TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Michael Beckley Contributor Share on Twitter Michael Beckley is a co-founder and CTO of Appian , where he drives the technical vision for the company, leads product and solutions marketing teams, and oversees customer initiatives. On paper, this looks like a slam-dunk scenario for the burgeoning industry of new nimble fintech providers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

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. billion last year — would join the long list of fintech giants letting go of workers. Weekly News.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Fintechs dominated the fundraising, accounting for nearly $3 billion, or two thirds of all the investment realized by startups across the continent last year, a report by markets insights firm Briter Bridges shows. billion investment that fintechs in Africa raised in 2020, and triple the amount in 2019.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Indian fintech Money View said on Monday it has raised $75 million in a new funding round, its second this year, despite the market slump as it looks to scale its core credit business and build more products in the South Asian market. Money View is currently disbursing about $1.2

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

For nearly all fintech startups, lending has long been the end game. Fintechs typically partner with banks to issue cards and then tie up with non-banking financial institutions or use their own NBFC unit to offer credit lines to consumers. But market is market and regulation will eventually come around to what market needs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

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. Based on that categorization, the fintech space ranked third behind food and transportation, respectively.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Many tech workers have never experienced a job market like this one. Depending on where you worked and what you did, you may already have the experience investors are looking for when it comes to reaching product-market fit and solving engineering problems. Losing a job unexpectedly is more than a financial shock.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

They are responsible for communication between banks and fintechs to settle transactions for consumers and businesses swiftly. An alternative payment network with connected wallets allowing a mobile money user to transact with a bank account would fix this problem, and that’s the premise of Ghana-based fintech Dash.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Undoubtedly, this is putting added pressure on FinTech executives. Although digitization has a significant catalytic effect on these processes, a successful diversification strategy would still need a solid basis and a set of scalable growth patterns that could apply to target markets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Known for its innovations in the payments sector, Square is now officially a bank. In a statement, Square CFO and executive chairman for Square Financial Services, Amrita Ahuja said that bringing banking capability in house will allow the fintech to “operate more nimbly.”. Jessica Jiang, Capital Markets and Investor Relations Lead.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. Its main marketing channels thus far have been social media marketing and the use of game ad networks.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

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. Companies are raising less money at lower valuations than in 2021, which reflects the market sentiment.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. Indeed, customers include large financial institutions, fintechs, retailers and software companies, among others.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Fintech regulations in Latin America could fuel growth or freeze out startups. But with the region’s thirst for innovation, the market is expected to expand nearly tenfold over the next decade, with open banking through the use of APIs leading the way and acting as digital transformation facilitators. How can we overcome it?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Vadym Synegin is a Ukrainian impact entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor in fintech and crypto projects with more than 15 years’ experience as an entrepreneur in Europe and the UAE. Ukrainians have often pioneered market-leading companies and built products that positively impact society, especially in the fintech sector.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Over the years, there has been a growing trend of fintech infrastructure players around the world. Stitch , a South African fintech startup, is one of them and today, it is coming out of stealth and announcing its seed round of $4 million. This makes it the largest round raised by any API fintech startup in Africa at the moment.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

When Christian Lawless founded Conversion Capital in 2015, fintech was only starting to take off. In the years since Conversion was founded, fintech has essentially exploded — driven by a pandemic-induced, accelerated digital transformation on the part of financial services companies all over the world.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Early-stage fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $225 million for its second fund — triple the amount it raised for its debut fund that closed in September of 2020. Fintech’s recent explosive growth is reflected in the increase in fund size for BTV, and the firm remains squarely focused on the space. . “

