Risk management startup Venminder raises $5m Series C funding round
Kentucky-based Venminder, the third party risk management solutions provider, has closed a $5m Series C round to further improve its offering. The round was led...
New Australian digital-only bank 86 400 taps Morgan Stanley for $100m funding round
Australia’s newest challenger bank 86 400 has just announced investment bank Morgan Stanley is going to help it kick of a private funding round worth more than $100m.
soCash closes $6m Series B funding round led by Glory
Singapore-based soCash, the startup enabling consumers to withdraw cash and apply for loans via its mobile app, has raised a $6m Series B funding...
RGS to provide SMEs with cyber insurance following InsureCert deal
RGS (Royal Group Services) can now distribute cyber insurance policies to small and medium-sized businesses following new partnership with InsureCert.
Visa joins PayMate’s $25m Series D round as the Indian FinTech firm eyes international...
Mumbai-based PayMate, a business specializing in enabling businesses to automate and digitize their payments, is looking to raise $25m in its new Series D round and is now backed by Visa.
Beleaguered Metro Bank confirms talks about a potential sale of a loan portfolio
Challenger bank Metro Bank has confirmed that “discussions regarding the potential sale of a loan portfolio are taking place” in a stock market announcement.
A new platform called AFOX will tokenize media buying contracts
The Advertising Futures and Options Exchange (AFOX) platform has released new services which will enable media and advertising contracts to be tokenised.
Equifax to pay up to $700m to settle data breach
Equifax, a credit scoring company, will pay up to $700m to the US regulator as a result of a data breach in 2017.
‘Wild West’ days of cryptocurrency are ending as backlash meets Facebook’s Libra
As regulators begin to take a closer look at cryptocurrency exchanges and cryptos like Facebook's Libra, the days of old are ending.
Online real estate unicorn Beike Zhaofang’s $1.2bn Series D round pushes its valuation past...
PropTech scaleup Tianjin Xiaowu Information Technology, which is also known as both Beike Zhaofang and Ke.com, has raised a massive $1.2bn capital injection from seven investors. The Series D round means it's valued at more than $10bn, making it a unicorn ten time over.