AltFi - Roger Baird

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Tide allows firms to sign up online

6th September 2019 | Roger Baird

Funding Circle and Metro Bank ejected from FTSE 250

5th September 2019 | Roger Baird

P2PFA boss Paul Smee: ‘Lendy was an outlier that should not have been authorised’

5th September 2019 | Roger Baird

Bunq launches spending tracker and Apple Pay services

4th September 2019 | Roger Baird

Ultimate Finance pulls out of unsecured lending market

4th September 2019 | Roger Baird

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

3rd September 2019 | Roger Baird

Investors ‘nearly’ double IFISA holdings

3rd September 2019 | Roger Baird

Revolut plans to hire 400 staff in Portugal

2nd September 2019 | Roger Baird

Payments fintech Ipagoo bought out of administration

2nd September 2019 | Roger Baird

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

30th August 2019 | Roger Baird

IFISA consolidator launches crowdfunding campaign

30th August 2019 | Roger Baird

House Crowd launches £1m Seedrs fundraising

29th August 2019 | Roger Baird

ThinCats sharpens Scottish focus

28th August 2019 | Roger Baird

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

28th August 2019 | Roger Baird

OakNorth appoints two senior hires as it boosts lending

28th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Manchester fintech start-up hires former British Business Bank boss as chairman

27th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech founders warn UK risks losing global crown

27th August 2019 | Roger Baird

China unveils three-year fintech development plan

23rd August 2019 | Roger Baird

Revolut hires financial crime boss

23rd August 2019 | Roger Baird

Australians suffer second online banking breach in three months

22nd August 2019 | Roger Baird

Swedish lender Brocc lands Goldman Sachs funding

22nd August 2019 | Roger Baird

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

22nd August 2019 | Roger Baird

Lendable launches Luxembourg fund with Credit Suisse

21st August 2019 | Roger Baird

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

19th August 2019 | Roger Baird

US online loans firm SellersFunding lands in UK

16th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Paragon racks up £6bn of savings deposits in five years

16th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Assetz Capital boosts Scottish management team

16th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Curve prepares Crowdcube fundraising

16th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Tiller signs platform deal with Point Group

15th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Tandem plots gig economy mortgage

14th August 2019 | Roger Baird

N26 poaches Google executive for senior regulatory role

13th August 2019 | Roger Baird

How Klarna became Europe’s largest fintech?

12th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Funding Circle shares rally 30%

12th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Deutsche Bank launches small business digital operation

9th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Assetz Capital hires bank veteran as relationship director

9th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Capital on Tap loans to small firms top £1bn

8th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Starling adds Growth Street to marketplace

8th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Lloyds in insurance joint venture with US start-up Trov

8th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Investment firm launches property IFISA

7th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Checkout.com hires payments veteran for US push

7th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Klarna becomes Europe’s most valuable fintech with $5.5bn valuation

6th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Savers favour pension drawdowns over annuities

6th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Klarna and Asos strike US deal

6th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Regtech start-up doubles staff, opens London and New York offices

6th August 2019 | Roger Baird

ThinCats hits £500m lending milestone despite ‘Brexit uncertainty’

5th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Alternative finance pioneer denies attempting to offload peer-to-peer holdings

5th August 2019 | Roger Baird

Tisa draws up P2P health check for investors

2nd August 2019 | Roger Baird

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

FCA will not regulate bitcoin

1st August 2019 | Roger Baird

PensionBee notches up £500m assets under management

31st July 2019 | Roger Baird

Former Ratesetter executive to launch rival P2P platform

31st July 2019 | Roger Baird

£2m fintech challenge launched to fight payday lenders

31st July 2019 | Roger Baird

Legal & General strikes savings account deal with Raisin

30th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Revolut hires top Metro Bank executive as finance chief

30th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech Tips: Open Banking in 4 easy steps

30th July 2019 | Roger Baird

TruFin: We want stable of niche lenders

29th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Iwoca doubles lending, turns first annual profit

29th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Apple and Goldman Sachs to launch credit card in August

26th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Head of London Capital & Finance probe urges investors to get in touch

26th July 2019 | Roger Baird

What went wrong at Atom Bank?

