| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.07.2026 | UK fintech Pockit recruits founder of Burger King Kazakhstan | A top British fintech has hired the founder of Burger King’s Kazakhstan franchise in an eye-catching board appointment.
The Cardiff-based business, which offers prepaid accounts to customers without a credit score, has recruited Kazakh busi... |
| 08.06.2026 | Pockit taps shareholders for £13.4m after losses quadruple | Pockit has raised £13.4m from shareholders as it seeks to plug growing losses following its acquisition of London fintech Monese.
The firm, which offers pre-paid cards to customers without the need for a credit check, said it completed the ... |
| 02.06.2026 | Losses widen at UK fintech Monese in eight month delayed accounts | UK fintech Monese suffered a major widening of losses as its bottom line was hit by restructuring costs amidst its takeover by pseudo-bank peer Pockit.
The London-based firm – which provides mobile-only current accounts, multi-currency wall... |
| 25.05.2026 | Shawbrook weighs Aldermore bid as Firstrand looks to offload challenger bank | Shawbrook is reportedly weighing up a merger with rival Aldermore after its owner put the challenger bank up for sale.
The lender, which debuted on the London Stock Exchange last year, is in the early stages of considering a takeover, accor... |
| 17.03.2026 | UK fintech Pockit borrows cash from Spanish railway architect | Pockit has borrowed money from an award-winning Spanish railway architect in one of the most unusual debt raises completed by a British fintech.
The Cardiff-based business, which offers prepaid accounts to customers without a credit score, ... |
| 16.12.2025 | Starling revs up Engine with City hiring spree | Starling is motoring into 2026 with its foot firmly on the pedal, injecting a fresh pump of gas into the group’s technology arm.
The UK fintech veteran is planning to shift its software-as-a-service (Saas) banking platform into top gear wit... |
| 09.09.2025 | London fintech Monese says it needs more cash to survive after Pockit takeover | Monese has warned it will need fresh investment if it is to survive for another year as the London fintech embarks on a change in strategy to put itself on a firmer financial footing.
The current account and money transfer business, which l... |
| 23.05.2025 | Paris Rises: The New Tech Titan of Europe | In the world of technology, rankings can shift like sand. Today, Paris stands tall, claiming the title of Europe’s leading tech ecosystem. This is not just a small victory; it’s a seismic shift. For the first time, Paris has outpaced London... |
| 21.05.2025 | Paris trumps London as Europe’s leading tech ecosystem, according to new data | Paris has come ahead of London in a ranking of global tech ecosystems.
Paris is the only European city to make it into the top five global ecosystems, coming in at number four, according to data from Dealroom.
The top five is dominated by U... |
| 28.03.2025 | London’s fintech crown “under threat”, says Pockit CEO | London’s position as the fintech "capital of the world” is “under threat”, according to the co-founder of London fintech Pockit.
Virraj Jatania, CEO and co-founder of Pockit, a UK fintech which serves the unbanked, said the noises from... |
| 14.03.2025 | City regulator considering scrapping £100 contactless limit | The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced on Friday it was looking for opinions on scrapping the contactless card limit and whether changes could benefit the UK economy.
The current cap prohibits customers from making contactless card... |
| 09.01.2025 | UK fintech funding races ahead of Europe | - |
| 16.10.2024 | Top Swedish VC writes off investment in Walgreens backed VillageMD | A top Swedish VC firm has written off its investment in the troubled Walgreens-backed US clinic business VillageMD, amid “heightened uncertainty” about its future.
Kinnevik is a minority shareholder with a three per cent stake in VillageMD.... |
| 01.10.2024 | HSBC writes off stake in former UK fintech darling Monese | - |
| 10.09.2024 | UK payments firm Pockit in talks to buy Monese consumer arm, sources say | LONDON : British payments technology company Pockit is in talks to take control of UK challenger bank Monese’s consumer arm, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Under the proposed deal Pockit will buy Monese for a nominal sum ... |
| 17.06.2024 | UK fintech job vacancies surge as investors flock back to London | - |
| 08.06.2024 | Inside UK banks’ arms race against fintech start-ups | - |
| 27.05.2024 | Starling investor eyes £10bn valuation for bank as tech business takes off | - |
| 10.05.2024 | Monument Bank latest challenger bank to sell "in a box" tech, as snaps up first client | Upmarket UK challenger bank Monument Bank is the latest challenger bank to offer its tech to third parties, selling its “building society in a box” tech to legacy financial institutions.
