Europe

·Aug. 20, 2021

Zopa Will Offer A Savings Account With No Hidden Fees and No Teaser Rates

Zopa was granted a preliminary banking license late last year but they are yet to launch their new bank; speaking...

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Europe News Roundup Online Lending

·Mar. 20, 2017

Zopa’s Giles Andrews Joins MarketInvoice as Chairman

Giles Andrews launched Zopa, the industry's first peer-to-peer lending platform, in 2005; he has now taken on a new role as the chairman of MarketInvoice; MarketInvoice provides P2P financing for small business invoices giving them an alternative source for working capital; Giles Andrews will help the firm scale its business and reach its 2017 goal of 2 billion British pounds ($2.48 billion) in lending. Source

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Europe

·Jun. 30, 2022

Vibrant supports micro SME recovery with mobile POS

Vibrant sees mobile POS systems as an essential tool for micro SME recovery. They plan to support the 10 million European merchants.

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Europe Fintech News Roundup

·Apr. 25, 2017

Dow Jones Venturesource Reports on European Venture Capital

Dow Jones Venturesource has released its first quarter Europe Venture Capital Report; venture capital funding for the quarter was EUR2.23 billion ($2.42 billion); Atomico's Atomico Ventures IV Fund led fundraising with EUR723.30 million ($786.02 million) representing 32% of total fundraising for the quarter; business and financial services was the top funding sector with EUR877.92 million ($954.05 million) across 163 transactions; Funding Circle reported one of the top five deals in the first quarter with its funding round of EUR94.43 million ($102.62 million); by geography, the UK led fundraising with EUR970.28 million ($1.05 billion) from 150 deals and France was second with EUR398.02 million ($432.53 million) from 78 deals; the full report is available here. Source

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Europe

·Jun. 13, 2022

Jack Dorsey’s TBD Announces Web 3 Competitor: Web 5

The Block subsidiary’s alternative ditches Web 3 and places bitcoin at the forefront. But there is no official release date, as yet.

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Europe

·Jun. 20, 2022

KuCoin Becomes the First Crypto Exchange to Support BRL Transfers

KuCoin announced that it has become the first major exchange to support Brazilian Real (BRL) deposits and withdrawals following a recent policy change made by the Central Bank of Brazil.

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Europe

·Dec. 8, 2021

Abrdn snaps up Interactive Investor in £1.5bn deal

Abrdn is continuing its hunt for fintech acquisitions as it looks to digitise it business.

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Europe News Roundup Real Estate

·Nov. 18, 2016

Metro Bank Partners with Airbnb

One of the most innovative banks in Europe is now partnering with Airbnb to allow residential mortgage customers to rent their properties; Metro Bank will allow customers to rent their homes for up to 90 days without any written approval; Paul Riseborough, chief commercial officer at Metro Bank explained, "Our focus is on making our customers' lives as straightforward and convenient as possible and we therefore hope today's news will give our customers the reassurance they need to jump in and take advantage of everything the dynamic sharing economy has to offer." Source

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Europe Fintech News Roundup

·Mar. 6, 2019