Wales’ thriving fintech sector can produce unicorn businesses says City of London Lord Mayor
Wales has a compelling story to tell on its emerging fintech sector says Lord Mayor of the City of London William Russell.
Paxful launches e-commerce solution Paxful Pay
Paxful, the leading global peer-to-peer fintech, today announced Paxful Pay, an e-commerce solution that allows businesses worldwide to receive bitcoin.
Tonik becomes the Philippines’ first neobank to secure digital bank license
Tonik, the Philippines’ first digital-only neobank continues to make waves in the local fintech and banking industry as it secures a digital bank license.
Because of poor banking, 80% will switch to fintech
The poor experience with services prevalent in traditional banks would motivate eight out of 10 of their customers to switch to alternatives like fintechs.
Frollo brings Open Banking to Siri
Bringing together Open Banking and Siri, users of the Frollo iOS app can check their bank balance by saying: “Hey Siri, what’s my account balance”.
London-based positive-impact-on-climate-change fintech Clim8 secures up to £2 million in “media for equity” deal with Channel 4
London’s investment platform for consumers wishing to have a positive impact on climate change, Clim8 has secured up to £2 million from Channel 4 Ventures.
neon receives growth financing and launches equity crowdinvesting for its customers
Zurich-based fintech neon has received funding of CHF7 million from its pre-existing investors, safeguarding the start-up’s innovative products and its sustainable growth going forward. With 70,000 customers already on board, neon is launching equity crowdinvesting with tokenised non-voting shares (participation certificates) in June so these users can have a hand in its future success. Existing investors safeguard sustainable growth The Swiss bank challenger neon is continuing its run of success and has completed a financing round, following explosive customer growth in recent months. A wide range of supporters from pre-existing investors as the TX Group, BackBone Ventures, QoQa Services SA, the Helvetia Venture Fund, the Schwyzer Kantonalbank’s innovation foundation, as […]
Synctera aims $33M Series A at developing Banking-as-a-Service
Synctera raised $33 million in Series A funding. The new investment comes six months after announcing its $12.4 million seed round.
