Sustainable shopping startups are having a moment, just in time for COP26. New businesses aimed at changing consumerism for the better have been busy lately sweeping up funding rounds. The...
Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) will build its first data centres in New Zealand...
Francesco Simoneschi is the CEO of the UK's latest unicorn, TrueLayer. Simoneschi founded the fintech developer platform together with CTO Luca...
Fintech developer platform TrueLayer has just been minted the UK's newest unicorn after closing a $130m round backed by payment...
Digital banking startup dopay has raised an $18m Series A round to provide financial services to unbanked people in Africa....
Investment in UK tech startups and scaleups reached a record $18bn (£13.5bn) in the first half of 2021 as they attracted more venture capital than Germany, France and Israel combined,…
Juan Espinosa, CEO and co-founder of Sprinque, wants to make it easier for businesses to buy things. The fintech startup has just secured a €1.7m seed round to realise the…
Scalapay is the Italian startup taking on Klarna, Afterpay and PayPal. The buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) fintech has just raised a massive $155m Series A funding round with the aim to beat…
Shares in Evergrande, the most indebted property developer in China, have plummeted after it detailed the extent of its financial problems. The company hired restructuring advisers as it faces mounting…
Regulators in China want to break up Alipay, the country’s largest payment app owned by Jack Ma’s Ant Group. Beijing wants a separate app for the company’s highly profitable loans…
Monzo founder and ex-CEO Tom Blomfield has claimed that a SoftBank executive picked his feet and smoked during meetings while Blomfield was pitching for funds to get Monzo off the…
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