26th May 2023
CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski said the fintech is 'on track' to achieve monthly profitability in the second half of this year....
23rd May 2023
Guests in the US and Canada can now pay for their stays in four parts. ...
24th May 2023
CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski has called on all credit providers to introduce similar opt out tools following a meeting with Economic Secretary....
23rd May 2023
London's fintech and startup scene emerged as a global leader, thanks to a combination of factors fuelling innovation, growth, and investment. But scale and maturity are bringing a new stage of scrutiny too, writes AltFi’s Daniel Lanyon....
22nd May 2023
“Klarna will no doubt continue to trailblaze in the world of payments, shopping and banking.”...
25th April 2023
AI-powered tools and creator-focused features took centre stage at Klarna’s product update....
29th March 2023
The tech giant is continuing its push into financial services with its BNPL product....
24th March 2023
The white-label BNPL product will be available to Unzer’s merchants....
27th February 2023
In the near future Klarna, Zilch and other ‘buy now, pay later’ providers will have to abide by new rules set out by the UK government as new competitors also enter the BNPL space. The results will be interesting. ...
19th April 2023
Lanistar is hoping to try its luck in the UK a second time this spring with a hoard of influencers and a new banking partner....
27th February 2023
A preview of the Buy Now, Pay Later Forum 2023 speaker line-up. ...
30th March 2023
Lending has huge potential to transition into an embedded future, but only if providers truly understand the advantages that embedded lending could offer....
24th March 2023
CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski said the collaboration passes his ‘north star mom test’: it's something she'll both understand and benefit from....
30th March 2023
Finverity offers both a funding platform that brings together companies needing working capital and investors looking to deploy lending capital, as well as a B2B software offering for banks. ...
28th March 2023
Download our latest AltFi Research report today on how embedded finance is taking off....
20th February 2023
The rise in complaints comes at a time of a proposal for new regulation of the BNPL sector as the market continues to grow in popularity....
22nd March 2023
Just 18 months on from its launch, Berlin-based Mondu is seeing strong growth as it expands to cover four of Europe’s largest lending markets....
23rd March 2023
The new “Fioneer Embedded Finance as a Service” will facilitate orchestration between SAP users and financial services institutions....
14th March 2023
The startup providing alternative payment options is doubling down on its US expansion....
13th February 2023
Buy now, pay later credit products are set to be regulated by the FCA and consumers will have the new right to take complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service. ...
10th March 2023
The BNPL aims to maximise the consumer benefits of open banking to help those struggling with the cost of living crisis....
16th February 2023
The digital bank has made its first acquisition as it takes a step towards “BNPL 2.0”....
7th February 2023
The partnership will see Zilch making a financial contribution for StepChange’s work....
12th January 2023
The white-label platform signed up several major new clients last year....
25th January 2023
The Swedish BNPL is gamifying money management with the aim of making it more approachable for its millions of customers....
31st January 2023
The UK's approach to fintech and crypto regulation has been to strike a balance between supporting innovation and ensuring a secure financial system. But a seemingly never-ending series of fronts have opened up. What comes next?...
31st January 2023
“Frasers Plus” will have two products: BNPL and in-app loans for retail customers....
12th January 2023
The new round brings the Berlin-based startup’s total funds raised to $90m in 15 months. ...
19th January 2023
Here’s a round-up of all the fintechs that hit profitability last year....
4th January 2023
Following the departure of Zip and Openpay, Humm is the latest Australian buy now, pay later provider to pull back on expansion plans....
25th January 2023
Köppen joined Mollie last May after five years at BNPL giant Klarna....
17th January 2023
Some 3 million customers could soon see their credit scores impacted, both positively and negatively....
16th January 2023
The US has overtaken Germany as the BNPL’s largest market. ...
10th January 2023
The fintech formerly known as Railsbank faced a major shift in strategy in 2022 from aiming for a 'unicorn' valuation higher than £1bn and breakneck growth to a sale amid tightening market conditions. ...
