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Amazon Business now claims 90,000 customers in UK

Amazon today announced that Amazon Business has launched a new set of features designed to better serve the procurement needs of businesses of all sizes.

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BNP Paribas collaborates with Tungsten on supply chain financing

Tungsten Network will collaborate with BNP Paribas to offer e-invoicing linked Receivables Purchase and e-invoicing linked Supply Chain Finance (e-SCF) to large corporates in the USA and Canada.

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NZ regulator issues P2P, crowdfunding stats

The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) today published its first statistical reporton peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding in New Zealand.

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Scalable Capital hits €500 million in assets

Just 22 months after its launch in Germany and 16 months after the launch in the UK, digital wealth manager Scalable Capital manages over 500 million euros of investments for more than 15,000 clients.

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ArchOver surpasses £50 million lending milestone

ArchOver, the peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending platform, has facilitated over £50 million of lending with no losses or late payments.

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Credit Sesame scores $42 million in funding

Credit Sesame, a fast-growing, personalized credit service and financial wellness company, announced today it has raised over $42 million in equity and venture debt.

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HSBC introduces matched electronic purchase order financing

HSBC, the world’s leading trade bank, has introduced a Matched electronic Purchase Order (Me-PO) financing solution to dramatically improve the release of working capital.

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Falcon Group cements Sydney presence with permanent base

Falcon Group, one of the world’s largest trade and corporate finance specialists, has today announced its move to a new permanent office in the heart of Sydney’s Central Business District (CBD) – reaffirming their commitment to specialist financing in the Australian and New Zealand region.

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B2B commercial financing startup Compeon closes EUR12 million Series B investment round

COMPEON, German market leader among digital platforms for commercial financing, has received 12 million euro from its existing investors in a Series B financing.

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US to raise crowdfunding ceiling to $5 million in regulatory shake-up

Today the U.S. Department of the Treasury released a report detailing how to streamline and reform the U.S. regulatory system for the capital markets.

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Navient acquires online student lender Earnest for $155 m,illion

Navient, a leading provider of asset management and business processing solutions, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Earnest, a leading financial technology and education finance company.

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Julian Cassen joins MarketInvoice from RBS Invoice Finance

Business finance company MarketInvoice, has today announced the appointment of Julian Cassen as Senior Business Development Manager.

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Singapore crowd-funding platform launches chatbot

Funding Societies, Singapore’s and Southeast Asia’s leading crowdfunding platform, has announced the launch of its chatbot Miyu.

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FinEx Asia closes $50 million investment in Prosper Marketplace

FinEX Asia is pleased to announce that its private equity fund manager closed an investment of US$50 million in Prosper Marketplace, a U.S. online marketplace lending platform for consumer loans.

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UK businesses turning to alternative finance

Business finance company MarketInvoice conducted a survey of UK businesses on their awareness and adoption of fintech (financial technology) products and services.

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Australia ranked as the second largest alternative finance market in the Asia Pacific

New research showing Australia has risen to become the second largest alternative finance market in the Asia Pacific sends a strong signal to the world about the underlying strength of Australia’s fintech and business environment.

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Colnvestor partners with leading cohort of fund managers ahead of peak tax season

CoInvestor, the alternative assets platform, has partnered with five major fund managers in the run-up to the height of the tax season.

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BMW invites startups to join Innovation Lab

BMW Group UK has announced the launch of the BMW Innovation Lab 2018. The new programme builds upon the success of the inaugural Lab in 2016, which saw four out of five incubated startups succeed in building ongoing relationships with the company’s UK commercial operations.

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Russian lending startup SimpleFinance wins investment from SBI fintech fund

SF Holdings Company Plc, parent of MCC SimpleFinance LLC (“SimpleFinance” or the “Company”), a Russian fintech company providing accessible lending to small and medium-sized business, has completed its debut equity fundraising, with an investment from the SBI FinTech Business Innovation Fund LPS (the “SBI FinTech Fund” or the “Fund”).

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FinTech Australia hails equity crowdfunding rule changes

FinTech Australia has welcomed significant changes to draft legislation allowing private companies to crowdfund equity, which will ensure investors are protected while at the same time delivering reduced costs and red tape for companies.