American online payments company Stripe is expanding into Central and Eastern Europe, entering the market in Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal...
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Companies and consumers across Europe are potentially facing a surge in online payment failures as the September deadline to implement PSD2, or the Revised Payment...
Twisto, a multi-currency card with a credit option, is now set to expand into Poland in October, and Romania soon after. Twisto is the creation of Czech Michał Šmída...
Germany’s Varengold Bank has acquired 20 per cent of Bulgaria’s lending platform Klear, with the mission to turn its Sofia’s branch into a major hub for its expansion in...
When it comes to digital banking, the records of Raiffeisen Bank showed an interesting twist at the end of last year when it became clear that the number of active...
When my mother died after a long illness last year I tried to set up a UK bank account in order to make dealing with a number of administrative issues as easy (and as...
A new venture capital fund, SMOK Ventures, has been launched in Poland, and will allocate approximately 46 million zloty (around 11 million euros) for investments. SMOK...
Billon, a Polish-British fintech company, has been awarded approximately two million euros in funding from the European Commission’s SME Instrument programme, part of...
Lithuania’s cultural environment naturally does not allow for distinction between generations, be it politics or the private sector. Historically, Lithuania has always...
PKO Bank Polski’s IKO mobile banking application has been named as the world’s best for the second year in a row by the British industry magazine Retail Banker...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) launched its first technical assistance FinTech project in Estonia, together with the country’s Ministry of...
Belarus has launched a platform which allows traders to buy shares, gold, foreign exchange and other traditional assets with cryptocurrencies. The platform’s...
