Shieldpay powers UK’s first digital real estate transaction
A big real estate market to transform.
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Mastercard tackles faster payments in the UK, smart watches and open banking
Mastercard reaches out to Starling Bank, NXP, and prepares for open banking.
Invesco takes over financial advisor platform Intelliflo
Invesco has acquired Intelliflo, a UK provider of advisor-focused digital solutions.
Free financial advice service Multiply secures £1.75m investment
Multiply is ready to take off spurred by £1.75m investment.
Cinnober sells majority stake in Irisium to KRM22
KRM22 buys a 60% stake in Irisium, a subsdiary of trading tech firm Cinnober, for £2.6m in cash.
Form3 teams with Arkéa Banking Services for SEPA real-time payments
The new service is “industry-first”, according to Form3.
Finovate in 2018: a search for fintech’s frontier
Where is the future of fintech?
Robo-advisor Munnypot is so hot for Capita
Capita becomes a shareholder in UK robo-advice investment platform.
UK start-up Tosca Money prepares to act
Social savings service powered by a digital token.
Top fintech stories this week – 1 June 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Intelligent Environments rebrands as ieDigital
The company has global ambitions and wants its brand to travel easily.
Infographic: high-cost credit – FCA findings and proposals
UK’s Financial Conduct Authority wants to protect people who use overdrafts and high-cost credit.
UK challenger bank Starling seeks £80m funding
Also ends its partnership with TransferWise.
UK challenger banks: who’s who (and what’s their tech)
A comprehensive list of the known UK bank challengers to date and the technology they are using.
UK Unite trade union fights RBS branch closures
It’s all kicked off.
Personal finance app Fintify readies for UK-India launch
Targeting the non-resident Indian (NRI) market.
Former MD of Metro Bank preps new SME challenger
New UK-based bank to be called Recognise.
Allianz leads £40m funding round in Moneyfarm
Takes UK digital wealth manager’s capital to £60m.
Tandem reaches 100,000 clients, signs for Form3 paytech
Wants to match Lloyds Bank in terms of customer numbers in ten years time.
Clever UK mobile banking app Bofin preps for launch
A chartered engineer unleashes his new fintech creation.
Bank of England’s digital currency pushes ahead
The central bank digital currency (CBDC) begins to take shape.
Market EarlyBird unveils mobile app
To tweet, to woo.
Samsung opens AI centres in UK, Canada and Russia
To explore the potential of user-centric AI and IoT action.
Transactive Systems gets FCA e-money licence
Its sponsor for the Faster Payment Service is ClearBank.
Barclays escapes fraud charges over Qatar capital raising
But UK’s Serious Fraud Office is “likely to seek to re-instate these charges”.
Castlight Financial brightens HSBC UK’s first open banking loan
Bank uses Categorisation-as-a-Service to process live loan.
Fintech funding round-up: 18 May 2018
Stars LendingPoint, Open and The Disruption House.
UK government releases two new fintech envoys into the wild
Brand new faces in Wales and Northern Ireland.
UK personal finance app Elifinty preps for launch
For people who see no way out.
Equifax powers HSBC UK’s first live credit application solution
Via open banking it’s using Equifax’s InterConnect platform.
HSBC UK kisses Consents Online’s AISP for banking data
Account information service provider profits from open banking.
UK regulator knocks out seven shades of fintech hits
Another speech. Another conference. Another plan.
Cashplus calls on Currencycloud’s special FX for SME payments
Especially designed to help British SMEs do better business abroad.
London Block Exchange adds five new coin offerings
LBX stands out in a tighter crypto-regulation environment with five new coin offerings.
Santander UK to launch digital financing platform for SMEs
Mambu believed to be providing its core banking tech to Santander’s new SME platform.
Barclays CEO fined to tune of £640,000 over whistleblower antics
Give us this day our Staley bread; and forgive him his trespasses.
Lloyd’s of London launches lab for insurtech innovation
Looking out for action in an “increasingly digital, data-driven world”.
Top fintech stories this week – 11 May 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Third party expertise the key for fintechs to unlock open banking potential
Identifying and partnering with regulated third parties is the key to seizing the market opportunity.
Mortgage maven Trussle gets Goldman Sachs backing
Goldman Sachs among investors and part of £13.6m Series B funding.
