| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.01.2024 | ABN AMRO to acquire BUX | ABN AMRO Bank N.V. (ABN AMRO) is proud to announce that it has reached an agreement to acquire BUX, one of Europe’s most rapidly growing neobrokers. With this acquisition, ABN AMRO aims to strengthen its footprint in the retail investment s... |
| 09.01.2024 | Fintech Meniga raises €15 million Series D round | Meniga, a leader and pioneer in Personal Finance Management solutions, which has delivered work for some of the world’s largest banks and financial institutions, today announced that it has raised €15 million in Series D funding.
The new i... |
| 07.01.2024 | Openclaims announces new investment round,led by Knight Capital | Openclaims, the Dutch market leader in motor claims software, announces a newstrategic investment of 1.75 million euros led by Knight Capital. The investment willbe used to further expand Openclaims’ Repair Distribution Solution, which help... |
| 07.06.2023 | Five Degrees acquired by Topicus | Deventer 17th May 2023, Total Specific Solutions (TSS) and Topicus, both part of Topicus.com Inc, have successfully completed the acquisition of cloud core banking provider Five Degrees Holding B.V. Five Degrees’ former Libra/Matrix Lending... |
| 09.05.2022 | Gotrade, the app that lets international users buy fractions of US stocks, raises $15.5M Series A | Singapore, April 5, 2022, Gotrade, an app that lets international users buy fractional shares of U.S. stocks and ETFs, announced today it has raised $15.5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures, ... |
| 05.02.2022 | BUX leads innovation in investing in Europe with the introduction of fractional investing | Amsterdam, January 3, 2022 – Starting today, BUX has introduced fractional investing to clients across Europe. Via investing app, BUX Zero, the company is the first broker in the Netherlands to offer fractional investing to retail clients a... |
| - | Swedbank invests EUR3 million in Meniga | Swedbank has invested EUR3 million in personal finance and data aggregation platform Meniga, as it begins the roll out of the firm’s technology to customers in Sweden and the Baltic countries. |
| - | TradeKing to Acquire Assets of GAIN Capital Holdings’ Brokerage Subsidiary | TradeKing Group, Inc., an innovator in the online brokerage industry, announced that it has reached an agreement with GAIN Capital Securities Inc. to acquire the accounts as well as the rights to certain other assets of the Cleveland-based ... |
| - | Dutch Casual Trading App BUX Hits 10,000 UK Users in One Month | Amsterdam FinTech start-up opens up retail trading to an unprecedented audience.
LONDON (19 November 2014): BUX, the casual trading app that brings the fun back to finance, has reached 10,000 users in the UK in just one month. Having launc... |
| - | East Africa: Cellulant Marks 10 Years of Connecting Over 40 Million Customers to Mobile Payments | Cellulant are celebrating ten years of being in the mobile payments business across 11 countries in Africa and have connected over 40 million customers across these countries.
Ken Njoroge, Group CEO Cellulant in a Thank-You note to partner... |
| - | Ancoa trade surveillance integrates Twilio cloud-based communications platform | Ancoa, providers of contextual surveillance and insightful analytics for exchanges, regulators, buy and sell-side firms, today announced the successful integration of Twilio, the leading cloud communications platform, with its surveillance ... |
| - | Brand New Day adopts five°degrees’ new core banking platform °neo | Amsterdam, 24 June 2021 – Five Degrees announces Brand New Day as the newest client for °neo, its recently unveiled new cloud-native core banking platform. The Dutch online pension bank selects °neo as their banking platform to fuel a renew... |
| - | Introducing Meniga Dialog: a personal engagement platform for banks | Meniga today introduced Dialog, a new way for banks to engage with customers using highly personalized advice and product suggestions.
