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Augmentum Fintech doubles money on Cushon investment after NatWest sale

5th June 2023 | Daniel Lanyon

Muse hires Natwest’s Julie Ashmore as COO

26th May 2023 | Daniel Lanyon

NatWest plans £1bn injection into UK manufacturing to aid net zero transition

26th May 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Open Banking Forum 2023: Meet the Speakers

16th May 2023 | AltFi

ClearBank and Code First Girls partner to close fintech gender gap

17th March 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

There are more female founders than ever. Why are they only getting 6% of VC funding?

27th February 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Australia should learn from UK’s Open Banking Implementation Entity, NatWest and NAB agree

24th February 2023 | Oliver Smith

Car finance fintech Carmoola full speed ahead with £95m NatWest debt facility

23rd February 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

JP Morgan-backed workplace pensions provider Smart hits £5bn in platform AUM

21st February 2023 | Oliver Smith

NatWest to expand workplace pension and ISA offering with £144m Cushon acquisition

14th February 2023 | Oliver Smith

Nine major banks invest $45m in carbon credit network Carbonplace

9th February 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

NatWest and the Heard shine a spotlight on women in fintech with media training

1st February 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Ex-NatWest director Marion King chosen as new Open Banking Implementation Entity chair and trustee

24th January 2023 | Oliver Smith

Open Banking celebrates five years as big 6 UK banks complete rollout

13th January 2023 | Oliver Smith

NatWest CEO receives damehood and FinTech Scotland chair recognised in New Year Honours

3rd January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Exclusive: NatWest-backed fintech Updraft closes £108m debt and equity Series A

16th December 2022 | Oliver Smith

United Fintech acquires Cobalt to bolster foreign exchange and digital asset offering

15th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Innovate Finance chair Louise Smith to lead Stripe’s UK board of directors

9th December 2022 | Oliver Smith

Bank of London appoints former ClearBank finance chief as CFO

6th December 2022 | Oliver Smith

NatWest invests €65m in Dutch fintech Floryn

26th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

NatWest launches BaaS business

21st October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Kraken poaches rival Gemini Europe’s boss Blair Halliday

14th October 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

NatWest partners with VC fund to support Black entrepreneurs

13th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

NatWest partners with StepChange to offer SMEs debt advice

12th October 2022 | Will McCurdy

For the planet’s sake … Ditch the toxic banking culture

10th October 2022 | Hannah Duncan

Wise and TrueLayer amongst fintechs attending the Conservative Party conference

4th October 2022 | John Reynolds

UK Banks to shutter joint telephone payment system Paym

4th October 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

Fintech execs at NatWest entitled to a year off for fatherhood

26th September 2022 | John Reynolds

Starling defends Bounce Back Loan record

7th September 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

Atom Bank accredited under new iteration of the Recovery Loan Scheme

2nd September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

NatWest's Payit hits £1bn open banking payment processing milestone

15th August 2022 | John Reynolds

Hold on to your deposits

15th August 2022 | Ralph Rogge

First lenders accredited for new iteration of Recovery Loan Scheme

11th August 2022 | Oliver Smith

NatWest appoints ex-Deutsche Bank exec as a chief information officer

11th August 2022 | Will McCurdy

Yapily joins the Variable Recurring Payments party

2nd August 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

UK Bounce Back Loan data puts Metro Bank and other lenders in the spotlight

29th July 2022 | Oliver Smith

Monzo and Starling in the top five most switched to banks with CASS

28th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Can we trust banking’s new wave of carbon tracking features?

