TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Aspiration , the financial services business for socially conscious consumers, is back with another environmentally friendly offering for its customers — this time, it’s a credit card. Aspiration can now tell you the ‘social impact’ of your monthly spending.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The social commerce market is already worth more than $13 billion in Southeast Asia, but the checkout process is filled with friction. Many sellers don’t have online storefronts and instead use social media and messaging apps, which means payment is made by switching to banking apps or wallets.

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CIO

MAY 16, 2023

When the chief banking officer of a $10.3B community bank visited a competing super-regional branch in her suburban New Jersey neighborhood, she noticed something troubling. Today’s rapidly rising rate environment is driving activity across the country’s 72,000 bank branches 2. Consider the following real-world scenarios. ●

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

In particular, you can now use your Lydia account as an alternative to a regular bank account. More importantly, the company is positioning its mobile app as a social product — not a fintech product. When digging further, you realize how banks have been using technology. Image Credits: Lydia. Money has a meaning.

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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

MARCH 7, 2022

On a return trip to Southeast Asia (McIntosh was born and raised in Indonesia), she observed the rise of social commerce, or people selling through social media like Instagram and WhatsApp, and was surprised to see it was similar to all the manual work she had put into her online bakery years earlier.

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Digitalization is a double-edged sword for banks, especially when it comes to security. As financial services become more digital in nature, it’s important that banks think differently when using data analytics, security tools, and education to improve identity authentication and customer data privacy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Varo Bank , which last year became the first U.S. neobank to be granted a national bank charter, announced this morning it’s raised another $63 million in new funding. Westbrook’s investment came through Russell Westbrook Enterprises , which previously backed social avatar startup Genies.

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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. The bank is already profitable. Challenger bank Starling is out raising a new £200M funding round. billion) post-money.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Public App, a location-based social network that connects individuals to people in their vicinity, has raised $41 million in a new round, just six months after securing $35 million as the hyper-local Indian startup looks to expand its presence in the world’s second-largest internet market.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Ivella , a Santa Monica-based startup, wants to build banking products for couples to take away some of these tensions. “The place that a lot of people fall short, just like a lot of fintech falls short, is that they don’t break the mold of what banking looks and feels like,” Lalji said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

most read Silicon Valley Bank implodes: Silicon Valley Bank Financial, the publicly traded holding firm of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), is in crisis. Venture firms advised portfolio companies to move money out of SVB after the bank said it would book a $1.8 Don’t miss it. Now on to WiR. million patients in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Step , the digital banking service aimed at teens and endorsed by TikTok star Charli D’Amelio, announced this morning the close of a $100 million round of Series C funding after growing to more than 1.5 ” Mobile bank Current raises $220 million Series D, triples valuation to $2.2B. Image Credits: Step.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital banking startup Cogni is joining the ranks of companies hopping on the crypto bandwagon. The company currently offers core banking services such as deposit accounts for free to its customers through a borrowed bank charter, like many other neobanks, including Chime. Cogni founder and CEO Archie Ravishankar.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Many things have accelerated in the world of fintech over the past year, not the least of which is the trend of digital banks aimed at specific communities in the U.S. Most recently, we covered the $5 million raise of one such bank — First Boulevard. First Boulevard raises $5M for its digital bank aimed at Black America.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

It is currently partnered with Indonesia’s seven largest banks, covering more than 90% of the country’s bank accounts, and plans to expand into all Southeast Asia countries. For example, Bank Indonesia published open banking API standards in 2020. A diagram showing Brick’s financial API offerings.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Lynk , the “knowledge-as-a-service” platform with more than 840,000 experts, announced today it has added $5 million raised from UBS’ Investment Bank division to its previously announced Series B. UBS Investment Bank’s Global Markets team was already offering Lynk to its institutional investor clients.

