Barclays data reveals a 31% increase in business scams in January and February, compared with the same period last year Property and Construction sector businesses warned to be on high alert after the sector fell victim to the most scams in 2020 (24%) Barclays has teamed up with football legend and TV presenter Dion Dublin […]
CAPSLOCK Education, a cyber-security education institute based in Manchester, has secured £540,000 in a pre-seed funding round from GC Angels, the Ufi VocTech Trust, Tynton Group, private angel investors and the UK government to reskill adults across the UK. Founded in 2019 by Jonathan Slater, Lorna Armitage and Dr Andrea Cullen, CAPSLOCK’s intensive training bootcamp […]
#3rdGen lender, Octane Capital, today announced it has partnered with the mortgage platform provider, Twenty7Tec. With immediate effect, intermediaries will be able to access Octane’s medium-term buy-to-let products and short-term bridging solutions via Twenty7Tec’s SOURCE module. Octane’s ground-breaking buy-to-let products, which involve zero stress testing, are proving especially popular with brokers at present given the […]
Designed to make business banking simpler, faster and more intuitive, HSBC UK has today announced the launch of HSBC Kinetic. A truly mobile-first banking service versus a bank account with mobile features. HSBC Kinetic will help forward-thinking small businesses work smarter at a time where they have never needed to be more agile or on […]
ClearBank, the cloud-based clearing bank, has today announced a report that reveals 33% of fintechs have faced regulatory intervention due to agency banking resiliency failures. The report ‘How well are fintechs served by banks? The state of agency banking across the UK and Europe’ explores how well served European fintechs are by their banking partners. […]
Criminals now prefer to receive bank transfers over cash and are trading on social media. We Fight Fraud (WFF) has used its unique access to the criminal underworld to discover how Covid-19 is transforming business within the illicit economy. The findings, announced today, include a move towards transacting the proceeds of crime via bank transfers […]
One Mortgage System (OMS), the seamless single-input enquiry to completion processing platform for brokers, has been integrated across its proposition by the F4B Network. The F4B network opted for OMS after an extensive review period and this integration will allow Appointed Representative (AR) firms access to OMS’ all-encompassing CRM system and full workflow solution. The […]
Europe’s leading Amazon agency, factor-a, plans to pioneer the expansion of the UK e-commerce market, in order to become the leading Amazon agency for UK businesses. After successfully growing throughout Europe, their main focus for the rest of 2021 is to target the UK market. The global pandemic has had significant effects on the e-commerce industry […]
SME credit fintech Caple has launched a new loan product exclusively for management teams that want to acquire an SME through a management buy-in (MBI). Caple is able to offer access to MBI finance through its collaboration with Shawbrook Bank, the specialist SME lender. MBIs for larger SMEs, or the 36,000 UK firms turning over […]
Tech Nation, the leading scaleup accelerator, has today announced the release of its annual Tech Nation Report, the ultimate state-of-the-nation report on the UK tech sector. In its 7th year, the report lifts the lid on tech in an extraordinary 2020, revealing how the sector has changed, who the top performers were through the year, […]
