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We are currently the top European destination for FinTech venture capital investment. In 2018, fundraising here reached £15 billion, representing one in every six pounds invested in the sector worldwide. Only the US and China outperformed us. This year’s Innovate Finance Global Summit – which we helped deliver – highlighted the country’s future as a…
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Commission-free stock trading disruptor Robinhood is bringing its app to the UK market, in a bid to further globalise its mission of “democratising the financial system”. Stock trading app Robinhood gets UK broker license. A blog post on its website confirms the fintech has been granted full authorisation by the UK’s financial regulator, the Financial…
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The European Commission has approved an Austrian tax incentive for mid-sized business financing companies. The measure offers tax incentives to private individual investors for investing in early phase companies and innovative small and medium enterprises in their growth phase. Financial intermediaries that participate using Special Purpose Investment Vehicles (SPVs) can benefit from a capital gains…