Innovate Finance has announced eight industry leaders for a new ambassador program; Innovate Finance is one of the UK's most active trade associations for fintech; it's led by CEO Lawrence Wintermeyer; some of the program's industry leading ambassadors include Anju Patwardhan from the CreditEase FinTech Fund and Mike Sigal from 500 Startups; the ambassadors will be actively involved in the organization's upcoming Global Summit on April 10 and 11 in London. Source
Anew approach to the FCA and how they interact with fintech, focusing on fostering innovation, being intelligence-led, and preparing for the future.
Global warming's associated effects are posing an increased risk to financial institutions worldwide. The Basel Committee has issued guidelines to help mitigation.
French fintech has been nipping at the heels of the UK for some time. Diversification and increased VC funding may soon push them to the top.
Oxbury is a Chester-based challenger bank which looks to smooth out cash flow for farmers; according to James Farrar who...
Solidus Labs launches its financial risk assessment platform HALO, assisting in the integration of crypto and DeFi into the financial market.
Monzo has officially launched their first product for businesses; the bank has shared that they hope to be profitable in...
As a fund with access to 355 venture capital funds the European Investment Fund (EIF) was able to analyze European venture capital activity from 1996 to 2015 in their new report; the report points out that new funds performed almost as well as seasoned funds in selecting winners when economic times were good; on the contrary when economic times are not as fruitful the skilled venture capitalists were better at picking companies and avoiding big losses; the big takeaway from the report is that the real skill involves avoiding the big disaster investment in tough economic times. Source
With U.K. credit card interest rates at new highs, campaigners want there to be more caps on the rates. The rates are the highest they’ve been in twenty years.
Given the likely global recession, small businesses are reaching for new kinds of financing. Thus, the buy now, pay later business model is now expanding into this B2B world at a rate of knots. Playter has raised backing to do this, as has Hokodo, Billie and Tranch, to name a few other players.