Barclays, Natwest and Revolut: Top bankers chew the fat at City summit December 3, 2024 Executives, investors and even royalty turned out for the first day of Financial Times’ annual Global Banking Summit in London on Tuesday.
Revolut boss says London IPO is ‘not rational’ December 3, 2024 Revolut’s chief executive Nik Storonsky has said it is “not rational” for Europe’s most valuable fintech start-up to publicly list in London, dealing a blow the new government’s plans to boost the stock market. Storonsky said the London-based banking company would consider a public debut “sooner or later” to raise cash and return money to [...]
How two ex-consultants plan to revolutionise UK consumer credit December 3, 2024 As financial services consultants at EY, Gerald Chappell and Michelle He noticed a weak spot shared by some of the world’s biggest banks: affordable personal loans. Up against ageing data-sharing systems, bureaucratic decision-making and a lack of business motivation to enter a market easily written off as “risky”, they set out to provide finance to [...]
9fin: Data start-up raises £40m for credit markets tech December 2, 2024 Financial data start-up 9fin has raised $50m (£39.3m) as it looks to grow a foothold in the market for debt and private capital research. The London-based fintech announced a Series B round led by growth capital investor Highland Europe. 9fin did not disclose at what valuation it had raised the money. It was reported a [...]
Revolut crowdfunders to cash in on extended secondary share sale December 2, 2024 Some of Revolut’s earliest investors will be offered the chance to cash in on the fintech giant’s latest secondary share sale in a move that has staved off potential legal action, City AM can reveal. The British banking company has opened up the next phase of its sale to early stage investors, including those holding [...]
Neobrokers take aim at Hargreaves Lansdown and AJ Bell November 27, 2024 A crop of neobrokers are ramping up their challenges to the industry’s dominant players in what experts say could reshape Britain’s retail investment scene.
How this stockpicker helped triple the value of Funding Circle November 27, 2024 Funding Circle has been through a rough few years. After floating with a value of close to £1.5bn in 2018, share prices rapidly declined, with its market cap reaching as low as £125m in January of this year. That was when Richard Staveley, portfolio manager of Rockwood Strategic Investment Trust, began looking at the company, [...]
Zempler Bank begins layoffs after announcing jump in profit November 27, 2024 The boss of challenger bank Zempler privately told staff he would lay off around five per cent of its workforce on Monday, just as the company publicly announced a jump in profit in its latest financial year, City AM can reveal. In an email to staff, seen by City AM, the digital bank’s chief executive, [...]
Monzo names new finance chief in hint at listing plans November 26, 2024 Monzo has appointed former Nubank executive Tom Oldham to be its chief financial officer as the digital challenger bank hinted at its IPO ambitions.
Trump’s election means it’s time to take Bitcoin seriously November 25, 2024 Bitcoin was once dismissed as a tulip bubble, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that – in an era of fiat money inflation – it is the best way back to sound money The incoming Trump administration has announced its intention to back a “strategic Bitcoin reserve”. That catapults what was once a fantastical thought experiment, [...]