Using machine learning and big data analytics, Dialog provides deep insights into customers’ behaviour. ... |
| - | Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance Nederland B.V. opts for Five Degrees’ Matrix cross channel technology | Breukelen (NL), 12 November 2013 – Five Degrees, the financial technology provider offering core customer facing banking technology for financial institutions announces today that it has signed a contract with CA-CF NL to implement Matrix, ... |
| - | 8 securities cash flow positive after only eight months | Following its launch in April 2012, 8 Securities now has 60,000 customers, holds approximately $1 billion USD in client assets and is cash flow positive. Positioned in Asia’s two most important financial centers of Tokyo and Hong Kong, the ... |
| - | Meniga acquires Wrapp: establishing the largest transaction-driven rewards platform in the Nordics | The new multi-bank rewards programme aims to rival Google and Facebook and become the leading digital advertising platform in Europe
STOCKHOLM/LONDON — JANUARY 10TH, 2019 — We are delighted to announce that Meniga has acquired the Stockhol... |
| - | Meniga Raises €7.5M Equity Round to Advance Personalisation in Digital Banking | 9 am, 7th April 2017 — Meniga, a leading provider of digital banking technology for the world’s largest banks, raises a €7.5M funding round led by Nordic venture capital investor Industrifonden. Other participants in the round include curre... |
| - | Schadegarant digitalizes repair process with Openclaims SaaS platform | Schadegarant, the organization that handles vehicle body repair on behalf of various leading Dutch insurers, has integrated its platform “eXchange” with the SaaS platform of Openclaims. This means that customers of affiliated insurers will ... |
| - | Linear Investments deploys Ancoa market surveillance and analytics across its global brokerage platforms | LONDON, 4 June 2015 – Ancoa, providers of contextual surveillance and insightful analytics for exchanges, regulators, buy- and sell-side firms, today announced that Linear Investments Ltd, a leading investment manager offering a full-servic... |
| - | South African payments startup Yoco raises $83M series C backed by Dragoneer | Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute heavily to the economic success of many countries, particularly those in the developing world. They are the backbone of most economies: Globally, SMEs represent about 90% of existing businesses... |
| - | Next generation trading app BUX completes €10.6 Million funding round | London, 23rd October 2017: BUX today announces that it has raised a €10.6 million Series C funding round in order to undertake ambitious product expansion. The round was led by Germany’s HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, one of Europe’s most success... |
| - | Kenyan connection in Nigerian Forbes’ award | A Kenyan mobile app has propelled a Nigerian minister to winning the Forbes Person of the Year award.
The application, seen by many as showcasing how technology can be used to transform agriculture and improve the lives of citizens, is the... |
| - | TradeKing Introduces TradeKing Advisors, Aims to Create New Value Leader in Online Advisory | TradeKing’s Richard J. Hagen, Jr. to Lead Advisory Arm as President and CEO
CHARLOTTE, NC—June 30, 2014 – An innovator in online financial services, TradeKing Group announced today the formation of a new subsidiary: TradeKing Advisors. Tra... |
| - | TradeKing Enters Into Agreement to Acquire MB TRADING | Acquisition Extends TradeKing’s Offering with Powerful Professional-Level Trading Platform, Marks Firm’s Fourth Acquisition in Three Years
(Fort Lauderdale, FL and El Segundo, CA) —August 26, 2015 – In a move to further extend the scope of... |
| - | Five Degrees en Meniga listed in 2016 edition of FinTech 50 | 1200 FinTech companies across Europe by some of the biggest names in FinTech. Read more. |
| - | Dutch Velocity Capital Launches $120 Million Fintech Fund |
Dutch private equity firm Velocity Capital has launched a 105 million euro ($120 million) venture fund aimed at investing in early stage companies focusing on banking, payments, credit and other fintech areas.
The Amsterdam-based private... |
| - | African FinTech Company Cellulant Raises $47.5 Million | Cellulant, a leading Pan-African digital payments service provider that prompts, collects, settles and reconciles payments in real time, has raised $47.5 million from a consortium of investors that include the Rise Fund, the impact fund run... |
| - | TradeKing and Zecco Merger Closes | TradeKing and Zecco, two innovators in the online brokerage industry, announced today the merger of the two firms has officially closed. This merger creates a new, single holding company for both firms called TradeKing Group, Inc., and pave... |
| - | New group of young people discovers the stock market with BUX. | New trading app has been installed 100,000 times in just five months.
a completely new and fresh group of people are getting involved in the stock markets. They have been inspired to do so by BUX, the smartphone app that makes investing an... |
| - | Savings app Qapital raises $12 million and plans to add debit accounts | Fintech startup Qapital has raised $12 million in Series A funding from investors that include Industrifonden, Northzone, Rocketship VC and Anthemis Exponential Ventures to expand its capabilities.