30th December 2022
It’s been an interesting year in fintech policymaking. Coadec’s Charlie Mercer takes us through it....
30th December 2022
Despite one of the worst years for companies on a macroeconomic level and huge valuation drops for a number of big names, Checkout.com, Klarna, SumUp and Scalapay all had massive funding rounds in 2022....
3rd January 2023
Here’s a round up of some of this year’s biggest entries and exits....
19th December 2022
Shoppers using Klarna’s app will now see eco-badges attached to the electronics products they buy....
3rd November 2022
iwocaPay is seeing increasing usage, by increasing numbers of SMEs....
16th December 2022
CEO Aseem Munshi says Updraft is already preparing to open its Series B shortly....
13th December 2022
The French embedded lender reached €1.6bn in GMV and €190m in revenue this year....
1st December 2022
For SMEs who struggle to pay suppliers with a credit card, Cashplus is adding a sort code and account number....
9th November 2022
In a letter seen by AltFi, the City's financial watchdog cracked down on requirements for BNPLs to ensure “financial promotions” meet its regulations....
7th December 2022
Curve has been moving into the consumer lending market over the past few years since the launch of its BNPL-like product. Now it has the financial firepower to scale it. ...
15th November 2022
Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO and co-founder of the Swedish fintech, believes Klarna is getting unfair media coverage by media outlets compared to credit card firms....
1st December 2022
Meanwhile, despite job cuts, the BNPL continued to see rising YoY losses in Q3....
28th November 2022
Zilch is the latest fintech to be hit by job cuts, which have also affected Klarna this year, amid a troubled economic environment....
14th November 2022
The launch of the price comparison tool comes as the Swedish fintech looks to diversify its revenue streams from its core buy now, pay later offering and offer customers a suite of financial products....
18th November 2022
Moving to lower open banking’s barriers to entry for select startups....
3rd November 2022
The BNPL has increased its user base by half in the last six months to hit three million customers and turn a gross profit....
14th October 2022
Apple is continuing to blur the lines between tech and fintech with its latest financial offering....
18th October 2022
People have been stung by credit cards' interest and fees when buying groceries and takeaways for decades, writes Klarna's Alex Marsh....
1st November 2022
Cover Genius will use the new funding to expand its global distribution platform XCover....
26th October 2022
Tymit’s Series A funding round comes in the form of a strategic investment from the Frasers Group and shows the budding interest in fintech from non-financial companies....
12th October 2022
The new cash adds to the £45m of pay later money available to more 2,000 buyers on 45-90 day terms....
21st September 2022
More than 1,000 customers in Ireland have used Revolut's BNPL product since its' smaller launch in June....
7th October 2022
Square (aka Block) is expanding its footprint into the Canadian buy now, pay later market through Afterpay. But is it enough to lift the languishing stock out of the doldrums?...
14th October 2022
The Berlin-based B2B ‘buy now, pay later’ will expand to the Netherlands this month....
14th October 2022
Sebastian Siemiatkowski took to Twitter to shut down the Money Saving Expert’s criticism of BNPL....
12th October 2022
CEO Ali Niknam spoke to AltFi about how the latest version of the app will help users budget more effectively, immediately and in real time....
7th October 2022
One "super app" to rule them all? First, we unbundled but will we ever re-bundle? ...
28th September 2022
High-value consumer credit for partners like Apple and Microsoft is lifting the French lender to new heights....
27th September 2022
New CFO Robert Mitchell arrives with good news as the company works to recover from a recent management exodus....
23rd August 2022
After launching in the US and Australia, Square is bringing BNPL to the UK across all platforms....
23rd September 2022
After letting go of around 700 employees earlier this year, the BNPL is going through yet another round of job cuts....
27th July 2022
The high street challenger bank is coming for Klarna....
5th September 2022
Mondu has bolstered its leadership team with the appointment of a new chief commercial officer and chief people officer. ...
1st September 2022
Despite sizeable improvements on many important metrics, the buy now, pay later leader managed to rack up significant losses in the first half of 2022....