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The move comes just days after the payment card issuing company reportedly filed confidentially for an initial public offering, making it the latest fintech to make a move to the public markets. Providing card services to fintech companies around the world gives Marqeta a $4.3 billion valuation. Image Credits: Marqeta.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Despite the popularity of the model, it appears there are a variety of applications for which BNPL is just being tapped, and smaller players are carving out a niche as the retail market grows crowded. Smaller BNPL providers could struggle in markets where bigger players have already established a presence. Jonathan Whittle. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Human rights activist and Mos founder Amira Yahyaoui couldn’t afford to go to college, so when she first launched a platform to connect students to scholarships, the innovation felt full circle. Our market cap is 10 times higher than what we were before,” she said. Yahyaoui said, starting with students. Image Credits: Mos.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Ryan Falvey is co-founder and managing partner at Financial Venture Studio , an early-stage fintech venture capital firm. Fintech’s $138 billion opportunity. We’ve increasingly wondered if the Series A market in fintech is really as hot as it seems. Ryan Falvey. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Theo Katsoulis.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Australia native Richard Steggall is the CEO of Urban FT , a New York-based fintech company. He has more than two decades of experience in fintech, capital growth, mergers & acquisitions and strategic IPO advisory. Richard Steggall. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Traditional banks miss the digital mark.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Francophone Africa has its first unicorn, and if you’ve been following tech on the continent, you will be very unsurprised to hear that it’s coming from the world of fintech. The mobile money market in sub-Saharan Africa is growing exponentially. Wave , a U.S. L-R: Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk.

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Mobilunity

APRIL 18, 2024

The role of skilled fintech developers React experts has become increasingly important as traditional banking methods evolve. This demand has propelled technologies like React and TypeScript to the forefront of fintech application development. By 2028, this share is anticipated to exceed $400 billion.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Banks are no longer the key players in the market, with fintech companies, digital-first start-ups, and tech giants delivering their own brand of financial services. One example is Banking-as-a-Service, with the market expected to reach US$3.6 Refining the balancing act of innovation and risk. trillion by 2030.

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2022

Banks are no longer the key players in the market, with fintech companies, digital-first start-ups, and tech giants delivering their own brand of financial services. One example is Banking-as-a-Service, with the market expected to reach US$3.6 Refining the balancing act of innovation and risk. trillion by 2030.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market? Before joining Kleiner Perkins, Case worked at Uber, where she supported the SVP of operations and helped scale the Uber Eats business to international markets. He is also the GP of the 500 Fintech fund.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Less than seven months after closing on a $57 million Series B , fast-growing fintech Jeeves has raised $180 million in a Series C round that values the company at $2.1 The market looked very different in January and February than it did in December.”. Fintech startup Jeeves raises $57M, goes from YC to $500M valuation in one year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The company’s client base includes fintechs, retailers, banks and technology companies that are focused on not only improving the customer experience for the currently banked population, but also on helping bring previously unbanked and underbanked consumers into the digital payments and banking systems. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. Acorns’ SPAC listing depicts a consumer fintech business with a SaaSy revenue mix. Then in 2018, Walter went live with a new company — Blast.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It plans to take its product up market to eventually cater to those at all ends of the credit spectrum, according to Desai. “We We raised this money to take advantage of the opening that the market provided by having traditional lenders tighten up,” he told TechCrunch. “We Founded in 2019, New York-based Kafene has 100 employees.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The funding round is led by global banks HSBC and ING, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund by IGV*, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brain and DG Daiwa Ventures along with existing investors DN Capital, Dawn Capital, IQ Capital and Amex Ventures. with a goal of launching in 10 more countries by the end of 2019. Making sense of Klarna.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The holiday shopping season is coming: How are growth marketers preparing? With only three weeks left to the start of the holiday shopping season, Miranda Halpern checked in with several growth marketers to find out how they’re advising their clients to prepare for supply chain disruptions. Bring on the low-cost NFTs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The Salt Lake City, Utah-based company’s API-delivered product, which focuses on payroll data, powers 70 banks, credit unions and fintech companies such as Coinbase, Dave and Propel. When it comes to direct deposit acquisition, Davis believes Atomic was among the first in the market to provide that for large neobanks. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Technology aimed at older people, whether it be healthcare, fintech or entertainment, is not new, but a new community of startups, investors and global industry leaders are shining a light on what they say is an $8.3 Fintech is also one of the areas that Nigel Morris, managing partner of QED Investors, has been keeping his eye on.

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