Wise

Wise (formerly TransferWise) is a financial company for people that travel, live and work internationally. It makes sending money overseas up to 8 times cheaper than the bank. With over 6 million customers moving £4 billion every month, it’s the fairest, easiest way to manage your money across borders.



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Articles Featuring Wise

LHV Bank lands UK banking license 

4th May 2023 | Daniel Lanyon

Atlantic Money completes EU launch of fx service

10th February 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Wise alumni raise €4m for regtech startup Salv

26th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Fintech’s biggest hires and departures of 2022

3rd January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Fintech is slowly becoming profitable

29th November 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

Lightyear and LHV partner for instant Euro payments

9th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Wise lands £300m debt funding line

28th October 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

Lightyear set to launch UK and European stocks and ETFs

15th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Fintech leaders give verdict on new PM Liz Truss

6th September 2022 | John Reynolds

Wise fined £300k in Abu Dhabi after AML failure

31st August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Atlantic Money expands to Euro transfers

23rd August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Meet the UK’s 26 fintech unicorns

15th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Customers complain about Wise rise in fees

8th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Shares bags another $40m for social investing app

25th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Atlantic Money goes live after $3m seed top up

22nd July 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

New money transfer challenger secures EU licence

28th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Kroo lands full banking licence

27th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Lightyear nabs European license

8th March 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

LHV submits UK banking licence application

25th February 2022 | Oliver Smith

Wise and Klarna drag down Chrysalis NAV by 5.6%

22nd February 2022 | Oliver Smith

Lightyear expands into social investing

8th February 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

Wise rebounds with ballooning Q3 revenues

19th January 2022 | John Reynolds

Which fintechs might go public in 2022?

4th January 2022 | John Reynolds

2021 in Fintech and Alternative Finance: Part 2

30th December 2021 | John Reynolds

The fintechs that went out of business in 2021

30th December 2021 | Oliver Smith

2021 in Fintech and Alternative Finance: Part 1

29th December 2021 | John Reynolds

Fintech helps London enjoy a bumper year for IPOs

23rd December 2021 | John Reynolds

Thought Machine signs up Polish bank to Vault platform

16th December 2021 | John Reynolds

Modularbank reveals new name

1st October 2021 | Aisling Finn

Open Banking: Action required to avoid UK falling behind

27th September 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

Huge UK price cuts for Wise’s international transfers

14th September 2021 | Oliver Smith

Railsbank poaches new chief product officer from Wise

6th September 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

Zopa reportedly eyeing pre-IPO £100m fundraise

27th July 2021 | Aisling Finn

Wise sees revenue soar in 2021

20th July 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

Stripe is prepping for a blockbuster IPO: Report

9th July 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

Wise announces direct London listing

17th June 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

Klarna eyes up London for upcoming IPO

19th May 2021 | Aisling Finn

Bottlepay launches Twitter Bitcoin payments feature

18th March 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

Wise appoints first female directors to board

17th March 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

Receipt Bank rebrands to Dext as it passes 1m users

24th February 2021 | Oliver Smith

TransferWise reveals new name

22nd February 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

Fintech regulation to watch out for in 2021

25th January 2021 | Aisling Finn

The AltFi team’s Digital Wealth predictions for 2021

22nd December 2020 | Oliver Smith

The fintechs that quit the UK in 2020

21st December 2020 | Daniel Lanyon

Open Banking: The firms battling to win in 2021

14th December 2020 | Oliver Smith

TransferWise and Mastercard deepen partnership

20th August 2020 | Aisling Finn

Fintech Founders: Where are they now?

24th July 2020 | Aisling Finn

Codat raises $10m, sets sights on US expansion

12th June 2020 | Aisling Finn

Fintech founders back new $820m Atomico fund

18th February 2020 | Aisling Finn

Visa shells out $5.3bn for Silicon Valley startup

14th January 2020 | John Reynolds

Fintech trends to look out for in 2020

9th January 2020 | Daniel Lanyon

British invasion: The UK fintechs taking on the US

2nd January 2020 | Daniel Lanyon

2019 In Fintech And Alternative Finance: Part 2

24th December 2019 | Oliver Smith

The Challenger: Plum's Victor Trokoudes

4th December 2019 | John Reynolds

Fintech investor Merian ups holding in TransferWise

27th November 2019 | John Reynolds

The Challenger: bunq's Ali Niknam

14th October 2019 | John Reynolds

MoneyBox Review - September 2019

2nd September 2019 | Daniel Lanyon

Robinhood given green light by UK regulator

8th August 2019 | Oliver Smith

Checkout.com hires payments veteran for US push

7th August 2019 | Roger Baird

N26 valued at $3.5bn after new investment

18th July 2019 | Roger Baird

London Tech Week: The Fintech Inside Track

10th June 2019 | Russ Shaw

Fintechs dominate Future Fifty start-up stars

27th March 2019 | Roger Baird

AltFi’s most-read stories from 2018

7th January 2019 | Roger Baird

Interview: the team that made Mettle

16th November 2018 | Ryan Weeks

Digital business banking arms race heats up

14th November 2018 | Ryan Weeks

New planning app launches with big-name backers

5th October 2018 | Ryan Weeks

AI-powered and millennial favourite, Cleo raises $10m

23rd September 2018 | Daniel Lanyon

TransferWise founder invests in chatbot Cleo

1st May 2018 | Emily Nicolle

Starling Bank adds Wealthify to marketplace

25th April 2018 | Emily Nicolle

A (Very Brief) intro to Modern Portfolio Theory for robo advice

20th March 2018 | Daniel Tammas-Hastings

Risks and rewards for P2P platforms to scale up their operations via the IFISA

9th February 2018 | Jonathan Rogers & Peter Wilson

Investly launches Seedrs crowdfunding campaign

29th January 2018 | Emily Nicolle

Fintech firm Bud partners up with Western Union

23rd November 2017 | Emily Nicolle

The Fintech opportunity in London

14th November 2017 | Will Bailey

Transferwise drops fees for UK customers

23rd October 2017 | Emily Nicolle

Defining excellence in digital banking

20th October 2017 | Ryan Weeks

Against the odds, businesses are embracing fintech

25th September 2017 | Daniel Lanyon

Is an M&A boom imminent for UK fintech?

15th September 2017 | Harry Holmes

What will Roboadvice Mark 2 look like?

11th August 2017 | David Stevenson

Meet the company behind Nutmeg’s ISA

31st July 2017 | Moriah Costa

CB Insights publishes fintech list

29th June 2017 | David Tuckwell

Fintech should improve as well as disrupt

16th March 2017 | James Codling

Plum announces partnership with Ratesetter

22nd February 2017 | Lisa Walls-Hester

7 Lessons in Launching a FinTech

8th June 2016 | Toms Niparts

Responding to Lord Turner

10th February 2016 | David Stevenson

Bondora Conforms on Default Strategy

24th August 2015 | Henry Thomas

Investly gains Equity Investment

17th February 2015 | Georgina McCreadie

A New Mover in the Property Crowdfunding Space

20th January 2015 | Ryan Weeks

A New Estonian P2B Platform Emerges

19th August 2014 | AltFi