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Metro Bank appoints Richard Saulet as MD consumer finance

9th February 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Freetrade appoints Deutsche Bank director to board

10th January 2023 | Daniel Lanyon

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

9th December 2022 | Oliver Smith

Starling Bank introduces crypto transaction ban

23rd November 2022 | Oliver Smith

Tandem Bank appoints new CFO and CRO to the executive committee

22nd November 2022 | Will McCurdy

Cynergy Bank hires four new executives

13th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

UK Banks to shutter joint telephone payment system Paym

4th October 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

First lenders accredited for new iteration of Recovery Loan Scheme

11th August 2022 | Oliver Smith

NatWest launches new pocket money app

25th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Bank North gears up for launch

17th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

The history of Open Banking: Birth of a billion-dollar revolution

12th April 2022 | John Reynolds

Govt urged to swap steering committees for "action" to deliver national fintech strategy

6th April 2022 | John Reynolds

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

28th March 2022 | John Reynolds

UK’s first neobank for first-time buyers readies for launch

23rd March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

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

22nd March 2022 | John Reynolds

Monese appoints Alistair Bennett as new chief product officer

22nd March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Tide's open banking initiative attracts 1,000 business customers in "just a few weeks"

7th February 2022 | John Reynolds

BCR celebrates 1,100 jobs created and £1.9bn in investment raised by grant winners

30th November 2021 | Oliver Smith

Top marks: Starling switched the most SME customers as part of the BCR’s Incentivised Switching Scheme

22nd July 2021 | Oliver Smith

Credit Kudos adds ex-Barclays exec to its senior team

30th June 2021 | Aisling Finn

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

24th June 2021 | John Reynolds

Embedded finance is "going to change the world forever", says ClearBank boss

23rd June 2021 | John Reynolds

Fintechs must "adapt to the market" or face failure, says Just Cashflow executive chairman

22nd June 2021 | John Reynolds

The AltFi View on the ‘buy vs build’ debate: Nutmeg adds some spice

21st June 2021 | AltFi

US private credit marketplace Finitive hires Asstez Capital co-founder to lead Europe expansion

25th May 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

Northern challenger bank B-North strengthens team with five senior hires

17th May 2021 | Aisling Finn

Lloyds digital chief Louise Smith takes over as Innovate Finance chair

13th May 2021 | Oliver Smith

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 fintech flanker brands: Demise seems inevitable

15th March 2021 | AltFi

CEO of Moneyhub Samantha Seaton appointed to TISA open finance committee

9th February 2021 | Aisling Finn

Onfido returns £5m BCR cash

5th February 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

NorthRow confirms new CEO

22nd January 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

The fintechs that went out of business in 2020

5th January 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

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

Anne Boden raised “hundreds of millions” for secret ABN Amro transaction bank bid

17th November 2020 | Oliver Smith

Tide and ClearBank CEOs on their winning partnership, Bounce Back woes and supporting SMEs

9th November 2020 | Aisling Finn

Banking On It review: “No one can label you a failure when what you are trying to do is audacious”

5th November 2020 | Aisling Finn

Yobota launches embedded finance for banks to spin out new brands

29th October 2020 | Daniel Lanyon

ClearBank to offer multi-currency bank accounts via API

17th September 2020 | John Reynolds

BCR boss Godfrey Cromwell to hand over the baton this September

2nd July 2020 | Oliver Smith

Funding Xchange outs itself as first BCR Pool E applicant

29th June 2020 | Oliver Smith

BCR extends SME switching scheme deadline by 6 months

23rd June 2020 | Oliver Smith

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

The sincerest form of flattery? All the times big banks nicked ideas from fintech

2nd June 2020 | Aisling Finn

BCR expects more awardees to revise business cases as £100m Pool E launches

21st May 2020 | Oliver Smith

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

15th May 2020 | Oliver Smith

RBS innovation chief exits to lead proptech Coadjute

4th May 2020 | Aisling Finn

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

4th May 2020 | John Reynolds

RBS to wind down ‘Monzo challenger’ Bó less than six months after launching

1st May 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

“The days of the branch are numbered”: Starling’s Anne Boden on how coronavirus could change the face of banking

21st April 2020 | Aisling Finn

More BCR chaos: Nationwide returns £50m, new £100m BCR Pool announced

3rd April 2020 | Oliver Smith

Fintech firms led by 2008 veterans: What can we learn from the last recession?

