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News/startups
Lloyds Bank has invested £5 million for a 20% stake in invoice financing startup Satago and will roll out the platform for its Single Invoice Finance and whole of book Invoice Factoring customers.
09 March 2022
Capchase, a US startup that helps company founders access non-dilutive capital, has opened a new European headquarters in London after a surge in demand from UK startups.
16 February 2022
News/retail
Brazilian secured lending platform Creditas has hit a US$4.8 billion valuation off the back of a US$260 million Series F funding round.
26 January 2022
A Spanish startup has launched what it claims is the world’s first tokenised investment fund focused footballer’s image rights.
09 December 2021
In the wake of its blocked merger with Crowdcube, UK crowdfunding platform Seedrs has agreed a deal to be acquired by American outfit Republic for around $100 million.
01 December 2021
News/wholesale
Invoice insurance startup Nimbla has attracted £5.1 million in funding from Silicon Valley's FIN VC with participation from Barclays Bank.
03 November 2021
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
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
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
Klarna has picked embedded business finance platform Liberis to help it offer its e-commerce clients revenue-based financing.
29 June 2021
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