Monument Bank, which launched in 2021, targets Britai... |
| 06.05.2024 | Monese founder says “very pleased” he can focus on just challenger bank after “difficult” time running two businesses | The founder and CEO of HSBC-backed Monese, a challenger bank-cum- banking tech platform, admits running two differing businesses within one business has been “difficult”.
The London-headquartered fintech announced earlier this month it was ... |
| 04.05.2024 | Bolt's €220M Credit Facility: A Leap Towards Financial Flexibility | Bolt, the European mobility giant, recently closed a €220 million revolving credit facility, marking a significant step towards financial maturity and potential IPO readiness. The company, with a strong presence in over 45 countries, aims t... |
| 03.05.2024 | Tallinn-based Bolt secures €220 million syndicated revolving credit facility in debut financing round. | - |
| 02.04.2024 | Bridging the gender diversity gap: Insights from women leaders and founders in European fintech | - |
| 07.02.2024 | Major investor in HSBC-backed Monese writes off its investment in money transfer app | A significant investor in Monese has written off its investment in the money transfer app, as the fintech looks to raise fresh funds to ensure its survival.
Swedish VC Kinnevik, which owns over 20 per cent of Monese, made the write-off in Q... |
| 11.12.2023 | Топ-5 аналогов Payoneer: какой онлайн-банк выбрать для денежных переводов? | Payoneer — международный онлайн-банк, который особенно популярен за рубежом. Он позволяет бизнесу получать платежи из любой точки мира. Сервис поддерживает полторы сотни валют и способен формировать отчеты для налоговой службы, но сейчас де... |
| 03.10.2022 | Tally raises $80M at $855M valuation for its debt payoff app
Show your support for our mission by joining our Cube Club and Cube Event Community of experts. Join the community that includes Amazon We... | Tally Technologies Inc., the developer of an app that helps users more easily pay off credit card debt, today announced that it has secured a $80 million late-stage funding round.
The Series D funding round was led by Sway Ventures. Menora ... |
| 21.09.2022 | Estonian fintech startup Monese raises $35M | Estonian fintech startup Monese raises $35M
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The Estonian-founded fintech startup Monese has raised... |
| 20.09.2022 | HSBC Ventures invests $35m in Monese | UK-based mobile banking app Monese has received $35 million in investment from banking giant HSBC as part of a strategic partnership.
HSBC invests in Monese
The fresh funding brings the total capital raised by Monese to $208 million and wil... |
| 20.09.2022 | European neobank Monese nabs $35M from HSBC | Monese, the London-based fintech that provides digital banking and remittance services to consumers and businesses across Europe, has raised $35 million from global banking giant HSBC.
Founded in 2013, Monese is one of several so-called “ch... |
| 10.02.2022 | Backed by Bolt, Veriff and Vinted founders, Specialist VC unveils €50 million fund to support startups in Baltics and beyond | In an exclusive interview with Tech.eu, leading Estonian tech investor Specialist VC (formerly United Angels VC) has announced the first close of a new €50 million fund at €42 million. The Specialist VC Fund II has an expanded geographical ... |
| 24.01.2022 | European Fintech Monese Expands Product Offering with Credit Builder for UK Clients | Monese, the pan-European Fintech, is reportedly expanding its product offering with the introduction of a Credit Builder service for its clients in the United Kingdom.
Having started a waiting list last year, Credit Builder is currently ava... |
| 20.01.2022 | How Fintech and Digital Platforms are Driving Financial Inclusion Around the World | In both advanced and emerging economies, new digital platforms are helping to advance financial inclusion by improving access to payment services, credit, insurance and wealth management.
In a new working paper titled Platform-based busines... |
| 20.12.2021 | Monese Acquires Trezeo | Monese, a London, UK-based provider of a mobile app with a multi-currency account, acquired Trezeo, a Dublin, Ireland and London, UK-based specialist financial services provider for the self-employed.
The amount of the deal was not disclose... |
| 29.09.2021 | Monese needs paid accounts—will insurance solutions and an accessible subscription tier do it? | The news: UK-based digital-only bank Monese expanded its paid offering to include a new Essential subscription tier for £1.95 ($2.50) per month.
