Tagged: united kingdom

January 8, 2023 @ 8:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Starling Bank expects to “more than quadruple its pre-tax profits in its Annual Results for the year ending 31 March 2023.” According to an update shared with CI, the bank “generated annualized pre-tax profits of more than £250 million on the back of almost £600… Read More

January 7, 2023 @ 3:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vestd has introduced a new simplified version of its equity management platform to help startups, SMEs and investors with organizing, managing and tracking shareholders and ownership. Vestd Lite is currently available for UK-headquartered firms to quickly issue shares among staff, manage shareholders and view their… Read More

January 6, 2023 @ 10:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New entrant bank Ashman recently revealed that it has appointed Ben Hynes as the company’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Mark Holloway as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), expanding its senior management team. In his new role as the bank’s CIO, Hynes will be responsible… Read More

January 6, 2023 @ 8:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

This week Zopa Bank has crossed the £3 billion deposits milestone, while their customers have collectively “opened 150,000 accounts to grow their savings faster in today’s challenging environment.” Zopa’s ambition is “to make the hundreds of billions in “zombie money” sitting idle in UK current… Read More

January 5, 2023 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Instead of dealing with different platforms and currencies, receipts and invoices, and arguing with banks over spend limits, you can consider using services provided via Juni. The company explains that with automatic receipt generation, real-time spend insights and Google Ads invoices auto-pulled into your account,… Read More

January 5, 2023 @ 11:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Funding Circle US, a subsidiary of the UK firm Funding Circle (LSE:FCH) has selected a new Managing Director to lead operations. According to a release, Steve Allocca will take over the US operations of the SME online lending platform, reporting directly to Funding Circle CEO… Read More

January 5, 2023 @ 10:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bondsmith, the UK’s provider of cash management and savings solutions to the wealth management industry, has become a principal member of Visa, a key player in digital payments, “to further its mission of improving the wealth management industry through embedded banking services.” “Super-apps” and fintechs… Read More

January 5, 2023 @ 9:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A survey of more than 1,000 European business leaders based in the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands, by Vodeno/Aion Bank has found: More than half (51%) believe BaaS will make traditional banking obsolete 58% said BaaS providers offering a licence alongside a tech solution will… Read More

January 4, 2023 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Historically, London has enjoyed an “outsized” role in euro-denominated financial transactions, according to an update shared by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). BIS has examined the latest evidence on whether Brexit has “affected its central role in trading of interest rate derivatives, foreign exchange,… Read More

January 3, 2023 @ 8:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

When conducting business overseas, companies of all sizes can be hampered by slow payment times, high costs and limited transfer options, according to an update from Paysend. However, these barriers are “particularly cumbersome for SMEs, which have fewer resources in terms of workforce and cash… Read More

January 2, 2023 @ 9:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TapTop, which is reportedly led by ex-Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse & PayPal, and is aiming to build “an American Express with cryptocurrency,” has raised 106% (£85,143) of its£80,003 target from 96 investors (at the time of writing) with 9 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign,… Read More

January 2, 2023 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

iKVA (formerly Kvasir), an AI knowledge management company which seeks to enable businesses to make better decisions, has secured 64% (£441,800) of its £680,000 target (at the time of writing) from 178 investors with 8 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign, carried out via… Read More

December 27, 2022 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

There are few things more vital to get right than renting, according to an update from UK-based Fintech firm Modulr. Whether it’s a landlord, letting agency or tenant, it “involves an enormous amount of money and the emotional weight of roofs over people’s heads.” Modulr… Read More

December 26, 2022 @ 11:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fagura, which aims to build the first digital bank in CEE “for anyone to borrow, invest and transfer money easily,” has secured 186% (€747,076) of its €400,006 target (at the time of writing) via Seedrs from 268 investors, with the crowdfunding campaign closing soon. Located… Read More

December 26, 2022 @ 6:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Keren Einhorn, Fund Manager at LendInvest (LSE: LINV), notes that as we started the year it felt like we were “putting the lockdowns and major impacts of the Covid pandemic behind us, and that 2022 could be the first straightforward year in a while.” Keren Einhorn… Read More

December 26, 2022 @ 11:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Landbay notes that 2022 started with rising inflation and the Bank of England base rate “followed suit with interest rate increases.” That scenario has “continued throughout the year with steeper rises than many had predicted.” Inflation is “at a 40-year high of… Read More

December 26, 2022 @ 11:06 am By JD Alois  |  

While 2022 started strong, things went downhill from there. You name it, 2022 has been a tough year from Giga high inflation, the largest land war in Europe since WWII, the cost of energy rocketing higher, global strife, and pandemic stress…. geez… 2023 can only… Read More

December 26, 2022 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cloudworkz, a B2B, subscription based platform that provides SMEs with in demand human capital, digital marketing and business services, has raised 150% (£827,280.64) of its £550,000 target via Crowdcube (at the time of writing) from 138 investors with 16 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding… Read More

December 24, 2022 @ 9:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The latest funding comes from the bank’s largest investor and will be “used to increase loan book and develop new products for SMEs.” Digital SME lender and savings provider Recognise Bank has conditionally “raised a further £25 million in investment from its group’s largest shareholder.”… Read More

December 23, 2022 @ 4:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Growth Capital Ventures (GCV) says it booked two exits of portfolio companies during 2022, each “providing profitable returns for all investors.” GCV is an online capital formation platform that promotes itself as a “private investor network” that provides access for individual investors in promising young… Read More