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UK Digital Banking Apps Affected By Wirecard Subsidiary Freeze
Security & Fraud // June 29, 2020

After the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) mandated that Wirecard’s British Wirecard Card Solutions unit stop conducting regulated work, a number of consumers in the U.K. haven’t been able to get ahold of their cash, CNBC reported. The move affected multiple U.K. digital banking apps...

UK Banking App Pockit Gets £2.9M In Funds As It Launches New Remittance Service
Mobile Applications // April 26, 2017

Pockit, a mobile banking app targeting the U.K.’s underbanked, has picked up £2.9 million in additional funding and will soon launch a remittance service to make it easier for its users to send money abroad. According to TechCrunch, this new funding is essentially a bridge...

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Prizeout and Pockit Partner on Offering Bonus-Value Gift Cards

February 09, 2023
Prizeout and Pockit have partnered to offer bonus-value gift cards in the United Kingdom.  The collaboration adds Prizeout’s online marketplace of gift cards to Pockit’s financial services app that has 700,000 users in the U.K., the companies said in a Thursday (Feb. 9) press release.  Prizeout is an AdTech company whose marketplace has 1,000 brands […]

UK Digital Banking Apps Affected By Wirecard Subsidiary Freeze

June 29, 2020
After the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) mandated that Wirecard’s British Wirecard Card Solutions unit stop conducting regulated work, a number of consumers in the U.K. haven’t been able to...

UK Banking App Pockit Gets £2.9M In Funds As It Launches New Remittance Service

April 26, 2017
Pockit, a mobile banking app targeting the U.K.’s underbanked, has picked up £2.9 million in additional funding and will soon launch a remittance service to make it easier for its...