Alternative finance

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/cloud

White Oak chooses Provenir Cloud to underpin business lending

Provenir supports independent business lender White Oak with cloud-based risk analytics platform to power its business lending credit decisioning process.

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Funding Societies and Razer Fintech partner to provide short-term financing to SMEs

Funding Societies, the largest digital financing platform in Southeast Asia, and Razer Fintech, the fintech arm of Razer and a leading offline-to-online (O2O) digital payment network, have jointly announced their partnership to offer short-term business financing to merchants under Razer Merchant Services (RMS).

/crypto

Crypto exchange Gemini launches in UK

Gemini today announced it is expanding fully into the United Kingdom (UK), providing individuals and institutions with simple, reliable, and secure cryptocurrency exchange and custody services in pounds sterling (GBP).

/retail

MarketFinance scores £10m from BCR

Fintech business lender MarketFinance has been awarded a £10m grant from the Capability and Innovation Fund (CIF), announced today by Banking Competition Remedies Ltd (BCR). The grant will be used to bring more choice and competition to the business lending industry

/startups

UK's Tech Nation announces latest fintech cohort

Thirty one UK scaleups have been selected to participate in the third cohort of Tech Nation's fintech programme.

/covid-19

ClearBank and Tide granted £25m to aid SMEs recovery

ClearBank, the cloud-native clearing bank, in partnership with Tide, the UK’s leading business banking platform[1], have been awarded £25m to help UK SMEs turn recovery from the coronavirus crisis into a growth opportunity.

/retail

Digital credit platform in fundraising effort

Collaborative financing platform mozzeno raised € 3,000,000 from its existing and new shareholders.

/inclusion

TotallyMoney launches app for better borrowing behaviour

Scale-up FinTech TotallyMoney has launched a new and exclusive app-only feature to help their three million customers gain a greater understanding of their borrowing behaviour and make better financial decisions.

/crypto

Investors to increase allocation to crypto assets

The growing number of startups offering crypto investment services will be buoyed by news that institutional investors are set to increase the amount of capital they spend on crypto assets.

/inclusion

Finastra to prioritise tackling financial exclusion and SME funding issues

As part of its accelerated innovation mission and open cloud platform strategy, Finastra has set forth a plan to support nine million lives around the world and focus on resolving the SME funding gap, inequality in financial services and financial exclusion.

/wholesale

Factris closes €5 million Series A

Amsterdam-based fintech Factris has concluded a €5 million Series-A equity funding round led by AB Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of the Arab Bank.

/payments

Factris and NN Investment Partners agree on European financing agreement

Fintech company Factris has closed a new EUR 50m secured financing agreement with asset manager NN Investment Partners (NN IP).

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BlueVine secures $75 million revolving credit facility with Atalaya Capital Management

BlueVine, the leading provider of small business banking, today announced it has secured a $75 million revolving credit facility from funds managed by Atalaya Capital Management, a private credit and special opportunities investment manager based in New York.

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MarketFinance banks £50m as it ramps CBILS support for SMEs as deadline looms

Fintech business lender MarketFinance has secured an additional £50m from one of Israel’s largest asset managers, Viola Credit, to lend to UK SMEs under the HM Treasury and British Business Bank CBILS initiative.

/retail

German loan marketplace auxmoney raises €150 million

German peer-to-peer lender auxmoney has raised a mammoth €150 million in growth capital in an investment round led by Centrebridge Partners.

/sustainable

UN Secretary-General: Digital finance is the optimal channel to deliver long-term financing of SDGs

The UN Secretary-General’s Task Force on Digital Finance has today launched an Action Agenda that justifies how harnessing digitalisation can empower citizens to be in control of their finances. This will in turn ultimately align with the needs collectively manifested in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Alipay Ant Forest, the catalyst for enabling citizen action towards carbon reduction

According to the Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA), by introducing nudging and incentives on digital platforms, there is potential for substantial behavioural change among digitally-savvy consumers. This can act as a springboard for scalable global climate change mitigation and reduce 8.6% of emissions from public transport.

/retail

Iwoca taps UK's Future Fund scheme

iwoca, one of Europe’s largest small business lenders, has secured funding via the government Future Fund scheme.

/wholesale

Envoy Group appoints new advisors

Envoy Group has appointed three new advisors to its team as it approaches the pilot phase of its trade finance platform and the launch of the NVOY token. Each advisor comes from the world of commercial banking or a Fortune 100 company, bringing valuable experience and energy with them.

/startups

Discerning the impact of Covid-19 on fintech firms and their role in financial inclusion

While the fintech industry is still evolving, the evidence so far indicates that it has a key role to play in financial inclusion, according to Ana Fiorella Carvajal, lead financial sector expert at World Bank. This role comprises not just the provision of basic services, such as payments mechanisms, but more recently also the provision of financing to consumers and SMEs.