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Pine Labs becomes Indian unicorn after Mastercard investment
Pine Labs valued at $1.5 billion after latest financing.
Bank of England seeks public cloud technology partner
Regulator looking into benefits of SaaS and PaaS.
Finnish SME banking service Holvi launches in UK
The challenger already has 200,000 customers largely in Finland and Germany.
Heidelpay seeks acquisitions and eventual IPO
“An IPO is of course always an option for fresh capital,” says CEO Mirko Huellemann.
Japan floats idea of a digital yen
Party lawmakers are working on proposals.
Catalyst Fund raises $15m from JP Morgan and UK Aid for emerging market fintechs
Thirty fintech start-ups from South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, India and Mexico will get funding.
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Freetrade takes on Europe, starting with the Netherlands and Ireland
Germany and France are next on Freetrade’s list.
Liberis raises £32m to boost growth plans
The funding for the SME finance provider was led by investment firm FTV Capital.
Aussie neobanks challenge country’s big four banks
ANZ, Westpac, NAB and Commonwealth Bank have lost a collective half a billion dollars.
Alipay partner Tranglo integrates Ripple’s cross-border payments
Tranglo partnered with bigtech Alipay earlier this month.
BNP Paribas extends open banking partnership with Tink
French banking group now deploys Tink in Belgium and Italy.
What the “decade of the data breach” can teach us
Organisations can simply no longer trust that an online user is who they claim to be.
Digital broker Stake releases UK beta app ahead of February launch
The app plans to expand across Europe “in the coming months”.
Monzo bank accused of “freezing accounts for no apparent reason”
A private Facebook group, “Monzo stole our money”, has grown to 1,080 members.
Vodafone leaves Facebook’s Libra to focus on M-Pesa
M-Pesa is the telco’s digital payment service.
Amazon set to turn hands into cards with Visa
The bigtech is reportedly in talks with Mastercard, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo.
GetVantage debuts with India’s first revenue-based financing platform
The alternate funding model is gaining significant traction in foreign markets.
Cloud: Does it deserve a bad rap from the Treasury?
The Treasury Committee singles out the cloud as a “source of systemic risk”.
Mortgage broker Trussle raises £7.5m
Fresh funding brings total investment in Trussle to £26.5m.
Goldman cuts personal lending after launching Apple card
Its partnership with Apple has taken some of the momentum away from Marcus.
Central banks in Europe, Japan and Canada assess potential digital currencies
Central banks in Canada, the UK, Japan, Switzerland, and Sweden are teaming up.
UK challenger Vive gets restricted licence to help bad credit scorers
Vive aims to fully launch in the second quarter of 2020.
Three steps to effectively automating accounts payable
The best automated AP solutions can integrate all kinds of information and content formats.
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DBS launches QR-code based b2b payments
DBS’ QR-code based solution is powered by DBS Rapid and DBS Max.
Tonik digital bank selects Finastra Fusion Essence
The Philippines’ first digital bank selects its new core.
FCA admits it does not track frequency of funds that block investor withdrawals
The UK financial watchdog has been severely criticised for its lack of oversight of several funds.
Plaid and Honey: How consolidation helps and hinders competition
Consolidation is now becoming synonymous with standardisation – breeding competition.
ICAP founder to invest £25m in new fintech fund Element Ventures
It’s one of the largest investments Spencer has made since selling Nex to the CME.
For the sake of fraud fighting: how to secure online transactions on the Russian market
All the new forms of digital interaction are getting particularly vulnerable to fraudulent activities.
Dubai-based challenger OG Bank selects Bankable to tap UK and Germany
The bank says ‘OG’ stands for ‘on the go’.
Volt closes $70m ahead of IPO plans
Volt plans for $50 million Series D round with British and Middle Eastern investors.
Lydia raises €40m in Tencent-led Series B funding round
Tencent-backed funding to be used to avoid “costly mistakes”.
Azimo shake-up sees appointment of new CFO and COO
Remittance fintech looks internally for C-level replacements.
Tink raises €90 million to power European expansion
Swedish open banking firm brings funding total close to the $200m mark
BMLL appoints Paul Humphrey as CEO
Johannes Sulzberger, outgoing CEO, will remain on the board as a non-exec director.
