TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

The trio say they have banked $4 million in early funding led by DCVC for their project. Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley is on the co-founding team of a new startup called LivingCities , alongside Matt Miesnieks, who sold his most recent startup 6D.ai Other backers include Eniac Ventures, Anorak and Matthew Ball.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Many things have accelerated in the world of fintech over the past year, not the least of which is the trend of digital banks aimed at specific communities in the U.S. Most recently, we covered the $5 million raise of one such bank — First Boulevard. First Boulevard raises $5M for its digital bank aimed at Black America.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Qonto is a challenger bank focused on business bank accounts. From everyday banking to an all-in-one finance solution. Qonto started out with business bank accounts because that’s the key financial component of European companies. Many companies use their bank accounts directly to move money around. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

One, a startup that aims to bring “all-in-one banking” to the middle class, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series B round of funding. Over the past few years, he said, there have been a number of different fintech and bank products that people use to run their life “and they’re all starting to converge.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Remote work struck down barriers for many employees, and now Virtual Internships is doing the same for university students around the world by partnering with over 12,000 companies from 100 countries. Its host companies include AWS, Carrefour, Dentons, GAM Investments, Asian Development Bank and Bio Pharm Dongsung.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

challenger bank is on track to be profitable by Christmas, but this doesn’t mean it isn’t out raising additional capital already. Since launching business banking in March 2018 and subsequently taking part in the U.K. “I didn’t do all this to sell out to a big bank,” she told me. million customers.

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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Banks are striving for digital innovation but regulatory constraints, data security and privacy concerns, integration challenges, and the high costs of enabling change prevent 70% from achieving their transformation goals. Overall, the banks digital channel perception CSAT improved from 63% in 2022 to 80% in 2024. Want similar results?

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Or, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority fining GT Bank £7.8m Or, Solaris , the German Bank-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider slapped with a restriction to not onboard any future clients without government approval. The opportunity for human error alone should be enough to strike fear into the heart of any bank manager.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Berlin-based startup operates a digital bank with 7 million clients across 25 countries. N26 offers bank accounts and debit cards that you can control from a mobile app. Opening a bank account is quite easy as you don’t need to go to a branch and fill out lengthy paperwork. Earlier this year, BaFin also imposed a $4.9

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The fintech partners with more than 220 banks in tier 2 and tier 3 cities spread through 19 provinces. Komunal digitizes rural banks, called BPRs (Bank Perkreditan Rakyat) through its DepositoBPR platform, which lets users make deposits and apply for loans digitally without needing to visit their bank’s physical location.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Whether it’s a financial services firm looking to build a personalized virtual assistant or an insurance company in need of ML models capable of identifying potential fraud, artificial intelligence (AI) is primed to transform nearly every industry. And the results for those who embrace a modern data architecture speak for themselves.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The generative AI revolution has the power to transform how banks operate. Banks are increasingly turning to AI to assist with a wide range of tasks, from customer onboarding to fraud detection and risk regulation. So, as they leap into AI, banks must first ensure that their data is AI-ready. Generative AI, Innovation

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

Hi, Crunchers, Today, there’s only one story on everyone’s lips: The sudden and dramatic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the 40-year-old Silicon Valley institution. With $209 billion of assets under management at the time of its failure, it’s the second-largest bank failure in U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

When Privacy.com was founded in 2014, the company’s focus was to let anyone generate virtual and disposable payment card numbers for free. The goal was to allow those users to keep users’ actual credit card numbers safe while allowing the option to cut off companies from their bank accounts. At the time of its $10.2 in Series A.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

This morning Salut , an app-based service that allows fitness trainers to host classes virtually, announced that it has raised $1.25 With the new round in the bank and its product now formally launched, it’s up to Salut to scale rapidly. million in a new financing event.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Enter Deposits , a Dallas-based finance startup offering a cloud-based, plug-and-play feature to simplify the implementation of digital banking tools for companies like credit unions, community banks, insurers, retailers and brands. For example, only the biggest of banks could really offer modern experiences.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

SoWork, a virtual co-working startup, began after Punwani and his co-founders decided to build a machine learning edtech company. So, combining their love for building and gaming, the group put together an internal communication product inspired by virtual worlds. Permanence is the elephant in the room for any virtual HQ.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

Around two years ago, Victor Cardenas and Kevin Bai — college dropouts from Stanford University and the University of Waterloo, respectively — built a fintech platform called Slash that lets users create shareable virtual cards to split recurring expenses. Can Slash do better? We’ll have to wait and see.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

A group of startups poised to benefit from this shift are those offering banking as a service. One such startup, Unit , has raised $51 million in a Series B round to further its goal of making it possible for companies and fintechs alike to build banking products “in minutes.”. to offer banking features as a service.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

