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Articles By Amelia Isaacs

Checkout.com bolsters US expansion to rival Stripe with new president

3rd February 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

PayPal to lay off 2000 employees to cut costs

2nd February 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Zopa secures £75m to kick off 2023 M&A

2nd February 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

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

1st February 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Stripe reportedly nearing a $3bn raise

1st February 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Frasers Group launches new BNPL product with Tymit

31st January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Moneyfarm and M&G Wealth launch digital investment app

31st January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

UK Treasury is on the hunt for a head of central bank digital currency

31st January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

LiveMore secures £250m credit facility from Citi

31st January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Augmentum invests €3m into German insurtech Baobab

30th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt wants to turn the UK into “the world’s next Silicon Valley”

30th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Marqeta appoints its CPO Simon Khalaf as new CEO

27th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

N26 appoints Arnd Schwierholz as new CFO

27th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Copper appoints former chancellor Philip Hammond as chair

26th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Lloyds Bank invests £4m in car management app Caura

26th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Wise alumni raise €4m for regtech startup Salv

26th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Klarna launches spending year-in-review feature ‘Money Story’

25th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Mollie promotes CTO Koen Köppen to CEO

25th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Twinco raises $12m for next-gen supply chain finance platform

25th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Plum expands into another five European countries

25th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

LendInvest and British Business Bank partner to help build more homes

24th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Rent-to-own fintech Keyzy secures £3m to help the UK’s first-time buyers

24th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Moneyfarm appoints former Virgin Money CEO as chair

23rd January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Metro Bank enters the world of digital car loans

23rd January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

October secures €35m to bring its SME V fund to €100m

20th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

PrimaryBid appoints Fiona Richards as chief operating officer

20th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

HyperJar appoints ex-Morgan Stanley head of tech as CEO

20th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Mangopay reports 35 per cent growth in 2022

19th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Nova Credit becomes UK’s first cross-border credit reference provider

19th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

All the fintechs that turned profitable in 2022

19th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Lightyear launches in-app access to earnings calls for retail investors

18th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Fintech unicorn Paddle cuts 8% of jobs

17th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

ClearBank appoints former Barclays exec as CFO

17th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Royal Park Partners appoints ex-HSBC strategist as senior director

17th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

The US is now Klarna’s biggest market

16th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut is assembling a new team to address its workplace culture

16th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Danish SME neobank kompasbank raises €12m

13th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Stripe cuts internal valuation to $63bn

13th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

JP Morgan says fintech fabricated millions of customers and sues founder

13th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

BNPL Mondu adds $13m to last year’s Series A

12th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

ClearScore launches open banking-based service for lenders

12th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Tide appoints ex-Meta product director as first CPO

11th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Coinbase cuts 20% of jobs in second round of layoffs

11th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Penta co-founder raises €3m for Swiss payments fintech

10th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Superscript bags £45m Series B to “transform” SME insurance

10th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Starling Bank profits expected to quadruple this year

6th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Celsius founder sued for defrauding investors of billions of dollars

6th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Ashman Bank expands senior management team ahead of 2023 launch

6th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Coinbase to pay $100m settlement to New York regulators

5th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

N26 CFO Jan Kemper steps down

5th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Visa and Enfuce pilot prepaid cards for refugees in France

4th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Twig acquires French challenger bank for teens Vybe

4th January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

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

3rd January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Fintech’s biggest hires and departures of 2022

3rd January 2023 | Amelia Isaacs

Here are Europe’s biggest fintech funding rounds of 2022

30th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

AltFi’s 10 most-read stories of 2022: Part 2

29th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

AltFi’s 10 most-read stories of 2022: Part 1

28th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Exclusive: Ukrainians launch alternative fractional investment startup Investables

23rd December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Bank of London appoints Gavin Hewitt as group CFO

22nd December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Exclusive: OBE launches ‘Pass the Mic’ campaign to find the female stars of fintech

21st December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Sarah Cardell named first female CMA CEO

