TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Meniga , the London fintech that provides digital banking technology to leading banks, has closed €10 million in additional funding. Meniga says the funding will be used for continued investment in R&D, and in particular further development of green banking products — building on its carbon spending insights product.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, it differentiated itself by committing to payments on social media platforms, which Nigerian digital bank Carbon was interested in when it acquired the startup in 2019. The new company is akin to Amplify in terms of infrastructural play; however, it provides financial features instead of payment ones.

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CIO

MAY 7, 2024

According to Foundry’s State of the CIO 2024 study, technology leaders will be focused on driving digital innovation, redesigning processes, and modernising infrastructure and apps in the next three years in order to stay ahead. Then there are also significant infrastructural challenges to deal with.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

How has banking evolved during the rapid digitisation of recent years? Banks are no longer the key players in the market, with fintech companies, digital-first start-ups, and tech giants delivering their own brand of financial services. One example is Banking-as-a-Service, with the market expected to reach US$3.6

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2022

How has banking evolved during the rapid digitisation of recent years? Banks are no longer the key players in the market, with fintech companies, digital-first start-ups, and tech giants delivering their own brand of financial services. One example is Banking-as-a-Service, with the market expected to reach US$3.6

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Ecuadorian payments infrastructure company Kushki has raised $100 million in an extension to its Series B round, more than doubling its valuation to $1.5 The end goal is to help these businesses — such as digital banks — grow faster online and drive consumer adoption of digital payments. Europe, APAC and Brazil.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Malvern, Pennsylvania–based Savana, a company building financial software products for legacy banks, today announced that it raised $45 million. CEO Michael Sanchez told TechCrunch that the proceeds will be put toward general growth and supporting Savana’s go-to-market and product development projects. Image Credits: Savana.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Embedded finance solutions in less developed markers are becoming more prominent as platforms look to provide various financial solutions to the unbanked and underserved. Banking infrastructure providers are mainly responsible for the proliferation of such solutions. Banking-as-a-service startup Unit closes on $100M at a $1.2B

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Laura Spiekerman is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of Alloy , an identity-decisioning platform for banks and fintech companies. Innovation continues to drive new developments in lending, payments, crypto and, in particular, infrastructure, showing that the industry still has lots of room for growth.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2023

Today’s consumers are accustomed to smooth, frictionless online shopping – and they increasingly expect the same kind of digital experiences from their banks. consumers use mobile banking channels, and 70% said mobile banking is now their primary way of accessing their accounts. “Most people do not want to go into a bank to do banking.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Treasury Prime co-founder and CEO Chris Dean believes that the best outcomes for consumers will result from traditional banks and fintechs working together. The banking-as-a-service startup has worked to build relationships with both banks and fintechs. As we had more fintechs, it became easier to add more banks.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo , an open banking platform that serves Latin America. Fintech companies are increasingly collaborating with traditional players like banks, payment agencies, insurance providers and stock exchanges. Ximena Aleman. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Small businesses in Latin America got another boost in lending support with the investment of $4 million in Kala , a Colombia-based company building fintech infrastructure for lending. Our goal is to increase financial inclusion in Latin America and empower small banks and credit unions to serve the underserved markets.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Challenger banks continue to see huge infusions of cash from investors bullish on the opportunity for smaller and faster-moving tech-based banking startups to woo customers from their larger rivals. In the latest development, U.K.-based The bank is already profitable. billion) post-money. The trend in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Enter Deposits , a Dallas-based finance startup offering a cloud-based, plug-and-play feature to simplify the implementation of digital banking tools for companies like credit unions, community banks, insurers, retailers and brands. For example, only the biggest of banks could really offer modern experiences.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

If there’s one area that has thus far felt insulated from the global venture downturn, it’s infrastructure. Companies that offer banking as a service and help other businesses offer their own financial services and products in particular continue to rake in the dollars. People didn’t get it,” he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Nazca and IDB Invest, the private sector arm of the Inter-American Development Bank Group, co-led the round and were joined by existing and new investors CoVenture, SilverCircle, Korify Capital, Infinitas Capital and GBM Mexico. Wonder Brands , an acquirer of e-commerce brands in Latin America, announced today the closing of $15.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

