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News/startups
UK digital bank Starling has turned a £32m profit for the last financial year, marking its first full year of profitability.
21 July 2022
News/inclusion
A Mexican startup has become the latest fintech to gain unicorn status.
18 July 2022
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/identity
Alloy, the recently named unicorn, has expanded its identity decisioning platform to include credit underwriting, with the intention of building comprehensive views of customers in line with their onboarding and transaction monitoring products.
20 October 2021
News/retail
Credit Kudos has launched Signal, an Open Banking and machine learning-based credit score that it says enables lenders to increase acceptance of previously declined customers and reduce defaults.
14 October 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/sustainable
From 8-9 December 2020, Finextra and ResponsibleRisk brought together experts in the sustainable finance space to discuss how stakeholders can re-imagine the role of risk modelling.
23 April 2021
ING Ventures is investing an additional $3 million into Flowcast, a fintech startup that applies AI to the credit and collection process for non-performing loans.
08 March 2021
IMP+ACT Alliance has announced its partnership with the United Development Programme (UNDP) to provide investors with digital guidance on engaging with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
29 January 2021
The first Sustainable Finance hackathon run by data science specialists Elastacloud in association with Finextra and Responsible Risk, took place on 16 and 17 January bringing together 38 professionals from the finance and technology sectors.
Sumitomo Mitsui Bank is to use credit intelligence software from OakNorth to boost its commercial leanding operations and has acquired a $30 million stake in the UK challenger bank and tech supplier.
17 November 2020
News/payments
Google has released an app that enables banks and credit providers to remotely lock a mobile phone if the user fails to make installment payments.
09 November 2020
News/devops
Simon Torrance, senior adviser at corporate innovation firm, Rainmaking, claims that the traditional financial services business model is no longer working.
28 October 2020
Mohammad Kamal Syed, managing director and head of investment management at Coutts & Co, tells Finextra Research of the ‘root and branch uplift’ in the firm’s investment decision making to address ESG goals.
20 October 2020
US fintech startup Harvest is aiming to overturn the traditional credit scoring system, utilising AI and machine learning to provide a dynamic view of a person's financial wellness throughout the lifetime of a loan.
02 October 2020
Thailand's central bank has published new measures for the growing digital personal loan market that will allow lenders to use a wider range of alternative data sources when making credit decisions.
18 September 2020
The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) is launching a coalition aimed at the promotion of measuring and disclosing carbon emissions in the UK financial services industry.
News/covid-19
A German fintech once backed by PayPal investor Peter Thiel, has filed for bankruptcy after failing to recover from the economic effects of the Coronavirus pandemic.
14 September 2020
Identity data specialist GBG has led a $7 million funding round in Singapore's CredoLab.
20 August 2020
SuperSim, a São Paulo-based microlending startup, has secured $5.6 million in Series B funding through debt financing.
17 August 2020
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