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Let’s face it - pensions can often be a pretty complex affair and the sooner you get your head around them the better. Of course it’s not something you can necessarily do alone - it’s an area where expert help and advice is often an absolute must. The good news then is that our latest Startup of the Week is on a mission to make the process of managing our pensions easier than eve...
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PwC's SCALE programmes for fast growth, disruptive scaleups who want to shape the future through scalable innovation, kick off in October. We took a look... PwC's SCALE programmes are aiming to bring together fast-growing and ambitious scale-ups with the world’s biggest brands to allows both sides to learn from the other and to build commercial opportunities. The 10-12 week sector or l...
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Anna Tsyupko is the 24-year-old CEO of London-based FinTech company Paybase. Paybase delivers an end-to-end solution for payments, compliance and risk – all rolled into one unified API. Anna has previously written for Startacus on some of the key challenges of building payments into an app and now she returns to share some top valuable tips she has learnt along the way on running a...
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Established financial institutions we’ve got news for you - fintech startups are coming for your lunch - and they’re hungry! Dann Bibas, co-founder at Fountain, a goal based investing platform that is using smart technology to build investment plans that revolve around you, explains all..You know that expression: jack of all trades? We treat it with suspicion, right? When it ...
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As any business owner will attest to, one of the biggest challenges of all is getting the cash flow right. Whilst it’s pretty easy to issue an invoice to a client for services or goods provided, it can often be a very different story when you are trying to get that invoice paid. Credit control can be a nightmare - particularly in the early days. Help is now at hand however thanks to our late...
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We have written before about travel startups, but perhaps now it’s time to talk about the least fun part of taking a holiday. Holidays are supposed to be fun and exciting to plan, argue about beach vs hiking, and then eventually book, all the while giving you that feeling of anticipation you probably haven’t had since you were a child looking forward to Christmas. Then, after the perio...
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We are liking the look of Mespo, a bot for personal spending, that not only identifies when you might be overspending, but actually sets about fixing the overspend too. Mespo (until very recently called Mobillity) is on a mission to help you stop getting ripped off. Co-founded in 2016 by Lukas Zoerner and Julien Deray, and now a team six strong, Mespo set out to build an impartial financia...
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Online marketplaces or FinTech apps require eMoney infrastructure - here, Anna Tsyupko, CEO of FinTech startup Paybase highlight some of the key challenges of building payments into an app."Companies such as online marketplaces or FinTech apps require (eMoney) infrastructure because they have complex requirements that cannot simply be accommodated by a payment gateway. These ty...
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Over 2 days at Digital DNA 2017, 35 tech and digital startups competed to be named winner of the upSTART pitch battle 2017.  Competition was fierce as some leading startups from the UK, NI, Irish, and European technology spaces pitched before a panel of industry leading experts and investors, in the hope of laying claim to the overall prize package valued at £150k. With major fields of...
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Let’s face it - we’ve all been there at one time or another. Patiently counting down the days until we get paid again. And it’s something which as an employee, is pretty much out of our control. After all, in most cases, we start a job, are given a salary and then our employer decides how and when they will pay us. Although we might be able to negotiate the odd pay rise, we ca...
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