There’s no shortage of digital banks in Nigeria and, in general, in Africa. As the region continues to experience rapid growth in mobile usage and the corresponding growing young population, these fintechs think this is the right time to provide financial services to every market category, from the banked to the unbanked.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Railsbank , the London-headquartered Banking-as-a-Service platform, has raised $37 million in new growth funding. Nigel Verdon, co-founder and CEO of Railsbank, tells me the injection of capital will be used to continue expanding the fintech’s global footprint and for further product development.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Open banking — a new approach to payments and other financial services that disrupts traditional card-based infrastructure by linking directly into banks — is having a moment. TrueLayer nabs $130M at a $1B+ valuation as open banking rises as a viable option to card networks. million to help it grow.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Financial infrastructure startup Fidel API has raised $65 million in a Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. The London-based company provides identity, data and payments products that it says gives developers a way to capture consent permissions and “securely” connect payment cards to a service or application. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

billion last year — up 153% year-over-year in terms of global VC deal value — and include a range of outfits, from payments companies to digital banks to corporate spend players. It’s not as typical for us to hear, though, about venture capitalists pouring millions of dollars into a traditional bank.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

We’ve written a lot about fintechs that aim to help other fintechs and traditional banks launch products and services. . The New York-based startup, which provides digital payment infrastructure for financial institutions so they can offer virtual cards to their users, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by March Capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

In the latest development, Stitch — one of the prominent players building and operating these APIs in Africa — confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $21 million in Series A funding. The first is what it launched from stealth: the pure infrastructural play of connecting financial and bank accounts with an API.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

In an effort to make it simpler, faster and cheaper, a pair of former Blend employees have teamed up to build mortgage loan origination software that will connect banks, credit unions, mortgage bankers and brokers. The infrastructure they are creating will be a core driver to automation and adoption in the industry.”.

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Xebia

MAY 13, 2024

But what about a software developer? This seems to be a natural career path: Software developers become team leads, and team leads become managers or architects. So, I decided to go back to software development. We have new programming languages and infrastructure as code and clouds and whatnot. Easy to see.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital. Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services.

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Openxcell

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

billion smartphone users worldwide, it’s imperative for banks and financial companies to develop products and services that can be easily accessed via mobile devices. During the past few years, mobile banking apps have grown in significance. Mobile banking app development: why should businesses invest in it?

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Phantom is part of a new class of crypto startups looking to build infrastructure that streamlines blockchain-based applications and provides a more user-friendly UX for navigating the crypto world, something that can make the entire space more approachable to a non-developer audience. Last month, a16z announced a whopping 2.2

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CIO

MAY 22, 2024

Recognizing the crucial role of cybersecurity leaders in safeguarding the nation’s digital infrastructure, the first edition of the CSO30 Awards recently took place in Dubai, showcasing the cream of the crop in the field. Aisha Alhemeiri, Head of Cybersecurity, Department of Community Development 3.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

E-commerce and other online businesses are becoming increasingly global in their operations and customer bases, and a startup called Airwallex — which has built a banking solution that addresses the opportunity to provide cross-border financial services — has been seeing a massive surge of activity.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The company offers business bank accounts with an interesting go-to-market strategy. Wise partners with other companies so that they can offer bank accounts to their own customers. Wise isn’t a classic bank-as-a-service company as it doesn’t want to power neobanks and help them get started.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Amount , a new service that helps traditional banks compete in a digital world, has raised $81 million from none other than Goldman Sachs as it looks to help legacy fintech players compete with their more nimble digital counterparts. Banks pay a pretty penny for access to Amount’s services.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2023

Alex caught wind of First Republic Bank’s share woes earlier today, writing that shares were down 40% on reports that the government may step in. He writes, “That’s not so good for the bank, or its customers. . — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 The beginning of the end? While during SVB’s time in the barrel the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

study suggests that while sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to increase (even triple) its agricultural output and overall contribution to the economy, the sector remains untapped largely due to lack of access to quality farm inputs, up to par infrastructure like warehousing and market. A McKinsey and Co. million ($6.4m equity and $6.5m

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Embedded fintech company Zeal secured $13 million in Series A funding to continue developing its platform for building individualized payroll products.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

There’s been a massive proliferation of fintech services in the past few years, during which fintech companies competed to develop new products more quickly than their competitors. The firm serves around 700 customers, ranging from crypto exchanges, on-ramps, wallet apps, ATSs, RIAs, broker-dealers and banks, according to Vicuna.

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