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Electric Truckmaker Rivian, Backed By Amazon, Ford, Raises Whopping $1.3 Billion

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London fintech unicorn Revolut surpasses 30M retail customers globally; processes 400M monthly transactions

Image credits: Revolut London-based fintech unicorn Revolut announced on Friday that it has surpassed 30M retail customers worldwide and processes over 400M transactions a month. Nik Storonsky, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, […]

After banking services, Amsterdam’s fintech unicorn Adyen launches Payout Services

Image credits: Adyen Amsterdam-based fintech unicorn Adyen announced the launch of Payout Services on Thursday. “We see this as an opportunity to provide a market-leading solution that supports real-time payouts,” says Roelant […]

Swiss lending startup Teylor raises €275M to offer European SMEs better access to credit

Teylor founder, Patrick Stäuble | Image credit: Teylor Zurich-based Teylor, a technology company that focuses on building better financial products for Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe, announced on Thursday that […]

Amsterdam fintech Klearly launches in the Netherlands after raising €2.1M from Antler, ex-Mollie CEO, others

Klearly team | Image credit: Klearly Amsterdam-based Klearly, a startup that claims to be the first Dutch app to allow users to receive payments directly on their phones, announced on Wednesday that […]

Ireland-based fintech platform NomuPay secures €50.1M for cross-border payments; Know more

NomuPay CEO, Peter Burridge | Image credit: NomuPay Dublin-based NomuPay, an end-to-end payment platform for expansion into regions of high cross-border and ecommerce growth, announced that it has secured $53.6M (approximately €50.19M) […]

Amsterdam’s neo-broker BUX rebrands BUX Zero: Here’s why

Image credits: BUX Amsterdam-based BUX, a neo-brokerage platform, has announced the completion of the rebranding of BUX Zero to BUX. This rebrand is the next step in the Dutch company’s strategy to […]

UK’s fintech firm Smart secures €87.3M to make pension auto-enrolment simple; here’s how

Will Wynne (Group MD & Co-founder) and Andrew Evans (Group CEO & Co-founder) | Image credit: Smart (YouTube) London-based Smart, a fintech company that develops software designed to provide pension services, including […]

Terrapay receives strategic equity investment from Visa a month after raising €91.74M

London-based TerraPay, a global payments infrastructure company, on Wednesday, May 10, announced a strategic equity investment from digital payments giant, Visa. The announcement comes a couple of weeks after raising €91.74M in […]

Stockholm-based Kreditz bags €10M from Ingka Investments, others to bring financial transparency: Know more

Image credits: Funtap/DepositPhotos Stockholm-based Kreditz, a credit information startup, announced on Wednesday, May 3, that it has secured €10M in equity capital from investors, including Ingka Investments and Creades. Kreditz says it […]

Sweden’s Bits Technology secures €4M to democratise financial tech services for everyone

Bits Technology co-founder (Left to Right) Jonatan Klintberg, Fredrik Eriksson, Robin Lantz | Image credit: Bits Technology Stockholm-based Bits Technology, a startup that aims to simplify and democratise financial tech services for […]

Russian human rights group claims 109 arrested during Navalny demonstrations – JURIST

OVD-Info, a Russian human and media rights group on Sunday claimed police arrested at least 109 people during demonstrations supporting imprisoned opposition leader, Alexey Navalny. The group stated two journalists are known […]

Reporters Without Borders: Macau national security law threatens residents and journalists – JURIST

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounced on Friday Macau’s decision to expand their national security law, which takes effect this week. The effect of these changes, according to RSF, “increases the pressure on […]

Canada NGOs request federal court block former Israel PM’s visit – JURIST

Canadian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) submitted a court application, known as a mandamus, in federal court Friday urging Canadian Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino to deny former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett […]

Rights group estimates Iran executed at least 140 people in May – JURIST