23rd August 2022
Despite the fall in value of its portfolio, Chrysalis gave an upbeat assessment and noted that equity markets had "rebounded very strongly" after the second quarter....
20th June 2022
The Treasury said its new proposals will protect “millions of people” amid a steep rise in the popularity of buy, now, pay later as an alternative form of credit, but some buy now, pay later firms and industry observers say the government must act quicker....
19th August 2022
Some BNPL providers may be “taking advantage of behavioural biases “ hindering effective consumer decision-making and encouraging impulse buying, according to the Financial Conduct Authority....
23rd August 2022
Why you don’t want to miss out on this year’s Lending Summit. ...
8th August 2022
Research shows India has the most potential for rapid growth in the space....
8th August 2022
A deal with Apple to power its BNPL strategy is helping position Mastercard for future success, writes Bloom's James Hickson....
29th July 2022
Almost two thirds of Brits expect the cost of their bills to rise over the summer....
30th June 2022
Fintechs offering short term finance for companies has been a standout category for venture capital investors in recent months while larger lenders are also hatching grand plans. ...
28th July 2022
The Midlands-based executive brings over 15 years of compliance and risk management experience to the challenger bank....
24th June 2022
The financial super app will bring its ‘responsible’ Pay Later to Europe, starting off in Ireland this week....
7th June 2022
The iPhone maker's expansion into financial services continues....
1st July 2022
The BNPL says fintechs have a duty to ‘do things differently’. ...
6th July 2022
The collaboration will start in Europe and the UK before expanding to other markets....
11th July 2022
The Swedish fintech's $800m funding round gives Klarna a post-money valuation of around $6.7bn....
4th July 2022
The ‘buy now, pay later’ giant was valued at $45.6bn in 2021....
30th June 2022
Seemingly avoiding the down-rounds and job cuts facing its larger rivals....
30th May 2022
Taking the total raised by Mondu since its founding in August 2021 to $57m....
23rd June 2022
The European fintech is aiming to reach one million businesses by 2025....
30th May 2022
Six months after launching in store payments in November, Clearpay is widening its offerings to more businesses....
9th June 2022
Alongside Zopa and Apple launching new BNPL products this week comes renewed calls for regulation....
5th July 2022
The challenger credit card is looking to rival the likes of Revolut, Monzo, Curve and Amex. ...
8th June 2022
The bank says it is “ushering in the era of BNPL 2.0” with its new service....
15th June 2022
The CEO also said if he’d wanted to IPO, he would have done it a decade ago....
17th June 2022
Falling further from the buy now, pay later lender’s last raise at a $45.6bn price tag....
29th April 2022
Zilch—and other buy now, pay later providers—have been working with the regulator ahead of regulation, which is being broadly welcomed across the sector....
27th June 2022
More than a decade into the digital disruption to financial services and banking, what actually does financial technology - better known as ‘fintech’ - mean? One CEO says its definition is quickly changing....
15th June 2022
The boss of the UK’s original fintech company sits down with AltFi to talk over its new ‘buy now, pay later’ proposition and how his goal of increasing revenue 10x is going....
22nd June 2022
The buy now, pay later firm has launched its new loyalty card feature, with cuts to its valuation looming....
8th June 2022
Financial app Curve is bringing automatic variable recurring payments to customers with the help of TrueLayer....
23rd May 2022
Tranch's new funding round is led by Flash Ventures and Global Founders Capital....
25th May 2022
Jamie Byles will be responsible for the BNPL’s risk management strategy going forward....
20th June 2022
The digital wealth manager cuts 12.6% of its workforce, joining Klarna, Curve and Freetrade in recent staff layoffs....
13th June 2022
CEO Alison Rose said the bank was looking at purchases in the wealth sector, which amid a downturn in the sector could make purchases more appealing....
27th April 2022
Shail Deep, TransUnion’s chief product officer, talked about the importance of trust in driving post-pandemic growth and also looking at changing consumer habits....
1st June 2022
After over a decade at the BNPL giant, Köppen is moving on to payments....
