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UK based challenger bank Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banking Group announced they would increase minimum salaries by 11 percent in an effort to boost pay to their female workforce; the bank released news that men were paid 37 percent more than women, mostly due to men being in higher paying roles; the bank signed up for the government’s Women in Finance Charter to help increase their proportion of women in senior roles to 40 percent by 2020 and 50 percent in the long term. Source.
Cryptocurrency startup Basis, led by former Google employee Nader Al-Naji, raised $133mn from GV, Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners,...
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- Monzo to phase out popular prepaid cards by April
- YieldStreet's 2017 Year in Review
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LendIt China 2017 will include the Lang Di Fintech Conference and LendIt China Executive Tour; the Tour and Conference will take place from July 8-17; the China Executive Tour from July 8 to 15 will include networking activities and meetings in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai; following the Tour, LendIt will host its second annual Lang Di Fintech Conference event in Shanghai from July 15 to 17; Lend Academy provides more details on each of the two events in their article. Source
It's a widely reported issue, there is a significant gender divide in fintech. Increased support of female founders and leaders could make all the difference.
In Q1 2020 TikTok set a record for most downloads for any app ever in a quarter, with more than...
The global finance industry, its regulators and investors pledged trillions in funding to reduce carbon emissions.
Overall, investors put $3.4 billion into Latin America funding rounds in Q1 of 2022—down 30 percent from Q4 2021.
Zopa co-founder Giles Andrews has been officially announced as a non-executive director of C. Hoare & Co. The private bank noted Andrews