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Kudos raises $10.2m for AI-powered smart wallet

Kudos raises $10.2m for AI-powered smart wallet

Kudos has raised $10.2 million in a Series A funding round led by QED Investors for its AI-powered smart wallet and shopping assistant.

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Wefox warns shareholders of insolvency

Wefox warns shareholders of insolvency

Gen Z taking the wheel: What’s driving the next generation of consumers?

Gen Z taking the wheel: What’s driving the next generation of consumers?

Mastercard picks new batch of crypto and blockchain Start Path firms

Mastercard picks new batch of crypto and blockchain Start Path firms

European fintechs expect to grow business in next year

European fintechs expect to grow business in next year

CommBank's x15 Ventures rolls out Truyu digital ID app

CommBank's x15 Ventures rolls out Truyu digital ID app

'Neobank in a box' startup Fintech Farm raises $32 million

'Neobank in a box' startup Fintech Farm raises $32 million

RBC launches incubator

RBC launches incubator

Q1 sees almost 500 fintech deals

Q1 sees almost 500 fintech deals

Revolut vets launch crypto exchange

Revolut vets launch crypto exchange

Gideon Valkin launches $12 million fund to back Europe’s fintech Mafia

Gideon Valkin launches $12 million fund to back Europe’s fintech Mafia

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Super apps: What’s in a name?

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Nenad Marovac - DN Capital - London

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Why all insurtechs should insource claims and customer care

Quentin Colmant

Quentin Colmant - Qover - Brussels

Financial Transformation  

Mastering Month-End Reconciliation: How to Navigate Common Pitfalls

Shagun Malhotra

Shagun Malhotra - SkyStem - New York

The future of Payments in Europe  

Europe is waiting for MiCA, but we should prepare for challenges — Ross Kolodiazhnyi, CEO at DCM

Ross Kolodyazhnyi

Ross Kolodyazhnyi - DCM - London

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Gen Z taking the wheel: What’s driving the next generation of consumers?

Gen Z taking the wheel: What’s driving the next generation of consumers?

Speaking at the Innovate Finance Global Summit 2024, Emma Kisby, Cogo CEO, EMEA, talks about Gen Z taking the wheel and asks what’s driving the next generation of consumers. We hear how consumer trends have shaped the payments landscape to date, how Gen Z is becoming an increasingly major financial force, how their spending habits are changing financial operations, and what Fintechs can do to encourage sustainable habits going forward.
"Who's in charge?": What it takes to build an effective FinTech Board

"Who's in charge?": What it takes to build an effective FinTech Board

Speaking at the Innovate Finance Global Summit, Anita Kimber, Lead Partner, EMEIA Transformation, Financial Services at EY, talks about building an impactful Fintech board, and asks, what skillsets, cultures, and strategies are required to build one? We learn about the challenges FinTechs face when trying to scale-up and why boards are so important in helping them grow successfully, why the role of boards is often overlooked by FinTechs, and what's needed to form a strong board as the FinTech industry matures.
Fintech & Beyond: The wider industry impact

Fintech & Beyond: The wider industry impact

Kicking off UK Fintech week at the 10th year of IFGS, Janine Hirt, CEO of Innovate Finance, speaks to FinextraTV about the impact of Fintech across non-financial industries and the importance of collaboration between Fintechs, government, industry and regulators in shaping the economy, addressing inequality, and strengthening social justice and peace. We hear about how the consumer will benefit from Embedded Finance and Open Data and the role AI, regulation and push payment fraud will play in helping drive sustainable finance over the next 10 years.
"The Next Silicon Valley": Zilch CEO hails rise in UK Fintech investment & innovation

"The Next Silicon Valley": Zilch CEO hails rise in UK Fintech investment & innovation

Philip Belamant, CEO, Zilch, speaks during UK Fintech Week at Innovate Finance's Global Summit and brings FinextraTV up to date with how the UK has become a centre for global fintech through investment, policy and innovation, which has enabled FinTech's to scale up. We hear more about Innovate Finance's Unicorn Council for UK FinTech, what it is responding to and how UK fintech growth should be prioritised in the next decade.
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Vladimir Krasik

How can fintechs use high interest rates to navigate capital markets?

Vladimir Krasik - Global Head of Internal Treasury, Revolut
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'Neobank in a box' startup Fintech Farm raises $32 million
Bill Trueman

Bill Trueman

  Most startup banks and payments institutions 'live or die' around and from the regulatory position, compliance and governance. The burdens are there (rightly) to protect the customer (you and me) by making sure that people stting up a FS business do so responsibly, ethically and properly and always within the law.  The regulation, governance and compliance / AML, risk management, capitalisation / liquidity, consumer duty requirements are just the starting-point; and getting regulatory approval always takes more than 12 months......  Let's see what happens and how these hurdles are addressed!

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Sweden's Scayl raises €100m to address fintech lending gap
Medjit Yalmaz

Medjit Yalmaz

  Thank you for your comment and interesting opinions. I'm the CEO and co-founder of Scayl, let me explain: 1. We work more or less exclusively with fintech lenders who have built either automatic/real-time decision making and loan disbursement technology themselves or utilise some of the excellent SaaS solutions in the market. More or less every fintech have such technology today. 2. We work exclusively with banks, i.e. more or less the cheapest source of funding you can find as a lender (excluding public securitisation). Most fintech lenders (sub €100m loan book) don't have access to that cost of capital because they're simply too small for the banks to deal with, but they can through us. Finextra's article is a very short summary of our press release, I suggest either checking our website or the other publications which contain additional information.

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Sweden's Scayl raises €100m to address fintech lending gap
A Finextra Member

A Finextra member

  In principle - yes, it's a large and known gap. Others aim to fill it, too - but to capture any slice of that 400bn two conditions need to be met: - Rapid decision-making (ideally instant. real-time) with minimum beuraucracy, and - Competitive rates. Obvious and boring, I know - but so often a stumbling block. How good is Scayl in these 2 dimensions?

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Sweden's Scayl raises €100m to address fintech lending gap
Medjit Yalmaz

Medjit Yalmaz

  Thank you for sharing our announcement. Read more about us at https://www.scayl.finance/

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Fintech funding slides to 7-year low

Fintech funding slides to 7-year low

Worldcoin banned in Portugal over privacy concerns

Worldcoin banned in Portugal over privacy concerns

Ireland’s fintech funding slumps

Ireland’s fintech funding slumps

Monzo mafia form startup to make coders extinct

Monzo mafia form startup to make coders extinct

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Madhvi Mavadiya

What will UK fintech look like in 2035?

Madhvi Mavadiya - Finextra Research
Elsewhere...

  1. Evening Standard

    Why we're fighting to keep London first for fintech

  2. TechCrunch

    Fintech faces its reckoning: It’s only a matter of time until the house of cards collapses

  3. TheNextWeb

    European fintech players are bracing for market consolidation

  4. CityAM

    Ex-Barclays boss: Banks must adapt or face ‘slow decline’ under pressure from tech firms

  5. Sky News

    HSBC opts for Innovation in rebranding of Silicon Valley Bank UK

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Maximilian Schausberger

What is the current landscape for VC investments in fintech?

Maximilian Schausberger - Managing Director, Elevator Ventures