More on this: Beyond the addition of its base subscription plan, the neobank is extensively upd... |
| 30.06.2021 | Estonian Solopreneur Startup Xolo Earns Additional €3 Million Funding, Plans to Get More Local in Europe | Xolo, a startup hailing from Tallin, wants to simplify the process of starting and running a small business.
The firm recently raised €3 million during a new round of funding to expand its localized product lineup.
Solopreneurship is an inc... |
| 04.05.2021 | Tera Ventures Receives Additional EUR 43M from New International Partners | Tallinn-based VC Tera Ventures attracts new partners and an additional EUR 43M of funds. New international partners are excited to be present in the promising and rapidly developing region of the Baltics. Tera will be able to invest more ac... |
| 19.04.2021 | Introducing: The Future Fifty 9.0 cohort | We are delighted to introduce the next cohort of companies joining our prestigious programme for late-stage tech companies – Future Fifty 9.0.
Future Fifty is Europe’s leading late-stage growth programme, designed to bring together, empowe... |
| 05.10.2020 | Monese Adopts Thought Machine's Core Banking Platform Vault, to Reach Millions More Customers | Monese, the popular pan-European banking service that provides instant and localised mobile money accounts in 31 countries, today announces it will adopt Thought Machine’s cloud native core banking platform Vault. Monese, which provides acc... |
| 03.09.2019 | European banking app Monese partners with deposits marketplace Raisin | Monese, the European banking app aimed at customers with a “thin” credit file or those who have moved country, is launching “Monese Savings” in partnership with fintech Raisin.
The new feature sees Monese customers gain access to Raisin’s c... |
| 04.07.2019 | Monese Teams Up With PayPal | Monese Headshots, London, 18/04/2019
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Monese, the provider of a banking app for people and businesses, launched a collaboration with PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) that expands access to financial tools and the global economy... |
| 11.02.2019 | Стартапы дня год спустя: ориентированный на мигрантов онлайн-банк, маркетплейс для салонов красоты и другие проекты... | Каждую неделю проверяю, как идут дела у прошлогодних стартапов.
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| 29.01.2019 | Monese partners with Unbabel to support banking without boundaries | The award-winning globally-connected banking service is using Unbabel’s AI-powered, human-refined translation platform to remove language barriers and provide multilingual global service to increase customer satisfaction while accelerating ... |
| 09.01.2019 | Unbabel and Intercom partner to provide multilingual messaging | Unbabel builds Intercom app to offer multilingual chat for customer service in up to 28 different languages, servicing a growing list of companies including Monese and Perkbox
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| 06.09.2018 | European banking app Monese scores $60M Series B | Monese, a leading challenger bank, recently raised $60m in a Series B round in which Augmentum Fintech invested £5.3 million. Other investors included Kinnevik, Paypal and Avios Group Ltd.
The European banking app launched in 2015 and clai... |
| 06.09.2018 | Daily funding roundup - September 6th, 2018 | Custora raises $13M to make customer data actionable; Mirror raises $25M for virtual fitness classes
MIRROR: MIRROR is the first connected fitness system that streams live and on-demand classes to users in-home via a sleek responsive displa... |
| 06.09.2018 | Monese Raises $60M in Series B Funding | Monese, a London, UK-based mobile-only current account provider, secured $60m in Series B funding.
The round, which brought total funding since launch to $76M, was led by Kinnevik with participation from PayPal, Augmentum Fintech, Internati... |
| 06.09.2018 | Challenger banking app Monese lands $60m series B from Kinnevik and Augmentum Fintech | |
| 05.09.2018 | European banking app Monese scores $60M Series B led by Kinnevik | The large amounts of cash that is being invested in challenger banks in the U.K., whether that be startups with a fully fledged banking license or those using the less burdensome e-money regulations, shows no signs of abating. The latest ba... |
| 25.01.2018 | 37 of the UK’s fastest growing Tech Companies join Upscale 2018 | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Today we’re announcing the new 37 companies joining Upscale for 2018. The Upscale Programme from Tech City UK, now in its third year, powers some of the fastest growing tech c... |
| 27.06.2017 | Monese, the mobile current account banking app, expands to Europe | You wait all day for a multi-currency account and three come along at once. Give or take a month or so, that’s appears to be the case with news that Monese, the London fintech that offers a mobile banking app and current account, is adding ... |
| 16.06.2017 | Monese adds Direct Debits to become even more like a regular bank account | Monese, the London-based fintech startup that offers a mobile banking app and current account, continues to fill in missing features that might otherwise stop it from replacing your bank altogether.
