Church of England considers Wonga buyout
People who say they have morals could be coming to fintech.
Wonga
What customers can expect from Wonga going into administration
It is unlikely that the firm will disappear like Woolworths and Blockbuster.
Wonga goes bust
It’s now official. UK payday lender enters administration.
Wonga no longer?
UK payday lender on edge of collapse.
Wonga raises $13m in new funding
Accel Partners and Balderton Capital pitched in to help UK-based payday lender.
Woes for Wonga with data breach
UK-based payday loan company Wonga says there may have been illegal and unauthorised access to the personal data of some of its 270,000 customers. In a statement, the firm says information stolen may have included one or more of the following: name, e-mail address, home address, phone number, the last four digits of a card […]
Klarna acquires BillPay
Sweden-based payments provider Klarna has acquired a fellow payments company in Germany, BillPay. The deal is understood to be worth £60 million.
Top ten lending sites in the UK – July 2016
With digital financial services sharply on the rise in the UK, who is leading among the UK lenders? We have put together some nifty stats for the top ten online lending sites in the UK for the past month (data courtesy of SimilarWeb). We’ll be publishing regular updates on a monthly basis, to track the changes, […]
Moral hazard: the ghost of bail-outs past
The bailout of Espirito Santo Bank brings back unwelcome memories of the events of the last financial crisis and raises the spectre of moral hazard returning to the financial services industry both in the UK and abroad. But how far have we really come since those dark days of 2008 and the collapse of Lehman Brothers and how far do we still have to go? A quick look at recent events gives us a good indication.
