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PPRO Teams up With Banking Circle to Streamline Cross Border Real-Time Payments
PPRO, a London-based payments infrastructure provider has partnered with financial infrastructure provider Banking Circle to enhance the former’s service offering by supporting payment service providers (PSPs) working with cross border e-commerce merchants. With this partnership, PPRO is capitalising on the
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Curve Secured $95 Million Ahead of US Expansion Plans
Curve, a London-based banking platform which allows customers to consolidate multiple cards into one smart card and app, announced it has secured $95 million as part of a successful Series C funding round. This fresh funding brings the total investment
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Checkout.com Triples Valuation to $15 Billion With $450 Million Funding
Checkout.com, a London-based payments solutions provider, announced that it closed a $450 million Series C fundraising round giving it a post-money valuation of $15 billion. The Series C was led by Tiger Global Management, LLC, a New York-based technology investor.
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Banking Circle Bags Two Digital Awards by Juniper Research
Banking Circle has been awarded two prestigious awards at Juniper Research’s Future Digital Awards for Technology and Innovation this year. The financial infrastructure provider was awarded the Lending Platform Platinum Award for Banking Circle Lending, and a Gold Award for
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Bond180 Completes Strategic Funding Round and Forms Partnership with R3
Bond180, a London based provider of technology solutions for primary fixed income markets, announced the completion of a strategic funding round. The round involved follow-on investment from Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialization arm of the University of Cambridge, Outlier Ventures, F10
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Meniga Closes a €8.5m Strategic Investment Round
Meniga, a provider of digital banking technology for banks, has closed a €8.5m strategic investment led by customers Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking group in France and lead investor in this round, Portugal’s Grupo Crédito Agrícola and long-standing strategic partner
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Research: 6 Million Downloaded Their Bank’s App for the First Time During Corona Lockdown
New research from Nucoro, reveals that between 14th March and 14th April, because of the Coronavirus lockdown, around 12% of the adult population in the UK – some six million people – downloaded their bank’s App for the first time.
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Santander Launches Pagofx to Compete With Transferwise: No Fees for Two Months
Banco Santander announced the launch of PagoFX, a low-cost international money transfer service, in the UK. This new service, available via a mobile app, allows UK residents with a debit card issued by any UK bank or financial entity to
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Onfido Secures $100 Million to Set New Identity Standard for Digital Access
Onfido, a global identity verification and authentication company, announced that it has raised a $100 million round of funding from new and existing investors, including TPG Growth. This brings the total investment in Onfido to $200 million and accelerates the company’s
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AI Driven Fintech Completes Funding Round Led by Temasek and Kuehne+Nagel’s VC Firm
Previse, an artificial intelligence and data science fintech that gets suppliers paid instantly, announces an USD11 million funding round led by Reefknot Investments and Mastercard, with participation from existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Hambro Perks and Augmentum Fintech. Reefknot is
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