Over the last three years, the Qapital ap... |
| - | Icelandic Bank Is First To Provide Customers With New Carbon Footprint Tracker | This morning, Icelanders woke up to hear whether Mount Keilir had erupted, following several days of intense seismic activity measured near the volcano 30 kilometres south of Reykjavik. Nature and the environment are inescapable in Iceland,... |
| - | Ally Financial to Buy Online Broker TradeKing Group For $275 Million | Ally Financial Inc. will announce plans to acquire online brokerage firm TradeKing Group Inc. for about $275 million on Tuesday, the lender said.
The expected announcement is a part of Ally’s recently unveiled plans to expand into new busi... |
| - | An interview with Cellulant CEO Ken Njoroge and director Allard Luchsinger on Cellulant’s $47.5m funding round | A couple of hours before the recent #VillageDiariesAmsterdam event went down, Andile Masuku managed to land a sit-down with Cellulant Founder and CEO, Ken Njoroge, and Director of Private Equity at Velocity Capital, Allard Luchsinger, in or... |
| - | TPG’s Rise Fund makes its first Africa investment | The Rise Fund, the impact fund run by private equity group TPG Growth, has made its first investment in Africa, leading a $47.5m deal to buy an unspecified stake in digital payments provider Cellulant.
The deal, which also included Endeavo... |
| - | Adyen partners with Cellulant to expand in Africa | Under the partnership, Adyen will have access to 40 mobile money operators, over 600 local and international merchants and over 120 banks in Africa with just a single integration to Cellulant’s payment platform. Global merchants that wish t... |
| - | Casual Trading App Bux Pulls In Another $6.9M In Funding | More VC being thrown at casual trading startup Bux. The app, which turns stocks and derivatives trading (via CFDs) into a game-like and social experience, thus potentially broadening the market to include a greater number of people who have... |
| - | TradeKing Adds Advanced Charting, Integrated Options Tools and New Alerts to Award-Winning TradeKing LIVE Platform | New Features Designed to Give Traders More Power and Control Over their Trading Experience
CHARLOTTE, NC —August 12, 2015 – Online stock and options broker TradeKing Securities today announced the latest upgrades to its TradeKing LIVE trad... |
| - | Yoco concludes Series-A funding round, plans international expansion | SA payments provider Yoco has recently concluded a Series-A funding round of an undisclosed amount led by two foreign investors namely US-based Quona Capital and Netherlands-based Velocity Capital.
The new influx of capital will help Yoco ... |
| - | Ally Financial Announces Acquisition of TradeKing Group | Ally Financial Inc. (NYSE: ALLY) today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire TradeKing Group, Inc., a digital wealth management company. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter and includes an online broker/... |
| - | UniCredit partners with Meniga to offer new digital solutions to improve customer experience | UniCredit announced that it has signed a strategic partnership with Meniga, the global leader in digital banking solutions. At the same time the Group has taken a minority stake in the company with a EUR 3.1 million investment through UniCr... |
| - | 8 Securities Closes $8.7 million USD for Mobile Expansion In Asia | HONG KONG, Nov. 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — 8 Securities, a social trading service for individual investors, today announced it has closed $8.7 million USD in Series B financing. This brings the total equity capital raised to $20 million USD. R... |
| - | Australian BNPL platform Zip acquires Prague-based Twisto | Prague’s BNPL platform Twisto has been acquired by the Australian buy-now-pay-later firm Zip. Zip, who has already invested in the company, has agreed to purchase the outstanding shares for a fee of €89 million. The deal is expected to conc... |
| - | 8 Securities, Asia’s leading mobile investing service, to receive $US25 million investment under a strategic partnership with Nomura Asset Management | 8 Securities group announced it has agreed to receive a total of $US 25 million Series C investment from Nomura Asset Management. The investment demonstrates the promising growth and potential of robo-advisory services in Asia including Jap... |
| - | Franx chooses Five Degrees’ core banking platform °neo | Amsterdam, 2 September 2021 – Franx, the global trading platform initiative of ABN AMRO, migrates to °neo. Aiming at maximum convenience for their clients to support their international businesses, the core technology will be provided by Fi... |
| - | Promsvyazbank in Russia launches PFM-service | Meniga announced today that Promsvyazbank (PSB), a top 10 Russian Bank, has implemented the Meniga Personal Finance Management (PFM) Solution for all its online banking customers. The custom-built PFM-service has been specifically designed ... |
| - | Nigeria: Cellulant, Agric bank to unveil mobile money services | Cellulant Corporation and Nigeria’s Bank of Agriculture are set to unveil a joint mobile money services aimed at driving business transaction in the agricultural sector .
