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☆ British fintech firm Wise posts 55% jump in profit on expanding market share
  + stars: | 2024-11-06 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Wise posted a 55% jump in profit in the first half of its 2025 fiscal year Wednesday, citing customer growth and expanding market share. The British digital payments firm said that its first-half profit totalled £217.3 million, up from £140.6 million in the same period a year ago. Revenues at the money transfer platform climbed 19% year-on-year for the period to £591.9 million, Wise reported Wednesday. Earlier this year, Wise issued a sales warning that sent shares of the U.K. online payments firm down as much as 21%. On Wednesday, Wise said that its underlying PBT margin for the first-half period was 22%, above its target range of 13% to 16%.
Persons: Wise, —, Kristo Käärmann Organizations: U.K, Authority
☆ Wise's billionaire CEO fined £350,000 by UK regulators over failure to report tax issue
  + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
In this article WISE-GB Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTKristo Kaarmann, CEO and co-founder of Wise. Eoin Noonan | Sportsfile | Getty ImagesLONDON — Kristo Käärmann, the billionaire CEO of money transfer firm Wise , was slapped with a £350,000 ($454 million) fine by financial regulators in the U.K for failing to report an issue with his tax filings. "We continue to build a product and a company that will serve our customers and owners for the decades to come," Käärmann added. The chair of Wise, David Wells, said that the company's board of directors "continues to take Wise's regulatory obligations very seriously." In a note Monday, analysts at British investment bank Peel Hunt boosted their expectations for Wise's full-year profit before tax by 15%.
Persons: Kaarmann, Wise, Eoin Noonan, Sportsfile, Käärmann, Taavet Hinrikus, Forbes, Therese Chambers, David Wells, Peel Hunt, Gautam Pillai, Barun Singh Organizations: WISE, Getty, Financial, Authority, FCA, Customs, Peel Locations: Estonian
☆ NATO's Stoltenberg concerned by secessionist rhetoric in Bosnia
  + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Daria Sito-Sucic | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
[1/3] NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg shakes hands with Bosnian Prime Minister Borjana Kristo during his visit to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, November 20, 2023. Bosnia emerged from a 1992-1995 war with a federal structure uniting a Serb-dominated republic with a federation of Croats and Bosniak Muslims. "We are concerned by secessionist and divisive rhetoric as well as .. foreign interference including Russia," Stoltenberg told reporters in Sarajevo, his first stop during a tour of the Western Balkans region. NATO has warned about risks for Bosnia from foreign interference, particularly from Russia, and agreed to help to shore up its ability to defend itself. Every country has the right to choose its security arrangements without foreign interference," Stoltenberg said after meeting the chairwoman of Bosnia's Council of Ministers, Borjana Kristo.
Persons: Jens Stoltenberg, Borjana Kristo, Amel, Milorad Dodik, Stoltenberg, Christian Schmidt, " Stoltenberg, Borjana, Daria Sito, Toby Chopra, Peter Graff Organizations: NATO, Bosnian, REUTERS, Rights, Representative, UN Security Council, Bosnia's, Ministers, Thomson Locations: Sarajevo, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Rights SARAJEVO, Serbia, Russia, Western Balkans, Yugoslavia, masse, EU, Ukraine, Balkans, Bosnian, Russian Bosnian Serbs
☆ British fintech Wise reports 280% jump in profit as higher interest rates boost income
  + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
British fintech firm Wise nearly quadrupled pre-tax profits in its half-year results out on Tuesday, citing a boost from higher interest rates. Including interest income, the company's total income stood at £656 million for the period, up 58% year-on-year. Wise said that it benefited from higher interest rates, extending a trend from earlier this year where the company was pulling in extra income thanks to interest rate increases. The analysts added that the boost to Wise's results from higher interest income is a "welcome temporary compensation" for slowing core total processed volume, but noted it is "likely unsustainable." Harsh Sinha, Wise's technology chief, recently took the reins from Wise CEO Kristo Kaarmann at the firm's helm.
