Tagged: united kingdom

December 1, 2020 @ 7:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital bank Revolut has announced an early salary feature available to UK customers. The new feature means that Revolut’s UK customers can access their salaries and all payments made over the Bacs payment scheme a working day earlier than usual. In the case where they… Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), along with its partners the World Bank and the World Economic Forum, hosted a presentation this week outlining its findings in a study reviewing the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the Fintech industry. The survey was launched… Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 7:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Payments Fintech Pomelo Pay has raised £2.1 million in a seed funding round led by Force Over Mass, according to a note from the company. Pomelo says the new funding will enable it to grow its hardware-free digital payment service while helping both smaller firms,… Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 7:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Unicorn TransferWise has reportedly managed to acquire a restricted banking license in Australia. The leading money transfer service provider has been approved to gain direct access to Australia’s real-time payment system. The permit has been issued by Australia’s Prudential Regulatory Authority. Under the license,… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 9:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs continues to update and iterate its secondary marketplace for private securities. As was reported this past summer, Seedrs enabled variable pricing for trading to take place on the market but there were still certain restrictions tied to the last valuation of the company. At… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 9:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Proptee, a new property investment platform, is planning to launch operations in the UK in January 2021. The platform will aim to connect potential investors with buy-to-let landlords. Proptee will let landlords list various properties on its platform. Investors will be able to acquire shares… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 12:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Mintos, a Fintech that recently closed a securities offering on Crowcube, is reporting that it has set a new record when it comes to an offering for a continental European funding round. The offering has raised €7.2 million in total backed by over 7000… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 10:50 am By JD Alois  |  

This past summer, Tandem Bank acquired Allium Lending Group, a green finance platform. The targeted lending platform may boost Tandem’s business in the growing interest of ESG finance. In a note distributed by Tandem, the challenger bank says that more than half the UK population… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 8:21 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than a year after raising £1.37 million on Seedrs, UK fintech GeoDB has returned to the equity crowdfunding platform and has already surpassed its £2 million funding target from nearly 360 Seedrs investors.  As previously reported, GeoDB is a big data marketplace that aims to… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 6:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Paymentology, a payment tech solutions provider, is reportedly working with banks and financial institutions based in the UAE and the Middle East in order to offer digital payments services. Paymentology claims that its payment services will change and improve the way customers conduct transactions… Read More

November 29, 2020 @ 11:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Fnatic, a UK-based esport brand, has successfully secured more than £1.4 million through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. The funding round, which originally sought to raise £1 million, has attracted nearly 3150 Crowdcube investors. Fnatic claims that it is one of the most… Read More

November 29, 2020 @ 10:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Primer, a UK-based fintech startup, has raised £14 million through its Series A funding round, which was led by Accel. The investment round comes just a little over six months after Primer secured £3.2 million through its seed funding round, led by Balderton Capital…. Read More

November 29, 2020 @ 4:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paxful, a leading peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplace, recently published the results of a survey performed with assistance from OnePoll on “the state of the financial climate” in the UK. As noted in a blog post by Paxful, sentiments include recent notions about the country’s traditional banking… Read More

November 29, 2020 @ 3:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Amadeo Pellicce, Product Manager at Blockchain.com, a leading crypto wallet provider and blockchain explorer service, notes that last year, they had teamed up with digital asset firm CoinShares to introduce DGLD, a crypto-asset representing allocated physical gold that’s kept securely in a Swiss vault. Pellicce… Read More

November 28, 2020 @ 2:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently announced the benefits of its new data collection platform, called RegData. The FCA noted that RegData would be replacing Gabriel as the regulator’s data collection platform. The FCA confirmed that RegData is “informed by user feedback, is faster,… Read More

November 27, 2020 @ 6:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based environmentally-friendly product designer and manufacturer PALLITE is set to close its latest equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube with more than £1.3 million raised. The funding round, which has attracted 1100 Crowdcube investors, made its debut earlier this month. Just a little over a year after… Read More

November 27, 2020 @ 4:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Banco Santander S.A. (Santander Group) (BME:SAN), the world’s 16th-largest banking institution and financial services company based in Madrid, introduced PagoFX, its international payments application for UK customers, in April 2020. Santander’s TransferWise competitor PagoFX is now set to expand its coverage into Belgium. There will… Read More

November 27, 2020 @ 1:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, a property finance platform, has been recognized as the BTL [Buy to Let] Lender of the Year at the 2020 National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) awards for the second year in a row. The NACFB is the UK’s trade body for commercial… Read More

November 27, 2020 @ 11:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Challenger bank FinecoBank has expanded its investment offerings once again with a series of funds from Robeco. Account holders will now have access to Robeco’s range of investment products, including a number of products focused in the sustainable sector. FinecoBank says more partnerships are in… Read More

November 27, 2020 @ 10:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based renewable energy platform Ripple has made its return to equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs less than six months after raising £331,220 through its recently closed funding round. The company previously raised £859,787 on Seedrs as well.  As previously reported, Ripple was founded in 2017 and its… Read More