Latest Personal finance News: Finextra Research

Nutmeg hits £3bn in assets after record growth

Digital wealth manager Nutmeg has announced that it has surpassed £3 billion in assets under management following a record 72% year-on-year growth.

27 April 2021

News/startups

Neobank 11Onze builds private social network for customers

Catalonia digital community bank 11Onze has launched its own money-focused, Facebook-like private social network for customers.

26 April 2021

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‘Massive’ potential for embedded finance in Europe - Solarisbank

Research by Solarisbank and the Handelsblatt Research Institute has found considerable conversion potential for e-commerce providers to offer financial services in Germany, confirming the significant opportunity embedded finance may hold across Europe.

26 April 2021

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Till raises $5m for kids' banking platform

With more than $5 million in funding in place, Till Financial has launched its collaborative family banking platform designed to help kids manage their money.

26 April 2021

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Santander launches savings and investment calculator

The UK arm of Santander has added a free savings and investment calculator to its website to help customers compare the potential returns on their money.

17 March 2021

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M1 Finance raises $75m

M1 Finance has raised $75 million in a Series D funding round for its "super app" offering automated investing, borrowing and banking products.

09 March 2021

News/inclusion

IWD 2021: No more talking, it's time for action on female representation in fintech

2020 may have been a year of challenge, but it proved that above all else, digital resilience will remain foundational, not only to female financial inclusion, but to female representation across the fintech sector.

08 March 2021

News/startups

UBS invests in student loan repayment platform FutureFuel.io

UBS has led a $10 million Series A1 funding round for San Francisco-based student loan repayment platform FutureFuel.io.

04 March 2021

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Financial health startup SeedFi raises $65m

SeedFi, a startup promising to help Americans build their credit and savings, has raised $15 million in equity and $50 million in debt.

17 February 2021

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Goldman Sachs adds investing feature to Marcus

Goldman Sachs has added an automated investing feature to Marcus, its online retail banking service.

16 February 2021

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Personetics raises $75m for AI-driven customer engagement platform

Personetics, a fintech that uses AI to help financial institutions boost customer personalisation and engagement, has secured a $75 million investment from Warburg Pincus.

16 February 2021

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Dozens inks Open Banking deal with Bud

UK challenger banking app Dozens has enlisted Open Banking outfit Bud to let prospective customers access some of its services without having to fully sign up.

28 January 2021

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Fintech Albert raises $100m

American mobile banking, saving and investing app Albert has raised $100 million in a Series C funding round led by General Atlantic.

26 January 2021

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Quirk raises £300k for personality-based money management app

Quirk, a personal finance app that helps young professionals manage their money according to their personality, has raised £300,000 in pre-seed funding from SFC Capital and angel investors.

21 January 2021

News/payments

Budgeting apps can encourage users to overspend rather than save

Research conducted by Think Forward Initiative and Eller College of Management, University of Arizona has found that contrary to popular belief, budgeting apps have been shown to have the opposite result, and in reality drive overspending.

14 January 2021

News/payments

CES 2021: Stripe and Plaid reveal Covid-19 ‘pressed fast forward’ on digital payments acceptance

As Andrew B. Morris from The Fintech Agenda, LLC highlights at CES 2021, the dark clouds of Covid-19 had a silver lining for the fintech industry. Unicorns Stripe and Plaid supported the global shift to a contactless economy, helping businesses deliver products and services to consumers who had collectively formed new daily habits for everything. Ginger Baker and Erika Wool explain what's next for the payments giants.

13 January 2021

News/startups

Tony Hawk joins $65m funding round for social investing app Public

Commission-free social investing app Public has closed a $65 million Series C funding round led by Accel and joined by skateboarding legend Tony Hawk.

16 December 2020

News/startups

Credit building startup Self raises $40m

Self Financial, a fintech startup promising to help Americans build their credit while also saving money, has raised $40 million in a Series D funding round led by Meritech Capital.

15 December 2020

News/retail

Cleo raises $44m for money management bot

After closing a $44 million funding round, British AI-based personal finance chatbot Cleo is turning the tables on its users and asking them how it should spend its money.

11 December 2020

News/inclusion

Kenya central bank governor: ‘Regulators should be the most innovative people of all’

In a virtual fireside discussion during Singapore Fintech Festival 2020, Patrick Njoroge, Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya argued that regulators must use their convening power to bring people and innovators together, this would change the dynamic between innovators and the regulators themselves to improve the journey toward digital transformation.

09 December 2020