Scottish Fintech Aveni secures £2.75m investment to expand market reach of its conversational intelligence platform, Aveni Detect
Scottish AI company Aveni.ai has secured an investment of £2.75 million to deliver the expansion of its Aveni Detect platform.
Ophelos and Plend partner to help improve financial inclusion
Debt resolution company Ophelos announce they have partnered with ethical consumer lender Plend to help improve financial inclusion.
Smart money app Snoop lands £15 million
Smart money app Snoop has raised £15 million in a new funding round, giving the business a post-money valuation of £47 million.
UK student finance fintech raises £1.1m in funding
UK student finance fintech StepEx has raised £1.1 million in pre-initial funding, with the venture studio BBVA Anthemis Venture Partnership being the lead investor.
Fintern taps AI and Open Banking to enter consumer loans market
Fintern is aiming to shake up the market for low-value consumers loans with the launch of credit technology that bypasses credit scores.
Fintech platform revenues set for massive rise: Juniper
Fintech platform revenues for unsecured consumer loans issued using machine learning technology are set to jump by a whopping 960% globally over the next six years, according to new research from Juniper. According to the latest report on the worldwide Fintech market from Juniper Research, revenues will rise to US$17 billion by 2021, with spending advancing rapidly due to the highly data-driven nature of the market, “meaning that AI integration is likely to spell substantial benefits”. Juniper says that until recently, machine learning was too expensive and computationally time-intensive to break into the mainstream, while access to extensive data sets for algorithm training were limited. Research author Steffen Sorrell says […]
