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Although financial participation continues to linger at around 10% among European banking clients, a stark contrast to the 89% of individuals acknowledging the importance of financial preparedness for their future, several emerging trends are inspiring optimism. These trends are pushing financial participation to new heights.

Safened Holding, a stalwart in the financial technology realm, has proudly declared that industry titan Ted Hamilton is its latest investor.

Indian investment platform Finvasia has raised an undisclosed round of funding in its pre-launch phase. The investment comes from Indian VC Intrinsic and values the company at Rs150 crore ($22m).

California-based 1confirmation is looking to raise up to $20m for its maiden venture capital fund.

Israel investment firm Viola Group has launched a new fund dedicated to FinTech, FinTech Global can reveal.

Online investing platform LendingClub Asset Management (LCA) and its former president Renaud Laplanche have been charged with fraud by the US SEC.

SoftBank tapped into its gigantic Vision Fund for a second time this year to support Greensill, the business financing company. Having already secured $800m from...

FinTech Titanbay hopes to democratise the private equity investment space by removing the barriers preventing smaller investors from accessing to the market.

Trading analytics startup Tradefeedr has picked up $3m in early-stage capital, predominantly from private investment company IPGL.

With Trade Republic netting $900m and four startups earning the horn among 46 rounds, last week proved to be a great week in terms of FinTech investment, particularly for stock trading apps enterprises.