20th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

EY ups fintech investment with London incubator

19th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Wise launches ‘Interest’ to rival ‘old-school’ savings accounts

16th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

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

15th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Atom Bank quits Twitter

15th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Checkout.com knocks down internal valuation to $11bn

14th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Metro Bank fined £10m by FCA for misleading investors

13th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

WealthKernel to power educational investment platform for teens tendy

13th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Starling set to create 1,000 jobs in new Manchester office

12th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

GoHenry partners with Seccl to power junior ISA

9th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Moneyfarm acquires Profile Pensions and hits £3bn in assets

8th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Zopa keeps hiring and boosts salaries amid fintech layoffs

7th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

CapitalRise processes £50m of loans in record week

6th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Kroo launches 2% interest current account

5th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut races past 25m retail customers

17th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Mastercard extends inclusive card options across Europe

16th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Checkout.com expands to Israel and launches R&D hub

16th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Railsr partners with Featurespace to fight fraud

15th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Divido appoints Gareth Lloyd-Owen as new CPO

15th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Does Elon Musk want to make Twitter a bank?

14th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Bibby secures £1bn to support SMEs

14th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

SVB strengthens partnership with Founders Forum Group

14th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Debite launches direct to bank payments for early-stage companies

11th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

JP Morgan and MasterCard modernise payments with ‘Pay-by-Bank’

11th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

11:FS and Griffin are bringing embedded finance to UK businesses

11th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Creditshelf partners with Goldman Sachs and hits profitability

10th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Starling bolsters support for bereaved customers through partnership with Settld

10th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

FCA threatens BNPL bosses with jail time and fines as Laybuy nears profitability

9th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Lightyear and LHV partner for instant Euro payments

9th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Mangopay appoints Ronen Benchetrit as CTO

9th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Ex-Tink employees raise €5m seed for startup Atlar

8th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Molo launches ‘Savings Booster’ to lower buy-to-let mortgage costs

8th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

The biggest help to green lending? Incentivisation.

8th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

OakNorth completes £6.5m funding to consumer debt advice provider MoneyPlus

7th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut Poppy cards return after raising £100k last year

7th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Zopa CEO: ‘The Fintech Pledge was new but the idea was always in our DNA’

4th November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Zilch hits 3m users in 24 months

3rd November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Tandem Bank launches hub to help consumers make greener choices

2nd November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut edges one step closer to superapp status with Revolut Chat

2nd November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Form3 secures €23m in venture debt funding

2nd November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Insurtech Cover Genius raises $70m Series D

1st November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Irish payments firm Strikepay strikes deal with TrueLayer

1st November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut customers can now trade almost 100 different crypto tokens

1st November 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

It’s time to start paying with crypto on Revolut

31st October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

eToro charges forward with Bullsheet acquisition

28th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut and Sweatcoin partner for free premium account promotion

28th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Pariti founder Matthew Ford’s new startup Sidekick raises £3.33m

27th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

10 more fintechs join Zopa and ClearScore in 2025 Fintech Pledge

27th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Raisin partners with ClearBank for embedded banking

27th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

NatWest invests €65m in Dutch fintech Floryn

26th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Wise set to expand investment services across Europe with Estonian license

26th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Meet Wealthyhood: the new investing app for millennials

26th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Global Processing Services appoints Kim Ohlrogge as new chief product officer

25th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Fluro adds a series of new hires to its leadership team

25th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Plum hits crowdfund target in just eight hours, raises £1.7m

24th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

NatWest launches BaaS business

21st October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Atom Bank appoints Andrew Marshall as new CFO

21st October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Plaid launches crypto wallet as first web3 product

21st October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

N26 launches crypto trading product with Bitpanda integration

20th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Nubank launches its own cryptocurrency Nucoin

20th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Amazon launches UK home insurance store

19th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut launches cashback holiday home rental service to rival Airbnb

19th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Insurtech Lukango raises £275k pre-seed