10th May 2022
According to Afterpay, 24% of consumers globally have now used buy now, pay later....
30th May 2022
Some 500,000 customers in its first seven months in the market....
13th June 2022
CEO Jaidev Janardana said the company is waiting for the “right moment” to go ahead with IPO....
31st May 2022
A big win for both fintechs....
3rd May 2022
Edward Maslaveckas CEO, Bud and Julia McColl, chief product officer, Chetwood Financial discuss where they would invest VC funds of £10m. ...
4th April 2022
Codebase Technologies says its “industry-first” buy now, pay later offering is “ready-made” and can be “fully customised” for banks, fintechs, lenders and retailers to launch in “just a few months”....
18th May 2022
Mollie’s millions of consumers will now have access to ‘socially responsible’ BNPL services with in3....
16th May 2022
Shail Deep, chief product officer at TransUnion in the UK, talks to AltFi about increased digitisation of finance, buy now, pay later (BNPL) and the cost of living crisis....
12th May 2022
Ruth Spratt becomes one of the most senior women in the BNPL sector....
26th May 2022
AltFi explores the concept of move-to-earn with Sweatcoin, and why crypto had always been in the company’s sights. ...
24th May 2022
Upgrade will see businesses instantly approved to buy now, pay later....
22nd March 2022
The high-street bank will launch its buy now, pay later venture in the summer, saying it's set to be the first high-street bank to move into the alternative credit sector....
20th May 2022
Less than 10 years after hitting 10 million users, the Swedish BNPL giant has grown by 15x....
1st March 2022
Buy now, pay later is here to stay and securing the bottom line and protecting your revenues from fraudsters is the task every BNPL platform must solve on its own....
3rd May 2022
Scalapay was founded and launched in 2019 to concentrate on BNPL’s growth in the fashion sector and has seen rapid growth since. ...
23rd May 2022
After a successful crowd fund in November, the fintech was valued at £650m....
19th May 2022
The CEO of the $33bn fintech said it is now much closer to an IPO and that it no longer needs to fund raise....
12th May 2022
Staff can come to the office, work remote, or even work abroad for up to 20 days a year....
18th May 2022
Meet the debt collection agency with over 1800 five star reviews and named the best place to work in Australia....
17th May 2022
For now the company has 150,000 pre-registered customers but its founder Philip Belamant and US CEO Albert Periu have big plans for growth....
20th May 2022
The ‘buy-now-pay-later’ giant last raised cash almost exactly 12 months ago when market sentiment was pointedly different to today’s volatile conditions....
13th May 2022
Whether you need a second opinion on tech or trainers, foundation or furniture, Klarna’s new virtual shopping tool might have you covered....
4th May 2022
Klarna will report the use of BNPL products and missed payments with UK credit reference agencies in a bid to help build credit scores and stop consumers from building up multiple lines of credit....
6th April 2022
Paysend says it is improving its customers’ financial health with two new products: Credit Builder and Pay Later. ...
26th April 2022
The division, which includes Ebury, generated €162m in revenue during Q1 alone....
1st April 2022
BNPL is set for consolidation with over 170 startups vying for dominance across segments, writes APEXX Global's Rodney Bain....
22nd April 2022
Previse has become the latest UK start-up to get investment from Chinese tech giant Tencent....
25th April 2022
The data from PitchBook shows that VC investment in the UK and Ireland continues to enjoy a purple patch, outpacing other European countries this year and that VC investment into European fintechs has enjoyed a strong start to 2022....
25th March 2022
MaxPay's Alexandr Mikhailenko unpacks some of the dominant themes for payment processing including rising fraud and BNPL. ...
16th February 2022
Experts say the arrival of big financial players into the buy now, pay later sector could further shine a light on regulatory standards....
15th February 2022
Even though the industry isn’t yet under the FCA’s supervision, it’s already making changes....
24th March 2022
The launch of an Apple card in the UK, a new buy-now-pay-later product, or a speculative land-grab or “acquihire”? AltFi investigates the motivations behind Apple’s newest acquisition. ...
