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Square’s bank arm launches as fintech aims ‘to operate more nimbly’

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Known for its innovations in the payments sector, Square is now officially a bank. Nearly one year after receiving conditional approval , Square said Monday afternoon that its industrial bank, Square Financial Services, has begun operations. Lewis Goodwin had been tapped to serve as the bank’s CEO, and Brandon Soto its CFO.

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New challenger Ikigai combines digital banking and wealth management

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Ikigai , a London fintech founded by former McKinsey partners, thinks there’s room in the crowded challenger market for a new premium offering that combines digital banking with wealth management. “Everything on the market seemed to be slow, impersonal, full of attempts to sell lending and debt products.

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UK challenger bank Starling raises $376M, now valued at $1.9B

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Challenger banks continue to see huge infusions of cash from investors bullish on the opportunity for smaller and faster-moving tech-based banking startups to woo customers from their larger rivals. The bank is already profitable. It posted operating profits for a fourth consecutive month, and net income currently exceeds £1.5

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Neobanks’ moves toward profitability could be the path to public markets

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London-based Starling Bank has raised more than $900 million, per Crunchbase. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. And Starling Bank reached what it describes as profitable territory in October 2020. The global venture capital bet on neobanks is massive. The same data source indicates that Chime has raised $1.5

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Nigerian digital bank Carbon hit $240M in payments processed last year, up 89% from 2019

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Posting audited financials can prove detrimental for a private African company for several reasons ranging from bad marketing and PR if huge losses are incurred to regulatory clampdown if the company performs well. Also, in its quest to become a digital bank, Carbon acquired a microfinance bank license. Image Credits: Carbon.

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Kenyan fintech Pezesha raises $11M backed by Women’s World Banking, Cardano parent IOG

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The fintech’s new growth strategy follows its plan to power its embedded finance offering beyond its current markets, including Uganda and Ghana, to bridge the financing gap affecting millions of micro, small medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) across these markets. Image Credits: Pezesha.

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Kenya-based aquaculture tech Victory Farms nets $5M funding to expand into new markets

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I believed the platform I was running could be a lot bigger and scale a lot faster if we could connect more dots — and basically creating an end to end protein plant,” said Rehmann, who has worked for an investment bank and Microsoft. They concluded that a unique opportunity to rebuild the fish value chain from scratch existed.