Tagged: united kingdom

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

November 27, 2020 @ 6:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Germany-based digital insurance firm Getsafe has teamed up with GoCompare as it prepares to firmly establish its presence in the UK markets. Getsafe launched operations in the UK in February 2020 and it’s now planning to make app-based insurance services more accessible to UK residents…. Read More

November 26, 2020 @ 3:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SoftBank-backed Fintech firm OakNorth claims that it has been issuing loans at record levels following the COVID-19 outbreak. Established in 2015, OakNorth was recently valued at $2.8 billion and has managed to achieve profitability. This is not too common for many of the firms or… Read More

November 26, 2020 @ 1:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Stripe is reportedly planning an investment round so that its payment platform and business can be valued significantly higher than the $36 billion valuation it received during its last funding round. According to Bloomberg (which cited sources familiar with the matter), Stripe could… Read More

November 26, 2020 @ 8:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm TransferWise recently announced that Indonesians and ex-pat workers will now be able to send money from Indonesia to 80 different countries, which includes Australia, Singapore, Japan, US, UK, China (Alipay) — and across Europe as well. TransferWise users are now able to send… Read More

November 25, 2020 @ 1:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  UK-based international money transfer platform TransferGo has reportedly secured €5 million investment from Silicon Valley Bank. The new investment comes less than six months after TransferGo raised $10 million through its latest investment round. As previously reported, TransferGo claimed last year to be the first remittance… Read More

November 25, 2020 @ 11:38 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Paysme, a UK-based fintech mobile app, has successfully secured its initial £250,000 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. Founded in 2018, Paysme describes itself as a super app delivering financial services to underserved small business communities to accelerate their transition to the digital… Read More

November 25, 2020 @ 11:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital bank Revolut has announced that it will hand over one Bitcoin, worth around £14,333 right now, as part of a “Black Friday Crypto competition.” The promotion is only available for UK customers. Revolut users just need to set up a Crypto Recurring Buy worth at… Read More

November 25, 2020 @ 8:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lending marketplace Mintos has surpassed £7 million on Crowdcube on the final day of the securities offering. The Mintos security offering should be one of the largest offerings on Crowdcube for 2020. Mintos is raising equity capital at a pre-money valuation of… Read More

November 25, 2020 @ 7:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Saas provider Konsentus has announced the launch of its Open Banking Hub (OB Hub), a cloud based service that offers clients a global open banking solution. According to Konsentus, the OB Hub is designed to remove the complexity involved in setting up a central and… Read More

November 25, 2020 @ 7:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mike Bristow, CEO at CrowdProperty, a property investment platform, says that there’s likely to be a significant increase in overall activity in the UK’s property market. Bristow believes that the surge in transactions should come toward the end of the stamp duty holiday. Bristow’s comments… Read More