Amelia Isaacs

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AltFi

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Amelia is a reporter at AltFi. She was formerly an Online Journalist at LBC Global covering news and content. Having completed a fast-track course at News Associates Journalism School in London, she is now a gold-standard NCTJ journalist. She received a degree in English; Writing Seminars; and Medicine, Science and the Humanities with honours from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.



Articles By 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

Meet the UK’s 24 fintech unicorns

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