According to a statement by the firm on Tuesday, Cellulant Corporati... |
| - | Five Degrees launches next generation back-office solution at Finovate London 2014 | Matrix Accounts is a modern lean back office solution that manages product and admin specific data for the benefit of the mid and front office operations. Matrix Accounts is designed for existing banks, as well as banks of the next generati... |
| - | LeasePlan Bank improved its online savings operation by implementing Five Degrees‘ Matrix platform | LeasePlan Bank has successfully improved its online savings operation, implementing Five Degrees’ Matrix digital banking platform. Matrix serves as a single intelligent platform, delivering security, reliability and ease of use for all Leas... |
| - | Five Degrees acquires Icelandic software house Libra | Source: Five Degrees
Five Degrees, a leading Fintech banking software company, acquires Libra, a leading provider of core banking IT systems in the financial sector in Iceland. The acquisition boosts
Five Degrees’ international growth amb... |
| - | Five Degrees Raises $10 Million in New Funding | A new investment of more than $10 million (€10 million) will help core banking technology provider Five Degrees focus on both product development and global expansion. The funding comes courtesy of new investor Karmijn Kapitaal and existing... |
| - | Twisto, the credit-based mobile payments app, has raised €14 million in a Series B round | The investment round was led by Finch Capital and co-led by Velocity Capital. ING Ventures, UNIQA Ventures and ING Bank Slaski also joined the round, following their earlier €5 million Series A investment. Enern stays on as main investor.
... |
| - | Export product Five Degrees is expanding ”The new bank is a financial supermarket” | In a highly competitive and innovative Dutch FinTech scene, Five Degrees stands out as a young IT organisation that is getting the better of major international players, not only in but also − and increasingly often − outside the Netherland... |
| - | Nigeria: Government Saves $192 milion Via e-Wallet Scheme | Cellulant Nigeria Limited, the firm that executes the electronic wallet programme of Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development under the Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GESS), has disclosed that the programme held the governm... |
| - | Casual trading app BUX raises $1.9 million to accelerate European roll-out | London and Silicon Valley based VC Initial Capital invests in FinTech startup that makes stock trading more accessible through gamification.
BUX, the trading app that makes playing the financial markets accessible to everybody, has closed ... |
| - | Meet Twisto, the Czech Republic’s answer to Klarna | Today, BUX launched its zero-commission investing app to French users, making it the first neobroker
Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) firms have boomed since the pandemic began. Online use has soared 35% since March, BNPL giant Klarna has become E... |
| - | SoFi goes international with acquisition of Hong Kong-based investment app 8 Securities | Consumer financial services platform SoFi is making its first expansion outside of the United States with the acquisition of Hong Kong-based investing app 8 Securities.
The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Targeted to personal investo... |
| - | BUX, a European Robinhood, raises $80m to expand its neo-broker platform | A new wave of apps have democratized the concept of investing, bringing the ability to trade in stocks and currencies to a wider pool of users who can use these platforms to make incremental, or much larger, bets in the hopes of growing the... |
| - | Africa’s fintech industry has scored another big-ticket investment win | The streak of big-ticket investment in African fintech companies shows no signs of stopping.
