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Freetrade crowdfunds £4.5m

Commission-free stockbroking app Freetrade has raised £4.5 million from more than 5000 people in just four hours, using crowdfunding platform Crowdcube.

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Featurespace raises £30 million to fight financial crime

Financial fraud fighting outfit Featurespace has raised £30 million from a funding round led by Merian Chrysalis Investment and supported by existing investors.

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Climate change to the fore as Clim8 smashes crowdfunding target

Ethical investment app Clim8 has smashed through its pre-launch crowdfunding target, reaching £1.35 million from 1200 investors

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Judo Bank achieves Unicorn status on $230 million fund raise

Judo Bank, an Australian neobank for SMEs, has joined the Unicorn club after closing a third round capital raise of $230 million from existing investors.

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Smart receipt app Slyp wins CBA backing

Digital receipt startup Slyp has become the first fintech to count each of Australia's big four banks as shareholders and strategic partners after signing a deal with Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

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Banked moves out of beta to take on Visa and Mastercard

Account-to-account payments startup Banked has moved out of public beta after securing £2.35 million in seed funding.

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Bank API developer Treasury Prime lands $9 million in funding

Treasury Prime, a US startup that provides banks and fintechs with an API overlay for legacy infrastructure, has raised $9m in a Series A funding round.

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Visa and Bank BRI invest in Nium

Visa and BRI Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Bank BRI of Indonesia, have invested an undisclosed amount in cross-border money transfer operator Nium.

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Cash deposit marketplace Flagstone raises £12m

London-based cash deposit marketplace operator Flagstone has raised £12m in venture capital in a round led by Omers Ventures and supported by existing investors including Kindred Capital and Moneysupermarket Group

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Hong Kong's Oriente scores $50 million in funding

Hong Kong-headquartered merchant and consumer credit financing platform Oriente has has secured a fresh capital injection of approximately $50 million in its on-going Series B funding round.

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Accounts payable firm AvidXchange raises $128 million

Seeking to disrupt the traditional accounts payable industry, US-based AvidXchange has raised an additional $128 million in equity capital.

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Chip wins over the crowd as changing user behaviour spurs growth

Smart savings app Chip has completed the UK's largest equity crowdfund since the lockdown started, with over 4,000 investors taking part in the £2.6 million raise.

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DNB and Danske Bank top up investment in Nordic API Gateway

DNB and Danske Bank have invested a further EUR4.6 million in Spiir, the Danish financial app as it prepares for a full-scale launch of its Nordic API Gateway subsidiary in Europe.

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BioCatch completes $145 million Series C

Israeli behavioral biometrics company BioCatch has completed a $145 million Series C investment led by Bain Capital Tech Opportunities, with participation from existing investors American Express and CreditEase among others.

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Trade Republic raises EUR62 million

Mobile investing app Trade Republic has raised a €62 million Series B round led by Accel and Founders Fund, to further the development of a European platform for mobile saving, investing, and trading.

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ANZ venture arm joins $160 million round in Airwallex

Melbourne-based Airwallex has raised a Series D round of $160M, its largest to date, with participation from a group of new investors, including ANZi Ventures - the corporate venture arm of ANZ - and Salesforce Ventures, and several existing investors, including DST Global, Tencent, Sequoia Capital China, Hillhouse Capital and Horizons Ventures

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Previse raises $11 million to help businesses get paid faster

Invoice financing platform Previse has raised $11 million in a funding round led by Reefknot Investments and Mastercard, with participation from existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Hambro Perks and Augmentum Fintech.

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Credit Kudos scoops £5 million in Series A funding

Challenger credit bureau Credit Kudos has raised £5 million in a funding round led by Albion VC.

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SoftPOS provider Phos raises EUR1.3 million

Phos, the UK fintech that turns Android handsets into mobile point-of-sale terminals, has raised EUR1.3 million in funding.

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Sila raises $7.7 million to make ACH payments programmable

Sila, the banking and API payment platform set up by former Simple co-founder Shamir Karkal, has closed a $7.7 million seed funding round.