Funding Circle is planning to raise capital from a planned stock market listing in 2018 to fund a marketing campaign in the US. The peer-to-peer lender’s brand awareness in the UK is 8% compared to 1% in the US. FCA has warned that the rise of Bitcoin fraud...
Atlas Merchant Capital, the investment vehicle founded by the former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond, is reportedly in talks to buy a stake in Tandem Money FCA has published feedback on its discussion paper on distributed ledger technology. The regulator also...
FCA has announced that it received 61 submissions for the third edition of its regulatory sandbox, with 18 making the final cut, including propositions from Barclays, First Direct and Nationwide. Barclays is floating a RegTech proposition which tracks updates to...
Fiinu, a UK start-up building a ‘blockchain-friendly’ bank, has appointed Andy Briscoe, chair of The Money Advice Service, as chairman. It has also appointed Bank of England and Santander veteran David Hopton as a non-executive director. Fiinu is currently applying...
HSBC has been given the go-ahead from the China Securities Regulatory Commission for its securities joint venture in China. HSBC owns 51% of HSBC Qianhai Securities. Qianhai Financial Holdings owns the remaining 49% stake AJ Bell has launched a Lifetime ISA on its...