14th March 2022
Younger adults, those in debt and those on Universal Credit were found to be twice as likely to use BNPL for basics such as food when compared with the broader population....
8th April 2022
The boss of Europe’s largest fintech business says a long term shift towards providing customers with better value products will concentrate the banking market into five or so very large global players. He wants to be one of them....
14th February 2022
We've reached almost universal acceptance that change is needed....
6th April 2022
After four and a half years at Klarna, Miyu Lee is joining Mondu as its chief legal officer and general counsel....
10th February 2022
Preparing for the upcoming explosion in pay later credit data sharing....
1st March 2022
As the number of ‘buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) schemes continues to rise, a new company has launched in the UK....
31st March 2022
‘Klarna Kosma’ an open banking sub-brand and business unit of the fintech giant is booming. ...
4th April 2022
Zopa expects to close 2022 with a £2bn balance sheet after hitting profitability for the first time....
18th March 2022
Zilch, founded in July 2018, said internal data showed it acquired more than 425,000 new customers in December alone, helping it reach the 2 million mark....
14th March 2022
Ken Villlum Klausen, Lunar CEO, and founder, tells AltFi about the bank's acquisition plans; hanging out with Hollywood luminary Will Ferrell, and ambitions of Scandinavian domination....
7th March 2022
TS Anil also said that Monzo is adding over 100,000 new users each month without paid marketing....
7th January 2022
Industry awaits FCA’s follow-up consultation later this year....
14th February 2022
Alma, which undertook a €49m funding round a year ago, has now raised a total of €180 million in equity and more than €100 million in debt financing....
24th February 2022
The equity and debt round pushes the Italian fintech above the $1bn valuation level making it Italy’s first fintech unicorn. ...
28th February 2022
The Swedish buy now, pay later giant’s net losses of £560m compared to losses of £110m the year previous....
11th March 2022
Capchase is rapidly expanding across Europe, entering new markets including the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Sweden and Denmark. ...
10th March 2022
A phenomenal increase on the £1bn price tag that Lendable reached in March 2021....
26th January 2022
Santander’s pay later challenger Zinia has already scooped up 2m users in Germany....
23rd February 2022
The Swedish company, Europe's most valuable fintech, has announced the expansion of its services in several markets....
11th January 2022
The specialist buy now, pay later lender has raised $150m since 2015....
11th February 2022
The research, commissioned by Klarna and carried out by YouGov, found that only six out of ten credit card users know how much interest they are charged....
21st February 2022
Geoffroy Guigou, co-founder and COO of the French fintech unicorn, tells AltFi why he chose to enter the credit space during the global financial crisis, and shares the secrets to the company’s success ahead of its UK expansion. ...
22nd February 2022
Tumbling share prices are weighing on certain fintech portfolio companies....
13th January 2022
Zilch believes its direct-to-consumer approach will be a point of differences to rivals like Klarna....
1st February 2022
The US fintech giant behind the Square and Cash apps is now a major player in the Buy Now Pay Later arms race. ...
3rd February 2022
As ‘buy now pay later’ (BNPL) financing becomes ever-more popular, some providers claim they are taking would-be customers from credit card issuers. But with FCA regulation on the horizon, might the sector’s growth be curbed? ...
25th November 2021
The fintech says it has stolen a march on the market, as its Tap and Pay is a speedier process than rival BNPL providers which its says require customers to generate a new code for each store transaction....
26th January 2022
Nandan Sheth replaces interim boss John Harper, who replaced Brad Paterson, who left in August last year....
7th February 2022
The figures published by KPMG reveal that UK fintech investment jumped to $37.3bn last year—up sevenfold from the year previous, powered by several mega-deals including major raises by Checkout.com and Revolut....
28th January 2022
Could Apple challenge Zettle and Square’s dominance on the high street?...
10th February 2022
Further extending its lead as ‘Europe’s most valuable fintech’....
