UK startup joins Nordea’s fintech accelerator
UK fintech startup Smartcalling will join Nordea’s new fintech accelerator, which kicks off next month.
UK fintech startup Smartcalling will join Nordea’s new fintech accelerator, which kicks off next month.
Nordea's second fintech accelerator will focus on themes such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and the sharing economy.
Estonia-founded Scoro is the latest startup to raise money in the workflow management tool space, picking up $1.9m in new funding this week.
The UK crowdfunding space is getting a boost this week with news Crowdcube has raised in £8 million in a mixture of venture capital and money raised from 3,7000 investors through its own platform.
Berlin neo bank N26 talks new products, UK launch and the advantages of being based in Berlin.
In the latest episode of the FinTalk interview podcast series Gary Turner, the firm’s UK MD, talks about the early days of building up the business, why location is no longer important and about the need to make sure kids are creators as well as consumers of technology.
Where does financial technology fit into the rapidly evolving world of virtual reality? The latest movement in the space may come from China, where e-commerce titan and the owner of Alipay, Alibaba, is reportedly working on bringing payments into VR retail.
There’s more funding for the business to business payments space this week with news Finexio has raised $1m in new funding.
Holvi and SumUp, two of Europe’s most high profile fintech startups are hooking up to offer better financial services to small businesses and the growing community of ‘solo-preneurs’, self-employed people and freelancers that struggle to access traditional banking and finance products.
There's good news for fintech challengers trying to compete with established retail bank products like current accounts this morning.