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Fintech Farm nabs $7.4M to launch neobanks in Nigeria and other emerging markets

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Fintech Farm , a newly launched fintech startup based in the U.K. that creates digital banks in emerging markets, confirmed to TechCrunch today that it has raised $7.4 Digital banks, neobanks, challenger banks or whatever you may call them, are among the biggest recipients of VC investments in fintech.

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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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As fintech gets more fragmented, Meld helps developers manage their tech stack

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Fintech has a fragmentation problem — as the number of fintech products has grown, so, too, has the number of integrations each service has with others. “We’re building integrations that help developers manage their fintech stack. Fragmentation in the industry was increasing, too.

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Ghanaian fintech SecondSTAX allows investors to access capital markets outside their countries, raises $1.6M

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African capital markets exist in silos, as various exchanges within the continent are often inaccessible to investors outside their home countries. Per reports , major regional exchanges in Africa have raised over $80 billion in equity capital markets and $240 billion in debt capital markets.

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rali_cap gets backing from global VCs and launches $30M fintech fund for emerging markets

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Rali_cap , an early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging markets fintech, has launched a $30 million fund. The two-year-old VC fund invests in B2B and API-first fintechs across Africa, Latin America and South Asia at pre-seed and seed stages. About 40% are based in the U.S.,

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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. CB Insights recently found that two of the largest global VC firms, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, actually backed more fintech companies in 2022 than any other category.

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Layoffs spell opportunity for some fintech startups

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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 Now hiring Hello, hello! It’s not fun covering layoffs, and unfortunately we’ve had too many of those.

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