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London-based fintech startup Primer secures €15.5 million Series A to scale up internationally
UK fintech startup Primer, the low-code payments infrastructure and online checkout API, today announces an approx. €15.5 million Series A funding round led by Accel. Existing investors Balderton, SpeedInvest and Seedcamp also participated, and were joined in the round by RTP Global. The investment brings Primer’s total funding to around €19.7 million, coming just weeks after […]…
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Fintech and banks: competing through collaboration
There’s little novel about fintech and established financial institutions working hand-in-hand. Behind the snappy ad campaigns, sans serif fonts and slick app interfaces, most fintechs have always relied on some form of partner license, or access to a bank’s network. Even challenger banks – the recent wave of financial organisations that straddle the line between […]…
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Can FinTech Hold the EU’s Capital Markets Together?
Europe should use new financial technologies to counteract the capital markets fragmentation trend that has been further aggravated by Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. As the European Union is approaching the Brexit endgame, the risk of further fragmentation is looming over its already fractured capital markets. The future composition of Europe is not the only […]…
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Female FinTech Founders’ Funding Behind Male Counterparts
Female FinTech entrepreneurs are getting left out of funding even as record venture capital money is being pumped into startups. Just 3.8 percent of FinTech startups with female founders received funding January through October, according to Crunchbase, per a Bloomberg report on Wednesday (Nov. 25). Companies that did get funding received only 0.9 percent of total monies […]…
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Lessons From The Fintech Revolutions Of The Past And Winning Post-Covid
Why now is the time for financial services companies to spur innovation and the adoption to new technologies. Michael Tae and Matt Harris look back on two recent crises for lessons on how disruption can lead to rapid change, opportunity and a new status quo, with an eye towards what might be post-Covid. The suggestion […]…
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Nets and Worldline take stakes in bank-backed rival to Visa and Mastercard
Worldline and Nets have become shareholders in the European Payments Initiative, a bank-backed joint venture that aims to build a rival to Mastercard and Visa. Backed by 16 major Eurozone banks, the European Payments Initiative (EPI) is striving to create a unified pan-European payment system, offering a card for consumers and merchants across Europe, a […]…
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Meet Victoria – Digital Source Internal Interviews
Introducing you to more members of our team, we bring you another edition of our internal interview series. This time, we have a chat with Victoria Hammond – our Head of People & Operations here at Digital Source. Read ahead, to find out more about her journey at DS, her most memorable team moments and […]…
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China fintech giants scramble to rethink IPOs, raise capital
BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) – Jack Ma’s vision of the future of finance in China is being upended by regulators, along with the ambitions of conglomerates that followed his lead. Mr Ma’s Ant Group is in talks with regulators about injecting capital into its micro-lending units just weeks after its US$35 billion (S$46.9 billion) initial public offering […]…
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Nordigen launches first-ever free open banking platform to challenge Tink and Plaid
Latvian fintech Nordigen today launches the first-ever free open banking API platform. This will enable developers in companies of all sizes to access PSD2 open banking data from major banks from across Europe via a single API. Nordigen’s new freemium model truly democratises financial data by completely removing financial barriers to access. In addition to […]…
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