25th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Metro Bank chairman steps down, profits tumble

25th July 2019 | Roger Baird

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

Cashplus boosts sales and enjoys unicorn status

22nd July 2019 | Roger Baird

FCA cleared Lendy despite concerns about mis-selling loans

22nd July 2019 | Roger Baird

Assetz Capital boosts lending by £300m over 12 months

22nd July 2019 | Roger Baird

FinTech National Network joined by three regional bodies

19th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech launches jargon-busting investment app for millennials

19th July 2019 | Roger Baird

City regulator jeered by scandal victims

18th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Atom loses long-serving lending director

18th July 2019 | Roger Baird

N26 valued at $3.5bn after new investment

18th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Coconut launches VAT feature to ease admin headaches for UK’s self-employed

17th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Wealth Wizards hires former Prudential executive as commercial head

17th July 2019 | Roger Baird

PayPal launches European money transfer service

17th July 2019 | Roger Baird

German personal finance app lands Experian and Santander in funding round

16th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech Tips: What new Property Partner fees mean for investors?

16th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Lendable lands £200m Goldman Sachs funding line

16th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Revolut, Emma and TrueLayer in Open Banking tie up

16th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Lloyds Banking Group launches card freezing

15th July 2019 | Roger Baird

B launches energy switching service with GoCompare

15th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Credit checker ClearScore tops ten million customers

15th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Trump says Bitcoin and Libra based on ‘thin air’

12th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Travel money platform WeSwap targets £2.3m funding round

12th July 2019 | Roger Baird

N26 launches in the US

12th July 2019 | Roger Baird

FCA misconduct probes into retail financial services firms jump by almost a third

11th July 2019 | Roger Baird

eToro launches portfolio firms behind Facebook’s Libra

11th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Glenhawk hires former Morgan Stanley trader

10th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Crowdstacker to launch auto-switching savings account

10th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech Tips: Five things we learnt about peer-to-peer lending from AltFi's first State of the Market Report

9th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Three fintech start ups share £27,000 at pitch event

9th July 2019 | Roger Baird

NatWest-backed Esme hits £60m lending milestone

9th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Are Europe’s smaller peer-to-peer lenders ‘struggling for scale’?

8th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Revolut to hire former Goldman Sachs powerbroker

8th July 2019 | Roger Baird

AltFi Insights: Funding Circle has sneezed, will the alternative lending industry catch a cold?

8th July 2019 | Roger Baird

NatWest launches digital small business working capital product

5th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Relendex poaches senior Assetz Capital executive as business development manager

4th July 2019 | Roger Baird

PayPal and Monese in ‘seamless’ accounts venture

4th July 2019 | Roger Baird

Growth Street tops £500m of small business loans

4th July 2019 | Roger Baird

FCA proposes ban on digital currency derivatives

4th July 2019 | Roger Baird

German digital bank Fidor closes British operations due to 'market uncertainties’

3rd July 2019 | Roger Baird

NatWest launches video calls for small business customers

3rd July 2019 | Roger Baird

Revolut hires TSB veteran as operations head

3rd July 2019 | Roger Baird

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

3rd July 2019 | Roger Baird

Augmentum raises £26m to take advantage of ‘significant deal flows’

2nd July 2019 | Roger Baird

Jaja snaps up Bank of Ireland’s UK credit card business for £530m

1st July 2019 | Roger Baird

The Engine Room: Ratesetter’s chief credit boss Michael Hoare on digging out better loan performance data

1st July 2019 | Roger Baird

OakNorth and Tandem Bank lead finalists for Growth Finance Awards

28th June 2019 | Roger Baird

FCA launches probe into fairness of credit information market

28th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Klarna launches in H&M US stores

27th June 2019 | Roger Baird

TransferWise joins US invasion with debit card launch

27th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Funding Circle strikes €50m loans deal with Sweden’s Avida Finans

27th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Belgian InsurTech, behind Deliveroo’s European riders, lands €8m fundraising

26th June 2019 | Roger Baird

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

26th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Small business owners spurred by being own boss rather than making fortune, says poll

25th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Bank of England welcomes Facebook’s Libra with ‘open mind, not open door’

21st 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

Crealogix loses finance chief

20th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Starling strikes deal with Direct Line Group to sell insurance

