Tagged: united kingdom

June 14, 2022 @ 8:56 am By JD Alois  |  

The British Business Bank is distributing an “Evaluation Report” on the impact of the COVID loan guarantees that indicates 150,000 to 500,000 businesses were saved and between 500,000 to 2.9 million jobs were maintained. The report was authored by London Economics and Ipsos. The document… Read More

June 14, 2022 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Starling Bank has upgraded its Spending Insights tool in order to help consumers with improving their money management skills. Thirty-six new spending categories have been introduced, “giving customers instant access to monthly spending data across each category.” Starling is also rolling out a search capability… Read More

June 14, 2022 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Clausematch, a global Regtech firm, has closed on a $10.8 million investment round led by Lytical Ventures, Flashpoint and Sony Innovation Fund, according to a corporate statement. Clausematch said the funding will be used to boost its activities in the US and invest in its… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 7:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Equifax, one of the UK’s big three credit reference agencies, is entering a partnership with Fintech Paylink Solutions in order to automate its digital affordability solution using Open Banking data and APIs. Paylink Solutions provides innovative tech across the financial services and utilities sectors. Its… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 7:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

During an internal “All Hands” meeting held this past Thursday (June 9, 2022), the challenger stockbroking app, Freetrade, revealed that it will be implementing redundancies for around 15% of its staff members. Freetrade‘s management recently noted that it is planning to make up to 15%… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 2:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Scroll Finance, a “next-generation” Fintech offering “smart” financing solutions to homeowners, recently announced that Modulr, the embedded payments platform, will be powering its underlying payments infrastructure. The partnership will “enable Scroll to accelerate its mission to disrupt the homeowner financing sector in the UK.” Scroll… Read More

June 11, 2022 @ 5:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

  loveelectric.cars has received over £1 million in seed funding along with a Scottish EDGE prize. The Edinburgh-based Fintech provides low cost leased electric company cars. The cost of leasing through loveelectric.cars is said to be around 50% less than if the car were leased… Read More

June 11, 2022 @ 1:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cashplus Bank, the Fintech bank for UK-based small businesses, recently revealed that it has become the first UK bank to introduce a Mastercard-powered Digital Health Check tool for SMEs. The Digital Health Check, which will reportedly be available to the public for free, offers a… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 9:33 am By JD Alois  |  

  Proportunity, a mortgage enabler for home buyers, is planning to raise growth capital on Seedrs. Proportunity is an interesting financing platform as it provides part of the capital needed to purchase a home. As prices rise along with inflation, Proportunity can provide an alternative… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 8:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube, one of the largest investment crowdfunding platforms in Europe, has shared some insight into May’s platform performance. In a Tweet, Crowdcube reported that 27,265 investors committed over £28 million during the month. Moneybox topped the list of investments garnering 15,461 investors contributing almost £6.4… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Satago, a provider of invoice financing and Lending as a Service software solutions, has signed a LOI “to enter into a three-way partnership with Sage and Lloyds Bank.” The partnership will formalize plans “to create an embedded finance solution within Sage, the leader in accounting,… Read More

June 9, 2022 @ 9:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Louis Taylor will take over the reins of the British Business Bank as its new CEO beginning on October 1, 2022. The Bank is the UK’s economic development bank. Taylor is currently CEO of UK Export Finance, the UK government’s export credit agency. Before joining… Read More

June 8, 2022 @ 11:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Inflation is increasing in an unprecedented manner in many developed and developing economies, putting greater pressure on the major reserve banks to raise interest rates. In the United Kingdom, April inflation hit 9%, which is notably a 40-year high and the second highest inflation rate… Read More

June 8, 2022 @ 8:18 am By JD Alois  |  

While most of the news was swirling around Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) new buy now – pay later (BNPL) product that allows its users to pay in four equal payments over 6 weeks, digital bank Zopa has announced its spin on BNPL with a focus on big-ticket items. The… Read More

June 8, 2022 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Invoice finance and embedded finance (think: buy now, pay later options at checkout) help companies with improving their cash flow. On top of this, they manage operational expenditure “to improve their business growth,” the MarketFinance team explains. Invoice finance has been a tool companies have… Read More

June 8, 2022 @ 7:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zibble, a long term property rental marketplace for renters, landlords and property contractors, has raised 101% (£80,950) of its £80,000 target from 154 investors through its crowdfunding campaign, carried out via Seedrs (with 2 days left in the sale). Located in the United Kingdom, Zibble… Read More

June 8, 2022 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Crypto back-office platform Cryptio has raised a $10 million Series A funding round, according to the company. Point Nine led the funding, along with early investors Chainalysis, Revolut and Zendesk. Other investors include: BlueYard, Alven, Coinshares, Avantgarde Finance, Protocol Labs, and Draper Associates. Senior executives… Read More

June 7, 2022 @ 1:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest announced that it is working cooperatively with Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) in order to build an innovative client engagement platform that will aim to replace its multi-system, legacy frontline architecture. As mentioned in the update, the platform will aim to integrate… Read More

June 7, 2022 @ 10:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Open Banking provider TrueLayer has been selected by CMC Markets to enhance client payments in the UK and Europe. CMC Markets is a trading platform with offices around the world and more than 300,000 clients. Users may trade forex, indices, commodities, shares and treasuries through contracts… Read More

June 7, 2022 @ 9:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Salt Edge, an open banking provider, has been integrated into NayaOne. NayaOne is a “Digital Sandbox and Fintech-as-a Service” platform that powers the UK Digital Sandbox. NayaOne is said to be one of the largest integrated Fintech marketplaces in Europe and the UK. According to… Read More