UK Fintech Lightyear Launches in 19 EU Countries and Raises $25M
- 3 years 7 months ago
- Fundraising News
Today, the new investment platform Lightyear announces a $25M Series A equity round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company’s seed investors, Mosaic Ventures, Taavet+Sten and Metaplanet also took part in the round alongside a number of new and existing angel investors.
African Development Bank Group Approves Euro 50 Million Trade Finance Risk Participation Partnership with Societe Generale
- 3 years 7 months ago
- Banking
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group on Wednesday 13 July approved a €50 million unfunded risk-sharing facility partnership with Societe Generale to further support trade finance activities across Africa. The facility will contribute to reducing Africa’s trade finance gap by enhancing Societe Generale’s risk-bearing capacity by up to fifty per cent, enabling it to provide increased confirmation limits to local issuing...
Wealthtech Tifin Acquires SharingAlpha
- 3 years 7 months ago
- Wealth Management
US wealthtech platform Tifin has acquired SharingAlpha, a fund rating platform consisting of a community of more than 15,000 professional fund investors and analysts across the world. Co-founded six years ago by two Israeli brothers, Oren and Yuval Kaplan, SharingAlpha offers professionals the opportunity to build their own track record for fund selection and asset allocation capabilities.
Unipart Powertrain Applications Re-Energises And Enhances Just-In-Time Manufacturing Systems With Nutanix Cloud Platform And AHV Hypervisor
- 3 years 7 months ago
- Cloud
Coventry-based Unipart Powertrain Applications (UPA) is part of the wider Unipart Manufacturing Group (UMG), a leading Tier 1 supplier of components to the global automotive industry. With just a few hours of finished stock held on-site and delivered on a just-in-time basis, even minor service interruptions can have huge knock-on effects across the entire Unipart supply chain.
Compass Plus Technologies Hits the Double at Global Banking & Finance Awards
- 3 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Compass Plus Technologies has picked up two awards in the Global Banking & Finance Awards 2022. The awards have been running since 2011 and aim to recognise businesses driving innovation, and progressive and inspirational changes within the global financial sector.
Argyle and DigiSure Partner to Supercharge Screening and Risk Assessments for Gig Drivers
- 3 years 7 months ago
- Risk Management
Argyle, the leading employment data platform, today announced its partnership with Protection-as-a-Service provider DigiSure.
TIBCO Cloud EBX Unlocks the Power of MDM SaaS
- 3 years 7 months ago
- Cloud
Enterprise data company, TIBCO, has launched TIBCO Cloud™ EBX®, a Master Data Management (MDM) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution. TIBCO Cloud EBX enables users to manage corporate data from anywhere, including master data, reference data, and metadata. As a SaaS offering, EBX now delivers self-service access of cloud-native MDM capabilities to customers for faster, smarter implementation.
Saltare Strengthens Commercial Team with Hire of Second Commercial Manager
- 3 years 7 months ago
- Payments
UK-based Saltare, the Early Payment FinTech, has appointed its second commercial manager to grow its customer base with a primary focus on enrolling larger corporations with extensive and diverse supply chains.
Quartr Extends its Seed Round to $7.1M To Transform Investor Relations for both Investors and Companies
- 3 years 7 months ago
- Fundraising News
Quartr, the app that gives anyone, regardless of their investment expertise and network, access to critical company information and earnings calls, has raised a $2.6M extended seed round, taking its total seed round to $7.1M.
Minima Launches Innovation Challenge To Explore Global Impact Of Decentralized Blockchain
- 3 years 7 months ago
- Blockchain
Minima, the first cooperative, ultra-lean, blockchain network that enables anyone to run a complete node on a mobile or IoT device, today launched The Minima Innovation Challenge in partnership with EdenBase, UK’s first fund with a supergrowth hub and an ecosystem, investing in the next generation of game-changing companies, powered by frontier technologies.
NatWest Markets Partners with Google Cloud to Bolster its Data Capabilities and Customer Experiences
- 3 years 7 months ago
- Cloud
Founded in 2016 as the investment arm of Natwest Group, NatWest Markets helps its corporate and institutional customers manage their financial risks and achieve financial goals while navigating changing markets and regulations. Today, beyond providing products and solutions centred across currencies, rates, and financing, the company's mission is to actively support customers in their transition to achieving broader environmental and societal...
Buy Now Pay Later Improves Sales for Two-thirds of UK Retailers
- 3 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Two-thirds of UK retailers (69%) report improvements in at least one area of their business sales and performance metrics as a direct result of offering Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) payments to customers. This was the finding of analysis by RFI Global, the only global data and insights company focusing exclusively on financial services.
Innovative Credit Provider Tymit Introduces Instant Payments with TrueLayer
- 3 years 7 months ago
- Payments
TrueLayer, Europe’s leading open banking platform, today announced that the innovative credit firm Tymit is delivering an enhanced experience through instant bank payments for its Credit and Booster customers.
Sinch Report Reveals Consumers Want Better Ways to Get Real-time Financial Services and Connect with Their Bank
- 3 years 7 months ago
- Banking
Consumers want far more personalized mobile banking experiences that make it easy for them to get real-time 1:1 support anywhere, says a survey of almost 3,000 consumers, commissioned by Sinch (Sinch AB (publ) – XSTO: SINCH).
Personetics Partners with Japan's Leading Innovator in Digital Banking, iBank
- 3 years 7 months ago
- Digital banking
Personetics, the leading global provider of financial data-driven personalisation and customer engagement solutions for financial institutions, today announced a new partnership with iBank Marketing Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Fukuoka Financial Group and widely recognised as Neobank in Japan.
