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The latest initiative in Cable’s crusade for UK SME lending looks to take the risk away from the high street banks and place it on the Government. This will be achieved by guaranteeing challenger banks’ loans to small businesses, that the high street banks don’t want to lend to, in order to stimulate the economy. The programme would enable smaller...
06 October 2014 /startups
Paramdeep Singh Manager - Fin. Services Business Solutions at HCL Tech
When was the last time you clicked “Forgot Password” to recover the password for a dormant account on some mail server, blog, social networking site etc.? I think the days are not far when you won’t even get a chance to see “Forgot Password” on most of the websites. The advancement made with the use of technology in the field of authentication is ...
26 September 2014 /startups
Y Combinator puts out an RFS (request for startups) Y Combinator, the big fish in the accelerator pond, has put out a request in the form of a blog post. They want to ignite the spark in entrepreneurs’ minds with a few suggestions. Requests include: A startup with the potential to create a million jobs, a startup that will solve America’s broken h...
17 September 2014 /startups
“Back in the 1960s when they were landing on the moon, everyone came together, it wasn’t the U.S. landing on the moon, it was mankind” says James Tuckett, founder and MD of investUP (or just UP), the ‘world’s first crowdfunding supermarket’. It’s an aggregator, a central access point, a platform to give you control over the plethora of debt and equ...
16 September 2014 /wholesale /startups Future Finance
"We have a global ambition...we're here to get something done and change the world" Very few would argue that electronic invoicing is the sexiest thing in fintech. It can't match the retail appeal of consumer payments nor does it have the rebellious disposition of virtual currencies - e-invoicing has been around for decades and its evolut...
08 September 2014 /wholesale /startups
The world’s startup hotspots An infographic produced by The Currency Cloud visualises the most popular startup markets around the world. 1st place goes to Silicon Valley, no surprise. 2nd place Tel Aviv. Highlights include a city where the average age of the entrepreneur is 27.9 and a city where 18% of the tech entrepreneurs are female. Accelerato...
08 September 2014 /startups
“One of the biggest questions we asked ourselves was ‘What’s after M-Pesa?’ What’s the next step?” Says M-Changa CTO, David Mark. In our hour-long interview he goes on to (rhetorically) ask me, ‘Who’s used the unique position of Kenya, where 70% of the people have access to mobile money?’ For David and co-founding CEO, Kyai Mullei - it is, without ...
01 September 2014 /startups
The Bacs 3-day payment processing cycle just isn’t fast enough for a lot of businesses these days, with many now relying on Faster Payments to meet their needs. When it was launched in 2008, Faster Payments was the first new payments service to be introduced in the UK for more than 20 years. Faster Payments is a speedy, secure and cost effective wa...
26 August 2014 /payments /startups
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
No one is talking about Tech these days without talking about FinTech, or financial technology to you. There are funds, accelerators, startups galore in this space. But where do you fit in? But what type of FinTech’er are you? Well, take the quiz and find out! Banks and bankers are: Lovely people, lots of fun - do you know the person in charge of ...
21 August 2014 /startups Finance 2.0
Ok - so, those of you who follow me on Twitter know that we supplied our nine year old son an Osper card - which is a pre-paid MasterCard for youngsters. He’s been busy frittering away a year's worth of Christmas and birthday money. Oh well. One of his many purchases was a copy of The Lego Movie. So, I have now seen this movie 400 times and I can'...
15 August 2014 /startups Finance 2.0
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