21st July 2022 | Will McCurdy

HSBC challenger Kinetic tops £2m SME loans in first three months, as competition in space heats up

18th July 2022 | John Reynolds

NatWest launches free digital carbon planner

30th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

NatWest eyes digital wealth acquisitions amid sector slowdown

13th June 2022 | John Reynolds

Open Banking Forum 2022: Meet the Speakers

1st June 2022 | Annie Tuckwell

NatWest launches new pocket money app

25th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

GoCardless reveals first Variable Recurring Payment customer

17th May 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

Bank North gears up for launch

17th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Token lands $40m to scale open banking payments in Europe

16th May 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

Mastercard exec jumps ship for leadership role at open banking provider GoCardless

4th May 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

NatWest to offer VRP as a payment option via TrueLayer, GoCardless and Crezco

4th May 2022 | Oliver Smith

Buy now, pay later 'validated by arrival of high-street banks'

29th April 2022 | John Reynolds

Microsoft strikes Banking-as-a-Service deal with Finastra

12th April 2022 | John Reynolds

FCA to hire 80 new staff as part of three-year strategy to shut down ‘problem firms’

8th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

NatWest’s small business bank Mettle hits 50k customers

29th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

NatWest ceases to be majority Government owned, following £1.2bn share sale

28th March 2022 | John Reynolds

NatWest and Meta partner to support female entrepreneurs

24th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

NatWest to enter buy now, pay later sector, pledging to make it "better" and "safer"

22nd March 2022 | John Reynolds

NatWest launches Carbon Tracker app pilot now for SMEs

21st March 2022 | Oliver Smith

Lendable reaches £3.5bn valuation as Ontario Teachers Pension Plan invests £210m

10th March 2022 | Oliver Smith

The biggest barrier facing female entrepreneurs

8th March 2022 | Judith Hartley

NatWest continues to flex variable recurring payment muscle with Payit demo

7th March 2022 | Oliver Smith

Women overtake men in UK start-up volumes, NatWest data show

1st March 2022 | Liza Tetley

Proptech Generation Home raises £1bn in debt financing

1st February 2022 | John Reynolds

Moneyhub snaps up two senior hires including NatWest exec

19th January 2022 | John Reynolds

Merchant Money gets £150m funding line boost as joins RLS

10th January 2022 | John Reynolds

The fintechs that went out of business in 2021

30th December 2021 | Oliver Smith

Allica Bank joins government-backed Recovery Loan Scheme

23rd December 2021 | John Reynolds

Metro Bank latest bank to be hit with fine over financial wrongdoing

22nd December 2021 | John Reynolds

Mettle CEO exits to join blockchain foundation

17th December 2021 | John Reynolds

NatWest and TrueLayer push ahead with open banking’s first variable recurring payment

16th December 2021 | Oliver Smith

High street banks see profits soar in post-Covid-19 surge

3rd November 2021 | Aisling Finn

NatWest pours £72m into Updraft’s financial freedom app

21st October 2021 | Oliver Smith

NatWest vows to fund £100bn of eco-friendly finance to combat climate change

14th October 2021 | Aisling Finn

Finance giants to gather in London for UK’s Global Investment Summit

13th October 2021 | Aisling Finn

NatWest pockets RoosterMoney, the savings app for kids

8th October 2021 | Oliver Smith

Fintechs have raised more than double so far in 2021 than they did in the whole of 2020

6th October 2021 | Aisling Finn

NatWest and Amazon launch open finance challenge to spur innovation

10th September 2021 | Oliver Smith

NatWest launches ‘Housemate’ app to make splitting bills less painful

25th August 2021 | Aisling Finn

Lucky for some: Starling adds 13th member to its exec team with first chief asset management officer

18th August 2021 | Aisling Finn

How are big banks’ UK challenger brands faring in 2021?

5th August 2021 | Oliver Smith

Nationwide debuts brilliant ‘dot and notch’ recycled cards to help customers with sight loss

4th August 2021 | Oliver Smith

Big banks must adopt a long-term view when backing digital start-ups, says Mettle boss

24th June 2021 | John Reynolds

Core banking group Ohpen solidifies UK presence with latest hire

18th June 2021 | Aisling Finn

Generation Home scoops $30.4m Series A and £300m debt facility in bumper raise

16th June 2021 | Aisling Finn

The AltFi view on partnerships: It’s a fintech love-in

31st May 2021 | AltFi

FCA sandboxes: A fifth of firms that participate in the programme have gone out of business

