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Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021

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2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests predominantly in fintech, consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 looks to continue another lights-out year for fintech startups. More posts by this contributor.

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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. The opportunity and impact in solving working capital problems for SMEs is huge.

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Marqeta buys fintech Power Finance in $275M all-cash deal, its first acquisition

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Marqeta has agreed to acquire two-year-old fintech infrastructure startup Power Finance for $223 million in cash, marking the first acquisition in the publicly-traded company’s 13-year history. In November, Marqeta reported a third quarter net loss of $53.2 In November, Marqeta reported a third quarter net loss of $53.2

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Fintech startup Vise brings on Andrew Fong (formerly Dropbox) as CTO

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Vise , a fintech firm that focuses on helping financial advisors rather than automating them out of existence, has today announced that it is bringing on Andrew Fong as its chief technology officer. Fong hails from Dropbox, where he served as VP of Infrastructure Engineering. Before Dropbox, Fong was an engineer at YouTube and Aol.

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The alternative asset class needs new infrastructure — who will build it?

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Abdul Abdirahman is a senior associate at F-Prime Capital, where he focuses on early-stage investments in fintech. However, there is a problem in alternative assets: the lack of digital infrastructure. Modernizing the infrastructure for traditional alts. The alternative asset class needs new infrastructure — who will build it?

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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

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What it says it does : Building an open-source webhooks infrastructure. Promises include : The startup claims its “open source cloud-native” webhook services is “secured, reliable, and scalable for customers’ webhooks infrastructure. Location : Lagos, Nigeria. And Convoy is the first to fill in that gap.

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Finix goes head-to-head with Stripe

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Welcome to The Interchange, a take on this week’s fintech news and trends. Rather than rehash all that here, I’ll point you to some of our recent articles on the topic and just summarize: The two fintech startups have recently grown (much) more competitive. It also reportedly posted net revenue of about $2.5 Weekly News.

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