UK FinTech

Dec
04

Launchnodes helps to support the launch of Professional Services in AWS Marketplace

Launchnodes announced today that it is participating in the launch of Professional Services in AWS Marketplace.

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Dec
03

London Fintech Updraft raises £16m to help people break up with their credit cards

Consumers will pay over £10b in fees and interests for overdraft and credit cards in 2020 alone. Updraft wants to reduce that amount.

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Dec
01

Trade Ledger platform selected by Bibby Financial Services to drive funding automation

BFS will leverage the Trade Ledger platform to enhance functionality and enable greater control for businesses seeking funding.

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Oct
27

The Carlyle Group to acquire Calastone

Calastone announce that The Carlyle Group has reached an agreement to acquire a majority stake in the business from its current shareholders.

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Nov
05

Santander takes big stake in UK FinTech

Spanish bank Banco Santander is acquiring just over 50 percent of the U.K. payments platform Ebury for £350 million ($453 million), Ebury announced in a press release on Monday (Nov. 4). The Ebury payments platform gives small and medium-size companies the ability to trade internationally. The acquisition is scheduled to close in the first quarter of next year and is intended to help boost Santander’s global payments business. “Small and medium-sized businesses are a major engine of growth around the world, creating new jobs and contributing up to 60 percent of total employment and up to 40 percent of national GDP in emerging economies,” said Santander’s Executive Chairman Ana Botín. […]

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Oct
23

The recipe behind the UK’s Fintech success

Until now, the UK has been way ahead of the game in terms of fintech innovation. Indeed, the UK is apparently the fifth most innovative country in the world and was named as a leading European tech innovator in KPMG’s Global Technology Innovation report. The fact that we were first to introduce open banking has certainly played a part here but, with less than a month to go until the PSD2 implementation date (and other countries soon to be snapping at our heels), what exactly is behind this success? We believe there are a number of ingredients: Rapidly growing open banking ecosystem – over 135 entities are now approved by […]

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