Traditionally, fintech unicorns made rare sightings across the globe, but it’s becoming a common breed in today’s fintech ecosystem – … Read More “The Fintech Unicorn Hubs of 2021: Where Do the Largest Fintechs Hail From?”
Hello and welcome to CFTE’s Fintech Shot – a curated newsletter about what matters in Fintech! It’s raining pounds in the European fintech hub – … Read More “UK Fintechs attract $24.5bn investment in the first half of the year”
Hello and welcome to CFTE’s Fintech Shot – a curated newsletter about what matters in Fintech! Traditionally, fintech unicorns made rare sightings across the globe, but it’s … Read More “USA has more fintech unicorns than all other countries combined”
The future, or a fad? Shameek Kundu, Head of Financial Services at TruEra and an expert on CFTE’s AI in … Read More “Analysis: Is AI really set to transform the banking industry?”
London, 4 August 2021 – The ‘commission-free’ stock trading fintech went public last Thursday on the Nasdaq under the ticker … Read More “Robinhood surges as much as 81% in the second day of trading driven by retail investor craze”
London, 4 August 2021 – Fintech-as-a-service is seeing meteoric growth as the concept of “finance anywhere” goes mainstream. The proposition of … Read More “Rapyd, Fintech-as-a-service Platform, Raises $300 million at a valuation of $8.75 billion”
London, 2 August 2021 – Square Inc., the payments firm led by Twitter Inc.’s founder, Jack Dorsey, is leading its largest-ever … Read More “Square agrees to buy lending pioneer Afterpay in a $29 billion buyout”
A few weeks ago, we wrote about the latest fundraising of Revolut. But is Revolut a Challenger Bank or a … Read More “Challenger Bank vs Neobank: what is the difference?”
London, 29 July 2021 – A year and a half after Currencycloud raised $80 million in a round that included Visa, the London-based developer … Read More “Visa acquires Currencycloud, which makes APIs for remittances and currency transfers, in a $963M deal”
London, 26 July 2021 – Starling Bank has today announced the acquisition of specialist buy-to-let mortgage lender Fleet Mortgages in a … Read More “Starling Bank acquires buy-to-let specialist mortgage lender, Fleet Mortgages”