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News/startups
The first half of 2021 has seen London-based fintechs raise more money in venture capital (VC) investment than any previous year.
08 July 2021
News/payments
EBAday 2021 has flown by, and the sessions throughout day three of the event served to build on the momentum from day one and two. Another punchy strategic roundtable addressed the need for industry-wide collaboration to drive payments innovation, while two boisterous chatrooms tackled the weighty subjects of Open Banking, CBDCs and stablecoins.
30 June 2021
News/cloud
With Covid-19 leading to an uptick in digital banking, nearly two thirds of industry executives from around the world think that the branch-based model will be dead within five years, according to an Economist Intelligence Unit survey.
29 June 2021
Setting multiple records on Crowdcube, Curve has closed the largest equity raise on the platform, sourcing nearly £10m in funding from 11,795 investors in 54 hours to support the rollout of the Curve OS platform in the US and the launch of Curve Credit in the UK and Europe.
28 May 2021
News/regulation
In a ‘Dear CEO’ Letter sent out by the FCA yesterday, the regulator called on UK electronic money institutions (EMIs) to ensure their customers understand how their money is protected.
19 May 2021
Hours after Twitter announced the new money transfer feature Tip Jar, early testers took to the social media platform to air their concerns over addresses being included in PayPal receipts.
07 May 2021
France's competition watchdog has warned of the dangers posed by the encroachment of Big Tech firms into the payments sector.
30 April 2021
News/crypto
Multi-asset investment platform eToro has today announced the launch of a new thematic portfolio – BitcoinWorldWide. Based on the companies in the value chain behind bitcoin, the portfolio is intended to further catalyse adoption of the booming cryptocurrency.
26 April 2021
Having registered revenues reflecting $300 million annually for the first three months of 2021, Israel-based startup Pagaya is allegedly planning to enter Wall Street at $8 billion, as well as execute a traditional IPO.
23 April 2021
Co-founder and head of client delivery of RegTech Associates, Dr Sian Lewin has urged the financial community to stop thinking of regulators simply as “powerful organisations, here to control our behaviour, and stop us from doing certain things in the name of public interest.”
22 April 2021
News/retail
Revolut is preparing a new fundraising round that would value the digital banking app at between $10 billion and $15 billion, according to Sky News.
19 April 2021
News/crime
In June 2020, the FCA acted overnight to freeze customer accounts across UK fintech firms including Curve, Pockit, Soldo, Anna Money and Holvi, after Wirecard Card Solution’s (WCS) parent company filed for insolvency in Germany.
15 April 2021
News/people
According to Forbes, a new billionaire was minted every 17 hours in 2020.
08 April 2021
BBVA has today announced that it will be the first bank in Europe to deploy Google Cloud’s security analytics platform Chronicle and will use AI and machine learning to predict and prevent cyberattacks.
23 February 2021
Finextra is at Davos this year, covering global insights into the impact fintech has on wider issues such as responding to Covid-19, restoring economic growth and advancing a new social contract.
26 January 2021
News/sustainable
25 January 2021
Consumer expectations, behaviour and payment preferences are and will continue to evolve at an accelerated rate.
07 January 2021
Cloud adoption for financial services firms has been on the rise over the past few years - a trend that has been further bolstered by the wave of digitisation brought on by the global pandemic.
11 December 2020
Online money transfer firm TransferWise plans to add 750 jobs over the next six months, equivalent to more than a third of its current workforce.
09 December 2020
The vast majority of banks (94%) believe that the Covid-19 pandemic has turned the payments market into a technology arms race for which they are unprepared.
07 December 2020
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