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Franco-Dutch fintech Trezy bags €3M for platform to help SMEs manage cash flows

Image credits: Trezy Amsterdam and Paris-based Trezy, a financial and cash flow management platform, announced on Thursday that it has raised €3M in a seed round of funding led by Seedcamp and […]

Amsterdam unicorn Backbase acquires London’s Nucoro to add investing capabilities to its platform

Nucoro team (image from 2022) | Image credit: Nucoro (Twitter) Amsterdam-based unicorn Backbase, an Engagement Banking platform that helps financial institutions in their digital transformation, announced on Thursday that it has acquired […]

Amsterdam-based Sprinque bags €20M in debt facility to help Europe’s B2B Merchants: Know more

Image credits: Sprinque Amsterdam-based Sprinque, a flexible payments platform for local and cross-border B2B transactions, announced on Tuesday that it has secured €20M debt facility from Avellinia Capital. The announcement comes five […]

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 […]

Germany expert commission releases report recommending legalization of early-stage abortion and amended laws for later-term pregnancies – JURIST

The Commission on Reproductive Self-Determination and Reproductive Medicine in Germany on Monday submitted a final report recommending the legalization of abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy in the country.The German […]

Australia judge rules in defamation trial that former government adviser raped a colleague in parliament – JURIST

Australia Federal Court Justice Michael Lee found that former government adviser Bruce Lehrmann raped a colleague in a Parliament House office on Monday. The judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit Lehrmann brought against […]

Poland classifies attack on humanitarian aid workers as murder, demands Israeli cooperation in investigation – JURIST

The Polish government on Friday labeled the death of Polish aid worker Damian Soból as murder, following the deaths of seven humanitarian aid workers from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) serving in […]

Amnesty International urges immediate investigation into war crimes in Merawi, Ethiopia – JURIST