Tagged: united kingdom

February 15, 2022 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Intesa Sanpaolo, which is Italy’s largest bank by total assets and one of Europe’s most profitable and sustainable financial institutions, has chosen Thought Machine, the United Kingdom-based core banking tech firm, to support its digital banking platform. In conjunction with this partnership, Intesa Sanpaolo has… Read More

February 15, 2022 @ 3:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

When the COVID-19 crisis struck, working practices changed for many individuals and businesses across the globe. Offices had been closed and corporate travel was at a standstill, as virtual networks began replacing physical networking. Fast forward two years and while lockdowns are easing and conferences… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 9:33 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK Financial Conduct  Authority (FCA) has secured changes to consumer terms from popular buy now, pay later platforms, according to a statement from the regulator. The FCA states that terms in the contracts of Clearpay, Klarna, Laybuy, and Openpay have been “unclear” and “unfair.”… Read More

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

Vitesse PSP, the payment, liquidity and treasury management platform, recently announced that it has secured $26 million in Series B funding led by Prime Ventures. The Series B investment round also includes contributions from Octopus Ventures, which led the 2020 Series A round and are… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 2:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global Wealth Group, which aims to make global property investing available to anyone, anywhere, from any amount, safer & simple, has raised 101% (£759,030) of its £750,000 target at the time of writing from 229 investors with 24 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign carried… Read More

February 13, 2022 @ 3:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

At specialist development finance lender, Blend Network, the team prides itself on being by their client’s side, assisting them with borrowing funds for their initiatives. Even at the heights of the COVID-19 crisis, the team reports that they continued lending and deploying capital into projects… Read More

February 13, 2022 @ 12:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, an international retail bank, payments and shopping platform, recently noted that six out of ten or 60% of credit card users don’t know how much interest they are actually being charged. This, according to the latest YouGov research that was commissioned by Fintech firm… Read More

February 12, 2022 @ 11:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at GoCardless notes that Open Banking is the key to changing how we make payments, and get paid. So when GoCardless finalized their Series F investment round at the end of 2020, they immediately put that investment to work – “accelerating [their] product… Read More

February 11, 2022 @ 9:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube, a leading European investment platform, is promoting the overall returns generated by investors. The crowdfunding platform recently tweeted out a link to a page that outlines some of the issuers that have created positive returns for its investors. According to Crowdcube, “over 50,000 investors… Read More

February 10, 2022 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Deel, a Fintech that has been co-founded by Alex Bouaziz, has been expanding its business operations and focusing on UK-based firms. Deel, a remote worker platform, has started taking digital currency payroll payments from firms, which it then provides to working professionals wherever they might… Read More

February 9, 2022 @ 11:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Consumer lending Fintech Selina Finance has finalized a £150 million Series B round that included equity and debt financing. Selina Finance acquired $115 million in debt funding from Goldman Sachs and GGC and $35 million in equity financing led by Lightrock along with existing investors…. Read More

February 9, 2022 @ 10:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DNA Payments, an independent vertically integrated payments provider, and Verifone, a global Fintech platform and payment solution provider to major retail brands, are pleased to announce a key partnership supporting innovation and reliability within the payments ecosystem. DNA Payments has teamed up with Verifone in… Read More

February 9, 2022 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK Fintech LiveFlow notes that they are really excited to announce that they listed the LiveFlows Google Sheets Add-on on Quickbooks Marketplace. LiveFlow has also shared a recap on some key milestones:‍ We launched our Google Sheets Add-on on Google Marketplace‍ LiveFlows… Read More

February 8, 2022 @ 2:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lending Works recently released their Q4 2021 performance update on their statistics page. As noted by Lending Works in a blog post, the expected annual returns and expected annual loss rates have “remained relatively stable compared to our Q3 2021 update.” The announcement from Lending… Read More

February 8, 2022 @ 11:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Modulr, a Fintech providing Payments as a Service API, has partnered with regional bank Hodge to power a real-time digital banking experience to its customers. This is the first time Modulr has partnered with a traditional bank in this method. Modulr’services enable businesses to automate… Read More

February 8, 2022 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Thincats, a UK-based lending platform, has secured £100 million in additional funding. As noted in a blog post by Thincats, the new capital will be deployed by the platform’s management as a senior finance line in order to support SMEs across the United Kingdom and… Read More

February 8, 2022 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Yapily reveals that their founder and CEO, Stefano Vaccino, has become the newest member of Fintech Founders, which is a network of the United Kingdom’s Fintech entrepreneurs offering an opportunity for “better collaboration with government, regulators, and other influencers across the financial… Read More

February 8, 2022 @ 12:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SuperSeed, a VC company investing in the future of business automation, announced that it has finalized the initial closing of its new fund at £31 million, aiming for a final close of £50 million. The fund will be investing anywhere between £500,000 and £1,500,000 into… Read More

February 7, 2022 @ 8:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Diana Shoolman, former head of professional services at NAB, and former director at PwC and Deloitte, has joined Fintech CrowdProperty Australia to serve as its director of strategic partnerships, in order to spearhead the firm’s growth of wholesale, sophisticated, and institutional investors. This appointment is… Read More

February 7, 2022 @ 2:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-headquartered Fintech Railsbank, which provides virtual banking services, is approaching Unicorn status (valued at $1 billion or more), Sky News confirmed on Friday (February 4, 2022). The UK-based Fintech firm recently acquired certain assets of Wirecard, the collapsed and fraudulent German payments firm. As mentioned… Read More