5th January 2022
The rise of BNPL companies was one of the biggest fintech trends of 2021. New players are still entering the space, however....
13th January 2022
It offers a technology which connects acquirers, gateways, shopping carts, alternative payments methods and buy now, pay later products through a single API....
26th November 2021
The data reveals that 28 per cent per cent of the adult population made at least one buy now, pay later purchase in October this year, compared to 23 per cent in December last year....
1st February 2022
Klarna, Checkout.com and Revolut are all decacorns while N26 is treading on their toes with a valuation north of $9bn....
20th December 2021
Amazon has teamed up with Barclays and called its buy now, payer later venture "Instalments". Unlike other buy now, pay later providers, it will charge interest over the payment period....
26th January 2022
Klarna is bringing BNPL instore with the launch of a physical card in the UK following rollouts in Sweden and Germany and ahead of the US....
13th January 2022
The bank is aiming at helping near-prime customers build credit....
27th January 2022
Klarna says Festgeld+ offers "highly competitive" interest rates of up to 1.15 per cent but it's unlikely to launch in the UK soon....
14th January 2022
A look back at fintech in 2021 and some of the most eye-catching quotes in the second half of the year from the stories we published....
17th November 2021
Further blurring the line between credit and BNPL....
24th January 2022
Monzo, Starling, Revolut, Klarna and Cashplus said they will allow staff flexibility on their working arrangements, as government WFH guidance is axed....
14th December 2021
Backed by Autotec and Jaguar Land Rover, Bumper plans to expand across Europe....
30th December 2021
Eye-catching IPOs, high-profile appointments and exits and big-ticket fundraises were amongst the stories which captured the headlines in the second half of 2021....
10th January 2022
A look back at the world of fintech in 2021 and some of the most arresting quotes in the first half of the year from the stories we published....
13th January 2022
Retailers using Railsbank’s BNPL product will be able to offer their customers credit services directly, without needing to route via a third-party provider....
29th December 2021
Fintechs brushed aside Covid and got on, as best they could, with the day-to-day running of their businesses in the first half of the year....
21st December 2021
Shareholders will cast the deciding vote on 14 January....
4th January 2022
2021 saw some major fintech IPOs, but hopes of 2022 matching or eclipsing last year's performance appear to be fading....
3rd December 2021
Research conducted by the 300-year-old bank suggests many consumers are unaware of the details surrounding BNPL products. ...
14th December 2021
Partnership will let merchants offer open banking payments at checkout....
29th November 2021
Monzo said that following early customer feedback, the digital bank is offering users the option of using the virtual Flex card for contactless in-store payments....
13th December 2021
Klarna says data show men are outspending women busting a popular misconception that it is female consumers who are the big spenders and driving its growth....
23rd November 2021
Automatic currency conversion means retailers can instantly open up their storefronts to US shoppers....
23rd December 2021
We chart the top 5 AltFi articles that were most popular with readers over the last 12 months—including ‘vertical’ bank cards, Lanistar’s woes, and even more Revolut....
25th October 2021
Billie has quadrupled its valuation to $640m....
7th December 2021
UK in-store shoppers will be able to use Klarna’s ‘pay in 3 payment options’ for beauty purchases only at present but further departments are set to roll out Klarna’s payment options in the coming months. ...
6th December 2021
Klarna, N26, Revolut, Mollie and SumUp all undertook mega funding rounds in 2021....
21st October 2021
Expectations of a new regulatory framework for BNPL providers has ratcheted up in 2021 as the sector continues to boom. ...
25th November 2021
Research from BNPL provider Butter suggests spreading the cost of holiday spend is becoming more popular....
12th November 2021
Limited edition packs of cards can be won in a raffle....
21st September 2021
CEO Robert Stafler wants to help B2B businesses offer their own pay later options....
11th October 2021
The co-founder of Metro Bank, Atom Bank and 86 400 has a new gig....
15th October 2021
Buy now, pay later's stellar growth shows the importance of customer experience in today's banking battleground, writes Alexa Guenoun Chief Operating Officer at Temenos....
