NatWest Group, that serves 19 million UK customers, has become the first major bank to sign-up and support the Good Business Pays campaign.
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority ordered financial firms to do more to protect vulnerable customers; the FCA issued the order...
Koho Secures $42M in Series B Funding Fitch Report: Declining Credit Enhancement in US MPL ABS is Unwarranted U.S. Fintech...
Members of the Peer-to-Peer Finance Association are approaching £10 billion in lending; Peer2Peer Finance News digs into the companies with...
Ahead of our NextGen Nordics conference on 27 April 2022, we will be putting together a weekly briefing of all the top stories that are emerging out of the region and setting the blueprint for payments innovation across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.
Kids will be able to play games, watch animated videos and earn points while learning about key financial wellbeing topics.
As the ecosystem of gig economy workers and freelancers expands a new batch of startups has tried to service these...
Credit bureaus have had a tough past year with the Equifax breach of customer data and new legislation in the U.S. looking to increase competition by allowing lenders to use different sources; changing the credit bureau system is not as easy as it may sound as they have been intertwined in the financial services system for a long time; lenders still use the bureaus for a large majority of lending decisions, even though some alternative bureaus have seen traction; the breach at Equifax could have a lasting effect because people did have a lot of trust in the company to secure their sensitive information like social security numbers; as data sharing in financial services becomes commonplace a premium will need to be placed on how that data is secured. Source.
The billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel called Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon and Larry Fink members of a “finance gerontocracy” opposed to a “revolutionary youth movement” that embraces Bitcoin.
The trading suspension was announced for American Security Resources Corp. (ARSC) on August 24, 2017; the suspension will be effective until September 8, 2017; according to the SEC, "The Commission temporarily suspended trading in the securities of ARSC because of questions that have arisen regarding publicly available information about the company in press releases on OTCMarkets.com, dated August 1, and August 8, 2017, concerning, among other things, the company's business transition to the cryptocurrency markets and early adoption of blockchain technology."; the SEC has suspended trading on at least two other companies involved in bitcoin that are listed on the OTC markets. Source