News

31Jul2018

Lending Works scoops £2.8m fundraise

Consumer lending firm Lending Works has raised £2.8m in a round led by UK-based private equity house Maven Capital Partners. Maven contributed £2m, with a further £800,000 coming courtesy of Pollen Street Capital and NVM Private Equity.

26Jul2018

German mid-market lender Creditshelf to go public

Funding Circle’s landmark IPO – expected to happen this year – seems to have triggered a flotation-fever, with German mid-market lender Creditshelf now getting in on the act.

24Jul2018

Challenger banks raise record capital in Q1

More than $2.8bn has been raised by challenger banks globally since 2014 following a record level in the first three months of 2018.

19Jul2018

Crowd lending fintech raises more than $17M

The crowd lending startup P2Binvestor has secured more than $17 million in funding from more than 20 participants to expand its bank partnership program.

17Jul2018

Portugal’s Raize becomes first European P2P lender to go public

Portuguese peer-to-peer lender Raize has made history by floating on the stock market. It is the first P2P platform in Europe to go public, and marks Portugal’s first initial public offering (IPO) since 2014.

12Jul2018

New Credit Card Startup Lands $50 Million From PayPal Mafia And Other Investors

Brex, a San Francisco company that offers a corporate credit card for startups, has launched its first product and raised $50 million in new investment, bringing its total funding to $57 million. PayPal founders Max Levchin and Peter Thiel contributed to the Series B financing round, in addition to fintech venture capital firm Ribbit Capital, early Facebook investor Yuri Milner and former Visa CEO Carl Pascarella.

10Jul2018

Intesa SanPaolo Group has invested in the money management app

Recently equity-crowdfunded startup Oval Money is ploughing ahead to a Series A fundraise. The platform, which describes itself as a personal finance marketplace, has scored a ‘significant’ investment from Italian banking group Intesa SanPaolo.

05Jul2018

Yirendai Announces Institutional Funding from Goldman Sachs

Chinese fintech Yirendai announced that global investment banking group Goldman Sachs has provided it with RMB 324 million of funding for a term of three years.

03Jul2018

Linked Finance deal with Banco BNI Europa adds €50m to platform

Irish peer-to-peer lending platform Linked Finance has partnered with Portugal’s Banco BNI Europa to make €50 million available for lending to Irish SMEs over two years.