Institutional Investment & Trading

Hum Capital has collected $21m in its Series A funding round to help it facilitate the expansion of its Intelligent Capital Market (ICM) platform.

Lyon-based FinTech company Mon Petit Placement has raised €6m in seed funding, 18 months after the launch of its commercial offer.

More than half of young investors are being influenced by social media - a trend that shows little sign of abating, according to the latest survey from financial services company Hargreaves Lansdown.

Toronto-based FinTech software startup Composer is to commence the open beta rollout of its automated trading platform, following a $5.35m in unannounced seed financing, BetaKit has revealed.

Capital markets technology and advisory firm LPA has teamed up with Evercity to deepen its ESG consulting services.

Investment platform Freetrade is to launch its seventh crowdfunding campaign on 24th November, which will be open to UK and EU-based investors.

Atomic, an API that helps banks and FinTechs integrate investing into their products, has netted $25m in its Series A funding round.

South African banking-as-a-service (BaaS) company Jumo has bagged $120m from a recent funding round co-led by Visa, Fidelity Management and Kingsway.

A report published by Finder, a personal finance comparison site, has revealed that half of investors in the UK are using social media to inform their investing decisions, with one in five relying solely on social media sites.

Investor app Quartr has secured $4.5m from a seed funding round that included a number of key names from the financing industry.