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British Business Bank to lend SMEs £150m through Funding Circle

The British Business Bank today announces a commitment of up to £150m for lending to UK small businesses through Funding Circle, a global small business loans platform.

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Funding Options to join Starling Bank's in-app marketplace

Award-winning business finance marketplace, Funding Options, will soon be part of Starling Bank’s in-app marketplace for small businesses.

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LendingCrowd appoints Darren Cairns as chief marketing officer

LendingCrowd, Scotland’s only fintech lending platform, based in Edinburgh, has appointed Darren Cairns as the company’s new chief marketing officer (CMO).

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Whirl launches crowdfunding platform

An all-star team of nonprofit, blockchain, and crowdfunding veterans, including Roel Wolfert (Bancor, VISA) and Martijn Hekman (World Vision, United Nations), is thrilled to announce the launch of Whirl, a socially driven crowdfunding platform that's built on the blockchain.

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Tricolor adds AI to improve risk scoring for underserved Hispanic community

Tricolor, the nation’s largest used vehicle retailer focusing on the sale and financing of vehicles to the Hispanic consumer, today announced an exclusive agreement with Phenx Machine Learning Technologies, Inc.,to expand an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered financial services platform serving Hispanic consumers.

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Iwoca names Seema Desai new COO

iwoca, one of Europe’s fastest growing small business lenders, is delighted to announce that Seema Desai has been named Chief Operations Officer (COO).

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Digital lender Credimi secures EUR10 million funding

Continental Europe’s largest-volume digital factoring platform* Credimi has received a 10 million euro capital increase from investment funds United Ventures SGR and Vertis SGR, as well as some of the investors who took part in the first round of 8.5 million euros in September 2015.

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EU parliament agress to lift crowdfunding limits

Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee voted on Monday on its position on common rules on the creation and functioning of European crowdfunding service providers for business.

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PayPal expands business financing programme into Germany

Today, PayPal is expanding its PayPal Working Capital program into Germany with PayPal Businesskredit.

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Draper Esprit leads £8.5 million investment in Crowdcube

Draper Esprit, one of Europe’s leading venture capital firms, has taken a £6 million stake in Crowdcube, the global market leader in equity crowdfunding, to accelerate growth and continue its drive towards profitability in 2019.

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Securities Commission Malaysia to provide guidlines for property crowdfunding

We will be reviewing the details of the proposed structure and our Guidelines on Recognised Markets (RMO Guidelines) to facilitate the establishment of property crowdfunding platforms as announced in Budget 2019.

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Funding Options names Alastair Preacher as chief product officer

Funding Options today announced that Alastair Preacher has joined Funding Options as their new Chief Product Officer.

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Sberbank reports back on ICO financing trial

Sberbank and the National Settlement Depository (NSD) have summed up the results of a test deal to attract financing through an initial coin offering (ICO) using the Bank of Russia’s sandbox.

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Basware e-invoicing goes global

Basware (Nasdaq: BAS1V), the global leader in networked source-to-pay solutions, e-invoicing and innovative financing services, offers a global e-Invoice sending service to enable organisations to send 100% invoices electronically to all their customers – businesses, public sector clients and consumers.

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Funding Circle reports first quarter as a listed company

Funding Circle Holdings plc (“Funding Circle” or the “Company”), the leading small and medium enterprise (“SME”) loans platform in the UK, US, Germany and the Netherlands, today announces updates to its statistics pages for the three months ending 30 September 2018 (the “Quarter”) and selected highlights from the quarter.

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Rabobank venture fund invests in AgTech company ProducePay

Rabo Frontier Ventures (RFV), Rabobank’s strategic investment arm, invested in Agtech company ProducePay.

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Landbay selects Oracle NetSuite to accelerate growth of peer-to-peer mortgage lending

Fast-growing buy-to-let mortgage lender Landbay has chosen Oracle NetSuite to support its goal of creating a more accessible buy-to-let mortgage marketplace for investors, borrowers and brokers.

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Figure Technologies rolls out home equity loan platform

Figure Technologies, Inc. (FigureTM), a FinTech company creating innovative products and tools that empower homeowners to improve their finances, announced today its first product, the Figure Home Equity LoanPLUS.

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Trustly partners with European P2P marketplace Mintos

Trustly, the European payments company, has partnered with Mintos, a global online marketplace for loans which provides retail investors with a way to invest in loans from around the world.

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Social trading app Pelican returns to Seedrs for new funding round

Pelican, the only mobile first, multi-broker network regulated by the FCA, designed for retail traders and investors alike, has announced its latest funding round.

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