31st March 2020 | Aisling Finn

Countingup introduces ledgers to unify banking and accounting

26th March 2020 | Oliver Smith

Revolut appoints city veterans Michael Sherwood and Ian Wilson to its board

5th March 2020 | Aisling Finn

BCR admits “more needs to be done” to reach SME switching target

3rd March 2020 | Oliver Smith

Exclusive: ex-Funding Options CEO joins Starling Bank

3rd March 2020 | Daniel Lanyon

Here are the UK’s 5 leading banking-as-a-service providers

3rd March 2020 | Oliver Smith

Tide nears 150,000 customers in battle for SME customers

28th February 2020 | Aisling Finn

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

14th February 2020 | Aisling Finn

ThinCats plots push into healthcare lending with new hire and fund

5th February 2020 | Daniel Lanyon

Bó replacing up to 30,000 customer cards after Strong Customer Authentication oversight

5th February 2020 | Oliver Smith

Lloyd’s of London snaps up former Head of Intelligent Automation at RBS

4th February 2020 | Aisling Finn

RBS a "bit late" launching Bó but analysts believe it won't be canned

4th February 2020 | John Reynolds

Now's the time for high street banks to innovate, or else

28th January 2020 | Oliver Smith

CEOs of Starling Bank, Tide, ComplyAdvantage and Habito among first speakers of AltFi’s London Summit 2020

28th January 2020 | Oliver Smith

Holvi throws its app into UK digital business banking ring

27th January 2020 | Oliver Smith

Bó boss bounced: RBS reorg to see Mark Bailie out just months after launch

22nd January 2020 | Oliver Smith

Newly launched fintechs hoping to disrupt the market in 2020

15th January 2020 | John Reynolds

Five fintechs that had a tough 2019

8th January 2020 | John Reynolds

Which UK and European fintech startups raised the most money in 2019

7th January 2020 | John Reynolds

Creating the next big thing in savings

6th January 2020 | Amy Gavin

OakNorth and British Business Bank bosses make New Years Honours’ list

30th December 2019 | Daniel Lanyon

The fintech firms that went out of business in 2019

27th December 2019 | Oliver Smith

2019 In Fintech And Alternative Finance: Part 1

23rd December 2019 | Oliver Smith

Starling teams up with legal service to expand Business Marketplace offering

9th December 2019 | John Reynolds

Assetz makes raft of hires as it nears £1bn of lending

6th December 2019 | Daniel Lanyon

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

27th November 2019 | John Reynolds

Monzo appoints ClearBank top executive as its new Chief Risk Officer

30th October 2019 | John Reynolds

Tide secures £44.1m in its “first round” of Series B funding

7th October 2019 | Oliver Smith

Northern Ireland gets new fintech envoy

7th October 2019 | Daniel Lanyon

NatWest banking blooper reveals wrong accounts

30th September 2019 | John Reynolds

Breaking: Funding Options CEO Conrad Ford and MD Ryan Edwards-Pritchard step down

19th September 2019 | Oliver Smith

Business banking service Tide unveils £9.99/month subscription

19th September 2019 | Oliver Smith

Tide allows firms to sign up online

6th September 2019 | Roger Baird

Digital banks on track to treble customers . . . but profits harder to come by

3rd September 2019 | Roger Baird

Treasury’s bank referral scheme provides alternative loans for just 6pc of small firms

30th August 2019 | Roger Baird

LendingCrowd makes senior hires to boost client ‘face-to-face relationships’

28th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Atom Bank boss Mark Mullen: 'Banks in a hurry are taking risks or cutting corners'

22nd August 2019 | Roger Baird

First Direct, Metro top customer satisfaction charts - digital banks fail to make the cut

19th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Atom Bank, iwoca, Currencycloud and Modulr Finance to split £40m in BCR cash

14th August 2019 | Oliver Smith

5 things we learnt from Starling’s 2019 Annual Report

13th August 2019 | Oliver Smith

Nationwide to open London digital innovation hub

2nd August 2019 | Roger Baird

Ezbob scoops prize for bank sign-up service

1st August 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech Tips: Open Banking in 4 easy steps