19th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Capital on Tap secures £100m funding

18th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Invoice financing platform Crowdz picks GoCardless for open banking payments

18th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Brits turn to fintech to tackle cost-of-living crisis

18th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Ex-Meta VP becomes Stripe’s head of revenue

17th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Funding Circle appoints new chief technology officer Greig McEwan

17th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Marqeta appoints former WorldFirst CEO Jeff Parker as SVP and managing director

17th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Klarna CEO calls out Martin Lewis for slamming Deliveroo BNPL options

14th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

BlueSnap and BitPay partner to offer crypto acceptance and payout

14th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Apple to launch high-yield savings account with Goldman Sachs

14th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

BNPL Mondu scores €20m in debt financing from VVRB

14th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Charles Delingpole hands over CEO reins of ComplyAdvantage to Vatsa Narasimha

13th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Cynergy Bank hires four new executives

13th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

NatWest partners with VC fund to support Black entrepreneurs

13th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

MarketFinance expands B2B BNPL with £30m credit facility

12th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Bunq introduces real time budgeting to help users tackle cost-of-living crisis

12th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

LHV UK to acquire Bank North’s SME lending after shutdown

11th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

ComplyAdvantage and Resistant AI partner to extend fraud protection

11th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Once upon a time: N26 wanted to buy Bitpanda

10th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Almost 25% of SMEs have considered closing following mini budget

10th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Innovate Finance launches startup academy for founders and CEOs

7th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Shares scores win with Serena and Venus Williams’ investment

6th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Mollie bolsters supervisory board with ex-Check24 CEO Christoph Röttele

5th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Zopa reportedly in talks to raise $100m ahead of IPO

4th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Payhawk launches business credit cards

4th October 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

FCA commits to reducing regulatory burden facing UK businesses

28th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Tech rental unicorn Grover locks in another €270m in funding

28th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

British Business Bank’s results show £12.2bn of financing

28th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Allica Bank hits profitability

27th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Say hi to the world’s first NFT customisable card

27th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Stripe enables crypto payouts for freelancers in USDC

26th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Moneyfarm launches fixed allocation portfolios

26th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

What does the Chancellor’s “mini budget” mean for fintech?

26th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Klarna cuts jobs a second time after CEO said layoffs were done

23rd September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Tech Nation adds Yapily, Zilch and YuLife to its growth programme

22nd September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Moneybox appoints Smith Forte as first chief product officer

22nd September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Zopa and ClearScore partner to tackle cost-of-living crisis

21st September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut launches Pay Later in Ireland

21st September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Digital mortgage broker Habito raises £5m

20th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Tesseract co-founder Alan Chang: “I wouldn’t leave Revolut for any other job in the world”

20th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Former Starling exec wins unfair treatment claim

16th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Lightyear set to launch UK and European stocks and ETFs

15th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

WealthKernel adds ex-Embark and Nucleus execs to senior team

15th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Claimer raises $4.2m to help startups claim government financing

14th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Unicorn Tipalti continues European expansion

14th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

VC firm Northzone raises €1bn

13th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

‘Crypto was always on the roadmap’: Sweatcoin’s CEO talks new SWEAT token

13th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

JP Morgan acquires payments fintech to rival Stripe and Block

13th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Everything you need to know about Sweatcoin’s crypto launch

12th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

UK fintech trade mission arrives in Australia

9th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Pleo and Yapily partner to boost business cash flow

8th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

ClearBank appoints Andrew Barker as new chief revenue officer

8th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Early Revoluters raise $78m for energy startup Tesseract

8th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Meet Kwasi Kwarteng: Liz Truss’s new Chancellor

7th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Allica Bank targets £500m of committed loan offers by end of year

7th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

UK to open 13 new shared banking hubs

6th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

UBS scraps $1.4bn deal for robo-adviser Wealthfront

6th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Paysend bolsters leadership team with new CFO

