Insurance broker Brown & Brown acquires pair of InsurTechs
Insurance brokerage firm Brown & Brown has acquired CoverHound and CyberPolicy, a pair of digital insurance marketplaces.
Smart home payments expected to be worth $164bn in 2025
The value of payments that occur on smart home devices is expected to exceed $164bn in 2025, rising sharply from the expected $22bn in 2020, according to a report from Juniper Research.
Challenger bank AideXa bags €45m in new funding
Italian neobank AideXa has secured €45m in seed capital to create a FinTech company focused on small businesses.
Switzerland-based InsurTech dacadoo turns ten
Switzerland-based dacadoo, which is a digital transformation company for the healthcare space, has celebrated its tenth anniversary.
Banks face considerably lower ratings if they don’t tackle financial crime and governance
Sigma Ratings and Fitch Group warn in a new report that banks and financial institutions could face serious risks if they neglect to tackle financial crime, oversight and governance risk.
iwoca announces its buy now pay later service will be free during the UK’s...
Small business lender iwoca has will offer its invoice payments product iwocaPay for free throughout the UK’s second national lockdown to support small businesses impacted by coronavirus.
How Dubai International Financial Centre is supporting FinTech startups
Having successfully weathered the pandemic, DIFC is now gearing up to support FinTech companies in Dubai even more.
Neobanks and InsurTech startups among the 23 FinTechs raising money last week
Challenger banks and InsurTech ventures stood out among the 23 FinTech companies that successfully raised money last week.
Singapore’s Incomlend bags $20m Series A round to democratise trade finance
Shipping companies face many monetary uncertainties, but Incomlend hopes to alleviate some of those concerns on the back of its new $20m Series A round.
The University of South Australia has inked a deal with Optus to launch a...
The University of South Australia has signed a strategic partnership with Optus which will see them launching a Cyber Security Research and Collaboration hub together.