Adyen is a payments company based in Amsterdam and currently is valued around $2.3 billion; the company has over 4,000 clients which includes names like Netflix, Facebook, Uber and Spotify; Forbes profiles the company and their co-founder and president, Pieter van der Does. Source
The transaction saw the private equity house acquire the payments provider for Vinted, La Redoute and Rakuten, and take the majority stake in a French crowdfunding platform Leetchi....
ABN AMRO launched New10 to offer an initiative for SMEs looking to take out a loan entirely online; Mark Schröder, co-founder and Commercial Director of New10, "New10 responds to the desire of SMEs to finance their growth ambitions online, quickly, easily and clearly."; New10 provides loans ranging between EUR 20,000 and EUR 1 million. Source.
Business Insider shares data on total funds raised by UK-based digital only banks; Atom Bank leads in total funding and is reportedly in process of closing another 100 million British pounds ($124 million) in equity which would bring their total raised to 235 million British pounds ($294.6 million); other players include Tandem Bank, Starling Bank, Monzo, N26 and Monese; Monzo is also in the process of raising money with a Series C funding round. Source
Often marketed as a "force for good," UK fintech's actual impact on issues such as diversity and the climate crisis remains limited.
The P2PFA provides quarterly data on its eight member firms; as of the third quarter it seems to have simplified its reporting to provide only industry and platform origination totals; Kadhim Shubber of FT Alphaville is curious as to why the P2PFA has chosen the new disclosure format which no longer appears to include granular details such as principal outstanding, capital repaid, number of lenders and number of borrowers; he has petitioned the P2PFA for more disclosure and greater transparency, questioning the lack of consistency and transparency in its quarterly data reporting. Source
This month Revolut has significantly expanded operations catering towards SMEs, freelancers and sole traders.
Pikl has been at the forefront of responding to the needs of the shared housing sector. Now it turns its sights to shared mobility.
Meet Glint, a British fintech with an app and debit card that enables users to save, exchange, and spend in physical gold and multiple currencies.
Chancellor Hammond has reported the UK Spring Budget which provides insight for the region on the UK's economy as it separates from the European Union; the Spring Budget included a 270 million British pound ($328 million) investment by Industrial Strategy challenge fund for development of innovative technologies; Crowdfund Insider provides comments on the Spring Budget from a few executives in alternative finance; of note is the Budget's continued provision that prevents investors from diversifying across innovative finance individual savings accounts and a change in the tax on dividend income. Source