What the Fintech? Episode 5 | Digital disruption: innovation in investments
CEO of the investment trading app, Evarvest, reveals the timeline of its launch in the UK.
Investment & Funding
Monzo’s valuation plummets 40% to £1.25bn in latest fundraising
The fintech was valued at £2 billion last June.
Freetrade sets new record on Crowdcube with $5m raise
The round is its sixth crowdfund to date.
Featurespace raises £30 million in venture funding
Anti-fraud company nabs new injection to support growth.
Aussie fintech Verteva lands $21.4m to digitise home lending market
The start-up is headed up by two former Westpac execs.
Modulr lands £18.9m in growth funding to fuel market expansion
The latest investment takes Modulr’s total funding received to £53.3 million.
Vise lands $14.5m Series A led by Sequoia Capital
“This is one of the biggest markets on Earth,” says Sequoia.
Global fintech sees worst Q1 since 2016 for VC-backed deals
The quarter saw just 404 deals and ended on $6.1 billion.
Thai payments start-up Digio raises $4 million in Series B funding
The round featured Thailand’s interbank payments provider.
Pandemic forces corporations to balance technology investments on risk and agility
125,000+ staff working remotely, 3m chat messages, 780,000 video & internet calls a day – how did Santander do it?
Singapore payments fintech Nium lands investment from Visa
The round is thought to be worth between $75-$100 million.
Payments start-up Banked raises £2.3m in seed funding
Real-time payments firm aims to challenge incumbent dominance.
Alpian lands $12.6m in Series A
Alpian is applying for its own banking licence.
Citi’s Proxymity lands $20.5m from HSBC, JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank
The funding round will see it become its own London-based entity.
SS&C Technologies acquires Innovest Systems in $120m deal
The transaction is expected to close in Q2 2020.
N26 extends Series D a second time for $100m raise
The challenger’s Series D round totals to more than half a billion.
Tencent buys 5% stake in Aussie fintech Afterpay
It puts Afterpay at a market capitalisation of more than AUD 8 billion ($5.1 billion).
SoftBank warns of $9.6bn investment losses due to coronavirus
In addition to WeWork, it also blamed the losses outside of the Vision Fund on OneWeb.
What the Fintech? Episode 4 | Partnerships: till death do us part
Sean Hunter CIO at OakNorth, offers his advice to companies struggling to make a partnership work.
TransFICC lands £5.75m from AlbionVC, ING and HSBC
Existing backers inlude Citi and Commerzbank.
Car service financing fintech ASF lands £14m despite production slow down
The investment comes after UK car production dipped by more than a third last month.
Investing app Stash lands $112m Series F led by LendingTree
This month Stash also surpassed $1 billion in assets and 4.5 million users.
FIS sets up $150m fintech start-up fund
It’s January investment in Lagos-based Flutterwave marks the first investment.
Travelex founder invests £3m in ex-Virgin Money exec venture Snoop
Dorfman joins fellow shareholder in Snoop, Salesforce Ventures.
Nigerian open banking fintech Okra raises $1m from TLcom
“We’re opening the door to another level of innovation,” says founder.
Cross River Bank raises $100m in Series C funding
The latest round will see Cross River Bank offer tech to venture capital firm in Malaysia.
LenderClose secures funding from Financial Plus Credit Union
The 8-figure Series B funding round began as an exclusive opportunity for the company’s initial investors.
Chip raises UK’s ‘largest’ lockdown equity crowdfund on Crowdcube
Chip managed to raise £2.6 million from 4,240 investors.
Noah bags $150m investment
The money came from unnamed institutional investors, including pension funds.
US unicorn AvidXchange lands $128m
The fintech is already backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Mastercard.
UK trading app Freetrade to launch sixth crowdfunding campaign
Last year saw the fintech raise £1 million in just 77 seconds.
SoFi acquires Hong Kong stock trading app 8 Securities
“Hong Kong, a financial capital of Asia, is ripe for innovation,” says SoFi’s CEO.
Nordic API Gateway lands $5m from Danske Bank and DNB
The fresh capital will initiate an “aggressive growth” plan to achieve pan-European coverage.
Israeli fintech BioCatch raises $145m in Series C
More than 40 financial institutions use BioCatch’s technology.
Crypto Finance raises $14.5m in Series B funding
The new capital will help the firm gain a Swiss broker-dealer licence.
Trade Republic lands $62m in Series B funding
German firm secures one of the largest Series B funding rounds the region has ever seen.
UK government launches £1.25bn coronavirus Future Fund for start-ups
Start-ups can apply for loans between £125,000 and £5 million.
Airwallex raises $160m in Series D funding to fuel global expansion
Payment unicorn plans acquisitions, partner programmes, and more.
All things equal
Understanding where the industry stands at present in terms of the gender gap is essential to trying to address it.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 17 April 2020
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
