Clim8 smashes its crowdfunding target to avert climate change and boost sustainable investment
Clim8 Invest, UK-based sustainable investing app, closed its latest crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube, hitting £2.85m from over 1,800 investors.
FinTechs use market alliances to offer leading savings products, research finds
Research by Investec has found FinTechs use partnerships with larger financial services companies to offer market-leading savings products to their clients.
Will Smith, Jared Leto bet on Titan, valuing the startup at $450m
Investment management platform Titan raised $58m in a funding round led by venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz's cryptocurrency fund, with participation from celebrities Kevin Durant, Odell Beckham Jr, Jared Leto and Will Smith.
US trading app Robinhood aims for $35bn valuation in blockbuster IPO
Controversial trading app Robinhood, which was at the centre of a retail-trading frenzy that gripped Wall Street this year, plans to raise up to $2.3bn in an initial public offering.
Chaka inks $1.5m in pre-seed funding to power digital investments for African businesses
SEC-Licensed digital broker and leading digital investment platform Chaka Technologies raised $1.5m in a pre-seed funding round led by Breyer Capital, global venture capital firm focused on tech companies like Spotify and Facebook.
Why Revolut and the CyberTech industry stand out from the 42 funding rounds raised...
FinTech companies continue to rake in millions of dollars with a slew of startups graduating to the unicorn club. The 42 ventures in the sector that topped up their accounts last week are proof of that.
CSS expands aosphere alliance to integrate data services with investment platform
Compliance Solutions Strategies (CSS) has expanded its collaboration with legal firm aosphere to integrate the latter’s market data services with CSS’ investment monitoring platform.
Financial ‘super app’ M1 Finance gains unicorn status after SoftBank Vision Fund 2-led $150m...
M1 Finance, which offers a financial super app featuring automated investing, lending, and banking services, has secured $150m in Series E funding round led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 at a valuation of $1.6bn.
Banking quartet team to launch carbon offset marketplace
Natwest, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, ITAU and the National Australia Bank have joined forces to create a new marketplace for firms to buy and sell carbon offsets.
ESMA slaps €408,000 penalty on derivatives firm due to EMIR data breaches
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has fined DTCC Derivatives Repository for seven breaches of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).
