the “one-click” mortgage intermediaries platform, has announced it has secured £6.5 million investment to grow its tech platform and enhance the process of buying a home. The McPike Global Family Office (MGFO), “joins returning investors Aviva and Founders Factory, to provide new funds to… Read More

April 3, 2023 @ 5:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

Acorns, an online investment platform providing access to securities, crypto, and banking services, has acquired UK-based Fintech GoHenry. GoHenry is a digital investment platform that targets younger investors, aiming to get them started on securing their financial future early in life. GoHenry is also a… Read More

April 2, 2023 @ 6:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Beginning on April 6, 2023, early-stage private firms will be able to tap into an improved Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS), one of several tax policies aimed at supporting entrepreneurship and early-stage firms in the UK. The popular program is a positive for both investors… Read More

April 2, 2023 @ 5:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, a global payments provider and shopping service, reveals UK consumers prefer chatting politics, fertility and break-ups than finances, but that’s set to change “with young people feeling increasingly comfortable talking about money with friends and family.” The new findings from Klarna and YouGov’s research… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 10:25 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest has launched a new Mortgage Tech Meetup event series to discuss the future of mortgage technology.  The inaugural session will focus on key trends in Mortgage Technology in 2023 and the Future of Lending. The discussion is expected to be centered on the state… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 9:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Finverity, the digital ecosystem for trade and supply chain finance, announces it has raised $5 million in an equity funding round from new and current investors. New investors reportedly “include London-based Fintech specialist Outward, Amsterdam-based Acrobator Ventures and US-based s16vc founders fund with follow-on investments… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Archax, the FCA-regulated digital asset exchange, broker, and custodian, today announced the launch of its tokenisation engine – “enabling the creation of tokens backed by any regulated or unregulated real-world or traditional asset.” Leveraging the benefits of Web 3.0 and blockchain technology, this new service… Read More

March 30, 2023 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nucleus Commercial Finance research highlights the scale of the challenge facing UK SMEs: 65% of SMEs are finding the current cost-of-living crisis is proving more of a burden on their business than the pandemic lockdowns Just 33% believe the cost-of-living crisis is proving less of… Read More

March 30, 2023 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced measures intended to lift the UK economy in the Spring Budget, data from iwoca highlights what small businesses “were most worried about as they entered 2023.” Small business lender iwoca’s latest SME Expert Index data – based on UK finance… Read More

March 29, 2023 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ZEBEDEE, a payments processor, has announced an overhaul of how users can move money across the world. The upgraded feature for borderless transactions showcases “the power and potential of global, friction-free and currency-agnostic payments and represents a significant improvement and simplification of how anyone can… Read More

March 29, 2023 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Inpay’s Annual Report for 2022, released at the company’s AGM in Copenhagen, Denmark, announced solid results “for the international payments firm and outlined plans for significant future growth within their UK office (London) and internationally across Asia, the Middle East and Europe.” As noted in… Read More

March 29, 2023 @ 2:00 am By JD Alois  |  

CrowdProperty, a real estate investment platform, reports that it has topped 3000 homes financed. According to the funding platform, it has provided financing for 3010 houses worth £680,000,000, originating over £375,000,000 of financing facilities and lending more than £299,000,000 to date. CrowdProperty is authorized and… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The fixed fee money transfer service, Atlantic Money, raised concerns at the Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP) within the European Commission about the conduct of its competitor, the London Stock Exchange-listed technology company Wise. Having first raised its concerns in January with the Competition and… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 11:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube, a top UK and European securities crowdfunding platform, has announced a partnership with Octopus to provide access for investors to Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs). In a company statement, Crowdcube said that the collaboration with Octopus will allow for lower minimum hurdles to invest in… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New research— recently published by Oxford Economics and in partnership with Funding Circle (LSE:FCH), including a detailed survey of Funding Circle customers—reveals UK SMEs’ durability, with 58% of respondents “saying their experience of dealing with the pandemic’s challenges has made their business more resilient.” Over… Read More