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Onfido Appoints New CTO
Onfido, the global leader in automated identity verification, announced the appointment of Daniel Keller as Chief Technology Officer. Daniel brings over two decades of leadership experience to the company’s executive team alongside a track record of transforming and expanding tech-driven products
Read MoreUK Launches 1Bio GBP Growth Stage Fintech Fund
UK FinTech Growth Partners announced that it will launch the FinTech Growth Fund, the first investment fund of its kind focussed on supporting growth stage FinTechs as they scale. With backing for the initiative already secured from industry leaders Barclays,
Read MoreSumUp Secures New US$100 Million Credit Facility
Global fintech company SumUp announced today that it has entered into a US$100 million credit facility with Victory Park Capital (“VPC”), a global alternative investment firm specialising in private credit. The credit facility will enable SumUp to provide advance payments
Read MorePhilippine Unicorn Gcash Banners Overseas Expansion at London Tech Week
Philippines’ financial super app, GCash, banners its global expansion at London Tech Week 2023, highlighting its mission of providing Filipinos access to financial services everywhere. At London Tech Week, PM Sunak hosted industry leaders which included GCash CEO Martha Sazon,
Read MoreTP24 Raises CHF 380M Debt Funding From Barclays and M&G Investments
Swiss Fintech TP24, (former Tradeplus24) has raised £345m (CHF 380m CHF) in debt funding from UK parties Barclays Bank and M&G Investments. The amount of £240m will be used for lending to SMEs in the UK and the Netherlands. Barclays
Read MoreSumUp Selects Form3 for UK Payments to Boost Growth
SumUp, the financial partner for over 4 million businesses worldwide, has selected Form3, the cloud-native account-to-account payments platform, to provide direct access into the UK Faster Payments Scheme (FPS) and Bacs Scheme to further enhance its business account offering for
Read MoreUK Real Time Payment Fintech Volt Closed $60M Series B Round, CommerzVenture Participates
Volt, a UK based infrastucutre-real-time payment company, announces that it has raised a $60 million Series B to fund expansion into new international markets such as APAC and the Americas – and support product development in existing markets across Europe,
Read MoreBackbase Acquires UK Digital Wealth Platform Nucoro
Backbase announced its acquisition of Nucoro, the UK-based digital wealth platform for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition will allow Backbase to incorporate Nucoro’s headless platform capabilities directly into the Backbase Engagement Banking platform, enabling its customers to launch digital end-to-end
Read MoreSumUp Enables JCB Card Acceptance for Its European Merchants
SumUp, a London-based global payments service provider, has tied up with Japan-based card scheme JCB International to enable the acceptance of JCB Cards across its European merchant network. The enablement of JCB Card will allow SumUp’s merchants in Europe, which
Read MoreFabrick Acquires Mobile Payments Firm Judopay, Expands Footprint in the UK
Fabrick, an Italian open banking solutions provider, announces that it has acquired UK-based mobile payments company Judopay. Details of the transaction was not disclosed. This acquisition marks an important step in Fabrick’s expansion into the UK market. Judopay will continue
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