Cellulant, the digital payments solutions company operating in 11 African countries has raised $47.5 million in its Series C round—one of the larg... |
| - | Mobile money-saving app Qapital raises $30 million to spend on growth | Qapital, one of a slew of mobile applications trying to make it easier for users to save money (and spend it more wisely), has raised $30 million in fresh financing as it expands beyond savings to offer investment advisory services.
Since ... |
| - | Openclaims wint Europese Fintech Awards | Openclaims won de competitie met haar innovatieve veilingmodel, dat verzekeraars, volmachten en intermediairs helpt bij het aanbieden van eenvoudige, intuïtieve en onderscheidende schadeprocessen, en gelijktijdig bespaart op schade-inkoop.
... |
| - | TradeKing Turns 10: Shares 10 Biggest Shifts in Independent Investing Since 2005 | TradeKing Group, Inc., an innovator in online financial services, today celebrated its 10th year of operation — a decade distinguished by the firm’s focus on helping to level the playing field for independent investors with low prices, powe... |
| - | Bux launches ‘BUX Zero’ to begin offering fee-free trading in Netherlands | Bux, the Amsterdam-based fintech that wants to make investing more accessible, is launching its fee-free trading app today.
Dubbed “BUX Zero,” the new offering is available first to users in the Netherlands who previously signed up to the ... |
| - | Cellulant’s Software Behind Africa’s growing Mobile Community | SAN DIEGO, CA. In a report in African Business review, the vision of Ken Njoroge and Bolaji Akinboro for a Fortune 500 company based in Africa and run by Africans is explored. The two entrepreneurs wrote down an original business model on t... |
| - | Meniga amongst 50 most innovative companies in FinTech | We are very proud to have been recognized as a part of the Fintech50 2014, a selection of the most innovative European companies in the field of financial technology. We were the only provider of PFM to be selected, which underlines the com... |
| - | Video: Björn Holmthorsson speaks at FinovateEurope | Five Degrees’ co-founder talks about trends in the sector and the company’s first UK customer. Watch the video. |
| - | BUX CEO Nick Bortot our main challenge wasn’t tech but human | Nick Bortot is CEO of Bux, an Amsterdam-based mobile app aiming to take the complexity out of stock markets, and make trading fun. What began as a solution for inexperienced traders has become a goal for more people to understand the financ... |
| - | Five Degrees in the Fintech50 2014 | In a fully packed Google Campus in London, the Fintech50 2014 were announced on Thursday night 24 January.
Out of over 280 companies, 50 companies were selected that were judged to be innovators in the financial services domain, either bec... |
| - | Meniga launches PFM based market intelligence engine MarketWatch at Finovate London 2014 | The MarketWatch offers Financial Institutions a unique way to analyze financial data that lives within their systems. Complementary to Meniga‘s PFM Solution, the MarketWatch enriches the transactional data and is a real-time, transaction-ba... |
| - | Stock trading startup
8 Securities goes bullish with $25m funding | Mikaal Abdulla, founder of stock trading startup 8 Securities, is feeling bullish today after pocketing his biggest-ever round of funding.
The US$25 million invested is the first time in four years that Abdulla has taken funding for his fl... |
| - | Ancoa successfully closes Series A funding round; raises over £4m to fund continued growth | Ancoa, providers of contextual surveillance and insightful analytics for exchanges, regulators, buy- and sell-side firms, have successfully closed their Series A funding round last week, bringing the total investment to £4.145m. Investors i... |
| - | SoFi, A Leading Next-Generation Financial Services Platform, to Become Publicly Traded following Business Combination with Social Capital Hedosophia V | SAN FRANCISCO & PALO ALTO, Calif. – May 28, 2021 – Social Finance, Inc., a leading next-generation financial services platform, and Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. V (NYSE: IPOE) (“SCH”), a publicly traded special purpose acqui... |
| - | Comdirect bank launches PFM Service powered by Meniga | Meniga is pleased to announce that comdirect, a leading direct bank in Germany, has implemented Meniga’s Personal Finance Management (PFM) Solution as part of its banking services and is the first German bank to launch a comprehensive PFM s... |
| - | Bux raises additional $12.5M as it gears up to lauch ‘zero-commission’ investing app | Bux, the Amsterdam-based trading app that wants to make investing fun, has picked up an additional $12.5 million in new funding. Venture capital firms Velocity Capital and Holtzbrinck Ventures led the round, which also includes debt financi... |
| - | Meniga introduces Personal Finance Challenges at Finovate 2017 in London | Today at Finovate London 2017, at the Old Billingsgate, Meniga introduced ‘Challenges’ a new personalised financial fitness offering that makes it simple and fun for people to reach their goals.
