Europe

Bankable, the global architect of Banking as a Service solutions, Younited, a French #Next40 company and leading European fintech and LiftForward, the leading Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) subscription platform, hereby announce their partnership to create an innovative split payments solution in Italy.

Yapily, an open banking platform, has expanded into Spain, according to a company statement. Yapily notes that it already can cover over 95% of Spanish bank accounts, both retail and commercial, at 52 banks. Yapily recently raised $51 milion in Series-B funding and said it

Bpifrance adopts October Connect technology , to speed up its decision making process while reducing risk.

During the pandemic, challenger banks and fintechs tripled their share of the credit card market and grew their personal loan books by 50%.

U.K. consumer credit provider NewDay has launched Newpay, a FCA-regulated buy now, pay later (BNPL) digital credit account with limits up to £5,000.

Covid has triggered a wave of technological upgrades, but improvements aren’t universal.

The small business FinTech Nuula has launched a new financial health tool, allowing small business owners to monitor financial metrics with the Nuula app.  

ExpressCredit Group (ExpressCredit), a lending firm, has acquired $9 million (appr. €7.74 million) in new funding for specialty finance operations in Botswana. As mentioned in an update, this allows the firm to diversify its financial resources and 'partially refinance its existing credit facilities funded by

The MoU provides a co-lending and credit guarantee programme to SMEs of the UAE, providing financing facilities worth up to AED10 million.