30th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Starling beats Tide to offering multi-director business accounts

25th July 2019 | Oliver Smith

Nationwide’s ClearBank tie-up heralds the arrival of a new “flanker” bank

24th July 2019 | Oliver Smith

In the wake of loan book scandal Metro Bank hires “chief transformation officer”

23rd July 2019 | Oliver Smith

FCA cleared Lendy despite concerns about mis-selling loans

22nd July 2019 | Roger Baird

City regulator jeered by scandal victims

18th July 2019 | Roger Baird

NatWest launches video calls for small business customers

3rd July 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech Tips: Four things we learnt about mobile banking this week?

3rd July 2019 | Roger Baird

Challenger banks drive for growth leaves them ‘vulnerable’ to no-deal Brexit, says report

26th June 2019 | Roger Baird

LendingCrowd hires compliance head after tough FCA rule changes

20th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Funding Xchange strikes small business lending deal with ezbob

20th June 2019 | Roger Baird

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

19th June 2019 | Oliver Smith

Tide poised to overtake Co-Operative Bank after hitting 85,000 SME customers

17th June 2019 | Oliver Smith

Funding Options and others share £25m from RBS competition fund

14th June 2019 | Roger Baird

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

12th June 2019 | Oliver Smith

Three million small firms want help managing finances, says report

3rd June 2019 | Roger Baird

RBS-backed Loot collapses into administration

23rd May 2019 | Roger Baird

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

21st May 2019 | Oliver Smith

Nationwide, Investec and Co-op win £80m from RBS Competition Fund

14th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Funding Options and Experian bid for slice of RBS £775m bank competition fund

10th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Countingup hits 13,000 business banking customers as it enters the fray for RBS Competition Fund cash

26th April 2019 | Oliver Smith

Discouraged demand and SME advice gap take the limelight at alternative finance industry roundtable

25th April 2019 | Oliver Smith

iwoca reached £74m of lending in Q4 2018, as high street banks retreat

25th April 2019 | Oliver Smith

The Challenger: Coconut’s Sam O’Connor

18th April 2019 | Oliver Smith

Exclusive: Tide to launch company formation in UK banking first

17th April 2019 | Oliver Smith

NatWest backs speciality finance venture capital fund

16th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Funding Options hires former banker as commercial director

10th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Monzo may see valuation hit £2bn after fresh US backing

8th April 2019 | Roger Baird

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

8th April 2019 | Roger Baird

No surprise: Britain’s SMEs are thinking more about fintechs, but aren’t quite convinced

1st April 2019 | Oliver Smith

Worldpay expands in Australia and launches in New Zealand

29th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Digital banks snub photo cheque imaging system

27th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Metro faces struggle to keep hold of £120m growth fund

25th March 2019 | Roger Baird

AltFi Insights: Here’s which SME challenger bank is winning

25th March 2019 | Oliver Smith

The Challenger: Tide’s Oliver Prill

21st 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

Starling plans to remove two big roadblocks for business customers in 2019

11th March 2019 | Oliver Smith

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

8th March 2019 | Oliver Smith

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

5th March 2019 | Oliver Smith

Assetz Capital pulls in £10m to 90-day account in one week

1st March 2019 | Roger Baird

Open Banking may lead to BigTech’s dominance of an unstable financial services industry

27th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Banks £350m fund to switch RBS customers goes live

26th February 2019 | Roger Baird

OakNorth lines up payments tie-up with ClearBank

25th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Starling, Metro Bank and ClearBank seize £280m from the RBS Competition Fund

22nd February 2019 | Oliver Smith

Machine learning: Part of Europe’s consumer loans business

19th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Assetz Capital tops £700m lending milestone

15th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Starling raises £75m and prepares for European drive

13th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Former Assetz Capital founder launches fintech consultancy

8th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Tide targets 16 per cent market share if it scoops RBS bailout cash