5th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

10% of households now in arrears on utility bills, data shows

5th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Crypto lender Celsius seeks to return $50m to locked out users

5th September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Atom Bank accredited under new iteration of the Recovery Loan Scheme

2nd September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Republic completes $100m acquisition of Seedrs for European expansion

2nd September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Zepz appoints Mark Lenhard as Group CEO

1st September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

SumUp enters B2C space with digital wallet launch

1st September 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Wise fined £300k in Abu Dhabi after AML failure

31st August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

German fintech Justhome raises €3.3m to help more people become homeowners

31st August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

No more excuses: there’s now a women in fintech speaker index

30th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Trussle-owner Better.com plans fourth layoff in under nine months

30th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Railsr to offer specialist fintech insurance with new partnership

26th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Zopa hits £2bn in savings

25th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Mastercard and Binance are bringing Bitcoin to the high street

25th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Atom Bank says four-day work week has been “overwhelmingly positive”

24th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Exclusive: Revolut launches scholarship to get more women into tech

24th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

GB Bank secures banking licence

24th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Juni bolsters leadership team with ex-Zilch exec

24th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

PensionBee launches new tech apprenticeship programme

23rd August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Square enters the BNPL space in UK with Clearpay

23rd August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Atlantic Money expands to Euro transfers

23rd August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Neobanks lead the charge on 3% savings rates

22nd August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

iwoca’s CEO on three reasons why small businesses need to use open banking

16th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Meet the UK’s 26 fintech unicorns

15th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Starling stays on the ball with £28k donation for women footballers

12th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Wise partnership with Plaid gives customers access to 6000 US apps

11th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

QED Investors ventures into Africa, backing Nigerian fintech

11th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Open banking Oversight Committee takes next step with creation of working group

10th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Former chancellor Lord Hammond to join £1bn fintech fund

10th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Zopa boosts interest rates to top of the rankings

9th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Bank of London to bring 350 new jobs to Charlotte with new tech hub

9th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

BNPL users expected to hit 900m by 2027

8th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Customers complain about Wise rise in fees

8th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Concerns rise for SMEs as Bank of England warns UK will enter recession

5th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Recognise Bank appoints Jean Murphy as CEO

4th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

The Sweat Economy raises $13m to onboard the next billion walk to earn crypto earners

4th August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Robinhood lays off 23% of staff as retail investing slows

3rd August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Paysafe hires Rob Gatto as its first chief revenue officer

3rd August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

WealthOS partners with TrueLayer to bring open banking to wealth management

2nd August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Starling scores a marketing win with Women's Euro England triumph

2nd August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Clearco lays off 25% of staff

1st August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Exclusive: Chip launches alternative asset investments as it acquires Koia’s customer base

1st August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

BNPL a “lifeline” for 58% of consumers battling cost of living crisis

29th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Metro Bank approaches breakeven as losses narrow

29th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Lightyear expands product range with new price alerts feature

28th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Wise drives expansion with new chief people officer

28th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

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

28th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

CMA calls out Monzo for breaching banking rules

27th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Paragon Bank hits milestone £10bn in savings deposits

27th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Nationwide invests in rent-to-own fintech Kettel Home

26th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Plaid launches VRP to save UK businesses up to £1.5bn

26th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Shares bags another $40m for social investing app

25th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

British Business Investments appoints Judith Hartley as CEO

22nd July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Moneyhub and Pennyworth partner to democratise financial planning

22nd July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Exclusive: Currensea hits crowdfunding target in just two hours, raising £2m

20th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Yapily appoints chief people officer to support expansion

19th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Landbay and Phoenix Group launch new funding partnership

19th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut launches latest celeb collaboration with YouTubers the Sidemen

19th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Meet the women bringing “Nordic excellence” to the UK payments scene

18th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Payments giant Stripe cuts internal valuation by 28%

15th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Mastercard partners with caregiver to launch debit card for people living with dementia

15th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Tulipshare reports 133% rise in users

14th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Tink upgrades payment stack with settlement accounts

