TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Melas-Kyriazi will be based in the firm’s San Francisco office and focus on seed and Series A investments in emerging fintech and commerce companies — two core areas of focus for the firm. He said his firm had been “looking for a long time” for someone well-versed in the intersection of fintech and commerce. “We

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JANUARY 3, 2024

Renata, Vice President of Operations for a large fintech company, arrived for coaching ready to leave her role, but fearful of the risks such a shift would include. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

An offer they couldn’t refuse : It looks like Egyptian fintech Paymob snagged one of the largest funding deals in the region — a $50 million Series B, with PayPal Ventures and Kora Capital leading — based on its ability to turn cash-loving customers into digital users with its cards and wallets. Christine and Haje.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. Better.com finally went public The biggest fintech news of the week centered around Better.com’s no good, very bad public market debut. There was also a mega-raise, and an acquisition too. The de-SPAC was a way to raise $565M.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Boampong founded the Ghanaian fintech in 2019 and is one of Africa’s well-known serial entrepreneurs after co-launching OMG Digital , a YC-backed Ghanaian media startup, in 2016. Ghanaian fintech Dash raises $32.8M The four-year-old fintech generates revenue from processing fees, savings, FX fees, bill payments, and subscription fees.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Grant Easterbrook is a fintech consultant based in Amsterdam. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the fintech phenomenon. How can fintech startups prepare to compete in the next decade? If you are a relatively young fintech company, you generally have more “white space” to design your stack. Grant Easterbrook.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Three-year-old Neem was founded by Nadeem Shaikh, Vladimira Briestenska and Naeem Zamindar who previously worked as fintech entrepreneurs, operators and VCs. “Most of the [existing] players are providing a B2C solution; we are a B2B2C solution. The startup was bootstraped before receiving the seed funding.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

We dug into some fintech news through the perspective of some recent news from the neobank market. Alex wrote about the news here, but the gist is that the media company is merging with a SPAC, buying Complex, and raising some capital at the same time. We have thoughts about it. Maybe neobanks will break even?

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CIO

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Gary Jeter, Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer at TruStone Financial Credit Union, joins host Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They discuss mission-based credit unions, expanding fintech relationships, agile product management and more.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

It is also looking for people to join its leadership team, said Jain. The startup, which has amassed over 2 million registered users, plans to deploy the fresh capital to expand its user base and product offerings, and hire engineers. Investors race to win early-stage startup deals in India.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Fintech regulations in Latin America could fuel growth or freeze out startups. In fintech, the problem is especially prominent: Women-founded fintechs have raised a meager 1% of total fintech investment in the last 10 years. Having more women in leadership positions is ultimately a better bet for business.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

It is also a resounding vote of confidence in the UK’s fintech sector, and its leadership in financial services provision,” co-founders Andrew Evans and Will Wynne said in a joint statement. Under the leadership of Andrew and Will, we have every confidence that Smart is a multi-billion pound company in the making.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Stripe has announced that it’s laying off 14% of its workers, impacting around 1,120 of the fintech giant’s 8,000 workforce. He wrote: In making these changes, you might reasonably wonder whether Stripe’s leadership made some errors of judgment. We’d go further than that.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Slowing the progression of AI may be impossible, but approaching AI in a thoughtful, intentional, and security-focused manner is imperative for fintech companies to nullify potential threats and maintain customer trust while still taking advantage of its power. Artificial Intelligence

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Its lead investment in Flutterwave, which valued the fintech at $1 billion in March 2021, was a return from a long hiatus in investing in Africa. Wakanow underwent financial struggles and was in a midlife crisis before new leadership came to turn the tides. Fintech brings the Tiger back.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The open finance startup announced today it has closed a $13 million Series B extension round led by SIG Venture Capital, with participation from CE Innovation Capital and returning investor PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. Klarna, Affirm show how expensive fintech growth can be.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Pushed in part by an assault by upstart fintechs and non-financial tech giants like Google and Apple, North American financial institutions are turning to application programming interfaces (APIs) as a key way to reach new customers and compete. And they must do it with the speed and scale of a fintech or big tech company. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The three co-founders of alternative financing startup Pipe are stepping down from their roles as executives of the company in one of the most dramatic management shake-ups seen in the fintech startup world in some time. Certainly, it’s not the first time the founder of a company has stepped down to allow for fresh leadership.

