Starling Bank, the leading UK digital bank, has raised £30 million in a new funding round. Merian Chrysalis Investment Company Limited is leading the round with an investment of £20 million, while Starling’s existing investor, JTC, has added a further £10 million. The...
Just one recent example of EU regulatory reform, Mifid II, generated 30,000 pages of detailed text, each needing to be read, understood, applied, and reported on by banks. The amount of resource and investment required to meet the ever-changing needs of regulations,...
N26 launched in France in January 2017, with the ambitious goal of becoming the first bank that the French like to use. At the time, 30,000 people had already joined our waiting list to be among the first to discover a new banking experience, with no paperwork and no...
In the 7th edition now, the ASIA – Global Payment Summit (GPS) is a niche, content-driven Summit organized by Currency Research, with an emphasis on thought leadership, knowledge exchange and high-level networking. The platform brings together regulators,...
11:YEARS is the untold story of how, post 2008 financial crisis, the UK created an ecosystem that is the envy of the world. It features insight, comment and analysis from the leaders who shaped the regulatory environment, those who funded multi-billion pound startups...