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News/ai
On the final day of Money 20/20 Europe 2019 in Amsterdam, Jesse McWaters, financial innovation lead at the World Economic Forum starts the day discussing the interplay of AI, cloud, blockchain and quantum computing, and what happens when it all collides.
05 June 2019
News/Alternative finance
Fintech is mainstream, according to a global survey from EY which finds that financial technology services are used by the majority of people in India, China and the UK, although are considerably less popular in the US, France and Japan.
03 June 2019
Money20/20 Asia 2019 kicked off proceedings in Singapore with Token Day, tackling the hype around blockchain and discussing how the technology is now being driven by real and sustainable value creation.
19 March 2019
News/retail
UK bank NatWest is hoping to help close the entrepreneurship gender gap through the introduction of a female-only crowdfunding programme.
18 March 2019
United Overseas Bank is to run small business trading data from companies transacting over B2B e-commerce platform OctoRocket through an AI-based credit assessment tool to speed up the loan approval process.
28 February 2019
HSBC is teaming up with commercial lending platform Neptune Financial (NepFin) to target middle market businesses in the US in need of capital.
26 February 2019
News/startups
South African challenger bank Sasfin has moved to boost its SME business by buying a stake in local digital lending startup Payabill.
25 February 2019
News/payments
UK small business lender iwoca has raised £150 million in equity and debt capital, including figures from a recent Series D equity round led by Augmentum Fintech.
18 February 2019
UK-based online business finance marketplace Funding Options is launching in the Netherlands with the backing of local bank ING.
04 February 2019
London listed fintech venture fund Augmentum has invested £7.5 million in small business lender iwoca.
24 January 2019
Barclays and Santander InnoVentures have led a £26 million Series B funding round in online invoice financing platform MarketInvoice.
21 January 2019
The ongoing shutdown of the US government, sparked by a disagreement over funding for border security, is starting to impinge on the US fintech industry, according to reports.
11 January 2019
The number of fintechs based in Scotland has increased threefold in the last 12 months following an initiative between government, academia and the finance industry designed to boost the sector.
Mastercard has taken the bold step of removing its name from its logo in a move it says is inspired by the rise of digital banking and a future where there will be less reliance on card payments.
10 January 2019
Rabobank is partnering with Nxchange to provide small and medium sized business with access to a tradable bond platform for loan financing.
03 December 2018
Financial regulators in Japan and Singapore have given a green light to UK-based fintech Revolut and its bid to expand in Asia Pacific
29 November 2018
UK challenger bank Monzo is going back to the crowdfunding well, seeking up to £20 million from ordinary punters to top up a more traditional recent £85 million funding round.
26 November 2018
The UK alternative finance market grew by 35% to £6.2 billion in 2017, with P2P and crowdfunding accounting for 30% of all deals, according to a report by Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance.
23 November 2018
In an interview with Finextra, N26’s head of international markets Alex Weber reveals that in the event of a no deal Brexit, the German challenger bank will continue to offer the same Mastercard exchange rates as it currently does, despite the potential dissolution of the cross-border payment fee cap.
12 November 2018
Zopa has topped up its latest funding round, which has closed out at £60 million, giving the peer-to-peer lending pioneer a war chest for the upcoming launch of its digital challenger bank.
08 November 2018
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