26th April 2021 | Aisling Finn

The AltFi view on customer service: Stay humble fintech

12th April 2021 | AltFi

The AltFi view on fintech flanker brands: Demise seems inevitable

15th March 2021 | AltFi

Exclusive: NatWest shutters flanker brand Esme Loans

12th March 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

NatWest launches SME open banking payments refunds with Northern Rail deal

25th February 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

CEO of Moneyhub Samantha Seaton appointed to TISA open finance committee

9th February 2021 | Aisling Finn

UK regulator calls on banks to reconsider wave of branch closures

29th January 2021 | Aisling Finn

Can fintech help the free school meals debacle?

15th January 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

New data show UK fintech apps’ popularity peaked in 2019

13th January 2021 | Aisling Finn

2020 in Fintech and Alternative Finance: Part 1

29th December 2020 | Oliver Smith

Santander ranked last for Open Banking speed among high street banks, Yapily data shows

14th December 2020 | Aisling Finn

Starling Bank CEO Anne Boden: Pandemic helping fintechs win customers

29th October 2020 | Aisling Finn

Starling Bank tops the tables for current account switching

29th October 2020 | Aisling Finn

Atom Bank teams up with SurePay to fight financial crime and misdirected payments

21st October 2020 | Aisling Finn

NatWest targets sustainability as it pilots carbon emission calculator

28th September 2020 | Aisling Finn

Tink continues path to European domination by acquiring OpenWrks' account aggregation platform

21st September 2020 | Aisling Finn

Open Banking is designed for competition, but that doesn’t mean it’s a contest

16th September 2020 | Lars Trunin

Credit Suisse set to challenge the challengers with its own digital bank

11th September 2020 | Aisling Finn

Crowdcube scopes out investors to take part in Curve's £100m raise

9th September 2020 | Aisling Finn

Fluidly adds cashflow funding options from Funding Circle, Esme, NatWest and iwoca

7th September 2020 | Oliver Smith

JP Morgan set to challenge the challengers with 2021 UK bank launch

24th August 2020 | Aisling Finn

Mastercard partners with Pollinate to help serve SMEs across the globe

14th August 2020 | Aisling Finn

Banked partners with British Airways to help customers collect Avios

6th August 2020 | Aisling Finn

Starling Bank looking to raise up to £35m with two new BCR grants

3rd July 2020 | Aisling Finn

NatWest launches new open banking payments service

25th June 2020 | Daniel Lanyon

Confirmation of Payee finally arrives in the UK this month to foil fraudsters

9th June 2020 | Oliver Smith

Starling’s ‘Connected Card’ endorsed by the Royal Voluntary Service and Scope

3rd June 2020 | Aisling Finn

NatWest becomes the first bank to launch... a video game?

15th May 2020 | Oliver Smith

Starling Bank set to join Barclays and Lloyds as an accredited lender under Bounce Back Loan scheme

4th May 2020 | John Reynolds

NatWest nabs former Lloyds Bank executive as Chief Transformation Officer

27th April 2020 | Aisling Finn

RBS mimics Starling Bank with spare debit card for Covid-19 vulnerable

27th April 2020 | John Reynolds

Thincats and Paragon Bank in new wave of lenders added to coronavirus loans panel

27th April 2020 | Oliver Smith

UPDATE: Here are the side projects fintechs are launching to ease strain of coronavirus

14th April 2020 | Aisling Finn

Will coronavirus turn big banks towards fintech?

13th April 2020 | Aisling Finn

NatWest to offer Mettle customers free access to accountancy platform FreeAgent

6th April 2020 | Aisling Finn

What is Barclays' fintech strategy?

