Alternative finance

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Wayflyer renews existing $300mn debt line from JPMorgan

Wayflyer, the revenue-based financing and growth platform for eCommerce businesses, has today announced a renewed funding line from global financial services leader J.P. Morgan.

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Spanish fintech ID Finance launches crowdfunding campaign

Spanish alternative lending platform ID Finance has launched a crowdfunding campaign, offering existing shareholders and clients as well as European retail investors the opportunity to participate in its recently closed €30 million equity round.

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Mastercard selects Start Path Small Business cohort

Five startups join inaugural Mastercard Start Path Small Business cohort to uncover joint innovation opportunities and scale solutions that drive simple, secure digital experiences for SMEs globally.

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Universal Partners to offer clients digital invoice and trade finance via Muse Finance

Universal Partners, a leading FCA-regulated, cross-border payment and foreign exchange specialist for businesses, today announced a strategic partnership with embedded finance fintech Muse Finance to offer clients digital invoice and trade finance.

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Jifiti launches embedded lending platform with FIS

Jifiti, a multinational embedded lending technology company, today announced that they have signed an agreement to launch an embedded lending solution with FIS (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in financial services technology.

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Teya teams with Liberis for merchant financing

Teya, the customer-centric operating system and financial service provider for merchants in Europe, has today announced its partnership with Liberis, the UK’s leading embedded finance platform.

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CFPB warns consumers about non-insured payments apps

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has warned users of non-bank payment apps that their accounts are not protected by federal deposit insurance coverage.

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SME Finance enters Dutch market

SME Finance, the fintech reinventing growth financing for small- and medium-sized enterprises, announces today its expansion into the Netherlands.

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Securities Commission Malaysis seeks to boost agri sector via fintech

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) is encouraging wider adoption of financial technology (fintech) in agriculture in order to help in achieving the country’s food security agenda.

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Plastiq files for bankruptcy; agrees acquisition deal with Priority

Plastiq, a US B2B payments firm for SMEs, has filed for bankruptcy and entered into a stalking horse agreement to have its assets acquired by unified commerce platform Priority Technology.

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Muse names ex-NatWest exec Julie Ashmore COO

Working capital business finance provider Muse Financial has brought in former NatWest executive Julie Ashmore as COO.

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LATAM fintech Clara raises $60m

Clara, the leading end-to-end spend management solution for companies in Latin America, today announced that it has closed $60M USD ​ in an equity financing round led by GGV Capital. In addition, GGV Managing Partner Hans Tung will join the company’s Board of Directors.

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New lenders meet growing demand for consumer loans in 2022

Research from Freedom Finance, one of the UK’s leading digital borrowing marketplaces, reveals the leading challengers and neobanks added over £1.5bn of capacity to the UK’s unsecured personal loan market in 2022.

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Malta-based startup Andaria arrives in the UK

High growth sectors of the British economy have to navigate a minefield when it comes to opening a simple business current account.

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Triver raises £7 million to provide SMEs with instant capital

Triver, a London-based startup that uses open banking data and AI to provide short-term working capital to SMEs, has raised £7 million in seed funding.

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Liberis taps DNA Payments data to offer pre-approved funding to merchant customers

In a continued expansion within the SME market, leading embedded finance provider, Liberis, has today announced that they will be working with DNA Payments.

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Singapore-headquartered finbots.ai secures first client in Australia

Accel-backed finbots.ai, a Singapore headquartered B2B SaaS FinTech today announced signing Argenic - a growth stage Australian FinTech providing a suite of financial solutions for SMEs - as their latest client.

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Factris lands €50 million funding line from Aegon Asset Management

Having just reached the milestone of financing €1 billion in invoices in Q1 of 2023, the Amsterdam-based fintech Factris has received further momentum thanks to a €50 million funding line from global investment business Aegon Asset Management (Aegon AM) in April 2023.

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Moni unveils new community-powered business loans for African SMEs

Moni, a digital platform that leverages social trust and group responsibility to deliver financial services in Africa, has launched a new range of business loans that enables market traders, spare part dealers, textile traders and other small business owners in Africa to take advantage of the power of their communities to access the working capital they need to run and scale their businesses.

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Climate Tech lender HeavyFinance closes €3 million seed funding round

HeavyFinance, a climate tech investment marketplace for the agricultural industry, has successfully raised €3 million during its seed funding round, led by VC firm Practica Capital.