Tag: Pockit

Pockit has recently announced the appointment of Garreth Griffith as its new Chief Operating Officer.

London-based PayTech Pockit has announced that it has secured $10m in a growth round. 

The UK FinTech community has welcomed Ron Kalifa's review, but stakeholders argue the government must do more to take the sector seriously and protect the nation's position as an industry leader.

Last week week saw 28 FinTechs close investment deals. Three sectors in particular proved especially successful.

UK-based FinTech startup Pockit has netted £15m in a new Series B round, partially via a Crowdcube raise.

Challenger bank Monument has revealed that it is in the later stages of an application process to get a UK banking licence in order to launch a service for affluent clients.

Neobank Pockit was one of the FinTech startups that had to halt its services after the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) froze all of Wirecard's regulated activities, but now it is back in business.

Last week the UK's top financial markets watchdog ordered Wirecard to freeze all of its regulated activities in the country. Now it has lifted the ban.

On Late Monday afternoon Curve announced that some of its services were back after having shut them down because of their affiliation with Wirecard.

Challenger bank Pockit has been forced to freeze all customers' accounts because of the Wirecard scandal and tells users to go to local welfare assistance schemes if they can't pay for their essentials.