SumUp’s VP of Design, Pamela Mead, named as one of the top 25 Women Leaders in Financial Technology by the Financial Technology Report
- 2 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Pamela Mead, VP of Design at UK-based financial services provider SumUp (www.sumup.co.uk), has been announced to be one of The Financial Technology Report’s Top 25 Women Leaders in Financial Technology.
State of the Industry: FinTechs re-evaluate how they Drive Growth as the Battle for Talent Begins
- 2 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Exclusive research from Barclays Corporate Banking reveals the views of FinTech leaders from across the globe on a range of key issues Growth remains the number one priority for nearly a quarter (23%) of FinTechs across the globe, but this is down considerably from 2020 (where 57% cited it as their key priority) Talent acquisition is now cited as the second-most pressing area across EMEA, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, with Barclays identifying... more
Ignition Advice Appoints new Chief Operations Officer for Europe
- 2 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, Financial, Technical
Ignition Advice, the global provider of advice technology, has appointed Will Drew as its new Chief Operations Officer for Europe. Will comes to Ignition with 20 years of industry experience across a range of sectors, having worked at wealth managers, insurance providers and retail banks. Prior to joining Ignition, Will was Head of Account Management for Bravura Solutions, a global provider of software solutions. Before that he was a Director... more
FV Bank Launches API to Enable Fintech and Blockchain Businesses to Seamlessly Integrate Banking Automation
- 2 years 10 months ago
- APIs, Blockchain, Banking, FinTech StartUps
FV Bank (www.fvbank.us), the U.S.
Fintech Nayapay Secures $13m as It Rolls Out Digital Payments Revolution in Pakistan
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Fundraising News, Payments, FinTech StartUps
Investment: NayaPay secures $13m in one of the largest seed rounds in South Asia to spearhead the fintech revolution in Pakistan Action: NayaPay aims to address the needs of underbanked citizens and SMBs, enabling them to create accounts and start transacting within a few minutes Ambition: NayaPay to scale and serve 5m consumers and businesses across Pakistan as it builds its two-sided platform comparable to Square Cash/Square, WeChat Pay,... more
Tradeplus24 Launches Into UK With Close of £30m Debt Facility From Pfg
- 2 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Global SME lending fintech Tradeplus24 is launching into the UK with the close of a £30 million debt facility provided by San Francisco-headquartered global credit fund, Partners for Growth (PFG), with advice offered by debt advisory, Neu Capital.
A New Green Fintech Market Emerges Across Europe and the UK, Building on Open Banking
- 2 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Platformable launched their latest report, “Using Open Banking and Open Finance APIs to Build Green Fintech” today. The report describes how Europe and the UK use open banking and open finance APIs to enable the growth of new sustainability-focused financial products and services.
Glml Foundation and Nivaura Launch Glml Plug-in
- 2 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Nivaura, a London based fintech, announced today the launch of the General-purpose Legal Markup Language (GLML) plug-in for Microsoft Word. This follows the launch last summer of a not-for-profit foundation (the GLML Foundation) to promote and develop GLML for use by lawyers and other non-programmers to make legal documentation machine readable and executable in debt capital markets.
Relief Secures $15 Million in Series A Funding to Help Consumers Combat the Credit Card Debt Crisis
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Fundraising News, FinTech StartUps
Since the launch of Relief's waitlist, over 100,000 consumers have signed up for their free service with a combined total of over $750 million of credit card debt.
Mastercard and Massmart Partner to Support SME Transition From Cash
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Payments, FinTech StartUps
Mastercard recently collaborated with leading retail group Massmart to connect Small, Medium and Micro-Enterprises (SMMEs) to affordable digital commerce solutions, enabling a safe transition away from cash.
Tilled Takes A New Approach To PayFac-as-a-Service, Banks $11M Series A
- 2 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Payment facilitation startup Tilled closed on $11 million in Series A funding to enable software companies to monetize payments.
Self Financial Expands into Credit Reporting for Rent & Utilities with Acquisition of RentTrack
- 2 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
The company will operate the definitive credit building platform to better serve 100 million+ credit-challenged Americans
Trace Finance Announces $4.3 Million Seed Investment To Disrupt Global Banking For Latin American Startups
- 2 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Banking options for Latin American startups who establish their holding companies in Cayman and in the US are historically bureaucratic, expensive and slow; Trace Finance upends this experience and significantly expands access to FX, banking and credit products.
Judith Hartley, Ceo of British Patient Capital, Comments on the Kalifa Review of UK Fintech Ahead of Its One-year Anniversary on 26 February
- 2 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
“The launch of the Kalifa Review was an important milestone in the development of the UK’s fintech sector, acknowledging both the important role the sector is playing in the economy and ensuring the UK can retain its position as the fintech capital of Europe.
PEXA to Launch into UK Property Market in 2022
- 2 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
PEXA, the fintech powering digital property exchange, plans 2022 UK launch It aims to collaborate with industry to transform the conveyancing process to improve consumers’ experience It will launch its first product, a remortgage platform, in Autumn 2022, with endorsement from the UK Government
