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News/Sibos
Day three of Sibos started with a future facing perspective in the form of two morning sessions covering developing and upcoming digital technologies, including as CBDCs, DeFi, and NFTs, reiterating that these areas of innovation remain hot topics of interest.
14 October 2021
News/crypto
The central American nation today sets a world-first as it adopts the cryptocurrency for use across all goods and services – even taxes.
07 September 2021
News/wholesale
Small business lender Funding Circle has launched its first payment facility, FlexiPay, empowering customers with the ability to buy now pay later on any expense.
02 September 2021
Iwoca has launched an Open Banking-based cash advance product for e-commerce businesses with a business bank account on the FundingXchange marketplace.
News/sustainable
The bank’s investment will support widescale creation and management of forests in Scotland, as well as boost biodiversity in the area, improve air quality, reduce soil erosion, and capture an estimated 1.2 million tonnes of CO2 over two decades.
19 August 2021
LendInvest, an asset management platform for property finance, has agreed a £150 million partnership with Barclays and HSBC to get funding to UK property entrepreneurs.
16 August 2021
News/startups
Upgrade, the lending platform launched by former LendingClub Chief Renaud Laplanche, has closed a $105 million Series E round at a $3.325 billion pre-money valuation.
11 August 2021
Capchase, a US startup that helps company founders access non-dilutive capital, has raised $280 million in debt and equity financing to support the launch of a BNPL product that lets users split large expenses over time.
20 July 2021
Building on findings and insights from its landmark 2020 survey, the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) is once again partnering with the World Bank Group and the World Economic Forum to investigate the impact Covid-19 has borne on fintech firms.
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is set to issue a crackdown on misleading cryptocurrency advertisements.
09 July 2021
Global fintech firm Circle has announced plans to go public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deal that values the company at $4.5bn.
08 July 2021
Funding Options has launched a green finance marketplace to help UK SMEs source funding to achieve their sustainability goals.
06 July 2021
News/regulation
Sweden's financial watchdog is investigating whether buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) fintech Klarna violated bank secrecy laws following a security breach in May.
05 July 2021
News/retail
Klarna has picked embedded business finance platform Liberis to help it offer its e-commerce clients revenue-based financing.
29 June 2021
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has launched a new online lending platform that frees up working capital for small businesses on the submission of their outstanding invoices.
25 June 2021
ThinCats, an alternative lender to UK SMEs, has secured a £160 million strategic investment from Wafra Capital Partners (WCP).
15 June 2021
TreasurySpring, the London-based operator of a fixed-term fund platform, has raised $10 million in a round led by MMC Ventures and Anthemis Group.
11 June 2021
Capchase, a US startup that helps tech company founders access non-dilutive capital, has raised $125 million in a mix of debt and equity.
04 June 2021
News/markets
Pipe, a Miami-based fintech startup building an exchange for recurring revenue streams, has raised $250 million in a funding round that gives it a $2 billion valuation within a year of launching.
20 May 2021
Today, Finextra Research and Responsible Risk kicked off proceedings for Sustainable Finance Live – a series of virtual events designed to drive the creation of actionable ESGtech strategies within the financial services sector, and foster an ecosystem of partnerships that will turn strategy into action.
11 May 2021
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