The latest is Direct Debit functionality,... |
| 03.01.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, January 3 | “BAD APPLE” ETHICS
Happy New Year, Term Sheet readers! During the break, Fortune published my latest feature story, “The Ugly Unethical Underside of Silicon Valley.” It argues that 2016’s string of startup scandals — from Zenefits and Thera... |
| 03.01.2017 | Mobile Banking App Monese Raises $10M in Funding | Monese, a London, UK-based mobile banking service, raised $10M in funding.
Backers included Anthemis Exponential Ventures, Korea Investment Partners and STE Capital.
The company intends to use the funds to expand into mainland Europe as wel... |
| 03.01.2017 | Digital challenger bank Monese lands $10m | |
| 03.01.2017 | Monese raises $10M Series A for its banking app targeting immigrants and expats | Monese, the London-based fintech startup that offers a mobile banking app for immigrants and expats who might otherwise find it difficult to open a bank account outside of their originating country, has raised $10 million in Series A fundin... |
| 03.01.2017 | London-based FinTech startup Monese raises $10 million to launch its current account across Europe | The mobile banking service Monese has just raised $10 million from a group of top investors from around the world including Anthemis Exponential Ventures, Korea Investment Partners and STE Capital to expand into mainland Europe and become t... |
| 03.01.2017 | Digital bank for migrants and expats, Monese, raises $10m | Digital bank Monese coming to Europe
Monese, a mobile-only bank founded by Norris Koppel, an Estonian expat in London, has raised $10 million in Series A funding round as it looks to go pan-European.
Anthemis Exponential Ventures, STE Capit... |
| 28.07.2016 | Monese, the UK banking app for immigrants and expats, finally lands on iOS | For all the hype around fintech, not least in London, Monese is a startup that has pragmatism at its heart. It’s not trying to be an actual bank — in the technical, banking license sense — but does enable immigrants and expats, who might ot... |
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| 16.03.2016 | Life.SREDA: ‘Second Wave’ Neobanks Are Coming From the UK | Mobile bank users globally are forecast to more than double by 2019, according to a 2015 KPMG report, and the millennial generation, born from the 1980s to the early 2000s, may well be the reason of this emerging trend.
Real-time mobile acc... |
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| 02.12.2015 | Number26, the Peter Thiel-backed mobile banking startup, expands across E.U. into 6 new markets | Number26, a Peter Thiel-backed German startup that’s setting out to create the bank account of the future, has announced a major European expansion today, as it launches in six new markets.
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| 21.09.2015 | Monese Launches In U.K. To Let Immigrants And Expats Get A Mobile Banking Account | Beyond the hyperbole that loyally follows fintech in the U.K. (and elsewhere in Europe), the country’s banking sector is on the verge of facing some genuine disruption. That includes the trio of ‘challenger banks’ making headlines — Mondo, ... |
| 09.09.2015 | These are the 20 European tech startups joining the ‘Seedcamp family’ today | Seedcamp, the pan-European startup accelerator turned seed fund, is welcoming 20 new Euro tech startups to its 'family' today, a little over a year after raising $30 million in new funding itself.
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| 28.05.2015 | Monese — мобильный банкинг для экспатов и мигрантов Статьи редакции | Каждый день редакция ЦП выбирает один свежий зарубежный стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — мобильное приложение Monese, которое помогает мигрантам и экс... |
| 28.05.2015 | Monese Raises $1.8M in Seed Funding | Monese, a London, UK-based fintech startup that allows users to open up a UK bank account on mobile, raised $1.8m in seed funding.
Backers included Seedcamp, Spotify investor Shakil Khan and a select group of other angel investors.
The comp... |
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| 27.05.2015 | Monese, a banking app for immigrants and expats across Europe, raises $1.8m | The European acceleration fund Seedcamp today announced that Monese has raised $1.8 million and joined the Seedcamp family. Monese is a London-based fintech startup that allows you to open up a UK bank account in less than 3 mins on your mo... |
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