30th January 2019 | Roger Baird

Revolut hires compliance specialist ClauseMatch ahead of global push

29th January 2019 | Roger Baird

Ultimate Finance lends record £1.4bn to small firms

29th January 2019 | Roger Baird

P2P property lending platform hires former RBS exec

15th January 2019 | Roger Baird

Challengers Tide and ClearBank bid for RBS bailout cash

15th January 2019 | Roger Baird

A year in fintech & alternative finance: part 2

14th January 2019 | Roger Baird

A year in fintech & alternative finance: part 1

11th January 2019 | Roger Baird

More than half of US banks say digital banking top priority

9th January 2019 | Roger Baird

Starling’s Boden expecting one million customers in 2019

8th January 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech rising star poached by Barclays

8th January 2019 | Roger Baird

RBS app-only bank Bó takes second bite out of Loot

7th January 2019 | Roger Baird

Monzo boss banks gong

7th January 2019 | Daniel Lanyon

Challenger banks flexed their muscles in 2018

7th January 2019 | Roger Baird

Starling Bank appoints new head of SME banking

12th December 2018 | George Geddes

How traditional banks can fend off challengers with a ‘segment of one’ marketing strategy

23rd November 2018 | Karen Wheeler

Monzo to enter business banking with RBS fund bid

22nd November 2018 | Ryan Weeks

Interview: the team that made Mettle

16th November 2018 | Ryan Weeks

Digital business banking arms race heats up

14th November 2018 | Ryan Weeks

P2P sector responds to bank lobbying revelations

7th November 2018 | Ryan Weeks

Fintech lender becomes first to connect to UK bank via Open Banking

31st October 2018 | Daniel Lanyon

Challenger consultancy enters banking-as-a-service market

15th October 2018 | Ryan Weeks

Report shows fintech sector flourishing with $40bn in M&A action

8th October 2018 | George Geddes

Challenger banks: a familiar face with a new disguise?

6th October 2018 | Lewis Hill

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

Open Banking pioneer Bud wins slice of government’s ‘rental recognition’ prize

15th August 2018 | Ryan Weeks

Growth Street CEO: the open marketplace model is the key to winning RBS fund rewards

27th July 2018 | Ryan Weeks

Pollen Street Capital to fund Esme loans

26th July 2018 | Ryan Weeks

Metro Bank posts H1 results, seeks £300m through share placement

25th July 2018 | George Geddes

Business lender Growth Street to join Starling marketplace

19th July 2018 | Ryan Weeks

Hermes: How to successfully tap Europe’s rich direct lending pipeline

3rd July 2018 | Patrick Marshall

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

21st June 2018 | Daniel Lanyon

OakNorth: Brexit creates opportunity to reform banking regulation

24th May 2018 | Ryan Weeks

Hermes launches European Direct Lending Fund

16th May 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

Starling Bank partners with Samsung for mobile payments

1st May 2018 | Emily Nicolle

The great fintech handout

26th April 2018 | David Stevenson

Metro Bank reports Q1 growth as shares fall

25th April 2018 | Ryan Weeks

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

24th April 2018 | Emily Nicolle

Starling seeks business banking lead, eyes major slice of RBS fund

24th April 2018 | Ryan Weeks

Large P2P lending platforms see increased competition from smaller firms

18th April 2018 | Daniel Lanyon

ING-backed money app Yolt hits 250k users

16th April 2018 | Emily Nicolle

Starling Bank CEO criticises Treasury RBS bidding war

12th April 2018 | Emily Nicolle

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

Nationwide is developing a robo-advice platform

6th December 2017 | Daniel Lanyon

Banks are “underestimating” fintech threat, warns Bank of England

28th November 2017 | Daniel Lanyon

Open Banking Will Unlock the Door for Digital-Only Banks

24th November 2017 | Lewis Hill

Fintechs must collaborate with banks if UK is to stay on top post-Brexit

20th November 2017 | Emily Nicolle

RBS is set to roll out robo advisor via Natwest

17th November 2017 | Emily Nicolle

Yields, defaults and Brexit: Hermes’ 2018 outlook for direct lending

14th November 2017 | Daniel Lanyon

Scottish Enterprise partnership with LendingCrowd yields promising results

7th November 2017 | Emily Nicolle

Seedrs launches programme for financial intermediaries in equity crowdfunding

2nd November 2017 | Emily Nicolle

Is RBS’s online lender a “massive corporate fudge”?

