Tagged: united kingdom

January 25, 2020 @ 12:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, Crowdfund Insider covered a report on the UK and how European financial services firms were being compelled to open new offices in light of Brexit. While a good amount of digital ink has covered the number of firms shuttering offices or lowering headcount… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 10:48 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Honcho’s latest equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube is now nearing £1 million in funding. The UK-based insurtech launched the initiative last month with a mission to raise a minimum of £700,000. The company is offering 9.21% in equity at a £6,899,999 pre-money valuation. Honcho describes… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 12:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Barclays Bank has teamed up with Fintech accelerator graduate and Insurtech platform Nimbla, which provides small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) the option to take out insurance against individual invoices, instead of the whole book. By using Nimbla’s platform, clients will be able to insure individual… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 11:50 am By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Conduct Authority’s Executive Director of Strategy and Competition, Christopher Woolard, has been selected as the Interim Chief Executive of the FCA. HM Treasury announced the appointment today as current FCA Chief Executive Andrew Bailey has been tapped to take over the role of… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 6:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube is the largest investment crowdfunding platform in the UK and the first platform to launch in the robust UK crowdfunding market – a market that in many ways leads the rest of the world. Founded in 2011, Crowdcube has helped to raise growth capital… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 6:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) will reportedly be running a public/private forum that will go into the relevant technical and public policy issues related to bank adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies and software…. Read More

January 23, 2020 @ 8:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital challenger bank Revolut has announced a new savings accounts for users in the UK market. The bank says the savings accounts will be available to Revolut Metal customers and earn a 1.35% interest rate on deposits – one of the higher rates of returns… Read More

January 23, 2020 @ 7:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Australia-based digital brokerage platform Stake announced this week it has officially launched its UK beta operations.  Founded in 2017, Stake claims it democratizes global share markets to bring the “world’s largest and most dynamic” market to the rest of the world. “We believe brokerage is… Read More

January 23, 2020 @ 7:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based online mortgage broker, Trussle, announced on Wednesday it has raised a further £7.5m in funding as it continues its technology expansion. Trussle revealed that the investment includes funding from a new investor, the Dutch-based Rabo Frontier Ventures (RFV), alongside existing investors, Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking… Read More

January 22, 2020 @ 3:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Demica, a UK-based company that provides working capital solutions to a wide range of major corporations and financial institutions, announced on Wednesday it secured $30 million through its Series C funding round, which was led by Simcah Management LLC. Founded in 1992, Demica revealed it… Read More

January 22, 2020 @ 1:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Liberis, a UK-based fintech, announced on Wednesday it secured £32 million through its latest investment round as it prepares to expand its services in both the U.S. and Europe. This new investment comes less than two years after Liberis received £57.5 million in combined funding… Read More

January 22, 2020 @ 1:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

HOP Vietnamese, a UK-based fresh food concept that is on a mission to showcase a “passion” for Vietnamese colorful food, culture, and street atmosphere, has successfully raised more than £1.1 million through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. The funding round was launched earlier this… Read More

January 22, 2020 @ 11:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Niyah, a banking challenger app, has officially launched its services in the United Kingdom for the country’s Islamic community. The company claims it’s “the first Fintech Islamic banking app and ethical financial marketplace platform” to offer services in the UK. The Niyah app is Shariah-compliant,… Read More

January 22, 2020 @ 9:28 am By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is introducing new rules regarding overdraft fees that impact consumers. The new rules expect to benefit 70% of the population as banks will now be required to charge a simple annual interest rate, without any additional fees or charges beginning… Read More

January 22, 2020 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SteadyPay, a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) licensed gig-economy app, has secured £2.9 million (appr. $3.8 million) through a seed equity and debt funding round. The firm’s equity investment was led by venture capital company Hambro Perks and Fair By Design, the social impact fund launched… Read More

January 22, 2020 @ 7:48 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based Demica, a working capital Fintech, has closed on a $30 million Series C financing round led by Simcah Management LLC, according to a company release. Demica is a platform that targets multinational clients all over the world, across industries providing working capital facilities… Read More

January 22, 2020 @ 7:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Vive, a newly established UK-based digital bank, has reportedly acquired a banking license with certain restrictions from the Bank of England (BoE). The new digital bank aims to provide personal loans and a fixed-rate savings account. It will be launching with an Open Banking-based funds… Read More

January 21, 2020 @ 9:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Although the overall progress on reducing poverty has been steady during the past few decades, about half or 50% of the global population still has to live on less than $6 per day. Catalyst Fund is a newly established VC fund with a goal to… Read More

January 21, 2020 @ 12:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-headquartered FTMarkets, a foreign exchange established in 2005, recently introduced its trading platform in Vietnam, allowing the residents of the Asian nation to download applications and perform foreign exchange transactions. FTMarkets provides investors MT4 and APP platforms for conducting trades and it doesn’t charge clients… Read More

January 21, 2020 @ 7:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Michael Spencer, the billionaire founder of ICAP, has reportedly committed £25 million (appr. $32.5 million) to a newly established £100 million (appr. $130 million) Fintech venture fund in the United Kingdom. The fund, called Element Ventures, has been established by Michael McFadgen and Steve Gibson,… Read More