British Business Bank Launches Growth Guarantee Scheme to Help Smaller Businesses Access the Finance They Need to Invest and Grow
- 1 week 11 hours ago
- Investment
The British Business Bank has so far accredited 41 lenders for the Growth Guarantee Scheme. Following their accreditation, each lender needs to put in place the operations required to start lending under the scheme, and they will be listed on the British Business Bank website once they are ready to start receiving applications. 20 lenders have so far confirmed they are open for applications. Further lenders are going through the accreditation... more
WhatsApp-ening with My Investments? VCs Ask Portend for Financial Health Check
- 1 week 3 days ago
- Investment
Portend launches WhatsApp integration providing accessible real-time due diligence for portfolio safeguarding with quick and easy access to simulated governance, financial auditing, communication sentiment, and financial monitoring tools in Venture, Debt, Insurance, and Sports. You might assume that with $100M’s AUM VC Investment Directors would monitor the finances of their portfolio businesses. Oddly, they don’t.
Shift4 Acquires Majority Stake of German Point-of-Sale Company Vectron Systems AG
- 4 weeks 15 hours ago
- Investment
Shift4, the leader in integrated payments and commerce technology, has acquired a majority stake in Vectron Systems AG, one of the largest European suppliers of point-of-sale (POS) systems to the restaurant and hospitality verticals. Based in Germany, Vectron has ~65,000 POS locations across Europe, representing ~€25 billion in volume opportunity with minimal payment monetization today.
Hometree Secures £250M Asset-Backed Debt Facility from Barclays for UK’s First Residential Renewable Securitisation
- 1 month 1 day ago
- Investment
Hometree, the fast-growing residential energy services company, has secured a £250m asset-backed debt facility from Barclays, which will be used to finance over 28,000 residential solar panel systems, batteries and heat pumps across the UK over the next two years.
Plum Expands Investment Offering in the EU with ETFs
- 1 month 4 days ago
- Investment
Smart money app Plum has expanded its investment offering to include ETFs across its EU markets. Customers can now invest in diversified funds by geographical region, sector and asset class, as well as tracking multiple stock market indices from around the world.
ABN AMRO Invests in All-Female Founded Climate-Tech Fund Blume Equity
- 1 month 1 week ago
- Investment
Blume Equity is the fifth climate-related fund investment taken on by ABN AMRO Corporate Investments, and an important step in supporting and accelerating the transition to a zero-carbon economy. Blume Equity, founded by three female entrepreneurs, is a climate-tech growth investor with an impact lens in disruptive European scale-ups. Through this investment, ABN AMRO will provide capital to businesses that are solving the climate emergency.
PayPoint Announces Investment in Aperidata
- 1 month 2 weeks ago
- Investment
PayPoint announced a £1 million investment in Aperidata Ltd, an innovative consumer and business credit reporting and Open Banking platform. The deal will see the PayPoint Group building on an existing commercial partnership between the two companies delivering Open Banking solutions for clients across multiple sectors, including government, local authorities, charities, and housing associations.
FE fundinfo Acquires German Fintech Dericon
- 1 month 3 weeks ago
- Investment
FE fundinfo, a leading financial data company connecting the asset management industry to distribution networks in the UK, Europe and Asia Pacific, today continues its European expansion with the acquisition of Frankfurt-headquartered Dericon, a pioneering fintech in Germany’s wealth management industry.
Experian Acquires Strategic Stake in Reward
- 1 month 3 weeks ago
- Investment
Reward, an industry leader in customer engagement and commerce media, today announced that Experian, a FTSE50 company, the world’s leading global information services company, has acquired a strategic stake in the company.
Citi Makes Strategic Investment in Cicada to Facilitate Institutional e-Trading of Mexican Government Bonds
- 2 months 1 week ago
- Investment
Citi has made a strategic minority investment in Cicada Technologies Inc. The investment was made by Citi’s Markets Strategic Investments unit, which is responsible for the sourcing and execution of strategic investments relevant to Citi’s Markets franchise. Citi will also act as a liquidity provider for the trading platform.
Danske Bank Invests in United Fintech and Joins Board to Digitally Support its Forward ’28 strategy
- 2 months 1 week ago
- Investment
Danske Bank A/S has become the third institutional investor in United Fintech Group Limited securing the Nordic bank a rotating board seat in the rapidly growing industry-neutral Digital Transformation Platform:
BlackRock Invests in Willow to Support Growth of NextGen Investors
- 2 months 1 week ago
- Investment
BlackRock, Inc. has made a minority investment in Willow Network, Inc., a startup providing services to help financial advisors better serve a growing population of new investors.
Bank of Ireland Investing Additional €34 Million in Customer Service Improvements
- 2 months 1 week ago
- Investment
Bank of Ireland has announced a major additional investment in customer services with more than €34 million in the transformation of its telephony and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems.
GetGround Partners with WealthKernel to Introduce Investment Pots for Property Investors
- 2 months 2 weeks ago
- Investment
WealthKernel, a digital investment infrastructure provider, today announces a new partnership with GetGround, an all-in-one property platform for buy-to-let investors. GetGround works with 27,000+ property investors, providing an all-in-one investment platform that helps investors find, finance, manage and even exit their investments.
Software Company Sci-Net Secures First IP-backed Loan from NatWest
- 2 months 2 weeks ago
- Investment
The UK’s largest commercial bank has extended its first mass-market Intellectual Property-backed loan to Sci-Net, a high-growth software business based just outside Oxford, in Chipping Norton.
