Freetrade takes on Europe, starting with the Netherlands and Ireland
Freetrade, the UK-based digital brokerage app, has announced its plans to expand across Europe starting with the Netherlands and Ireland. The UK…
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Financial technology news from TechAnnouncer: payments, digital banking, lending, wealthtech, insurtech, regtech and embedded finance. We track fintech launches, funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions and regulation across global markets, and explain what each development means for the industry.
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Turkey’s Halkbank could pay $1bn in fines for court absence
Halkbank, Turkey’s state-owned bank, could be in the running to pay more than $1 billion dollars in fines if it keeps failing…
Liberis raises £32m to boost growth plans
London-based fintech Liberis has raised £32m to help fund the growth of the small business finance provider and expansion in the US…
Tokopedia lines up $1.5bn funding from Alibaba and Softbank
Tokopedia, the Indonesian ecommerce marketplace, is understood to be in the final stages of closing a funding round worth as much as…
Aussie neobanks challenge country’s big four banks
Australian neobanks Xinja, Judo Bank and 86 400 are attracting millions of dollars in savings from Australian banking customers following the launches…
BMO to acquire Clearpool
BMO Financial Group has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Clearpool Group, a New York-based provider of electronic trading solutions and…
Barclays signs tech partnership with invoice insurance firm Nimbla
UK multinational bank Barclays has announced a new partnership with invoice insurance start-up Nimbla. Nimbla will be offered to one million Barlcays…
Alipay partner Tranglo integrates Ripple’s cross-border payments
Alipay partner Tranglo, a Malaysian cross-border payments solution, has announced a collaboration with Ripple for the latter’s remittance infrastructure ‘RippleNet’. Tranglo began…
BNP Paribas extends open banking partnership with Tink
French banking group BNP Paribas has signed a strategic partnership with open banking platform Tink, making the latter the bank’s preferred partner…
What the ‘decade of the data breach’ can teach us
We have witnessed the explosion of identity theft over the past decade. Thanks to a steady flow of high-profile data breaches, names,…
Digital broker Stake releases UK beta app ahead of February launch
Stake, the Australian digital brokerage app offering foreign access to the US stock market, has launched its beta app in the UK.…
WorldRemit ties up cross-border remittance partnership with Alipay
UK-based remittance firm WorldRemit has signed a global partnership with Chinese payments giant Alipay. WorldRemit users can now send remittances to Alipay…
Minnesota’s Sentry Bank selects CSI NuPoint
Minnesota-based Sentry Bank has selected Computer Services Inc (CSI) and its NuPoint core processing solution, as well as a hatful of online…
Nigerian paytech Flutterwave raises $35m, partners with Worldpay
Flutterwave, the San Francisco and Lagos-based fintech providing gateway payments for the likes of Uber, Booking.com and Jumia, has raised $35 million…
Monzo bank accused of “freezing accounts for no apparent reason”
In the past few months, complaints from previously happy Monzo customers appear to have grown alarmingly, at a time when the bank…
Vodafone leaves Facebook’s Libra to focus on M-Pesa
Vodafone, one of the UK’s major telecommunications providers, has become the eighth company to drop out of Facebook’s Libra Association, Coin Desk…
Amazon set to turn hands into cards with Visa
Amazon is building checkout tills which could see shoppers paying for purchases with their hands. By linking customers’ credit card details with…
Cloud: Does it deserve a bad rap from the Treasury?
SPONSORED INSIGHTS In October, the Treasury Committee published a report on IT Failures in the Financial Services Sector and in November, it…
Living in the not knowing
Building the future is about what you dare believe is possible I am a profoundly impatient person. That much is a well…
Monese becomes UK’s latest fintech unicorn
Monese, a UK banking app tailored to recent immigrants without local credit histories, is set to hit a £1 billion valuation and…