Tagged: united kingdom

September 21, 2020 @ 8:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

    Wirex, a UK-based payments platform, announced on Monday it launched its first crowdfunding campaign through equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. Wirex reported it is now seeking to raise £1 million. Founded in 2014, Wirex is a UK FCA-licenced global digital payment platform that has… Read More

September 18, 2020 @ 8:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kate MacDonald, New Zealand Government Fellow at the World Economic Forum, and Lofred Madzou, Project Lead, AI and Machine Learning at the World Economic Forum have published a report that explains how AI can benefit everyone. According to MacDonald and Madzou, artificial intelligence can improve… Read More

September 18, 2020 @ 2:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

RoosterMoney, a UK-based money managing mobile app, is now seeking to raise a minimum of £2.1 million through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. Founded in 2015, RoosterMoney claims it transforms the way families manage pocket money. “Our mission is to take children from their… Read More

September 17, 2020 @ 2:49 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Boring Money, a UK-based startup that helps users make better financial choices by offering investment/pension guides, quickly surpassed its initial £300,000 funding target and is now nearing £730,000 raised through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. Founded in 2015, Boring Money states it blends quantitative… Read More

September 17, 2020 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Newly minted SME focused bank, Allica Bank, has closed on a £26 million funding round led by Warwick Capital Partners – the majority shareholder in the firm. This announcement included the news that Allica intends on raising a further £100 million to pursue its vision… Read More

September 17, 2020 @ 8:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Following final approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Cornerstone has completed the acquisition of FXPress Payment Services – a regulated Authorised Payment Institution providing cross-border payment services. Cornerstone will now operate as Cornerstone FS plc. Additionally, Cornerstone says it has received the consent of… Read More

September 17, 2020 @ 8:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Wirex, a UK-based payments platform, announced on Thursday it is firing a “warning shot” at its competitors by launching a comprehensive product overhaul, along with a new Mastercard. According to Wirex, the overhaul kicked off with the release of new features, which includes five… Read More

September 16, 2020 @ 4:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less then a year and a half after raising £120,568 through its previous equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, real estate source platform, Infabode, has made a return to the funding platform to raise an additional £300,000. As previously reported, Infabode connects its community of users… Read More

September 15, 2020 @ 11:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The digital technology sector in Scotland has reportedly been growing as fast (if not faster) than that of London and the South East for the past few years. E-commerce giant Amazon is now planning to create new jobs for the residents of Dundee and Fife…. Read More

September 15, 2020 @ 12:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Airwallex, an Australia-based fintech company, announced on Tuesday it has launched its card payment acceptance solution in the UK and Europe. Airwallex claims that the solution allows merchants to accept card payments around the world seamlessly and securely. The launch is notably a key part… Read More

September 15, 2020 @ 8:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Capco has partnered up with Inbotiqa, an alumnus of the Barclays TechStars Accelerator, Fintech focused program. The agreement focuses on Inbotiqa’s YUDOmail product and analytics tool for back office and operations teams. Capco is a technology and management consultancy dedicated to the financial services industry. Inbotiqa… Read More

September 14, 2020 @ 6:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Minted, a Shariah-compliant platform for trading gold, is planning to launch its services this month. Gold has served as a safe haven asset during times of economic uncertainty, but mostly wealthy people have invested in the precious metal. Minted aims to change this trend… Read More

September 14, 2020 @ 11:15 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

KodyPay, a UK-based mobile point of sale app and payment aggregator, announced on Monday it raised £1.8 million through its latest seed funding round. Founded in 2018, KodyPay describes itself as a new mobile point of sale platform and payment aggregator, enabling businesses to perform… Read More

September 14, 2020 @ 8:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Savings App Chip is says it raised £10.7 million in under 48 hours as part of a Future Fund round hosted on Crowdcube. A total of £2 million was raised in under 10 minutes and £4 million in under an hour. The Future Fund is… Read More

September 14, 2020 @ 8:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Nesta has launched a £2.8 million Rapid Recovery Challenge to encourage Fintechs, among other entities, to come up with solutions to help workers impacted by COVID-19. Nesta is encouraging Fintechs to participate in the challenge where individual firms may win up to £475,000 plus other… Read More

September 13, 2020 @ 10:46 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

CatchApp, a smart productivity software designed to be the one-stop solution for the growing scheduling needs of professionals, SMEs, and Enterprise users, is now set to close its equity crowdfunding round on Crowdcube with more than £700,000 raised from nearly 500 Crowdcube investors. The funding… Read More

September 13, 2020 @ 10:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

People Matter., the creator of the mental wellness companion mobile app, has successfully secured its initial £300,000 funding target through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs.  Founded in 2018, People Matter. states that it exists to “empower and protect” people at work from the negative impact… Read More

September 13, 2020 @ 9:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Myles Stephenson, the CEO at UK-based Fintech firm Modulr, says he’s pleased to announce that the financial service provider has become a principal issuing member of Mastercard. As explained by the company, this means that their products are “further embedded” in key financial infrastructure and… Read More

September 12, 2020 @ 2:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Folk2Folk, a peer to peer lender supporting local and rural businesses, has confirmed that it’s still confident that it will be approved to begin lending under the country’s Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS), even though the application deadline will come at the end… Read More

September 11, 2020 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hungarian firm PeasyPay has launched a biometric digital payment system that uses facial and palm recognition to verify customers’ IDs and settle transactions. The Fintech company stated that it will be introducing its biometrics-enabled point-of-sale payments technology in Spain and the UK. Consumers can download… Read More