11th November 2021
Crypto and buy now, pay later customers helped lift Marqeta's transactions to a record high....
4th October 2021
Upgrade will let its customers split the cost of their purchase over four months with its new product....
18th October 2021
The Swedish fintech Klarna has made a major expansion to its strategy in the UK to offer instant payments as it looks to diversify its services and deepen its relationship with users. ...
2nd November 2021
All of PriceRunner’s 170 employees will join Klarna’s 4,000-strong staff as part of the deal....
9th November 2021
Irish consumers will join 90 million global users of Klarna in being able to split purchases into three instalments with no interest or fees ...
7th October 2021
A real David and Goliath story of the fintech world....
24th September 2021
Zip has taken a minority stake in its Indian rival ZestMoney....
1st November 2021
Yes, it’s just a ‘concept’ at this stage....
26th October 2021
Retailers using Stripe can now activate Klarna as the preferred payment method in their checkout within minutes, providing a superior shopping experience to consumers. ...
14th September 2021
DivideBuy says it is on track to hit c£175m in Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) by the end of 2021. ...
27th October 2021
A valuation of between £3bn and £4bn is anticipated, marking a significant jump for the neobank....
20th September 2021
And if not, neobanks may need a Plan B....
1st September 2021
BNPL provider Laybuy launches app-exclusive shopping giving customers access to hundreds of brands – including Amazon, eBay, ASOS and Nike....
9th September 2021
The round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from Baleen Capital and Woodson Capital. The new investors join existing investors Fasanara Capital and Ithaca Investments. ...
21st October 2021
Founded in 2017, Updraft is already aiming to lend £200m next year....
30th September 2021
Zilch is growing at rates of up to five times more than its competitors in some sectors. ...
14th October 2021
An additional 4.8m Europeans will be exposed to Raisin DS’s deposit marketplace....
13th October 2021
The world of fintech is making its way onto the global financial stage....
22nd September 2021
Only in the US for now, but PayPal steps closer to becoming a financial powerhouse....
8th October 2021
Peeled connects non-financial brands and a marketplace of lenders, allowing the former to embed consumer finance into the customer experience. ...
3rd September 2021
Citizens Advice says it fears for many people BNPL can be a slippery slope into debt. ...
30th September 2021
The fintech has also more than doubled its employee numbers and added more than a million customers in the past year....
14th October 2020
Another option of how to pay, later....
31st August 2021
Open banking-based payments have not yet emerged as a truly competitive alternative to mainstream methods such as credit cards but change might be starting, writes Nick Raper, Director at Nuapay UK ...
17th September 2021
Both Monzo and Curve launch launched their respective ‘buy now, pay later’ products…on the same day...and they are both called Flex. ...
6th September 2021
High octane growth in the sector is impressive but clarity is needed as to how, when or if new regulation is coming. ...
17th September 2021
Youngest woman in Europe to be promoted to GP in a VC firm....
14th September 2021
The British Business Bank has published a list of the 158 companies in which the Future Fund holds an equity stake. A large number are fintech firms. ...
2nd February 2021
The FCA is planning a regulatory overhaul to the BNPL sector following incredibly strong growth in recent years....
31st August 2021
Customers of Amazon in the US will soon have the option to embrace 'buy now, pay later' services via a new partnership with Affirm....
27th July 2021
Coadec laid out five suggestions for the FCA to better regulate the BNPL sector....
23rd August 2021
Embedded finance truly is everywhere—in shopping apps, taxi services, lending and food delivery to name a few, but what exactly is it?...
11th August 2021
BNPL provider Zilch will begin to put down roots in the US thanks to its acquisition of commercial lender NepFin....
19th August 2021
Butter was founded in 2017 by Timothy Davis, Stefan Hobl and Nik Haukohl. ...
16th August 2021
What do Starling Bank, Checkout.com, Klarna and PensionBee have in common? They’re all fintechs of course....
2nd February 2021
Following months of speculation about a regulatory overhaul, fintech leaders react to the Government’s decision to pursue stricter rules for BNPL. ...
