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

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This is where fintech can step in. As more and more retailers make this move, partnering and collaborating with fintechs can help them build, scale and secure their financial offerings. And if they want some crypto, fintech startups can source liquidity and convert fiat to crypto. It needs to be both effective and secure.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Rize , a fintech-as-a-service company that provides services to other firms, announced an $11.4 million Series A this morning. The funding event was led by Alpha Edison and Morpheus Ventures. A number of the startup’s prior backers also participated in the round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Southeast Asia is already home to a thriving fintech scene, where Grab , GoTo and Sea have built super apps that encompass financial services, and startups like Xendit , Akulaku and Dana (to name a few) have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for payments, banking services and other financial tools. Indonesia emerged as the best choice.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 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. Wow, I take off one week and come back to all hell breaking loose in the fintech world. Weekly News.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 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. This philosophy extends to its fintech team. If I hear back, I’ll update you next weekend !

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

There’s been a massive proliferation of fintech services in the past few years, during which fintech companies competed to develop new products more quickly than their competitors. You need to do AML, KYC BSA compliance, and you need to be able to provide rails in and out of your platform. ” Proper raises $4.3M

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Alloy, which has built an identity operating system for banks and fintechs, announced Thursday that it has raised $100 million at a $1.35 Put simply, the startup’ s initial mission was to help banks and fintechs make better identity and risk decisions using its single API service and SaaS platform. . billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

to East African countries (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), thus ushering the Tanzanian fintech into the remittance business. The European fintech unicorn , now a financial super app of some sorts, started off providing multi-currency bank accounts, fee-free currency exchange, peer-to-peer payments and a feature for businesses.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

FrankieOne identified a critical challenge through its firsthand experience as a fintech startup. “This experience allowed us to understand banking from the inside out, and realise that for existing financial institutions, as well as emerging fintech, regulatory compliance is the single biggest challenge these companies face.”

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It’s no secret that banks and fintech companies must meet compliance and regulatory standards that are much stricter than what traditional tech companies are forced to comply with. The question becomes: How do you meet strict regulatory and compliance standards while keeping up with the rapid pace of innovation in technology?

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Yishai Lerner, co-CEO of JLL Spark, agrees, telling TechCrunch that commercial real estate is one of the largest and last asset classes that is undergoing a technology transformation, similar to what fintech was 20 years ago. He estimates the U.S. market to be $16 trillion, of which technology could unlock a lot of the value.

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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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Specifically, today QED is announcing a $550 million early-stage fund and a $500 million growth-stage fund , both of which are aimed at backing fintech companies primarily in the U.S., Clearly, Alexandria, Virginia-based QED was investing in fintech before fintech was “cool.” Most fintech companies will fail.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Thomvest Ventures, Mubadala Ventures, Oak HC/FT, FinTech Collective, QED Investors, Bullpen Capital, ValueStream Ventures, Laconia, RiverPark Ventures, Stage II Capital and Cross River Bank also participated in the latest round. We really entered the fintech lending space at the right place at the right time,” Bobley told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Stripe has laid off some of the employees who support TaxJar, a tax compliance startup that it acquired last year, TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources and firsthand documentation. Global fintech funding in the second quarter of 2022 fell 33% to $20.4 Stripe’s new and lower internal valuation, explained.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

Integrating student loans into the GradJoy app turned out to be a patchwork of brittle, insecure screen-scraping APIs, physical check mailing and compliance hurdles, according to Shah. “We provide fintechs the ability to innovate faster and compete with larger banks with our turnkey real time data and payment operations.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

As fintechs become more efficient, so too do fraudsters. That’s the thesis behind his startup, which uses behavioral, financial and device-specific user data to detect fraud on behalf of its clients in the crypto and fintech industries. Sardine’s algorithm helps crypto and fintech companies detect fraud.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Compliance with privacy and security frameworks like SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR has become a central component not just of how organizations build trust with their users, but of how organizations work together these days: fail to meet the requirements of these frameworks, and you might lose your business relationship.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