20th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Brexit and drive for growth sees IT fintech salaries surge

19th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Growth Street raises £10m to improve tech and boost staff

19th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech Tips: A rough guide to PropTech

18th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Lloyds links Halifax and Bank of Scotland accounts through Open Banking app

17th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Game of Thrones star and Funding Circle back small bookshop campaign

17th June 2019 | Roger Baird

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

14th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Moneyfarm deepens German links after Allianz tie up

14th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Revolut launches operations in Australia

13th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Curve launches 1 per cent retail cashback offer

13th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Start up trading platform Funderbeam completes $4.5m fundraising

12th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Investors hunt debt and lending opportunities to buck Brexit slowdown, says report

12th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Funding Options poaches Google strategy boss to head marketing arm

11th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Goldman’s Marcus digital account ties up with Saga to target over-50s

11th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech Tips: A five-step guide to robo advisors

11th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Ratesetter courted by industry body to rejoin fold

10th June 2019 | Roger Baird

AltFi Insights: FCA new peer-to-peer rules clampdown on marketing, investor caps and wind-down arrangements

10th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Mobile banking and contactless cards lead to cashless society, says report

7th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Dutch lender bunq launches fee-free travel card

7th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Yolt strikes deal with Raisin, notches up 900,000 customers

6th June 2019 | Roger Baird

TrueLayer lands $35m funding round from Tencent and Temasek

6th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Assetz Capital hits bridging loans and small business lending milestones

6th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Tech Nation opens applications for start up accelerator programme

5th June 2019 | Roger Baird

One quarter of world’s small firms are ‘significant’ fintech users, says report

5th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Starling offers Tribe customers real-time European payments

4th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Europe’s digital firms face €57bn hit from new identification rules for shoppers

4th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech Tips: Five things you need to know about Crowdfunding

4th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Three million small firms want help managing finances, says report

3rd June 2019 | Roger Baird

Payments firm Tribe strikes European deal with China’s UnionPay

3rd June 2019 | Roger Baird

Funding Circle caps chief executive pay

29th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Revolut tops customer complaints to ombudsman

29th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech Tips: Five questions you should ask before investing in cryptocurrencies

28th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Growth Street tops 2,500 investors

28th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Collapse of property platform Lendy prompts FCA probe

28th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Circle slashes workforce by 10 per cent as US cryptocurrency regulations bite

24th May 2019 | Roger Baird

RBS-backed Loot collapses into administration

23rd May 2019 | Roger Baird

Revolut launches Group Vault saving accounts

23rd May 2019 | Roger Baird

TransferWise becomes Europe’s most valuable fintech, with $3.5bn valuation

22nd May 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech Tips: How to invest using apps?

21st May 2019 | Roger Baird

LendingCrowd strikes £19m small business deal with Scottish Investment Bank and Dutch lender

21st May 2019 | Roger Baird

Wagestream raises £15m as it battles payday lenders

20th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Raisin launches cut-rate ETF portfolios on German platform

17th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Assetz Capital launches Luxembourg-based private fund

17th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Australian online lender Prospa on track for second tilt at A$610m flotation

16th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Property lender Fitzrovia Finance opens door to private investors

16th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Finnish fintech Holvi expands across five European markets

16th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Raisin adds Italian challenger bank illimity to roster

15th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Assetz Capital launches fundraising, eyes IPO

15th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Consumers want the latest bank apps, but would rather not use them

15th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Self-employed ‘jump through hoops’ to get on housing ladder, says report

15th May 2019 | Roger Baird

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

14th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech Tips: How to set up an Innovative Finance ISA?