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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. As such, banking-as-a-service platforms see an opportunity to provide more personalized services and flexibility at less cost.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Step , a mobile banking service aimed at teens , announced this morning it has raised $50 million in Series B funding after growing to over 500,000 users only two months after its official launch. Combining P2P and banking in one platform has proven so far to be fairly popular. To date, Step has raised over $75 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

Banks are a-collapsin’, and the world keeps on a-turnin’. Alex is back on the mic with your Monday rundown, and as usual, we had much to unpack: We’re digging into OpenAI, earnings, First Republic Bank, some fun startups and ARM’s IPO on today’s episode of Equity. PDT, subscribe here. It’s a curious world we live in.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

-based Truist was the 10th largest bank, with $509 billion in assets. It was formed in 2019 as a merger between BB&T and SunTrust banks. Specifically, the San Francisco-based startup wants to drive bank customer engagement using prize-linked savings and casual gaming to motivate smart financial behaviors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Founder and CEO Zach Oschin started the Colombia-based social commerce company in 2018 (and participated in our Latin American Startup Battlefield that year) to move the traditional independent sales process online. Social commerce startup Elenas raises $6M and plans for international expansion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

Stilt , a provider of financial services for immigrants in the United States, announced today it has raised a $100 million warehouse facility from Silicon Valley Bank for lending to its customers. The new debt facility from Silicon Valley Bank means Stilt will be able to provide larger loan volumes and better interest rates, said Mittal.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Co-founded in 2019 by João Pedro Thompson, Thiago Achatz, Mateus Craveiro and Sophie Secaf, Z1 developed a digital bank app aimed at helping Brazilian and Latin American teenagers become more financially independent. Homebrew leads Z1’s effort to bring digital banking to Latin America’s teens.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office, Mr. Cooper said the hackers stole customer names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, as well as customer Social Security numbers and bank account numbers. Mr. […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

According to the company, factors that influenced these numbers last year included launching an iOS app that drove customer acquisition, introducing its USSD banking feature for lower-income customers; and a social chat feature to enable faster transactions. . Image Credits: Carbon.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Varo Bank , which last year became the first U.S. neobank to be granted a national bank charter, announced this morning it has raised a staggering $510 million in a Series E funding round at a $2.5 Varo Bank raises another $63M, led by NBA star Russell Westbrook. effectively becoming a “real” bank but with no physical branches.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

MAJORITY , a mobile banking service for migrants to the United States, said on Tuesday it had raised $27 million in its Series A funding round led by Valar Ventures. The new feature will allow migrants to bypass onerous identity verification requirements that can bar them from accessing banking services for months at a time, the company says.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

million seed round into ModernFi, which is developing a marketplace that helps banks that need deposits to make loans find what they are looking for, while banks with too many deposits can offload them. Take a deposit, leave a deposit : Andreessen Horowitz led a $4.5 Christine has more. Kirsten has more.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

In India, its central bank decided to press pause on plans it had for a rival to the nation’s dominant payment system, Unified Payments Interface. However, the project just failed to have that sizzle and pop that the Reserve Bank of India was looking for. You can sign up here. Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription!

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

But a social, cooperative, fun and cross-platform gaming experience is remarkably hard to find — and Elodie Games is here to change that. Elodie’s co-founders, Christina Norman and David Banks, are gaming industry vets who both worked on global hit League of Legends at Riot Games. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

That, that, that don’t kill me, can only make me stronger ” : Two of our top stories for today centered on the same topic — Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, surprising us all by announcing he was going to buy the conservative social media site Parler. The TechCrunch Top 3. Manish has the basics on the deal.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Less than a year after it raised a $15 million Series B, Public , a social-focused free stock trading service, has raised a $65 million Series C. The founding duo told TechCrunch that they had plenty of cash in the bank from their preceding round, but saw the raise as a way to double-down on their model.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Barcelona-based Payflow , a YC-backed salary-advance fintech with ambitions to evolve into a neobank, has banked a $9.1 million Series A funding round — bringing its total raised since January 2020, when the business was founded, to $13.6M. The upshot is fintech competition may be very dynamic. Or, well, that’s the fintech dream.

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Perficient

APRIL 20, 2023

The Landscape According to Forbes Advisor: 2022 Digital Banking Survey , as of 2022, 78% of adults in the U.S. prefer to bank via a mobile app or website. blockchain​, digital wallets​, money center banks​, emerging payment solutions, digital lending​, economic turmoil​, and fintech disintermediation).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

Amie was founded by Dennis Müller, who previously worked as a product manager for challenger bank N26. The instant benefit of adding a social component to the calendar is that you can more easily stay on top of the company’s activities. Amie is a well-designed calendar app that helps you get things done and keep up with your team.

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