A profile of Denise Coates, the UK's richest woman, who founded online gambling company Bet365, which had £3B+ in 2023 revenue, as she focuses on a US expansion
She is the mastermind behind Bet365, the company that made it possible to gamble online any hour of the day or night. X: @byrobdavies , @ianbirrell , and @thecullobsidian X: Rob Davies / @byrobdavies ...
A look at India's homegrown digital payments system UPI, which is run by the NPCI nonprofit and used by close to 300M individuals and 50M merchants
both formal and informal—had a digital wallet option available. But what was so striking was that practically every one I saw was different than the next. https://www.nytimes.com/... Mujib Mashal / @m...
What poet, playboy, and prophet of investment bubbles Charles Mackay, plagiarizing in 1841 on the Dutch tulip bubble, can tell us about crypto's rise and fall
One winter morning in early 1637, a sailor presented himself at the counting-house of a wealthy Dutch merchant and was offered a hearty breakfast of fine red herring. Tweets: @pkedrosky , @profjohntur...
Revolut launches commission-free stock trading in the US, allowing users to trade shares of 1,100+ securities listed on NYSE and Nasdaq
Britain-based digital banking app Revolut launched commission-free stock trading in the United States on Wednesday, a move that will see it compete …
Report: Raspberry Pi Trading hired investment banks Stifel and Liberum to advice on a London IPO planned for this spring, that would value Raspberry at ~$500M
The listing could see Raspberry Pi valued at $500m — According to a report in The Telegraph, Raspberry Pi Trading … Source: Telegraph . Tweets: @frankcatalano , @recantha , and @rob_kimbell Source: ...
A look at apps promising 10-minute grocery delivery in Europe, where VC-backed grocery delivery firms have raised $1.56B in 2021 so far, according to PitchBook
- Turkey's Getir, Germany's Gorillas and Britain's Dija are just a few of the apps promising users 10-minute grocery deliveries. Tweets: @ryan_browne_ , @hkanji , and @geoffcutmore Tweets: Ryan Browne...
British startup Hopin, which allows conference hosts to run gatherings online, raises $125M Series B co-led by IVP and Tiger Global at a $2B+ valuation
- Britain's Hopin announced Tuesday that it's raised $125 million in a round of funding that values the firm at more than $2 billion.
Plaid, the tech firm linking fintech companies like Venmo with consumer bank accounts, rolls out its services in the UK, to eight of Britain's biggest banks
Making money easier for everyone is what drives us here at Plaid. Kate Rooney / CNBC : Plaid launches in the U.K., setting the stage for more fintech companies to expand abroad Ryan Weeks / fnlondon.c...
Low fees and high interest rates are allowing VC-funded “neo-banks” like Chime, Aspiration, Empower, and Varo to compete with the big consumer banks in the US
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Bitcoin hit its lowest level in more than a year on Monday, falling under $5,000, with the entire cryptocurrency market cap losing roughly $40B in the past week
THE PRICE OF bitcoin … Samuel Potter / Bloomberg : No End in Sight for Crypto Sell-Off as Bitcoin Breaches $4,500 Huw Jones / Reuters : Bitcoin slump takes pressure off Britain's regulators Samantha C...