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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.

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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 former employees admit that the underlying technology the business built is actually good.

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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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Daily Crunch: India’s Central Bank says cryptocurrency ‘may even be worse’ than Ponzi schemes

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India continues to debate the fate of cryptocurrencies : A nation’s regulatory and banking bodies debating blockchain technology and its related tokens is a daily occurrence. Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote. Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Collective, a back-office platform for the self-employed, raises $20M from Ashton Kutcher’s VC

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Launched in September 2020 by CEO Hooman Radfar, CPO Ugur Kaner and CTO Bugra Akcay, Collective offers “tailored” financial services and access to advisors that oversee accounting, tax, bookkeeping and business formation needs. So Collective hopes to be their online back-office platform. 36% of the U.S. 36% of the U.S.

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