13th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

London Stock Exchange backs review of fintech growth

13th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut launches ‘learn and earn’ crypto courses

12th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Kadmos raises €29m Series A to streamline payments for migrant workers

12th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

BUX rebrands trading app to Stryk

12th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut’s only female exec becomes latest to leave the company

11th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Meet the creator behind London’s quirkiest NFT: Goth Girlfriends’ No Face

11th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Banking start-up set to launch plugin overdraft joins LSE

8th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Starling Bank launches Bills Manager for small businesses

7th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

American Express appoints new UK Country Manager

7th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Nadhim Zahawi becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer amid minister resignations

7th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut teams up with Stripe to support payments in Europe

6th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Chip and TrueLayer partner to improve savings experience

6th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Knight Frank launches Currensea card for employee charity donations

5th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut moves into stores with physical card readers

5th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Yonder joins competitors Revolut and Monzo in the travel insurance space

5th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Former Wealthsimple Europe CEO joins Moneybox as MD

4th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Klarna valuation slashed again to $6.5bn, report suggests

4th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Chrysalis Investments cuts valuations as shares drop

4th July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Payl8r calls for open banking to be legally required for credit assessing

1st July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Allica Bank looks to challenge high street mortgage rates

1st July 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Financial assistant Cleo raises $80m to support Gen Z

30th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut appoints chief banking officer as US CEO

30th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

NatWest launches free digital carbon planner

30th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Aussie neobank Volt to close after fundraising failure

29th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Marqeta reveals major API expansion

29th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Wise reports 33% revenue growth amid CEO investigation

28th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

New money transfer challenger secures EU licence

28th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Wise co-founder launches €250m fund for tech founders in Europe

28th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Kroo lands full banking licence

27th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Volt launches “ultrafast” account ownership authentication

27th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut joins the BNPL wave

24th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Payments firm SumUp raises €590m to reach €8bn valuation

24th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Raisin Bank enters the payment space with new acquisition

24th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

B2B BNPL Hokodo secures $40m for European expansion

23rd June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Digital mortgage start-up raises £280m to support first time buyers

23rd June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Starling Bank hits 3m accounts

23rd June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

HSBC UK launches £250m growth lending fund for tech scale-ups

22nd June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

29% of British businesses fell victim to fraud last year, report shows

22nd June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Nubank plans to consolidate acquisitions in Latin America

21st June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

US ‘super app’ Douugh readies to launch in Australia

21st June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Canada’s Wealthsimple becomes the latest fintech to cut staff

20th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Bank of London invests millions in new Belfast centre

20th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Funding Circle appoints former Revolut director as MD for FlexiPay

17th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Exclusive: UK reaches 6m open banking users

17th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

APEXX Global partners with Ryanair to ‘transform’ payments as travel levels soar

16th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Shard Credit Partners raises £75m venture debt fund

16th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Founded by Robinhood alumni, this FX challenger aims to undercut Wise

16th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Nik Storonsky criticises UK banking licence delay as Revolut continues global expansion

15th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut is now the fastest-growing fintech in Spain

15th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

500,000 businesses saved by covid loan schemes, claims report

14th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Financial aggregation platform Airbank raises $20m

14th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Fluid releases “revolutionary” financial super app

14th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Tuum appoints ex-Pipedrive exec as CEO to lead global expansion

13th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Zopa reportedly delaying its 2022 IPO

13th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Money Men review: A very deep dive into the madness and mayhem of Wirecard

13th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut Business launches fee-free USD transfers for UK customers

10th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Report: 40% of BNPL users borrowing money to pay debts

9th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

BR-DGE and Trust Payments partner to expand merchant payments

9th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

The majority of men in fintech think it’s a diverse industry. There are 2x more men than women.