16th March 2020 | Aisling Finn

Monzo and Starling Bank win big at the British Bank Awards

13th March 2020 | Aisling Finn

Budget 2020: £1bn boost for lenders signed up to British Business Bank’s Enterprise Finance Guarantee

11th March 2020 | Oliver Smith

NatWest pledges £5bn to SMEs for coronavirus support

10th March 2020 | Aisling Finn

Metro Bank strikes deal with banking software provider Ezbob

10th March 2020 | John Reynolds

RBS to rebrand as NatWest, Marieke Flament appointed CEO of Bó

14th February 2020 | Aisling Finn

Fintech should be disrupting exorbitant overdrafts

11th February 2020 | Daniel Lanyon

NatWest poaches former Growth Street Commercial Director for Rapid Cash CEO position

6th February 2020 | Aisling Finn

Swedish fintech Tink secures biggest funding round to date

20th January 2020 | John Reynolds

Newly launched fintechs hoping to disrupt the market in 2020

15th January 2020 | John Reynolds

Iwoca reports over 1,200 underserved businesses applying for Christmas loans

6th January 2020 | Oliver Smith

2019 In Fintech And Alternative Finance: Part 1

23rd December 2019 | Oliver Smith

NatWest debuts Tink-powered spending analytics

10th December 2019 | Oliver Smith

Esme Loans hits £100m of lending mark to SMEs

5th December 2019 | John Reynolds

RBS officially launches digital bank Bó and says it has signed up around 3,500 customers

27th November 2019 | John Reynolds

HSBC poised to launch app-only SME bank Kinetic

15th November 2019 | Oliver Smith

Household bill service Onedox shuts after hitting subscription “roadblock”

14th November 2019 | Oliver Smith

NatWest integrates with Xero to boost lending

13th November 2019 | Daniel Lanyon

Tink poaches Stripe’s Rafael Plantier to lead UK and Ireland

7th November 2019 | Oliver Smith

NatWest debuts instant asset financing up to £250,000

28th October 2019 | Oliver Smith

NatWest banking blooper reveals wrong accounts

30th September 2019 | John Reynolds

NatWest launches speedier Faster Payment service for financial institution customers

24th September 2019 | John Reynolds

Esme Loans increases maximum loans from £150,000 to £250,000 for SMEs and scale up businesses

17th September 2019 | John Reynolds

Esme Loans originates £10m in a month, reaching £70 million of lending to UK SMEs

23rd August 2019 | Daniel Lanyon

Ezbob scoops prize for bank sign-up service

1st August 2019 | Roger Baird

Monzo and Starling captured soaring numbers of account switchers last quarter

25th July 2019 | Oliver Smith

Fintech Tips: How to avoid a bank scam... 3 ways technology can help, but it’s still down to you

23rd July 2019 | Roger Baird

Lendable lands £200m Goldman Sachs funding line

16th July 2019 | Roger Baird

NatWest-backed Esme hits £60m lending milestone

9th July 2019 | Roger Baird

NatWest launches digital small business working capital product

5th July 2019 | Roger Baird

NatWest launches video calls for small business customers

3rd July 2019 | Roger Baird

NatWest “flanker” bank Mettle poaches Circle's Marieke Flament as CEO

19th June 2019 | Oliver Smith

Norway financial giant DNB to “extend” £3m investment in bank builder 11:FS

13th June 2019 | Oliver Smith

Outages at UK banks and card processors stop Brits paying in their tracks

12th June 2019 | Oliver Smith

Lendable secures £500m in funding lines from NatWest and others

11th June 2019 | Oliver Smith

Under fire from fintech: 1 in 10 European banks to vanish by 2023

21st May 2019 | Oliver Smith

Swedish fintech Tink to take over NatWest’s app money management

9th May 2019 | Oliver Smith

Esme Loans hits £50m of loans to UK small firms

29th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech banks Monzo and Starling see huge uplift in account switchers as confidence grows in disruptors

26th April 2019 | Daniel Lanyon

Rejoice! NatWest finally ditches card reader for business customers on mobile

16th April 2019 | Oliver Smith

NatWest backs speciality finance venture capital fund

16th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Starling Bank Review - April 2019

12th April 2019 | Oliver Smith

Funding Options hires former banker as commercial director

10th April 2019 | Roger Baird

AltFi Insights: New bank applications and online shopping hollow out high street bank network

