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Reports

UK Fintech Investment Declines 56% in 2022

UK, which had managed to maintain robust levels of fintech investments longer than its European counterparts, saw investment numbers sharply fall last year

Science & Technology

Beware of Romance Fraud: £16.6 Million Stolen in H1 2022

Love is in the air – on Valentine’s Day, UK Finance’s Take Five to Stop Fraud campaign is warning people to stay alert to online romance fraud, which has caused losses of £16.6 million in the first half of 2022

Science & Technology

KPMG: ESG Tops Regulatory Demands in Finance While UK & EU Rules Diverge

KPMG’s Regulatory Barometer showed that financial service firms in the UK and the EU remained under significant pressure to comply with diverging ESG requirements over the last 6 months

Finance & Economics

Digital Asset Protection Provider Coincover Raises $30 Million

Coincover, a UK-based provider of digital asset protection services, has reported raising $30 million in funding.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Identity Decisioning Fintech Alloy Launches in UK

US fintech Alloy has announced the launch of activities in the British financial services market as part of a project to expand its presence in the EMEA region.

News

Wales Issues Tender for National Mobility App

Transport for Wales (TfW) announced a tender for the development of a national Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) mobile application.

Finance & Economics

TSB Pilots Banking Pods

The British commercial bank TSB established cooperation with the Note Machine company in order to create banking pods instead of traditional local branches.

News

BNPL Firm Zilch Forms Partnership With StepChange

BNPL company Zilch, which is based in London, has reached an agreement on cooperation with a charitable organization StepChange, which specializes in providing consulting services on issues related to debt management.

News

FCA Takes Action Against Fraudulent Promotions

Over the past year, the British Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has decided to block more than 8 thousand advertisements and marketing campaigns that somehow mislead consumers.

News

Unbanked and Mastercard to Partner on Crypto Card Issuance in Europe

Unbanked and Mastercard have agreed to cooperate to accelerate the process of issuing decentralized finance (DeFi) cards in Europe.

News

Zopa Bank Raises £75 Million

Zopa Bank has announced the receipt of financing in the amount of 75 million pounds for the implementation of the next stage of expansion of the scale of activities in the UK market.

Blockchain & Crypto

GBPT Stablecoin Integrates into 18,000 ATMs in UK

Thousands of crypto ATMs in the United Kingdom now allow customers to withdraw cash for GBPT, a stablecoin backed by British pound

Finance & Economics

Barclays Replaces Branches With Banking Pods

Bank Barclays, based in the UK, opts for semi-permanent bank cells, abandoning traditional branches.

News

UK to Roll Out More Shared Banking Hubs

Nine new shared banking centers will open in the UK.

News

FCA Accuses Three Money Transfer Companies of Price Fixing

The UK Financial Supervision Authority (FCA) said that Dollar East, Hafiz Bros Travel & Money Transfer Limited, and LCC Trans-Sending Limited have established a policy of fixed prices charged to customers in Glasgow for transferring money from Great Britain to Pakistan.

News

Metro Bank Launches Digital Car Loan

UK-based Metro Bank is joining the auto financing market with a new digital car loan offer