InvestTech
PrimaryBid attracts $50 million in series B funding
PrimaryBid, the UK-based fintech platform that connects retail investors with public companies raising capital, has closed a $50 million series B funding round.
PrimaryBid attracted...
RaiseNow secures $6 million investment
Charity fundraising technology provider RaiseNow has secured a $6 million series A+ investment from SIX Fintech Ventures and existing investor PostFinance, as well as...
Clim8 Invest appoints three experts to investment committee
Hot on the heels of its latest Crowdcube funding campaign, Clim8 Invest has appointed three prominent figures to its investment committee, including James Millard...
Revolut selects Fireblock for launch of new crypto services
UK-headquartered fintech company Revolut is using the infrastructure of Fireblocks to support the introduction of new crypto services for its 13 million retail customers.
Revolut...
Crypto-derivatives subject to retail ban in UK
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has banned the sale of crypto-derivatives to retail customers.
The financial services regulator in the UK considers these products to...
Clim8 Invest launches Crowdcube funding campaign
Clim8 Invest, the digital consumer platform focused on climate-crisis tackling investments, has launched a Crowdcube funding campaign and already smashed its £400,000 target.
The new...
FinecoBank enjoys strong H1 2020 in UK
European fintech FinecoBank registered strong activity from its UK client base across its brokerage, investing and banking business during the first half of this...
Digital wealth manager Scalable Capital raises €50 million
Germany-based wealth manager Scalable Capital, hot on the heels of its B2B partnership with Barclays, has raised €50 million in series D funding.
The funding,...
Bits of Stock and Button bring wealth wellness to consumers and brands
The brand loyalty and investment app on a mission to drive wealth back into communities has partnered with mobile commerce platform Button to enable...
Flagstone adds new deposit taker to smart cash platform
London-based Flagstone has added a new deposit taker to its investment management platform, expanding the pool of savings products that its small- and medium-sized...
Bakkt raises $300 million
New York state-based digital asset services startup Bakkt has raised $300 million of capital from big names including Microsoft venture capital firm M12 and...
Onchain Custodian partners with IBM for asset safekeeping
Singapore-headquartered Onchain Custodian, the institutional digital asset investments custody service, has released a new version of its SAFE platform.
The new version integrates cryptography services...
Morgan Stanley eyes $13 billion E-Trade acquisition
Online brokerage firm E-Trade is the subject of an acquisition bid that, if successful, would move investment bank Morgan Stanley into the consumer trading...
Instimatch Global adds Gulf Bank to digital money market network
Instimatch Global, the digital network for institutional money market lending, has expanded its international coverage with the addition of Kuwait's Gulf Bank to its...
Cobalt onboards Citi to post-trade FX infrastructure
Citi is the latest bank to go live on the post-trade foreign exchange (FX) infrastructure of London-based Cobalt.
Cobalt's post-trade FX infrastructure is suitable across...
BMO to acquire Clearpool for electronic trading platform capabilities
BMO Financial Group is acquiring Clearpool Group, a New York-based provider of electronic trading solutions and an independent agency broker-dealer operating in the US...