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7 investors reveal what’s hot in fintech in Q1 2023

TechCrunch

The global downturn has impacted every sector, but fintech bore the brunt of it as public-market valuations fell off a cliff last year. However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing.

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Payments remain the darling of the fintech space

TechCrunch

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 Last week, I dug into CB Insights’ State of Fintech 2022 report.

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Muslims come into the frame in Southeast Asia’s fintech boom

TechCrunch

But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. So he started researching markets with large populations of Muslim people. Indonesia emerged as the best choice. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6

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4 perils of being an IT pioneer

CIO

The speed at which enterprises adopt emerging technology is widely acknowledged as a key driver of success. As a result, organizations often rush to adopt new technology believing it will make them operationally more efficient and enhance their competitiveness. We decided to leverage API, which was then an emerging technology.

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Edda wants to be the Bloomberg Terminal for private markets

TechCrunch

Anyone who has worked in a role even tangentially connected to the public markets will at least have heard of Bloomberg Terminal , an industry standard platform used by professionals to gain real-time data and insights into the financial markets. ” So what, exactly, does Edda give those working in the private investment space?

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Productfy raises $16M to build the ‘Shopify of embedded finance’

TechCrunch

There are a growing number of BaaS companies, which all essentially have the same end goal — to make it faster and easier for fintechs and other companies to launch financial services and products. . But Productfy, unlike many other BaaS companies, is not just focused on developers.

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How Pariti is connecting founders with capital, resources and talent in emerging markets

TechCrunch

The data and research organisation uses factors like performance, capital, market reach, connectedness, talent, and knowledge to produce its rankings. Startup ecosystems from emerging markets excluding China and India didn’t make the organisations’ top 40 list last year. ” It doesn’t end there.

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