14th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Metro Bank quashes ‘false rumours’ after customers queue to withdraw cash

13th May 2019 | Roger Baird

SoftBank invests $800m in UK fintech Greensill

13th May 2019 | Roger Baird

AltFi Insights: Why Fintech M&A activity hit record $112bn in first quarter, despite slowing global economy

13th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Atom explores £50m fundraising after BBVA shelves takeover

10th May 2019 | Roger Baird

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

10th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Growth Street hits record £80m lending record despite Brexit concerns

9th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Touch Financial hires former Funding Options digital boss

9th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Monzo hires ahead of US launch

8th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Troubled Metro set for deeply discounted £350m fundraising after accounts error

7th May 2019 | Roger Baird

etoro scraps commission fees on stock and ETF trading

6th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Monese tops one million customers

3rd May 2019 | Roger Baird

Checkout.com raises record $230m fintech funding round

3rd May 2019 | Roger Baird

P2P property lending platform hires to expand northern development

2nd May 2019 | Roger Baird

Klarna launches in-store payment service

2nd May 2019 | Roger Baird

Money management chatbot Plum raises $4.5m

2nd May 2019 | Roger Baird

Metro Bank sees profits halve and big customers leave after accounting error

2nd May 2019 | Roger Baird

Creditshelf snaps up Commerzbank small business platform

1st May 2019 | Roger Baird

Dozens raises £3.8m to fund new products push

1st May 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech Tips: Which digital banks have the best overdrafts?

30th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Banks still give small firms cold shoulder over lending

30th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Klarna sales jump by almost a third as transactions hit a million a day

29th April 2019 | Roger Baird

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

29th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Nutmeg signs joint venture with Taiwanese bank

26th April 2019 | Roger Baird

8 ways to survive UK Fintech Week

25th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Softbank invests €900m in troubled payments challenger Wirecard

24th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech Tips: Best digital bank for business

24th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Ratesetter awarded Queen’s Award for Enterprise

23rd April 2019 | Roger Baird

Property fintech Dot plots to become investor one-stop shop

18th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Twitter founder Biz Stone joins board of UK fintech r8

18th April 2019 | Roger Baird

British Business Bank hands out £200m Brexit boost to small firms

17th April 2019 | Roger Baird

CrowdProperty closes funding round to ‘fast track’ 2019 growth

17th April 2019 | Roger Baird

eToro launches crypto exchange

16th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Chilango raises £3.7m from oversubscribed mini-bond

16th April 2019 | Roger Baird

NatWest backs speciality finance venture capital fund

16th April 2019 | Roger Baird

HMRC business closures ‘too aggressive’, warns Funding Options

15th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Seven in ten Britons have no investments, illustrating UK’s financial ‘advice gap’

15th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech Tips: Best digital bank for travel money

15th April 2019 | Roger Baird

ING Ventures leads €19m funding round for Spanish fintech

12th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Gibraltar’s stock exchange opens for blockchain trading

10th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Funding Options hires former banker as commercial director

10th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Yolt poaches Nutmeg marketing boss

9th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Consumer finance apps Emma and Chip offer joint service

9th 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

SocietyOne plans to triple peer-to-peer market share despite Australian ‘challenges’

7th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Obama’s former cabinet member says US fintech lags UK and European rivals

5th April 2019 | Roger Baird

SEC issues guidance on cryptocurrencies offered as securities

4th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Onfido lands $50m round led by Softbank

3rd April 2019 | Roger Baird

Chilango nears close of oversubscribed mini-bond

3rd April 2019 | Roger Baird

Q&A: What is a mini-bond?

2nd April 2019 | Roger Baird

Ocea launches mini-bond as regulator launches probe into debt product

2nd April 2019 | Roger Baird

Australian neobanks target scale of UK rivals without growing pains

1st April 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech's top 5 April Fool’s Day tales

1st April 2019 | Roger Baird

Australia’s ‘diverse’ alternative finance industry tops $1bn

31st March 2019 | Roger Baird

Worldpay expands in Australia and launches in New Zealand

29th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Afterpay fine tunes UK expansion

28th March 2019 | Roger Baird

OakNorth strikes £133m deal with British Business Bank

28th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintechs dominate Future Fifty start-up stars

27th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Digital banks snub photo cheque imaging system

27th March 2019 | Roger Baird

eToro buys blockchain business Firmo

26th March 2019 | Roger Baird

New fund sees Royal Commission as ‘tipping point’ for alternative credit

25th March 2019 | Roger Baird

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

25th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Cryptocurrency exchange Bakkt valued at $740m

