British Business Investments Announces New £15M Commitment to Liberty Leasing
- 4 years 4 months ago
- Investment, Banking
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, today announces a new £15m commitment to Liberty Leasing, which will increase access to finance for UK smaller businesses in the construction, engineering, transport, agriculture, and printing sectors.
Hazeltree Partners with IHS Markit to Deliver Best-In-Class Treasury and Portfolio Finance Solutions
- 4 years 4 months ago
- Investment, Management, Alternative Finance
Hazeltree, the leading provider of integrated treasury management and portfolio finance solutions to alternative investment managers, and IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced a strategic alliance to offer clients an integrated treasury and portfolio finance solution powered by IHS Markit’s industry-leading Securities Finance dataset. Our integrated solutions enable our clients to trade and... more
QED Investors Closes $1.05 Billion Fund VII
- 4 years 4 months ago
- Fundraising News, Investment
Oversubscribed Fund VII will Invest in Early and Growth-Stage Fintech Businesses QED Investors, a leading global fintech venture capital firm, announced that it closed a significantly oversubscribed seventh fund (“Fund VII”), with capital commitments of $1.05 billion.
MYHSM Makes Full Cloud Payments Solution Available in AWS Marketplace
- 4 years 4 months ago
- Investment, Payments, Cloud
Listing enables MYHSM to support Financial Institutions to accelerate cloud-based payment strategies and keep pace with surge in public cloud adoption MYHSM is the first multi-vendor Payment HSM Service provider offering a globally accessible, fully managed, Payment Card Industry (PCI) PIN and PCI DSS certified service using HSM manufactures such as Utimaco Atalla AT1000 and Thales payShield 10K.
Solactive Delivers New Green Bond Index for Lyxor Asset Management to Enable Asset Owners to Invest in Corporate Green Bonds
- 4 years 4 months ago
- Trading Systems, Investment
The Green Bonds market is slightly over a decade old, and its growth has gained pace recently. Compared to 2019, the Green Bonds market increased by USD 290bn in 2020, which represents a 9% increase in new issuances, according to a report by the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI). Solactive is pleased to announce that Lyxor Asset Management launched its Lyxor Corporate Green Bond (DR) UCITS ETF tracking the Solactive EUR USD IG Corporate Green... more
Integrated Finance Raises £2 Million to Transform Tech Development for All: From Startup Fintech Companies to Big Banks
- 4 years 4 months ago
- Investment, FinTech StartUps, Infrastructure
The Fintech infrastructure platform will use the investment to invest in product development and customer growth ● Integrated Finance has announced £2m in Seed funding in round led by Octopus Ventures ● Integrated Finance platform allows fintechs and financial institutions to speed up innovation, by simplifying connections to other banks, financial institutions and suppliers to a single API
Illuma Technology Secures £1.1 Million Investment from Blackfinch
- 4 years 4 months ago
- Investment
New investment will enable ad-tech firm to ‘scale up’ and meet demand for cookieless solutions post-GDPR · Illuma set to expand its team, products, and base of blue-chip company clients · Blackfinch Ventures reinforces its commitment to investing in innovative tech companies London-based llluma Technology, a contextual advertising company which uses AI to expand online campaigns by reacting to live browsing behaviour,... more
More than 4 out of 10 UK Consumers Would use Open Banking to Unlock Faster Loan Approvals and Better Rates from their Banks
- 4 years 4 months ago
- Investment
New research from digital bank Zopa finds that a large swathe of UK consumers would use Open Banking to get better, easier, or faster access to credit despite its low awareness The introduction of Open Banking to previously untapped verticals such as access to credit could spearhead wider adoption amongst UK consumers and reach 40 million active users by 2025 Zopa’s Open Banking partnership with ClearScore resulted in a 37% increase in the... more
Capital.com Survey: Majority of Day Traders Prefer to Do Their Own Technical Analysis Rather Than Take the Advice of Social Media Influencers
- 4 years 4 months ago
- Trading Systems, Investment
According to a recent survey by Capital.com, the high-growth European investment trading platform, 61% of its traders make decisions based on research and technical analysis. This is compared to 16% of clients who said their trading decisions are affected by social media influencers. A further 22.3% said the media is a strong influence when making trading decisions.
Yieldbroker Partners with IHS Markit to Bring InvestorAccess to Australia
- 4 years 4 months ago
- Investment
Collaboration will streamline and automate the primary trade lifecycle for buyside and sellside firms
EIS Association Research Indicates Financial Advisers need Greater Education and Training to Help them Recommend SEIS Investments to Clients
- 4 years 4 months ago
- Investment
Research conducted by the EIS and SEIS representative organisation, the EIS Association suggests that Independent Financial Advisers (IFAs) are hesitant about advising clients to invest in SEIS opportunities due to the perceived risks associated with the product, as well as concerns about the impact on PI Insurance and compliance. Notwithstanding these concerns PI and Compliance specialists spoken to by the EISA both felt that neither should be... more
Substantive Research Completes Survey of the Evolving ESG Data Marketplace
- 4 years 4 months ago
- Investment, Data
Rich and diverse ecosystem developing outside of traditional/established ESG Data providers Substantive Research, the research discovery and research spend analytics provider for the buy-side, has published the findings of its independent survey of the evolving Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) data provider marketplace. Its final report is entitled: “How to Combat Greenwashing? Find the Right Data Partner”. Background
Buy Now Pay Later provider DivideBuy Secures £300m Investment to Accelerate Growth
- 4 years 4 months ago
- Fundraising News, Investment, Payments
DivideBuy is on track to hit c£175 million in Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) by the end of 2021 More than 500 retailers, including Cloud Nine and Simba Sleep, use DivideBuy’s technology Interest free credit provider will use funding to work with retailer partners to increase conversion rates at a time of immense opportunity for ecommerce
MICT's CEO Darren Mercer Pre-celebrates The Soon To Be Launched "MAGPIE INVEST" In New York
- 4 years 4 months ago
- Investment
Darren Mercer, the Chief Executive Officer of the NASDAQ listed company MICT Inc. (MICT) and Non-Executive Chairman of Magpie Securities released a video interview featuring his pre-celebration of Magpie Invest (a brand-new digital investment platform to be launched in Hong Kong) at New York Times Square, where he was standing underneath a 150-foot-tall billboard featuring Magpie Securities as a division of MICT.
ADDX Tokenises XM Studios Investment, After Heliconia Backs The Luxury Collectibles Maker
- 4 years 4 months ago
- Fundraising News, Investment
Deal anchored by Heliconia Capital provides exposure to fast-growing company XM Studios, that holds intellectual property licenses from global brands such as Marvel and DC Comics
