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Former Wise employees snag $8.5mn for multicurrency investing app

15 September 2021

Lightyear, a commission-free investment platform founded by two early Wise employees, has bagged $8.5M of funding alongside the launch of its app as the company starts to...

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Tiger Global, Accel back Indonesia’s latest FinTech unicorn

15 September 2021

Xendit, which provides payment services for businesses in Indonesia and the Philippines, has become a billion-dollar startup or unicorn after raising $150 million in a fu...

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FinTech infrastructure platform Integrated Finance raises £2mn Seed

15 September 2021

Fintech infrastructure platform Integrated Finance has raised GBP2 million in Seed funding. The round was led by Octopus Ventures, one of Europe’s most active early-sta...

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Revealed: The FinTech startups backed by the UK Government’s Future Fund

14 September 2021

The British Business Bank has published a list of the 158 companies in which the Future Fund holds an equity stake. A large number are fintech firms. The UK taxpayer, thr...

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How Scotland’s FinTech sector can draw upon “innovation heritage”

14 September 2021

Despite a challenging period, FinTech Scotland CEO Nicola Anderson believes the nation’s fintech cluster has shown remarkable resilience, agility and purpose. The varie...

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Under the FinTech hood: Back office suppliers enable UK FinTech, but do they also innovate?

14 September 2021

Joanne Dewar, CEO of Global Processing Services—also known as GPS—a company that provides card payment processing for a substantial number of challenger banks and fin...

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Podcast: Authorised push payment fraud: risks for FinTech firms

14 September 2021

APP fraud resulted in £479m in losses in 2020. In this podcast, we consider the risks this presents...

Written By: Simmons & Simmons

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Y Combinator is backing these eight FinTechs

13 September 2021

Last Wednesday, famed American accelerator Y Combinator wrapped up its Demo Day — an event where the latest batch of YC funded founders present their companies to inves...

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Indian FinTech Slice launches $27 credit limit cards to tap 200mn users

13 September 2021

Slice, a Bangalore-based startup, believes it has found the solution. The startup, which has years of experience in issuing its cards to young professionals with no tradi...

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Women Returners and Innovate Finance establish cross-company return programme for FinTech professionals

13 September 2021

Women Returners and Innovate Finance have teamed up to establish a cross-company returner program, which aims to encourage professionals to try re-entering the Fintech in...

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El Salvador’s new bitcoin wallets could cost Western Union and similar companies $400 million a year

10 September 2021

-In 2020, El Salvador received nearly $6 billion in remittances, which accounted for about 23% of its gross domestic product. -President Nayib Bukele estimates that mone...

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Funding Circle names new CEO as it swings to profit

10 September 2021

The head of online lending platform Funding Circle's (FCH.L) British business will succeed Samir Desai as chief executive, the company said on Thursday as it reported a s...

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