UK WealthTech Stratiphy has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube at a valuation of £7 million.

Finextra joined Singapore Fintech Festival session, ‘Scaling Sustainable Finance for a Green Recovery’ today, to hear experts from Ecosystm, FIL Asia, HSBC, SDG Impact Japan and WWF Singapore discuss the financial products and technological tools needed to deliver social and environmental benefits, alongside attractive returns.

Barclays has launched a monthly ‘Scams Bulletin’ to inform consumers of emerging trends in criminal fraud tactics.

HSBC is entering the UK buy now, pay later market through the launch of Flexipay, a point-of-sale finance product.

Over-50’s group Saga is wading deeper into the financial services market as it agrees a deal with NatWest’s Banking-as-a-Service unit Boxed to provide savings accounts and other banking products to its membership base.

London-based cash management fintech Vitt has raised additional financing, bringing the total raised to $16 million in equity and debt in a round led by Better Tomorrow and Speedinvest.

Climate X, a startup that uses data and analytics to help businesses, government and individuals tackle the multi trillion-dollar climate risk problem, has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding.

UK fintech funding has dipped in the first half of 2023, as total cash raised reached $2.9 billion in the first six months, a 37% slump compared to the later half of last year, according to new figures from industry body Innovate Finance.