Augmentum: London-listed fintech fund rides out volatility as portfolio edges upward July 4, 2023 Listed fintech fund Augmentum reported a bump in the value of its portfolio today as it shrugged off the volatility that has hammered tech and fintech firms globally over the past year.
LendInvest given £500m investment boost from Chetwood to fund buy-to-let mortgages July 3, 2023 LendInvest, the London-listed property fintech, has received a £500m investment boost to fund some of its future lending from Chetwood Financial. The investment will fund mortgage originations from LendInvest’s buy-to-let mortgages, aimed at professional landlords, and residential mortgages, for those underserved by high street mortgage providers. Chetwood, a Wrexham-based digital bank, has become the latest [...]
Starling Bank: Five things that defined Anne Boden’s time at the top June 30, 2023 The chief and founder of digital lender Starling Bank Anne Boden will hand over the reins to her number two today as she steps back from the top job after nine years. Boden has undoubtedly blazed a trail in British banking. The Swansea native remains the only woman to have launched a bank in the [...]
CAB Payments chief: Why we’re listing in London June 29, 2023 Bhairav Trivedi, the chief of Sutton-based money transfer firm CAB Payments, tells Charlie Conchie why he's listing in London
UK urged to take post Brexit payments lead after EU publishes bold plan June 28, 2023 The UK payments industry urged regulators and legislators to take a bold approach to new rules following the publication of the EU’s latest proposals. In a landmark set of regulations, the European Union (EU) will deepen and extend open banking, put in place greater fraud protections and give regulators more firepower to enforce the rules. [...]
Clearpay jobs at risk as BNPL firm winds down EU business June 28, 2023 Buy-now pay-later giant Clearpay is shutting down its EU operations and could lay off all its European staff, Morning Wire can reveal.
London fintech Upp. pockets $10m as it eyes global expansion June 27, 2023 London-based fintech Upp. has secured $10m (£7.8m) in seed funding as its artificial intelligence and machine learning model wins over investors. The startup, which uses AI to automate online retail, has garnered support in a funding round spearheaded by Californian venture capital firm Bonfire Ventures. Mark Mullen, co-founder of Bonfire Ventures, said Upp. is “the [...]
Payments watchdog wants open banking to ‘inject more competition’ into card market June 27, 2023 The UK’s payments regulator today argued that the card market did not have “sufficient competition”, but suggested progress on open banking could open it up to a wave of innovation. Chris Hemsley, managing director of the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), said the watchdog was looking to find ways of “injecting more competition into this market [...]
Fintech firm CAB Payments eyes £850m price tag in rare London IPO June 27, 2023 Fintech firm CAB Payments has revealed it will look to fetch a price tag of more than £850m next month when it floats in London in a much-anticipated IPO.
Wise shares surge after interest rates push profits up 234 per cent June 27, 2023 Shares in money transfer Wise have rocketed this morning as the firm posted a 234 per cent boost in profits over the past year on the back of rising interest rates. In its full year results today, the London-listed fintech firm said profits had surged from £43.9m in 2022 year to £146.5m in 2023. Wise [...]