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Former Gemini CTO launches Fierce, a high-yield finance super app

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It’s developing a finance super app that is bringing together what founder and CEO Robert Cornish calls “the best of fintech for the customer.” There is also stock trading where users can purchase fractional shares and ETFs. Now meet Fierce , a new company out to change that. You would have had to build everything yourself.

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So much fintech M&A

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Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. The deal was just one of many M&A deals in the fintech space that occurred last week. Weekly News.

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Alloy, Synctera and Unit discuss the future of embedded finance at TC Disrupt

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Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance and open banking are among the hottest topics in fintech today. In a session called “Making Money Move with Embedded Finance,” our panel will talk about how a new breed of finance infrastructure companies have the potential to turn any company into a fintech company. The promise?

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Fintech Roundup: How going Fast and furious can ruin your startup

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Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. The big events in the fintech world over the last week felt like a very different vibe from 2021, which was filled with mega rounds, celebrations and lofty valuations. And if you want to have this hit your inbox directly once it officially turns into a newsletter on May 1, sign up here.

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Pledge raises $4.5M seed round to build a carbon-measurement and removal API

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Plus, smaller companies want to access high-quality carbon credits, but calculate their impact at a product, services and transactional level, and be able to purchase a fraction of a carbon credit rather than a very inaccurate “scheme.”. There is very little transparency around carbon offsets. It’s now raised a $4.5

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Jakarta-based investment app Pluang raises $55M led by Accel

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The app is also launching a new features that will users to invest in fractional U.S. Other investment apps focused on Southeast Asia include Indonesia-based Pintu , robo-advisor Bibit and Ajaib and Singapore-based Syfe. Investments can start as low as IDR 10,000 (or less than $1 USD) in gold, indexes, mutual funds and crypto assets.

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Farther, a wealth tech firm, banks $15M Series A as valuation hits $50M

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Building wealth is a long process and can be complex, but Farther is bringing both technology and advisors to the table to make these kinds of services more accessible. Meanwhile, Genser, CTO, is a military veteran who previously worked at Goldman Sachs leading an artificial intelligence team in private wealth.

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