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

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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. What do you feel might be overhyped?

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Payments remain the darling of the fintech space

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

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The cyber security challenges in fintech and neobanking’s rise

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The 2020s is set to see a rapid growth of fintech and neobanking offerings in Australia. Riccardo Galbiati, cyber advisor, Office of the CSO at Palo Alto Networks, says the biggest advantage fintechs and noebanks have over traditional, larger financial services firms in the sector is their agility.

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

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Southeast Asia is already home to a thriving fintech scene, where Grab , GoTo and Sea have built super apps that encompass financial services, and startups like Xendit , Akulaku and Dana (to name a few) have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for payments, banking services and other financial tools. Indonesia emerged as the best choice.

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4 perils of being an IT pioneer

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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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Daily Crunch: Kurtosis raises $20M Series A to give web3 developers ‘a place to play around’

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Tooling around : Two years ago, two former Palantir engineers started Kurtosis, a crypto-focused developer tool system, and have now raised $20 million in fresh funding to hire a team to get a new product out in the next year, Jacquelyn reports. Diving into due diligence. The road to an LOI. Bringing in bankers.

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

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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.