TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

Every week, we’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 our job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. More headlines Apple and fintechs like Robinhood chase yield-hungry depositors as Fed rate hikes continue.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

This creates increased regulatory scrutiny, with the risk of massive fines for non-compliance. On paper, this looks like a slam-dunk scenario for the burgeoning industry of new nimble fintech providers. It’s not – unless those fintechs can learn some lessons from established firms about customer onboarding. for AML failures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

“Know your customer [KYC] and compliance tools will help us bring on more customers even faster,” Shtilman said. valuation to boost its fintech-as-a-service API. Everyone understands now that the future of fintech is fintech infrastructure. The timing of this latest round is a big deal for Rapyd.

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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

AUGUST 7, 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 will now be offered to 22 fintech companies across Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It’s a great time to be in the fraud detection business in crypto and fintech. Crypto in particular has faced some high-profile scams recently, and many companies operating within the ecosystem are beefing up their compliance capabilities to ensure they don’t end up in any regulatory hot water. Sardine, which raised a $4.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Synctera , which aims to serve as a matchmaker for community banks and fintechs, has raised $33 million in a Series A round of funding led by Fin VC. The raise comes just under six months after the fintech raised $12.4 Fellow fintech Finix led the initiative earlier this year before forming this coalition, but more on that later.).

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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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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Data sovereignty and the development of local cloud infrastructure will remain top priorities in the region, driven by national strategies aimed at ensuring data security and compliance. However, overcoming challenges such as workforce readiness, regulatory compliance, and cybersecurity risks will be critical to realizing this vision.

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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

MARCH 27, 2022

Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. On March 25, PitchBook released its 2021 Annual Fintech Report , which found that the fintech industry raised $121.6 On March 25, PitchBook released its 2021 Annual Fintech Report , which found that the fintech industry raised $121.6

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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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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

Adopting multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions will enhance flexibility and compliance, deepening partnerships with global providers. Fintech hubs like Dubai and Riyadh will continue attracting global and regional players. The Internet of Things is gaining traction worldwide.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. I’m not going to lie — upon learning this, my fintech-loving ears perked up. And fintech represented nearly a quarter of the firm’s deals. More than a quarter (28%) of a16z’s fintech investments in 2022 went to the payments category.

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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

APRIL 23, 2021

According to the survey, the city is strong in sectors such as fintech, agritech, hospitality tech, emerging tech, cybersecurity, SaaS and medtech. We’re strong in cybersecurity and (to an arguably lesser extent) fintech. Cybersecurity, fintech, digital — strong medtech — needs building. What are you most excited by?

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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

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

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

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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MagmaLabs

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes The financial technology (fintech) sector is rapidly evolving, and at the forefront of this transformation is artificial intelligence (AI). This blog will explore how AI is reshaping fintech and what implications it holds for the future.

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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

MARCH 10, 2022

In addition to the equity raise, the San Francisco-based fintech said it has also closed on a new $100 million debt facility for lending to its loan customers, bringing its total raised to $375 million in equity and debt financing since its 2015 inception. My weekly fintech newsletter is launching soon! ” Image Credits: Stilt.

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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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