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News/regulation
Online lender SoFi has applied for a national bank charter with the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
09 July 2020
News/payments
Ping An and JPMorgan are to join a $60 million financing round in supply chain finance outfit Taulia, according to the Wall Street Journal.
News/startups
Wagestream, a UK startup that lets customers draw down their 'earned income' at any time during the pay cycle, has raised £20 million in a Series B funding round led by Northzone.
08 July 2020
When discussing the amorphous nature of fintech, Tania Ziegler, the CCAF’s Global Benchmarking lead was struck by how ‘fintech’ is increasingly used as an all-encompassing term, describing a diverse range of organisations that all have financial technology at the centre of their operations and agenda.
02 July 2020
News/cloud
Pipe Technologies has raised $60 million in equity and asset financing to support the growth of its SaaS financing platform.
24 June 2020
News/sustainable
With wildfires, the Covid-19 pandemic, the strengthening Black Lives Matter movement and the Yemen crisis dominating headlines in 2020, the sustainable investing space has seen demand despite the IMF’s projection that global growth will fall by 3% this year, resulting in the worst recession since the Great Depression and consequences far worse than the global financial crisis.
19 June 2020
News/retail
Santander InnoVentures has led a $40 million Series D investment round in Upgrade, the consumer credit platform that is moving into mobile banking.
17 June 2020
Greensill, a UK-based supplier of alternative supply chain finance, is targeting the Latin American market following the acquisition of Colombian SME digital lender Omni.
16 June 2020
Targeting 15,000 fintech firms worldwide, the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) announced it has partnered with the World Bank Group and the World Economic Forum to survey industry players and compile data about Covid-19’s impact on the marketplace.
15 June 2020
News/covid-19
Metro Bank has confirmed that it is in exclusive talks to buy the UK's biggest P2P lender RateSetter.
Built for Mars’ Peter Ramsay has released the fourth instalment of the now sought-after ‘UX for banking’ series where he reviews 12 UK-based banks and reveals whether the experience of opening an account, making a payment or freezing a card is slicker and quicker when banking with the digital challengers.
11 June 2020
US multi-lender Point-of-Sale financing platform ChargeAfter has secured an investment from the venture capital arm of Japanese financial services giant MUFG.
10 June 2020
News/crypto
Swiss crypto bank Seba has sought to address the potential skills gap in emerging technology by launching a blockchain-themed university education course.
05 June 2020
The venture capital arm of Banco Santander has led a $5 million round in a55, an alternative lender to SMEs is Brazil and Mexico.
28 May 2020
Involving the alternative lending sector is the key to addressing the problem of distributing government loans and other support to businesses struggling as a result of the Coronavirus lockdown, according to the founder of ClearBank and RTGS Global Nick Ogden.
14 May 2020
Singapore-based SME financing platform Validus has raised over US$14 million, with US$20 million in committed capital, in an ongoing Series B+ financing round.
12 May 2020
The UK's biggest P2P lender RateSetter has slashed the interest rate paid to investors by 50% as it prepares for a wave of defaults under Covid-19.
05 May 2020
In conversation with Finextra TV, Antony Jenkins, founder and executive chairman of 10x Future Technologies and former Barclays CEO, highlights that the single most important factor in the push toward sustainability is transparency.
27 April 2020
Payment moratoria will weaken European non-bank lenders' operating cash flows in the short term but the ultimate impact on liquidity will depend on the speed and scope of payment holiday applications, Fitch Ratings says.
22 April 2020
News/inclusion
Speaking at Innovate Finance’s virtual panel for UK Fintech Week 2020, Alicia Levine, COO, Chipper Cash, believes that now is the time for regulators to step up and provide fintech companies with a clear path toward regulated activity.
21 April 2020
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