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News/sustainable
Founder and managing partner of The Redsand Group, Nicole Anderson, announced in a recent interview with Finextra TV that the group will launch a fund to work with the venture community to support fintech aimed at tackling sustainability across financial services through tools such as blockchain and tokenisation.
27 February 2020
Global IT expense is set to reach a staggering $3.9 trillion in 2020, an increase of 3.4% from 2019 according to Gartner. Driven by the adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS), all market segments are expected to spend on forms of software such as cloud and expand its use through 2023. But what does this mean for the environment?
News/inclusion
Finextra interviews Boston-based accelerator Catalyst Fund about JPMorgan's recent investment in its goal to boost financial inclusion across emerging markets.
17 February 2020
News/Alternative finance
Consumers now have access to all the information they need to define, compare and select the financial products and services that best serve their individual needs.
14 February 2020
News/payments
Visa has made a strategic investment in ChargeAfter as part of a broader deal with the point-of-sale financing technology platform.
12 February 2020
News/startups
Canadian regulators have given the greenlight for the country's first peer-to-peer lending platform for consumer loans.
31 January 2020
Fintech players have captured the marketplace with efficient customer experience and proven that mass-market growth is achievable, without branches and with mobile-based applications. What sets new financial entrants apart is that they are adaptable and can provide customers with financial advice in a way that suits them.
The UK's point-of-sale credit market is surging, according to analysis from consultant Kearney, with two thirds of millennials now using 'buy now, pay later' services - despite some concerns about the impact on credit scores.
29 January 2020
Westpac-backed venture fund Reinventure has stepped up its push into Asia’s fintech scene, joining a US$90 million funding round for the owner of Kredivo, Indonesia’s fast-growing "buy now, pay later" (BNPL) platform.
27 January 2020
UK-based alternative finance provider Liberis has raised $42 million in equity financing and appointed PayPal's former head of credit operations Howard Kramen as its US general manager.
22 January 2020
ASX-listed marketplace lender Wisr has raised $35 million via a placement of approximately 181 million ordinary shares.
16 January 2020
PayU is to acquire a controlling interest in Indian digital credit platform PaySense for $185 million.
10 January 2020
Professor Gianfranco Gianfrate of Edhec Business School presents research findings that casts doubt on the sustainability of crowdlending, highlighting the risk of underestimating the potential inefficiency of this alternative mode of finance.
20 December 2019
The European Parliament has given provisional approval to plans to introduce new standards for crowdfunding platforms across the continent.
19 December 2019
A group of former Monzo, Bud and Apple staffers are tapping into the UK's Open Banking initiative to launch a platform for renters.
04 December 2019
Citi Ventures. MUFG Ventures and Nationwide have joined in a $102.5 million equity financing round for small business banking vendor BlueVine.
19 November 2019
News/retail
A new report from HSBC reveals that the traditional products-based approach in retail banking will be replaced by hyper-personalised services, where customer personal data will be collated to form a central digital ID.
12 November 2019
ID Finance, a digital lending platform that uses smart credit scoring technology to target the underbanked in Spain and Latin America, has raised a record £4.4 million on Crowdcube.
05 November 2019
Israel fintech Become has raised $12.5 million in Series A funding to help propel its mission to become the 'Expedia for business loans'.
01 November 2019
John Thomas, head of enterprise, innovation & strategic business architecture at TD Bank showcases his expertise on how to leverage data to synthesise the customer experience while at the same time, remaining hyper-relevant in the banking sector at Money 20/20 USA in Las Vegas.
29 October 2019
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