If you’ve talked with fintech startup founders, they probably have told you that there are dozens of small and big companies working on identity verification processes. If a user emails you because they received an error when trying to verify their identity, the person in charge of compliance can easily see where the process failed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Nigel Verdon, co-founder and CEO of Railsbank, tells me the injection of capital will be used to continue expanding the fintech’s global footprint and for further product development. and Europe and helps protect the reputation of the fintech industry. Visa), regulation, and compliance,” he told me at the time.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

After working together for nearly one decade, three former managing directors of Amex Ventures in early 2022 branched out to form their own fintech-focused venture firm, Vesey Ventures. The trio had made early investments in more than 50 fintech companies, including the likes of Stripe, Plaid, Melio and Trulioo.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

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. ” But not all fintechs are laying off.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

He then joined a credit card startup and realized that product also needed a rules engine to manage fraud, credit and compliance risks. What’s more, explainability is important for fintech companies so that they can show regulators how decisions are made,” Diao said. “It

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Just over three months after its last funding round, European fintech giant Klarna is announcing today that it has raised another $639 million at a staggering post-money valuation of $45.6 The latest financing cements 16-year-old Klarna’s position as the highest-valued private fintech in Europe. Making sense of Klarna.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In general, Lin — who got a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University — admits that she “loves building fintech infrastructure at scale.” My weekly fintech newsletter is launching soon! Tiger Global leads $30M investment into Briq, a fintech for the construction industry.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Skuad lets companies hire, onboard and pay employees and contractors in more than 160 countries without needing to set up local entities, and it manages local compliances, well also providing country-specific benefits and insurance packages. One of Skuad’s clients is Indonesian fintech Akseleran, which needed to fill tech openings.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Before starting Beam in October of 2022, Adam Eagle had spent five and a half years as a software engineer at the fintech company, building core APIs and infrastructure for Stripe billing, invoicing, commerce, and payments. Both the startup’s founder and lead investor previously spent years working at payments giant Stripe.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There are a growing number of BaaS companies, which all essentially have the same end goal — to make it faster and easier for fintechs and other companies to launch financial services and products. . We’ve been building our basic infrastructure and compliance and technology,” Vo told TechCrunch. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

Sales and finance teams can use Kompliant’s tools to design the data capture, workflows, pricing algorithms and credit decisioning rules that drive their programs, while oversight teams can take advantage of the startup’s solutions for risk and compliance management. billion In 2020, according to an analysis by Fenergo.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

CEO Karkal has a long history in the fintech space, co-founding Simple, an app unifying various accounts into one accessible bank card, in 2009. He thought consumers expected a different level of service, which is why many flock to fintechs. In the process, you end up having to also be compliance experts just to be able to do it.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

In 2015, the emergence of fintechs such as Flutterwave and Paystack changed the game for online businesses in Africa by making it easier to integrate payments into customer interfaces without building those features from the ground up or merging with tacky foreign software. The situation is no different in Africa.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

We’ve all heard the phrase, “Every company is a fintech.” . But these days, that’s becoming more and more true as an increasing number of companies that are not even in the financial services space seek to add a fintech component to their offering. Only about 20% of its customers are what might be considered true fintechs, he said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Laura Spiekerman is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of Alloy , an identity-decisioning platform for banks and fintech companies. We’ve all seen the headlines: Fintech is struggling. But fintech is resilient. What does a fintech company do when it’s under a fraud attack? mean for their business?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Wait, you can’t say that : Kyle reports that LeapXpert raises $22 million to monitor employee chats for compliance. Daily Crunch: After raising $3M seed, global fintech platform Payday plans to secure licensing in Canada, UK by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch Is that you, Bob?

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CIO

JULY 25, 2022

The 2020s is set to see a rapid growth of fintech and neobanking offerings in Australia. Riccardo Galbiati, cyber advisor, Office of the CSO at Palo Alto Networks, says the biggest advantage fintechs and noebanks have over traditional, larger financial services firms in the sector is their agility.

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