As I work with financial services and banking organizations around the world, one thing is clear: AI and generative AI are hot topics of conversation. In the finance and banking industry, however, organizations are seeking extra guidance on the best way forward. In short, yes. But it’s an evolution. Customer experience.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Virtual beauty try-on technology, like the ones developed by Perfect Corp., is probably best known to consumers for its beauty app, YouCam Makeup, which lets users “try on” virtual samples from over 300 global brands, including ones owned by beauty conglomerates Estée Lauder and L’Oreal Paris. ” Perfect Corp.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Kuda , the London-based and Nigerian-operating startup taking on incumbents in the country with a mobile-first and personalized set of banking services, is expanding to the U.K. The digital bank has seen some success since launching in Nigeria in 2019. Kuda, the African challenger bank, raises $55M at a $500M valuation.

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Newgen Software

APRIL 15, 2025

You sit up, mind already spiralling: Do I call the bank now? Its not a humanits your banks AI-powered virtual assistant. This is the power of AI agents in actionredefining what customer experience looks like in modern banking. Banks today are leaning on trusted tech partners to bring these intelligent experiences to life.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

It’s been only six months since Union54, whose API allows African software companies to issue and manage their debit cards without needing a bank or third-party processor, announced its seed round of $3 million, also led by Tiger Global. According to Wiki , any bank or eligible fintech can become a member.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

The company provides their customers with templates they can customize to fit their needs all while allowing companies to provide users with virtual engagements. The company said that despite landing the new cash infusion, they “had more money in the bank than capital raised to date, supporting a large and growing team.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

The relationships between banks and fintechs are multi-faceted. Well, today, an announcement by global payments giant Visa is aimed at helping facilitate banks and fintechs’ ability to work together. So literally over $100 billion is going into fintech, which is more than the combined tech budgets of every bank in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

based open banking bulk payment startup Comma has raised £4.34 The company says it enables small and micro businesses to bulk-pay bills, salaries and taxes using existing high street small business bank accounts, saving them a lot of time and money in administration. Small businesses did not and were largely ignored.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Zazu was launched in 2015 as a challenger bank in Zambia. Most times, Zazu would have to wait months for partner banks in the country to issue these cards. All this while the founders began to work with banks around the region to start issuing cards themselves. But the banks were lethargic in their approaches.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Today, an eight-year-old company that has been focused on nothing but financial education is now offering trading and banking services in the U.S. It’s created a Fantasy Finance game, which gives users the ability to manage a virtual $1 million portfolio so they can learn more about the markets before risking their own money for real.

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2025

Enterprise technology leaders discussed these issues and more while sharing real-world examples during EXLs recent virtual event, AI in Action: Driving the Shift to Scalable AI. Strong domain expertise, solid data foundations and innovative AI capabilities will help organizations accelerate business outcomes and outperform their competitors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

At some point, we wanted to issue cards and worked with one of the local banks in Nigeria,” said CEO Bakori. They got to print up to 1,000 cards, but it took a lot of time and none of them functioned because the bank wasn’t able to provide any APIs for us to either manage the cards or even control the usage of those cards.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The pair, along with a host of other fintech services that offer savings and investing products, have been buoyed by a secular shift in banking away from the physical world (in-person shopping, bank branches, plastic cards) to the digital (neo-banks, ecommerce, virtual cards).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But when the time came to exchange, he had to go to the bank, withdraw cash and meet a BDC operator who would travel long distances for one transaction. “It After five months of iteration, Grey pivoted in July 2021 to provide virtual international bank accounts, in EUR, GBP and USD, to Nigerians.

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

AI and Machine Learning will drive innovation across the government, healthcare, and banking/financial services sectors, strongly focusing on generative AI and ethical regulation. The financial sector will see rapid adoption of digital payments, open banking, and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Subsequently, they built a crypto exchange platform and allowed these users to access virtual assets formally and explore other use cases, including buying, selling and swapping crypto and peer-to-peer transactions. We started Bitmama to make it easy for anyone across the African continent to buy and sell cryptocurrency. CEO Ruth Iselema.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

For the past couple of years, challenger banks and alternatives to traditional bank accounts have been packaging additional services into paid plans. You can also access advanced features, such as disposable virtual cards and Revolut Junior accounts. Premium increases limits on free ATM withdrawals and foreign exchange.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

You don’t have to enter an account number in your banking app — as long as you know their phone number, they’ll receive your payment. Lydia partners with Tink to improve open banking features. Lydia lets you generate a virtual card that works with Apple Pay and Google Pay — you can also order a plastic card.

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