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News/startups
UK online mortgage broker Mojo Mortgages has raised £7 million in a Series A funding round joined by NVM Private Equity and Maven Capital Partners.
13 February 2019
Nav, a business financial management app that helps small firms get better financing by giving them free access to credit reports, has raised $44.8 million in a Series C funding round led by Goldman Sachs and joined by Experian Ventures.
12 February 2019
Company update/regulation
Chainalysis, the leading provider of cryptocurrency compliance and investigation solutions, has secured a $30M Series B financing led by Accel.
UK fintech investment increased by 18% to $3.3 billion in 2018, retaining the country's top three profile for deal-making behind the US and China.
Company update/Findex
SPiCE VC, the world’s first fully tokenised venture capital fund, today announced its latest strategic investment, taking a stake in Archax – the forthcoming institutional digital securities exchange based in London.
11 February 2019
News/ai
Propel Venture Partners, BBVA’s San Francisco based venture capital investment vehicle, has co-led a $5.2 million funding round into London-based DataSine, which blends psychology with machine learning to create highly individualised marketing campaigns.
08 February 2019
News/Findex
UK challenger bank OakNorth has closed a $440 million funding round with the SoftBank Vision Fund and the Clermont Group as it sets sights on building out its international franchise.
Swedish PFM platform Tink has completed a a €56 million investment round and rolled its business out to five new European markets as it prepares to take advantage of Open Banking rules.
07 February 2019
With fintech investment reaching record highs in 2018, the market is poised to enter a maturity phase characterised by a rash of IPOs and M&A consolidation, believes boutique advisor Hampleton Partners.
06 February 2019
Pan-European savings marketplace Raisin has closed a $114 million Series D funding round, earmarking the cash for strategic acquisitions and further international expansion.
Open Banking outfit Bud has raised $20 million with the support of Goldman Sachs, HSBC, ANZ, Banco Sabadell and Investec, as well as Lord Fink, the former chief executive of hedge fund Man Group, and 9Yards Capital.
04 February 2019
JPMorgan has taken a minority stake in UK workplace pension provider Smart Pension.
TRM is a RegTech startup addressing one of the biggest challenges facing the cryptocurrency industry today: compliance.
31 January 2019
CloseCross, a multi-party, decentralized derivatives trading platform in beta, has opened its investment round with $3 million USD backed by Amnis Ventures, a privately owned venture fund based in Houston, Texas. The investment puts CloseCross at a post-money valuation of $60 million USD.
30 January 2019
One of Asia’s leading fintech companies has invested £2 million into the development of a UK-based trading platform, demonstrating confidence in a post-Brexit Britain.
IHS Markit has taken a minority stake in blockchain-based post-trade processing network Cobalt, embedding its MarkitSERV operation deeper into currency trading back offices.
Petal, a US credit card startup that is ditching traditional credit scores in an effort to sign up young people and the underbanked, has closed a $30 million Series B funding round led by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures.
29 January 2019
CULedger, a consortium of American credit unions exploring potential use cases for distributed ledger technology, has hit its $10 million Series A funding round target.
Savings and investing app Acorns has raised $105 million in a Series E funding round joined by NBCUniversal that will also see the entertainment giant's business news TV channel CNBC create financial literacy content for the startup.
28 January 2019
UK-based anti-fraud behavioural analytics firm Featurespace has raised a £25 million funding round led by New York VC Insight Venture Partners and MissionOG.
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