Persons: Wise, Harsh Sinha, Kristo Kaarmann, Taavet Hinrikus Organizations: British, Jefferies, London Stock Exchange Locations: Kaarmann, Estonia
☆ Fintech giant Wise allowed Russia sanctions target to withdraw money, U.K. government says
  + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
British financial technology giant Wise allowed an individual on the Russian sanctions list to withdraw money, a U.K. government body said Thursday. The user was allowed to make a withdrawal of £250 ($316.63) from a business account on Wise, according to the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation. According to the OFSI, Wise reported a suspected sanctions breach on June 30, 2022. It's one of a rare number of cases of publicly disclosed breaches by a fintech company. Wise CEO Kristo Kaarmann was previously fined by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs for failing to pay his taxes on time.
Persons: Wise, Kristo Kaarmann, Kaarmann, Harsh Sinha, Jefferies, Sinha, Kristo Organizations: OFSI, Customs, Financial, Wise, PayPal, eBay, Jefferies Locations: Ukraine
☆ Wise shares spike 18% as higher interest rates help fintech triple profits
  + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Online money transfer firm Wise's shares soared nearly 18% Tuesday as the company reported a spike in profits thanks to rising interest income. The company said in a statement to the stock market that its profit before tax tripled to £146.5 million ($186.5 million). Wise benefited from surging interest rates, which last week were raised by the Bank of England to 5% as policymakers grapple with persistently high inflation. Like other fintechs, Wise has been able to accrue income from interest on funds sitting in customer accounts. Overall income reported by the firm rose to £964.2 million, up 73% year-on-year.
Persons: Wise, Kristo Kaarmann, Kaarmann, Harsh Sinha, Sinha Organizations: Bank of, Starling Bank, Customs, Financial, BBC Radio, BBC Locations: Bank of England, Abu Dhabi
☆ Fintech firm Wise's shares fall after announcing CFO is resigning, CEO to go on leave
  + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Shares of British fintech firm Wise slipped Monday, after the company announced its CFO Matt Briers is leaving the company next year, while its CEO Kristo Kaarman will go on paternity leave starting September. Wise shares were down around 4% as of 9:45 a.m. London time. Briers will step down as Wise CFO in March 2024, once Kaarman has returned from a sabbatical break, the company said in a press release Monday. In his time as CFO, Briers took Wise from a scrappy money transfer upstart to a publicly-listed financial technology giant. Briers is the second CFO of a major U.K. fintech firm to announce his departure this month — on May.
☆ Wise’s tougher times raise risk of mission drift
  + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
He now has 6.1 million customers, results released on Tuesday showed, up 33% from a year ago. Wise’s volumes per retail customer dipped 7% year-on-year during the three months ending on March 31. Raising prices and tacking on other revenue-generating services could help to offset the hit to Wise’s top line. But pulling harder on those levers would arguably undermine one of the appeals of Wise’s business model for investors and customers: simplicity and ever-lower prices. They do not reflect the views of Reuters News, which, under the Trust Principles, is committed to integrity, independence, and freedom from bias.
☆ UK payments star can keep defying fintech slump
  + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Volumes, a measure of the amount of currency that customers are changing, were 26.4 billion pounds - slightly lower than in the previous three-month stretch. Even after the selloff, Wise trades at a punchy 44 times forward earnings according to Refinitiv data. Volumes per retail customer indeed leapt to almost 4,000 pounds per quarter from April to September, before falling back to 3,500 pounds. Unlike other bombed-out fintech stocks, Wise’s revenue growth is strong, at 50% year-on-year in the most recent quarter, and it is highly profitable. They do not reflect the views of Reuters News, which, under the Trust Principles, is committed to integrity, independence, and freedom from bias.
☆ We've had to increase transaction fees for some customers, says payments company Wise
  + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWe've had to increase transaction fees for some customers, says payments company WiseKristo Kaarmann, CEO of Wise says the global environment has made it more expensive to "move money around the world," but transactions will get much cheaper than it is today.
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