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CIO

AUGUST 31, 2022

Pushed in part by an assault by upstart fintechs and non-financial tech giants like Google and Apple, North American financial institutions are turning to application programming interfaces (APIs) as a key way to reach new customers and compete. And they must do it with the speed and scale of a fintech or big tech company. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Finch Capital , the early-stage fintech VC with a presence in London and Amsterdam, is acquiring Wirecard Turkey, a subsidiary of Wirecard, the disgraced fintech out of Germany. After facing a huge accounting scandal and failing to make payments on its own loans, Wirecard went into insolvency last year.

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Praxent

MARCH 2, 2021

How New Fintechs Overcome CX Challenges and Increase FI Sales. Understanding how the unique CX challenges for fintechs in the ‘Go To Market’ stage of the product lifecycle impact FI sales . Every fintech product can be said to fit into a particular stage of the software adoption lifecycle.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Self Financial, a fintech company that aims to help consumers build credit and savings at the same time, announced today it has raised $50 million in Series E funding. The company, as many fintechs these days, aims to make building credit and savings more accessible, regardless of a person’s financial history.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 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. Another example of fintech for good. But I digress. Unfortunately, that was not the case. Here’s how.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Sometimes the decision is made for a company’s leadership team. consumer fintech closed the first quarter with 22.8 Price, timing, pride, and a host of other factors play into the decision. Hell, you might simply enjoy running the business, be it a startup, unicorn, or public-market behemoth. Let’s talk about it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

For some companies in capital-intensive areas like climate, fintech and defense, access to debt is often the only avenue to growth or scale. Lastly, we’re seeing lenders take extreme caution to evaluate startups for venture debt based on the strength of their leadership team. Fintechs are likely to have a harder challenge here.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2023

GPT’ may be trademarked soon if OpenAI has its way Image Credits: TechCrunch Venture’s down TC’s Mary Ann Azevedo broke news this week: “Fintech-focused VC firm Anthemis Group lays off 28% of staff as part of restructuring.” According to TechCrunch, what a weird parallel between a grocery delivery startup’s past and present leadership!

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As one FinTech attendee noted, “get out of the ‘art of the possible’ and identify what is probable.” To see our latest event calendar of events featuring AI, including our virtual AI Leadership Summit on Oct. Generative AI can do a lot of things. Develop a strategy for building the data asset. 11, click here.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

It also acknowledged that it had engaged “an independent 3rd party firm to do a leadership and cultural assessment,” the results of which would be “taken into account to build a long-term sustainable and positive culture at Better.”. But the decision may be too little, too late. This was untrue,” she said.

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Praxent

MARCH 2, 2021

How Aging Fintechs Can Get Unstuck and Transform Their CX. Understanding how the unique CX challenges for fintechs in the ‘Transform/Modernize’ stage of the product lifecycle impact FI sales . At this stage in the game, a fintech product might even be considered a legacy product. Fight, Flight or…Freeze?

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Gitprime

JULY 29, 2022

Melanie Frank, Capital One's Managing Vice President of Cyber Engineering, shares twenty-two years of learning and fintech experience with Pluralsight's Perspectives in Leadership podcast

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The pair both had fintech experience. And Bradley most recently was a founding team member and head of revenue at Synapse, a platform that built banking-as-a-service APIs to help bank the unbanked of America by connecting fintech platforms to banking institutions. Two-thirds of its leadership team are women and 100% is BIPOC.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Half of ACV’s leadership team are women and across its portfolio that figure is 40%. The firm is sector-agnostic, but many of its investments are in fintech, logistics, e-commerce, MSME and consumer technology. For example, it helps fintech companies work with banks or access capital they can use for lending.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Today, Truora describes itself as a SaaS startup that builds authentication and communication tools for Latin American startups, marketplaces, fintechs and banks. Today, 70% of the company’s leadership team are women and 45% of its staff are women. That March, it raised $3.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Maxim Kharchenko is the director of fintech products at Rakuten Viber and is an expert in product leadership in the financial technology sector. Maxim Kharchenko. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Data is a company’s most powerful asset.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Fintech frenzy : Natasha M and Anita dive into the fintech pool at Y Combinator’s Summer 2022 batch to find out which trends are making waves. Moar money for underrepresented founders : Natasha M reports that Kapor Capital is under new leadership and just closed its largest fund to date. Sorry, six edits is one too many.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The latest from France : Fintech upstart Numeral wants to update corporate banking by “using a modern application programming interface” that will allow its customers to connect “directly to bank servers to upload payment files and interact with outdated information systems.” Startups/VC.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Its leadership “sprints” focus on topics like retaining knowledge, and what goes into curating a safe environment for teams. Currently, its content looks more general, serving the emerging manager in tech, not the first-time manager handling a fintech startup during a pivot. NewCampus offers live classes for first-time managers.

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