22nd September 2020
A move that could dramatically scale-up Laybuy's retailer reach....
10th August 2020
Alex Marsh, senior analytics director at Klarna, reveals how it has seen changes in consumer behaviour under lockdown and what’s next for the fintech. ...
7th June 2021
The updated app is already live in the UK, US, Australia and Sweden, where it is used by over 6.5 million people on average each month....
12th August 2021
Fintech’s IPO bonanza means many firms are now required to update on their progress in driving revenue. So far the news is impressive. ...
10th November 2016
Travel specialist UpLift brings fintech-powered point-of-sale service to major travel brands. ...
29th July 2020
The debt facility has been provided b Victory Park Capital and comes amid plans for Laybuy to re-launch its IPO....
12th August 2019
Klarna founder and chief executive Sebastian Siemiatkowski is preparing the fintech for further moves into banking services....
23rd December 2020
The four adverts were posted at the beginning of the UK’s first national lockdown, between April and May 2020....
11th July 2019
New Zealand’s largest digital buy now, pay later app launched in March with its first partnership with Footasylum....
23rd March 2021
A dig back through the AltFi archives to take a look at the past year in lockdown....
24th May 2021
With more than five fintechs tripling their valuations in recent months, is it safe to say that once is chance, twice is a coincidence and the third time is a pattern?...
18th December 2020
Looking ahead over the next 12 months, the AltFi editorial team predict what could be in store for alternative lenders. ...
12th November 2016
Short term lender Avant to close down debt management platform just one year after acquiring it. ...
11th March 2019
New Zealand’s largest buy now, pay later service says it is taking on the Swedish fintech giant with a partnership with Footasylum....
7th June 2017
Australia's property bubble will burst, debts should be forgiven, we should learn from Hyman Minsky ...
22nd January 2018
Phillip Toth of Oberon Securities makes the case for securitisation in online lending. ...
29th May 2018
Freshly valued at $3bn, crypto finance company Circle tries to build infrastructure for what it calls the new global economy. “It was not happening, so someone had to start doing it.”...
10th June 2020
Another reason to buy now, but pay later....
27th December 2019
It's not all unicorns and funding rounds, here are the startups that were wound-up in 2019 and caught our attention....
4th February 2021
AltFi caught up with LendInvest founder and executive chairman, Christian Faes to chat about what he thinks 2021 holds for fintech and if Australia will be the next fintech hub. ...
20th April 2021
Lunar will absorb Lendify’s loan book as the digital bank cements its position as a one-stop-shop for banking in the Nordics. ...
5th August 2015
Recent developments in finance challenge regulators around the world. Fintech companies are on the rise, and it is not clear what kind of new rules are needed. To shed light on these issues, one of the authors behind Jonathan McMillan gave a speech at the GovKnow conference on “The Future of Financial Services - Governance, Regulation and Accountability” in London....
13th April 2018
OakNorth has gone from start-up to unicorn in a flash – but what do investors see in the challenger bank?...
14th June 2017
ZipMoney might become one of the few Aussie fintechs to turn a profit...
17th January 2017
“We’re living in a transformational era for financial services. Our children will look back at these past decades and laugh at how we banked” -- Bradley Leimer Head of Innovations at Santander....
21st February 2014
Zopa celebrates 10 years in business next year and everyone else in the p2p industry should doff their caps to the founder members for being brave, innovating and creating a new market....
20th February 2014
Geoff Miller is a man in a hurry. The former investment analyst and fund manager is now quietly but aggressively building an Alternative Finance powerhouse out of a London listed business called GLI Finance, where he's now CEO....
22nd June 2020
Georgadze on the impact of coronavirus, US expansion and what the future might hold for fintech. ...
20th June 2019
The FCA says technology is dramatically changing the markets it regulates and blurring regulatory boundaries in a new report into its activities....
2nd April 2020
The UK challenger said it fast-tracked the launch due to the coronavirus, with crypto trading today and gold by the end of April....