9th October 2017 | Ryan Weeks

Hermes: Origination is key to success in direct lending

8th August 2017 | Patrick Marshall

Former RateSetter wholesale lending partner George Banco to be acquired

4th August 2017 | Ryan Weeks

The latest craze in fintech: layered banking

25th July 2017 | Ryan Weeks

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

19th July 2017 | Andy Davis

PayPal hits £400m mark in advances to UK businesses

19th June 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

JP Morgan to roll out robo adviser by end of year

10th April 2017 | AltFi

What does the perfect bank look like?

24th March 2017 | Ryan Weeks

RBS mulls mortgage robo advice service, shuts 158 branches

23rd March 2017 | Moriah Costa

ClearBank launches, and says its making UK banking history

28th February 2017 | Lisa Walls-Hester

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

How fintech companies put the ‘service’ back into ‘financial services’

13th February 2017 | Richard Prime

The big banks and wealth managers that invested in robo advice in 2016

6th January 2017 | Moriah Costa

Funding Circle passed the same stress test that RBS just failed

1st December 2016 | Ryan Weeks

Hermes’ Marshall: What to expect from your direct lending fund in 2017

21st November 2016 | Daniel Lanyon

Invoice financing firm Factor 21 completes MBO backed by private equity

16th November 2016 | Daniel Lanyon

What is CCDS, and what does it mean for the alternative finance sector?

11th November 2016 | Ryan Weeks

All change at Proplend

6th October 2016 | Ryan Weeks

Bank referral scheme to go live early next quarter

23rd September 2016 | Ryan Weeks

Hermes Investment Managment launches direct lending push in tie-up with RBS

15th September 2016 | Daniel Lanyon

Exclusive: VPC hires Liberum’s Cormac Leech

22nd August 2016 | Daniel Lanyon

Lloyds to close 200 branches as customers move online

28th July 2016 | Ryan Weeks

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

27th July 2016 | Ryan Weeks

Brexit – Don’t Panic Mr. Mainwaring! Alternative finance funds in good shape

28th June 2016 | Graham Glass

“It’s all about the long game” – An interview with Property Partner boss Daniel Gandesha

9th June 2016 | Ryan Weeks

Pre-empting responses to Andrew Tyrie MP – Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee

2nd June 2016 | Ryan Weeks

“It’s Time to Reimagine Banking”

16th March 2016 | Martin Ijaha

RateSetter Provision Fund Revelations Spark Online Debate

18th February 2016 | Sam Griffiths

Market Jitters

8th January 2016 | David Stevenson

A “meaningful” platform-bank partnership?

6th January 2016 | Ryan Weeks

Alternative lending fund lists on London stockmarket

30th December 2015 | David Stevenson

ESF Capital Acquires Controlling Stake in ThinCats

8th December 2015 | Ryan Weeks

Partnerships, IPOs and Overseas Expansion – An Interview With Zopa’s New CEO

11th September 2015 | Ryan Weeks

Zoning in on Fraud Prevention

8th September 2015 | Ryan Weeks

P2P lenders are setting new standards in finance and banks have much to learn

14th August 2015 | David Pope

Challenger Bank to Lend Through Zopa

19th May 2015 | Ryan Weeks

Unique Platform-Bank Alliance Forms

13th May 2015 | Ryan Weeks

Research suggests Invoice Financing Market “Plagued by Bad Practice”

7th May 2015 | Ryan Weeks

A Market “Plagued by Bad Practice”

21st April 2015 | Ryan Weeks

AltFi Down Under: InvoiceBid

18th March 2015 | Georgina McCreadie

Do Australian Banks get the Fintech revolution? Hartzer at Westpac does.

3rd February 2015 | Glenn Hodgeman

The AltFi Frontline: The Platform Parts Shop

3rd February 2015 | Ryan Weeks

Funding Circle Roars Past the Half Billion Mark

27th January 2015 | Ryan Weeks

RBS to Refer Businesses to P2P Sector

22nd January 2015 | Ryan Weeks

A New Mover in the Property Crowdfunding Space

20th January 2015 | Ryan Weeks

Platforms Respond to Continued Decline of Small Business Lending

21st October 2014 | AltFi

RBS Poised to Enter P2P Space

20th October 2014 | AltFi

The banks’ ageing technology is failing the test of time

1st August 2014 | Tim Simon

What lies ahead for ‘peer-to-business’ lending in the UK?

25th June 2014 | Conrad Ford