Tagged: united kingdom

January 12, 2022 @ 10:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Ben Waterman, COO and Co-founder, Strabo App, a cloud-based platform that helps you link multiple accounts from around the world in one dashboard. The Strabo App reportedly tracks all the money you own and owe, while providing you with a holistic… Read More

January 12, 2022 @ 9:37 am By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs, a leading UK-based securities crowdfunding platform that is merging with Republic, has provided a retrospective of 2021 performance. According to Seedrs, 2021 was a year that delivered record-level funding. The top-line numbers are as follows: £696 million invested into securities offerings 310 funded deals… Read More

January 12, 2022 @ 9:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NYDIG, a Bitcoin company, announced that its subsidiary Bottlepay, a Bitcoin-based international payments company, has been granted registration as a Cryptoasset Business from the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Bottlepay is one of a small number of crypto-asset companies to have secured this type… Read More

January 11, 2022 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gratitude, which aims to help offset carbon emissions by allowing users to “receive cashback from in-game purchases,” has raised 54% (£149,570) of its £275,000 target (at the time of writing) from 132 investors through a crowdfunding campaign carried out via Crowdcube with 22 days left… Read More

January 10, 2022 @ 10:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Innovate Finance, the independent industry body that represents and advances the international Fintech community in the United Kingdom, explains that it aims to accelerate the UK’s role in the financial services sector by “directly supporting the next generation of technology-led innovators.” The UK Fintech sector… Read More

January 10, 2022 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Payfit, which has recently raised €254M to strengthen their payroll solution for SMEs, notes that as 2021 came to an end, they had taken a look back on the year. PayFit reveals that not only have they grown in size, but they also… Read More

January 10, 2022 @ 2:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest, a leading digital financing platform for the UK market, has commented on updates related to delivering complex bridging and development deals in 2022 (and the landscape in general). Tom Madden, Director of LendInvest‘s Structured Property Finance team, has taken a look back on 2021… Read More

January 9, 2022 @ 9:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Zego says that 2021 was a year for “the books” at the firm. They’ve reflected on some of the main achievements that have taken place at Zego over the past year. These include their Series C round of fundraising, strategic partnerships, as… Read More

January 8, 2022 @ 8:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK Fintech Modulr has done some research in order to find out what “makes paying passengers leave, and what makes them come back.” As noted in a blog post by Modulr, digital transformation has “been on the collective agenda for years.” It’s… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 6:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Railsbank APAC Marketing Manager Darren Thang has taken a look at how property buyers are about to get an enhanced experience. Thang writes in a blog post that increasingly, nonbank firms are “warming to the idea of embedded finance experiences, offering banking-like services that provide… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 6:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

The UK Parliament has created a cross-party group of MPs and Lords for “Crypto and Digital Assets.” The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) aims to act as a forum for parliamentarians, policymakers and the UK crypto sector to discuss policy and regulation of the industry. According… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 10:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ned Barker, who has considerable experience in the payments sector, notes in a blog post published by UK-based cross-border payments Fintech CurrencyCloud that remittances are one of the “single most powerful financial forces in existence today, with workers sending hundreds of billions of dollars to their… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jack Wilson, ex-FCA advisor and TrueLayer’s Head of Public Policy, notes that he’s responsible for coordinating how the firm “influences” public policy (government and regulators) to ensure the appropriate conditions for the company’s growth across the United Kingdom, European Union, internationally. A lot of the… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK’s Blend Network, a specialist development finance lender, notes that as 2022 gets underway, they’ve reflected on the “strength” and “resilience” of the UK property market. With property prices and rents surging to double digit growth in some areas of the UK,… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 12:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Landbay, the buy-to-let mortgage market that leverages the latest Fintech and claims to be one of the fastest-growing tech firm in Europe, notes that 2021 started in the middle of a lockdown and at that time, no one would have “wanted to bet on prospects… Read More

January 6, 2022 @ 1:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Praxonomy, the “go-to” collaboration platform for boards of pre-IPO, small-cap and mid-cap listed firms as well as regulated private businesses, has raised 91% (£459,930) of its £500,000 target from 235 investors via Crowdcube (at the time of writing) with 9 days left in the firm’s… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 11:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s digital bank Starling has reportedly launched a new advertising campaign that “encourages small business owners to break free from their incumbent bank.” As mentioned in a release, the campaign, created specifically for Starling Bank by Wonderhood Studios, is the second “under Starling’s new platform… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Findingaplace, which claims that it’s “revolutionizing” the rental search experience, removing the need to “even search at all,” has secured 88% (£221,870) of its £250,001 target from 225 investors (at the time of writing) via Seedrs with 5 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign. Here… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 9:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Baanx has received regulatory approval to provide crypto asset services by the UK Finacial Conduct Authority (FCA). Baanx is registered as a crypto asset business under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Transfer of Funds (Information of the Payer) Regulations 2017 (MLR 2017). Baanx is… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at London-based CoinShares, a digital asset manager focused on expanding access to the cryptocurrency ecosystem while serving as a “trusted partner” for its clients, notes that for the week ending December 31, 2021, the firm saw yearly inflows of “US$9.3bn in… Read More