The FinTech Futures weekly round-up of the industry’s top stories and happenings from across the globe. This week we cover: Aussie neobanks challenge country’s big four banks Tokopedia lines up $1.5bn funding from Alibaba and Softbank Vodafone Read More
Increasingly, what has begun as open banking will be termed open finance SPONSORED INSIGHTS Open banking has begun, focusing on payments and linking current accounts. But the wider story of open finance is just beginning. Read More
Freetrade, the UK-based digital brokerage app, has announced its plans to expand across Europe starting with the Netherlands and Ireland. The UK digital trading space has already seen traction by international players in the last Read More
London-based fintech Liberis has raised £32m to help fund the growth of the small business finance provider and expansion in the US and Europe, as reported on City AM. The funding for the SME finance Read More
Australian neobanks Xinja, Judo Bank and 86 400 are attracting millions of dollars in savings from Australian banking customers following the launches of their higher interest rates. ANZ, Westpac, NAB and Commonwealth Bank have lost Read More
Alipay partner Tranglo, a Malaysian cross-border payments solution, has announced a collaboration with Ripple for the latter’s remittance infrastructure ‘RippleNet’. Tranglo began implementing Ripple’s cross-border payments technology last November, according to its project manager Estee Read More
French banking group BNP Paribas has signed a strategic partnership with open banking platform Tink, making the latter the bank’s preferred partner for account aggregation in two European markets. Tink heads to Italy with BNP Read More
We have witnessed the explosion of identity theft over the past decade. Thanks to a steady flow of high-profile data breaches, names, passwords, email addresses, healthcare records, and more are easily bought and sold by Read More
Stake, the Australian digital brokerage app offering foreign access to the US stock market, has launched its beta app in the UK. Already armed with 50,000 customers in Australia, the fintech is set to officially Read More
In the past few months, complaints from previously happy Monzo customers appear to have grown alarmingly, at a time when the bank is trying to get more people to go “full Monzo” and use its Read More
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