As the Meniga team schmoozed with the cream ... |
| - | Amerikaans avontuur Nederlands fintech-bedrijf eindigt in miljoenenbod | Niet eerder ging er een fintech-bedrijf met Nederlandse roots voor zoveel geld van de hand. De Amerikaanse online bank Ally maakte dinsdag bekend dat het voor $275 mln TradeKing overneemt, de vermogensbeheerder die ontstond uit de fusie van... |
| - | Ancoa and N2N Connect to offer market surveillance capabilities across Asia-Pacific | London, Kuala Lumpur 15 Sept, 2015: N2N Connect, providers of enterprise-wide integrated trading solutions to stock broking firms and banks in Asia-Pacific and Ancoa, providers of contextual surveillance and insightful analytics for exchang... |
| - | Owlin, the text and news analytics platform for financial institutions, raises $3.5M Series A |
Owlin has raised $3.5 million in Series A funding. The fundraise follows the fintech company’s pivot from a real-time news alert service to a more comprehensive “AI-based” text and news analytics platform to help financial institutions as... |
| - | Momentum partners with Meniga to launch unique ‘MyFinancialWellness’ software solution in South Africa | South African integrated financial services provider, Momentum (fully owned by MMI Holdings), has launched a new online service that will help individuals gain insight and a transparent overview of their day-to-day spending and longer-term ... |
| - | Santander and Meniga partner to deliver world class personal finance management to Santander’s customers globally | Meniga has been awarded a global contract to deploy Personal financial Management (PFM) across Santander Group markets.
Under this agreement, Meniga and Santander will work together to bring ‘a best in class’ innovative PFM solution to the... |
| - | TradeKing Earns Seventh Consecutive Four-Star Rating | Online broker TradeKing announced it has earned a four-star rating in Barron’s 18th annual survey of Best Online Brokers and was distinguished in the survey as one of the top firms for options traders.
This marks the firm’s seventh consecu... |
| - | Amsterdam fintech BUX becomes largest neobroker in Europe | Today, BUX launched its zero-commission investing app to French users, making it the first neobroker of its kind in the market. This will be the third country launch for the Amsterdam-based fintech in 2020, following a successful launch in ... |
| - | SA fintech startup Yoco announces it has hit 10 000 SMEs users milestone | South African payments company Yoco today announced that it now has 10 000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) clients in South Africa using its point-of-sale payments platform to accept card payments.
“This milestone is indicative of... |
| - | Offering a white-labeled lending service in emerging markets, Mines raises $13 million | Emerging markets credit startup Mines.io has closed a $13 million Series A round led by The Rise Fund, the global impact fund formed by private equity giant TPG, and 10 others, including Velocity Capital.
Mines provides business to consume... |
| - | Ken Njoroge wins the Global Entrepreneur of the Year Award | The Co-founder & Co-CEO of Cellulant, Ken Njoroge, was on 23rd September 2019 named the winner of the 2019 Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award, an honour bestowed each year by the World Economic Forum to identify and... |
| - | TradeKing Group Doubles Its Charlotte Office Space | Company Relocates Charlotte Offices to Accommodate Continued Growth and Innovation across TradeKing Group and Its Subsidiary Companies.
CHARLOTTE, NC—April 21, 2015 – TradeKing Group, Inc., the parent company of online broker-dealer TradeK... |
| - | five°degrees announces Swishfund as a new client | Fintech Swishfund was founded in 2016 and provides direct lending products to SME businesses in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Swishfund will migrate its existing customer base onto °neo, as it focuses on further expanding its busi... |