9th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Curve and TrueLayer partner to offer flexible recurring payments

8th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Allica Bank goes live on Mambu to boost UK’s SMEs

8th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Zopa enters the BNPL game

8th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Nationwide pledges to keep its 625 branches open until 2024

7th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

LVH UK raises £30m on path to securing UK banking licence

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Bud nabs $80m Series B for international expansion later this year

7th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Sir Ron Kalifa and Allica Bank chairman on Queen’s Birthday Honours list

6th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Plaid and Mollie partner to help Europe’s SMEs

1st June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Crypto lender Babel Finance raises $80m, reaches $2bn valuation

30th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

BNPL Clearpay expands in store payments to SMBs

30th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Cashplus appoints new customer and marketing head as potential rebrand nears

30th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Asset Tribe launches alternative investment platform

26th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Mintos launches regulated notes

26th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Zopa allows employees to spend 120 days working abroad

26th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Alpher and WealthKernel partner to target £15bn gender investment gap

25th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

NatWest launches new pocket money app

25th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Need a new challenge? Billionaire Nik Storonsky is after a CEO to manage his VC fund

24th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Temenos launches ESG investing-as-a-service

24th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Klarna lays off approximately 10% of its staff

24th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Lending fintech Creditspring raises £48m

24th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Freetrade opts for debt raise with £30m loan

23rd May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Klarna hits 150 million users

20th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

MarketFinance raises £100m from Deutsche Bank

19th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky: “We’ve made almost every mistake possible and we’ve learned from them”

19th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Dutch BNPL in3 partners with Mollie, lands $85.3m in Series B

18th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Modulr raises $108m in Series C funding

18th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Digital debt collection agency InDebted arrives in the UK aiming to improve sector image

18th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Recognise Bank secures £8.7m capital raise

17th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky to launch new VC fund that will “disrupt” the venture world

17th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Tide and Sage partner to bring accounting service to UK SMEs

17th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Bank North gears up for launch

17th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Relai wants to get a Bitcoin payment card into everybody's wallet

16th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Mangopay hires former PayPal director as first chief revenue officer

13th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Klarna brings the in-store shopping experience home

13th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Checkout.com to acquire French identity verification startup ubble

12th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Brex Empower's global launch will "level the playing field" says product chief

12th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Visa’s head of crypto and fintech resurfaces as new DriveWealth CEO

11th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Queen’s Speech: Smart Data enters the conversation with new data reform law

11th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Jaja Finance and Asda to launch digital reward credit card

10th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Former Revoluters set to raise $30m for web3 renewable energy startup

10th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Sequoia, Binance and a16z among 19 investors backing Elon Musk’s Twitter bid

9th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Zopa’s Smart Saver reaches £100m+ deposits in 65 days

4th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

New fractional investments startup emerges from Ukraine to launch in UK

4th May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

How challenger credit cards are shaking up the traditional market

28th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

PrimaryBid: Expanding to the US in 2023 and enabling Chelsea fan ownership

28th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Regulators call for action in open finance

28th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut: ‘Almost 100 people at the company focus on crypto and web3’

27th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Estateguru sees lending rise by 9% in first quarter

27th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

New Zealand regtech First AML arrives in the UK

26th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Open banking: TrueLayer launches ‘industry’s first’ variable recurring payments API

26th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

PensionBee appoints former Klarna exec to its board

25th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

AJ Bell makes investing a Dodl with new app

25th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Tencent buys stake in UK fintech Previse

22nd April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut continues expansion into India with “hundreds” more jobs

22nd April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

SH Payments appoints Irmantas Kamienas as new CEO

21st April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

European and Candian fintechs buck trend of global funding decline in Q1 2022

21st April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Founder of Russia's biggest neobank Tinkoff blasts Putin’s ‘crazy war’

20th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

PensionBee squeezed gender pay gap down to 1.6% last year

19th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Fraud prevention fintech SEON raises $94m to expand globally

19th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Monzo co-founder leads £275k angel round for new lending fintech

14th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Decacorn Brex expands into financial services, lands DoorDash as a new customer

14th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Nubank secures $650m credit line for expansion in Mexico and Colombia

