article thumbnail

Visa takes a swipe in fintech, builds new online marketplace

TechCrunch

The relationships between banks and fintechs are multi-faceted. Well, today, an announcement by global payments giant Visa is aimed at helping facilitate banks and fintechs’ ability to work together. I talked with Terry Angelos, senior vice president and global head of fintech at Visa, to understand just exactly what that means.

Fintech 292
article thumbnail

Fintech Roundup: Founders reinventing, startups buying and pre-seed a’growing

TechCrunch

Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. That’s because in the time it took for Visa to announce its plans to buy Plaid and for the deal to fall apart, fintech exploded and so as of last August, Plaid was worth over $13 billion – more than double the $5.3 In other fintech news. billion Visa was going to pay for it.

Fintech 216
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Extra Crunch roundup: Fintech stays hot, Brex doubles, and startup IRR is up all over

TechCrunch

Optimism reigns at consumer trading services as fintech VC spikes and Robinhood IPO looms. Optimism reigns at consumer trading services as fintech VC spikes and Robinhood IPO looms. Even though in-person drinks and coffee walks are on the horizon, virtual fundraising isn’t going away. Managing Editor, Extra Crunch. But will it?

Fintech 195
article thumbnail

8 investors and founders highlight Valencia’s potential as a fintech and cybersecurity hub

TechCrunch

The city appears to be strong in areas such as travel, AI, cybersecurity, fintech, agritech, travel tech, biotech, sports tech, and VR. Notable startups in the city include Streamloots, Voicemod, Jeff, Beroomers, Flywire and Blinkfire Analytics. Key sectors include fintech, agritech and travel tech. What are you most excited by?

Fintech 183
article thumbnail

Banking on customer experience and security via technology-based innovation

CIO

Workflow automation and data analytics are streamlining document management, cross-checking data, assessing for risk, ensuring regulatory compliance, and so on. After weeks of exhausting back-and-forth requests and paperwork transferred in ways that seem naively unsecure by today’s standards, their prize was the key to the front door.

article thumbnail

Cledara, the SaaS purchase and management platform, raises $3.4M funding

TechCrunch

Founded in July 2018 by Cristina Vila, after she experienced the SaaS management problem first-hand while working at London fintech Dopay, Cledara has developed software to let companies track and manage their SaaS usage and spending, including analytics to help understand if it is money well-spent. Image Credits: Cledara.

Fintech 261
article thumbnail

How mobile apps and cloud accelerating Industry 4.0 transformation.

OTS Solutions

It encompasses technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing , and big data analytics & insights to optimize the entire production process. include the Internet of Things (IoT) solutions , Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS).