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Mypinpad raises £15 million

Level39 member MYPINPAD has announced that it has closed a £15m series B investment round facilitated by the company’s long-term advisor, Asia Principal Capital.

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Monzo achieves Unicorn status

App-based banking startup Monzo is joining the Unicorn club on the back of a new £85 million funding round that values the three-year old banking newcomer at over £1 billion

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Amex Ventures invests in API integration vendor Cloud Elements

Cloud Elements, the leading API integration platform for digital products, announced today that it has raised a new funding round from American Express Ventures, the strategic investment group within American Express.

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Six largest Canadian banks increase stake in CanDeal

CanDeal, the leading institutional electronic marketplace for Canadian bond, money market, and derivatives trading, has announced an ownership restructuring under which each of Canada’s six leading banks increased its stake in the marketplace.

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Coinbase raises $300m at $8bn valuation

Coinbase has raised $300 million in a Series E funding round led by Tiger Global Management, giving the cryptocurrency exchange a valuation of more than $8 billion.

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TransferGo turns to Seedrs for EUR11.5 million crowdfunding round

Remittance outfit TransferGo is to run a EUR11.5 million equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs.

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European mobile payment outfit Bluecode receives growth capital investment of €11.2 million

Bluecode, a mobile payment solution developed in Austria for European banks and retailers, has recently announced a partnership with Alipay, the world’s largest payment platform by Alibaba, the Chinese internet giant.

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Halal online investment platform Wahed raises £6 million

Wahed Invest (“Wahed”), the UK’s first halal online investment platform, has raised an additional £6m this year from existing investors to expand the reach of its global savings solution.

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Ingenico issues profit warning: mulls 'strategic options'

Ingenico Group (Euronext: FR0000125346 - ING), the global leader in seamless payment, today announced its revenue for the third quarter of 2018.

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Hong Kong's Neat scores $3 million in fresh funding

Hong Kong-based neo-bank Neat has secured $3 million in fresh funding as it makes a play for Chinese business startups incorporating in Hong Kong.

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Citi Ventures invests in Ondot

Citi Ventures has made an undisclosed strategic investment in Ondot, a supplier of white label and API-based services for enriching mobile banking apps.

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Singapore FinTech Festival attracts US$12 billion of capital for Asean enterprises

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today that 380 participating investors who enrolled for the Singapore FinTech Festival’s deal-making platform, MATCH, have indicated intentions to invest up to a total of US$6.2 billion in ASEAN enterprises next year, and an additional US$6 billion earmarked over the subsequent two years.

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IraLogix raises $5 million

iraLogix, Inc. announces that it has completed a $5 million Series A financing led by Integrated Retirement Initiatives with participation from Riverfront Ventures and other strategic investors.

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QRails bags $7 million from prominent angel investors

Cloud-based payment processing startup QRails has secured $7 million in funding from a group of heavyweight angel investors, including Gary Hoffman, chairman of Hastings Insurance, former CEO of Barclaycard and board member at Visa, Jonathan Hughes, previously a senior executive at Worldpay, and Alan Morgan of Adfisco.

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PayPal posts strong quarter

Earlier today, PayPal released the financial and operating results from our third quarter.

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Sopra Steria adjusts earnings guidance downwards as banking business underperforms

Sopra Steria has adjusted its 2018 full-year earnings forecast. Data for the third quarter of 2018 are still provisional and will be published in detail, as planned, on 26 October 2018.

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Funding Circle reports first quarter as a listed company

Funding Circle Holdings plc (“Funding Circle” or the “Company”), the leading small and medium enterprise (“SME”) loans platform in the UK, US, Germany and the Netherlands, today announces updates to its statistics pages for the three months ending 30 September 2018 (the “Quarter”) and selected highlights from the quarter.

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London Stock Exchange buys a further chunk of LCH

The London Stock Exchange is to lift its stake in LCH Group to 80%, paying £384 million for an additional 15.1% interest in the clearing house.

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Goldman Sachs invests in BitGo

Goldman Sachs and an investment firm set up by billionaire Michael Novogratz have invested in BitGo, a startup promising to help institutional investors securely store their cryptocurrency.

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Former Alior Bank and Alfa Bank chiefs set up $500 million fintech fund

Two former banking executives have launched a $500 million fintech fund to invest in late-stage companies that are driving innovation and disruption in banking.