Santander InnoVentures invests in Roostify
Santander InnoVentures, the fintech venture capital fund of Santander Group, today announced an investment in San Francisco based startup Roostify, specialized in the digitalization of...
Category : Fintech UK
Your trusted resource for the latest news and updates in UK Fintech Sector. The UK is Europe’s leading country for global tech investors, with British tech firms attracting more venture capital funding than any other European country in the last year.
UK to become cashless society by 2020
In response to the report from Halifax claiming teenagers are increasingly requesting bank transfers from parents rather than asking for cash, the below additional comment from Simon...
Cryptocurrency payments will be a reality on the high street within two years, say SME owners
Study from Paymentsense also reveals how other alternative currencies have already established a foothold. Over a third (35%) of SME owners expect cryptocurrency payments to...
UK FINTECH COMPANIES NAMED AFTER “MOST COMPETITIVE” UK TRADE MISSION TO USA
The Department for International Trade (DIT) today announced that after a most competitive recruitment process, fifteen UK delegates have been selected to join the second...
IT Outage: A Third of Business Leaders Remain in the Dark
Data shows that organisational leaders need to improve their understanding of IT downtime. Understanding what the cost of IT downtime means for business is critical...
Gift Off Tokens: the first equity token
Gift Off is a UK based e-commerce site that operates giftoff.com, enabling users to buy digital gift cards using credit cards and bitcoin. Gift Off has...
GDPR and algorithms: will we be paying for the risk we represent?
by Colin Gray, principal consultant SAS UK & Ireland As we progress into 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is looming on most organisations’ radar....
Financial services sector cashing in on technology-driven change
Financial sector leaders feel more positive than peers in other industries (89 percent) about tech change within their organisations, according to Fujitsu’s Tech in a Transforming...
REED SMITH RELEASES COMPREHENSIVE UPDATE OF BLOCKCHAIN LANDSCAPE
Reed Smith, a global law firm, today released an in-depth white paper on the global legal landscape impacting blockchain technology. Created by the firm’s FinTech...
The FinTech Effect on the Overseas Money Transfer Industry
Sending money from one country to another was not particularly easy until the turn of the last century, when people had to choose between banks...
