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Ex-N26 staffers raise €35m for embedded finance startup

Finmid, a German financial infrastructure provider targeting B2B marketplaces, has emerged from stealth with €35 million in early-stage equity funding.

17 April 2024

News/crime

Lloyds warns against fraudsters on Booking.com and Airbnb

With summer holidays on the horizon, Lloyds Bank is cautioning customers against scams as they book their vacations.

12 April 2024

News/wholesale

Barclays invests in Funding Xchange

Barclays has led a Series B financing round for Funding Xchange (FXE), a provider of white-label software for lenders to SMEs. The size of the round was not disclosed.

11 April 2024

News/wholesale

ClearBank hits FY profitability

Britain's ClearBank is planning international expansion after reporting its first annual pre-tax profit.

08 April 2024

News/predictions

Embedded Finance market to be worth $22bn by 2028

The market for embedded finance is forecast to grow by 148% over the next five years, according to a recently published study.

02 April 2024

News/sustainable

Paynetics buys 'impact' banking app Novus

Bulgarian embedded finance provider Paynetics is making an ESG play through the acquisition of UK 'impact neobank Novus. Financial terms were not disclosed.

28 March 2024

News/payments

Visa and Taulia/SAP form embedded finance partnership

Visa has teamed up with SAP-owned supply chain finance outfit Taulia to make embedded finance accessible to businesses worldwide.

13 March 2024

News/startups

Treasury Prime lays off staff in strategic pivot

Embedded banking platform Treasury Prime has laid off half of its staff as part of a strategic pivot to sell directly to banks.

04 March 2024

News/payments

NextGen Nordics 2024: 40+ banks registered to attend

NextGen Nordics returns to Stockholm on 23rd April, and at seven weeks away from the event day, 200 attendees have already registered.

01 March 2024

News/people

Former chancellor Hammond takes over the chair at Railsr

Former chancellor Philip Hammond has been appointed as chairman of Railsr, the embedded banking platform that was rescued from liquidation last year.

29 February 2024

News/crypto

PayPal uses stablecoin to invest in Mesh

PayPal has used its own stablecoin to invest around $5 million in Mesh, an embedded finance startup for crypto payments.

30 January 2024

News/startups

Davos 2024: AI most relevant for fintech development until 2029

Bryan Zhang, executive director and co-founder of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at The University of Cambridge Judge Business School presented research on the future of global fintech, conducted in conjunction with the World Economic Forum.

19 January 2024

News/retail

PayPal and Samsung back LatAm fintech Prometeo

PayPal and Samsung have joined a $13 million funding round in LatAm embedded banking vendor Prometeo.

17 January 2024

News/payments

Finextra's top research reports of 2023

With 2023 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded whitepapers, sentiment papers and surveys over the course of the past year. These reports are Finextra-led and cobranded, based on editorially balanced, independent, referenced desk-based and online research.

28 December 2023

News/payments

Finextra's top impact study reports of 2023

With 2023 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded impact study reports over the course of the past year. Our impact study reports are how-to, best practice guides that support those in the financial industry in their utilisation and optimisation of particular technologies, as well as providing an outlook at future trends to watch.

27 December 2023

News/retail

Finastra survey shows global investment in AI, embedded finance, and BaaS

Finastra’s annual global State of the Nation Survey revealed that the financial services sector is investing in new innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), embedded finance, and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS).

01 December 2023