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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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Fintech startup Vise raises $65 million in Series C led by Ribbit Capital

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Vise uses an AI-powered platform to give independent financial advisors the same level of data as advisories with their own analyst departments. Vise does a lot of heavy lifting where the latter is concerned, freeing up advisors to focus on the former. How much product room will fintech giants leave for startups?

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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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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. With the funding market slowing down, we’ll likely see more layoffs and shutdowns, unfortunately.

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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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Money Minx aims to build a ‘Personal Finance’ OS for the everyday investor

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No financial advisor needed.”. We built this because we needed it as ‘do it yourself investors,’ said Hussein, who previously started crowdfunding site appsplit and works as a CTO at a San Diego-based fintech company. “I Money Minx also aims to provide people with easy-to-use tools to create dashboards and reports.

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Brick closes $8.5M seed to enable open finance across Southeast Asia

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But this means fintechs need access to large amounts of data that they can use to verify customer identity, creditworthiness or aggregate information from online accounts. Brick currently operates primarily in Indonesia, but is planning to expand into Singapore and the Philippines before eventually covering all markets in Southeast Asia.

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