Kenyan Retail-tech Startup Tanda Secures Funding for Regional Expansion from HAVAÍC
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Banking, FinTech StartUps
Kenyan agency banking startup Tanda is expanding its operations regionally after securing funding from early-stage African tech investor HAVAÍC, Zedcrest Capital, DFS Lab, Victor Asemota and three other investors.
Pan-African Fintech Platform Appzone Secures $10mn Series A Funding
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Payments, Banking, FinTech StartUps
Appzone, the Pan-African fintech software provider building proprietary solutions for the continent’s banking and payments industries, has today announced the close of its $10mn Series A round.
TrueLayer Raises $70M for its Open Banking Platform
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Open Banking, FinTech StartUps
TrueLayer, the London startup that offers a developer-friendly platform for companies, including other fintechs, to utilise open banking, is disclosing $70 million in new funding.
AND Digital Secures £8 Million Funding From BGF to Accelerate Digital Skills for Scaleups and Corporates
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Security and Compliance, Investment, FinTech StartUps
AND Digital -- the British tech consultancy accelerating digital delivery for businesses, providing access to tech talent and helping them build products faster -- today announces it has secured £8 million in follow-on funding from BGF, the UK’s most active growth economy investor.
Tradepass to host World Financial Innovation Series for ASEAN
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Banking, FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations, Infrastructure
Southeast Asia has emerged as a Fintech Hotspot and a recent digital economy report indicates huge growth opportunity for digital financial services in the region. Recognising this huge potential in the FinTech sector, TRADEPASS is bringing the 6th Edition World Financial Innovation Series to ASEAN on the 7–8 April 2021.
$1M Software Solution to Boost Onboarding Pass Rates By 40%
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Banking, FinTech StartUps
Sumsub, a startup that helps companies fight money laundering and online fraud, has invested over $1M in software development—aiming to deliver leading tech for over 1000 global clients. Its latest feature is “Prooface,” a refined liveness solution for ID verification and onboarding that is commonly used in digital banking industry.
FinTech Hub Slovakia Launches for Industry Innovators Worldwide - Start-ups and Scale-ups Should Apply Now
- 3 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Slovakia is a burgeoning fintech region and home to the best IT-ranked developers in the world. To promote and nurture the rising innovation, three industry leaders have come together to create the official FinTech Hub Slovakia.
Tesla, Nio, and Riot Blockchain are the top three most-bought US stocks by Indian investors: Winvesta Investor Pulse Report
- 3 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
UK headquartered leading Fintech platform, Winvesta, which enables investments in over 3500 US Stocks and ETFs, today launched its 'Winvesta Investor Pulse Report.' The report finds that Tesla, Nio, and Riot Blockchain are the top three most-bought US stocks by Indians.
SEON Raises €10M in Hungary’s Largest Series A Round to Date
- 3 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, Technical
SEON, the fraud fighter, has secured €10 million (USD 12 million) series A investment.
upSWOT Signs Up $4.3M in Seed Funding to Fuel Rollout of Its Data Aggregation and Business Finance Management Platform
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Management, FinTech StartUps
upSWOT, a fintech platform helping financial institutions dramatically improve their ability to service Small-Medium Business clients (SMBs), announces a $4.3M seed round with commitments from multiple VC firms, corporate partners, and 50+ prominent angels and industry operators. Utilizing an API-driven, modern approach, similar to Plaid, upSWOT connects, collects, and normalizes data from over 120 business software tools SMBs regularly use,... more
Clickandcollection.com Partners with Visa, Making it Easier for Small Businesses to Serve Customers Online
- 3 years 11 months ago
- e-Payments, FinTech StartUps
ClickandCollection.com – an Irish start-up which provides small businesses with tools to sell online – has today announced a partnership with Visa to help more independent businesses take online orders and continue serving their communities.
TISAtech Launches UK Scale-Up to Help International FinTechs Access the UK Market
- 3 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
UK Scale-Up will provide international FinTechs with a ‘digital home’ in the UK to enable collaboration with financial institutions The new initiative, which is in partnership with the data analytics business The Disruption House, will also provide FinTechs with advice, invitations to tech sprints and access to market insights
Lloyds Bank Strengthens Fintech Partnerships
- 3 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
British Lloyds bank has reported a cumulative technology spend of £4 billion over the past three years, with £2.8 billion of that budget allocated towards a three-year transformation plan set out in February 2018. The pandemic regime has increased demand towards online services, the Lloyds's digitally-active customer base has increased to 17.4 million customers. The number of the mobile app uses has by nearly two million in 2020 to 12.5 million... more
Nationwide to Tackle The Poverty Premium with New Start-up Challenge
- 3 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Covid-19 has had a detrimental impact on the finances of many households – a situation that will be exacerbated when the furlough scheme ends. Some estimates suggest that almost 700,000 additional people faced poverty during the Winter of 2020 as a result of the pandemic1.
Elifinty & Fair Money Advice Partner to Disrupt Debt Advice Space
- 3 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Elifinty, a London-based fintech tech start-up, and Fair Money Advice, a London-based debt advice charity, announce a game changing partnership to help deliver better financial services and debt advice for people in the UK.