13th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Circle raises $400m, expands partnership with BlackRock

13th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Plaid hires Booking.com exec as first head of Europe

12th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

US fintech Nova Credit expands into Europe to “unlock opportunities” for immigrants

12th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

P2P property lender Blend Network secures £120m from family offices

11th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Bank of England’s head of fintech leaves for crypto career

11th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

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

8th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Water regulator Ofwat calls on fintech and digital sectors for new Innovation Fund

8th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Grover hits unicorn status after securing $330m in funding

7th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Fidel API scores $65m in Series B funding

7th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Fidel API scores $65m in Series B funding

7th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Equifax and Canopy expand partnership to boost UK renters’ credit scores

6th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Paysend launches two new products to help users build credit scores

6th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Former Klarna legal director Miyu Lee joins new BNPL Mondu

6th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Gender pay gap: Women at Revolut are still earning 25 per cent less

5th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

European fintechs turn to crowdfunding

5th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut launches Allianz travel insurance benefits for Premium and Metal users

4th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Zopa hits profitability 21 months after winning banking licence

4th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Bank of Italy bans N26 from onboarding new customers over AML failings

1st April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Payments fintech Dapio raises $3.4m to bring ‘Tap to Pay’ to UK and Europe

31st March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Oxbury Bank acquires IT partner Naqoda, secures £31m funding

31st March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Snoop expands money managing tool to employee benefits market

30th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Exclusive: Chip raises £6.5m crowdfund on path to becoming saving and investing super app

29th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Canopy builds new tech to help renters affected by Covid

29th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

NatWest’s small business bank Mettle hits 50k customers

29th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Bunq relaunches its free savings account

28th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut launches as a bank in Ireland

25th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

“10 years of change in 10 months”: an interview with the CEO of the fastest-growing UK tech firm

25th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Santander adds £40 reward for Experian Boost users

25th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Wise launches Auto Conversions to increase savings on currency exchange

24th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Dutch fintech Mollie to power payments for carmaker Mazda

24th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

NatWest and Meta partner to support female entrepreneurs

24th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

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

23rd March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Innovate Finance launches group to promote UK fintech abroad

23rd March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Monese appoints Alistair Bennett as new chief product officer

22nd March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Climate change: N26 founder among angels backing Lune’s $4m round

22nd March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

ClearBank raises £175m to continue global expansion

21st March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Capdesk and Fidelity partner to enable transition of share plans from private to public

18th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Santander compensates customers after requiring smartphones for online banking

18th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

German fintech Payrails secures $6.4m in funding from Andreessen Horowitz

17th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Exclusive: Theresa Casey joins Open Banking team as new general counsel

17th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

2021 was the biggest year of contactless payments yet

17th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Open Banking’s Selene Brett joins Yapily’s executive team

16th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

eBay and Klarna partner to bring flexible payment options to Germany

15th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

UK fintech leaders to gather in Belfast for first Northern Ireland Fintech Symposium

15th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut’s chief revenue officer quits to found web3 startup

14th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Fintech firm Curve launches in the US

11th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Dutch BNPL in3 raises $11.1m Series A funding, partners with Worldline

11th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

US savings app Acorns raises $300m in funding after abandoning SPAC plans

10th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Ex-Monzo CEO Tom Blomfield backs Brazilian bill-splitting startup

10th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Fintech community unites to raise funds for Save the Children Ukraine

9th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Diversity VC names new predominantly female advisory board to assist firms after D&I training

8th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Russia turns to China as PayPal, Visa, Mastercard and AmEx suspend payments

7th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

OBIE supports FCA delay on scrapping open banking’s ‘90-day’ rule

7th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Ukrainian government to sell NFTs to fund war against Russia

4th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

FCA cracks down on potential crypto scammers

4th March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Revolut and IRIS partner to bring early salary access to thousands

3rd March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

New ‘buy now, pay later’ company launches in the UK

1st March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

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