8th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Here’s how UK fintech responded to Apple Card

26th March 2019 | Oliver Smith

Anne Boden says the dream of Open Banking “didn't really happen”, teases Starling’s credit card is coming soon

20th March 2019 | Oliver Smith

British Bank Awards see Starling, Monzo, Zopa, Freetrade, Chip and Bud take home gold

8th March 2019 | Oliver Smith

Praetura Commercial Finance secures £10m from investment house

6th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Esme Loans strikes AI deal with Microsoft

5th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Yolt launches ‘Yolt Pay’ to test Open Banking’s latest feature

5th March 2019 | Oliver Smith

NatWest launches account aggregation as Open Banking takes hold

25th February 2019 | Oliver Smith

Praetura secures £75m lending facility from NatWest and RM Funds

14th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Former Assetz Capital founder launches fintech consultancy

8th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Natwest rolls out Esme loans to SME customers

17th January 2019 | Daniel Lanyon

A year in fintech & alternative finance: part 2

14th January 2019 | Roger Baird

Business lender iwoca expands Open Banking connections

12th December 2018 | George Geddes

P2P sector responds to bank lobbying revelations

7th November 2018 | Ryan Weeks

Challenger consultancy enters banking-as-a-service market

15th October 2018 | Ryan Weeks

Six million Barclays customers to get access to new Open Banking feature

12th September 2018 | Ryan Weeks

Assetz Capital names ex-banker as new chief risk officer

29th August 2018 | Daniel Lanyon

Pollen Street Capital to fund Esme loans

26th July 2018 | Ryan Weeks

FCA reveals blockchain and crypto-heavy fourth sandbox cohort

3rd July 2018 | Daniel Lanyon

Exclusive: “We want to originate €1bn to SMEs per year,” says BNP Paribas AM

21st June 2018 | Daniel Lanyon

Santander to launch standalone digital bank

14th May 2018 | Ryan Weeks

Challenger bureau claims lead in Open Banking ‘rollout race’

9th May 2018 | Ryan Weeks

NatWest to plough ahead with online lender Esme

3rd May 2018 | Ryan Weeks

CastleTrust CEO Sean Oldfield exits

26th April 2018 | Daniel Lanyon

RBS plans to move 1m users to new challenger bank, says report

24th April 2018 | Emily Nicolle

MarketInvoice partners with NatWest

11th April 2018 | Daniel Lanyon

Esme joins Funding Circle, Iwoca, Seedrs and Assetz in Natwest panel

7th February 2018 | Daniel Lanyon

Kreditech partners up with Mambu

12th January 2018 | Emily Nicolle

An interview with Mambu’s CEO Eugene Danilkis - “The UK is the fintech hub of Europe”

20th December 2017 | Daniel Lanyon

RBS is set to roll out robo advisor via Natwest

17th November 2017 | Emily Nicolle

PropTech Lending: High Tech vs. Old-School Underwriting

6th November 2017 | Robert Stafler

An interview with Esme – RBS's answer to online lending

19th July 2017 | Andy Davis

Equity crowdfunder Seedrs joins NatWest referrals scheme

30th May 2017 | Ryan Weeks

PayU and iwoca launch SME partnership in Poland

24th May 2017 | Moriah Costa

The job creation contradiction in fintech

19th May 2017 | Ryan Weeks

What young people want from fintech

11th May 2017 | Ryan Weeks

What does the perfect bank look like?

24th March 2017 | Ryan Weeks

Marketplace lending news roundup 27/02/17

27th February 2017 | Daniel Lanyon

P2P lending news midweek roundup

22nd February 2017 | Daniel Lanyon

Natwest takes on Funding Circle with new SME lending platform Esme

21st February 2017 | Daniel Lanyon

Negative interest rate warning highlights “need for competitive” business finance sector

27th July 2016 | Ryan Weeks

InvoiceX no need to be sitting in Sydney nor Melbourne

22nd June 2015 | Glenn Hodgeman

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