22nd March 2019 | Roger Baird

Poor financial diligence among fintechs an ‘open secret’, says Eileen Burbidge

22nd March 2019 | Roger Baird

Brexit at boiling point in Commons, but fintechs work around uncertainties

21st March 2019 | Roger Baird

Tandem launches bank account with automatic savings feature

21st March 2019 | Roger Baird

Zopa Bank: No teaser rates, no hidden fees, no current accounts

21st March 2019 | Roger Baird

Curve plots expansion across six European markets

20th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Regulator accused of ‘choking off’ entrepreneurs after blocking Experian buyout of ClearScore

20th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech will more ‘profoundly’ affect Britain than Brexit, says MP

18th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Zopa returns to investors nears £250m

15th March 2019 | Roger Baird

BigTech must get back to the spirit of fintech, says report

14th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Australian small business fintech Prospa sees loans top $1bn

13th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Seedrs allows investors to create portfolios with investment bot

13th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Four reasons to attend the AltFi London Summit 2019

13th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Invesco launches blockchain ETF

12th March 2019 | Roger Baird

CapitalRise looks to £1.5m crowdfunding raise

11th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Just 14% of people manage their money with apps

11th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Spain's leading peer-to-peer marketplace lender Loanbook Capital announces portfolio runoff

8th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Losses widen at Funding Circle over IT and flotation costs

7th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Peer-to-peer lending tops £9.5bn in 2018

7th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Assetz Capital ties up with German bank to help SMEs through Brexit

6th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Losses expected to widen at Funding Circle

6th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Praetura Commercial Finance secures £10m from investment house

6th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Revolut denies fresh police fraud probe over money transfer

5th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Esme Loans strikes AI deal with Microsoft

5th March 2019 | Roger Baird

Global regulators fear ‘scale and pace’ of fintech growth is threat to financial system

4th March 2019 | Roger Baird

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

1st March 2019 | Roger Baird

Monzo’s veteran CFO bows out

1st March 2019 | Roger Baird

Payments firm lands £20m from HSBC as it rolls out fast settlements network

1st March 2019 | Roger Baird

Octopus Choice appoints new boss as founder moves on

28th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Flex Funding strikes data deal with Brismo

28th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Jaja Finance launches credit card into crowded market

28th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Artificial intelligence firm opens UK office in bid to boost financial and healthcare units

28th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Propio bids to cash in on ISA season with property launch

27th February 2019 | Roger Baird

M&S Bank uses Open Banking to speed up mortgage applications

27th February 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

Savers think more about recycling than ethical investing, says report

23rd February 2019 | Roger Baird

Orca launches industry-wide peer-to-peer platform ISA

22nd February 2019 | Roger Baird

Zorin Finance hits £500m lending milestone

21st February 2019 | Roger Baird

One in three savers have no idea what cash ISAs earn

20th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Losses narrow at LendingClub, but warns of ‘uncertainty’ ahead

20th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Former Assetz Capital founder’s new consultancy hired for blockchain project

19th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Machine learning: Part of Europe’s consumer loans business

19th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Yolt launches Open Banking business account

18th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Monese and Avios launch app partnership

18th February 2019 | Roger Baird

GoCardless lands $75m cash call for global roll out

18th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Growthdeck to raise £2.5m from investors

18th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Assetz Capital tops £700m lending milestone

15th February 2019 | Roger Baird

first direct and Bud to roll out Open Banking app in 2019

15th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Schroders creates global head of private assets role

15th February 2019 | Roger Baird

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

14th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Zopa shakes up board ahead of bank launch

14th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Prestige launches private debt and high-yield credit multi-manager fund

14th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Starling hoovers up banking deals with trio of payment firms

13th February 2019 | Roger Baird

UK retains crown as fintech capital of Europe as investment hits record $20.7bn in 2018

13th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Starling raises £75m and prepares for European drive

13th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Commercial broking trade body launches finance platform

12th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Ratesetter ISA tops £175m in first year

12th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Clydesdale agrees £100m credit facility in fintech joint venture

12th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Financial services blockchain value to hit $462bn over next decade

11th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Fintech owned by billionaire Joe Lewis appoints new chief

11th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Small retailers chase new financing to survive high street cull

11th February 2019 | Roger Baird

OakNorth lands $440m round led by SoftBank ahead of US drive

8th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Tandem Bank boss calls for rate cut to kick-start UK economy

8th February 2019 | Roger Baird