WealthTech

Personal money app Ziglu has cleared the ?5m investment milestone on its eighteenth day of crowdfunding on the Seedrs platform.

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released a discussion paper to classify and label investment products to help investors better manage their sustainability.

Crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has launched a new product called the Direct Community Offer (DCO), aimed at enabling later-stage startups to raise liquidity for early investors without going public.

WealthTech platform Addepar has closed its Series E funding round on $177m, as it looks to deepen its platform capabilities.

Playbook, which is designed at helping young people better build their wealth, has reportedly scored $6m in its seed round.

Prize-linked FinTech app EverUp has closed its crowdfunding campaign on ?496,185, which was raised at a pre-money valuation of ?9.9m.

Starling Bank is "really sorry" if customers are unhappy with its new fees, introduced just weeks after the neobank revealed its losses had doubled in the last year.

Drake has signed on as an investor and collaborator with Los Angeles-based sustainability and financial services startup Aspiration.

Happy Money, which builds financial tools and services, has collected $70m in its Series D round of funding.

Financial software development company TrueNorth has collaborated with UK-based Codat with the aim to integrate its API solution for Codat’s FI clients, therefore giving them direct access to a software engineering implementation team.