TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2022

As venture capital grew around the world , tracking the fintech market was a fine way to understand the general health of the VC world; when venture was getting bigger, so too was fintech fundraising. So it is not a huge surprise that fintech had a big part to play in the venture boom that is now behind us. focused viewpoint.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech platform OPay is in talks to raise up to $400 million, The Information reported today. Opera’s Africa fintech startup OPay gains $120M from Chinese investors. While none of these services has significantly scaled, OPay’s fintech and mobile money arm (which is its main play) is thriving.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Lee Li is a project manager and B2B copywriter with a decade of experience in the Chinese fintech startup space as a PM for TaoBao, MeitTuan and DouYin (now TikTok). The fintech sector has been hugely successful (and hugely profitable) for much of the last decade, and even more so during the pandemic. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Well, a report released today by data research organization Briter Bridges and global inclusive tech accelerator Catalyst Fund is punching above its weight to offer a holistic representation to the darling sector of these three markets: fintech. Fintechs have raised $23B across the regions since 2017. Let’s dive in.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Fintechs dominated the fundraising, accounting for nearly $3 billion, or two thirds of all the investment realized by startups across the continent last year, a report by markets insights firm Briter Bridges shows. billion investment that fintechs in Africa raised in 2020, and triple the amount in 2019.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Australia native Richard Steggall is the CEO of Urban FT , a New York-based fintech company. He has more than two decades of experience in fintech, capital growth, mergers & acquisitions and strategic IPO advisory. Richard Steggall. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Traditional banks miss the digital mark.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Disrupt will have six industry tracks , each with its own stage, including AI , fintech , hardware , SaaS , security and sustainability. On the Fintech Stage we will have some of the biggest industry players discussing some of the hottest topics in the industry. Come join us !

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

You can’t stop fintech startups. After raising staggering sums of capital through 2021, the financial technology startup industry ran into a valuations wall this year as public markets retreated and many formerly high-flying fintech giants took lumps. Late-stage fintech startups got caught up in the wave of revaluations.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The fintech which provides credit lines for businesses has raised $17 million, funding that it will be using to bolster its offerings and expand geographically. The idea for the YC-backed Ghanaian fintech came during the chief executive’s time at OMG Digital, a media company he founded that also got into YC , in 2016. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The global downturn has impacted every sector, but fintech bore the brunt of it as public-market valuations fell off a cliff last year. CB Insights recently found that two of the largest global VC firms, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, actually backed more fintech companies in 2022 than any other category.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 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. On a high level, it’s no surprise that funding flowing into fintech startups was down both globally and in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

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 Last week, I dug into CB Insights’ State of Fintech 2022 report.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Fintech startup and alternative credit asset manager Viola Credit has closed its latest $700 million fund, which provides asset-based lending capital to fintech, proptech and insurtech startups. If this fintech play reminds you of Silicon Valley Bank, think again. Instead, Viola provides lending capital to fintech lenders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

securities industry, which moves trillions of dollars a day, still relies on mainframe technology from the 1980s. It’s time-consuming and difficult to execute with fragmented technology.” Want more fintech news in your inbox? The public U.S. equities and options,” according to Sachin Kumar, co-founder and CTO. Sign up here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Solid , which rebranded from Wise in 2021, raised a $63 million Series B round of funding to continue providing its fintech-as-a-service offering for companies wanting to launch and scale their own fintech products. 8 fintech VCs discuss the shifting investing landscape and how to pitch them in Q3 2022.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Andy Bromberg, CEO of the a16z-backed startup Eco, is claiming that Pebble , another fintech startup that came out of stealth this morning, “plagiarized” Eco’s materials and business model. Bromberg posted a Twitter thread this afternoon saying Pebble engaged in “copy-and-pasting, immaturity, lying, and espionage.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Grant Easterbrook Contributor Share on Twitter Grant Easterbrook is a fintech consultant based in Amsterdam. Much has been written about the success of fintech and how this wave of technological innovation has changed consumers’ lives. He also co-founded Dream Forward, which was acquired in 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It was at that point that TripActions made the decision to accelerate the timeline for its fintech expense product, TripActions Liquid, which had launched only a month before the pandemic. This means it is in the same category as fast-growing fintechs such as Brex and Ramp.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

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 other words, it provides the tools for companies — fintechs and otherwise — to provide cards, wallets and other payment mechanisms.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The former commercial chief (Product, Sales and Marketing) at PayPal, he now leads fintech investing at Matrix Partners, where he also invests in consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021. Matt is an early stage fintech investor at Matrix Partners. Matt Brown.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. Fintech M&A hasn’t been as robust as one might expect in recent months. So when Goldman Sachs announced this week it was buying NextCapital – a fintech company that provides automated advice to corporate retirement plan participants – my ears perked up. Will Holland resign?

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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 3, 2021

One priority now, he added, will be to focus on expanding its technology related to identity management and fraud to complement what it already does. valuation to boost its fintech-as-a-service API. Everyone understands now that the future of fintech is fintech infrastructure. Rapyd raises $300M on a $2.5B

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. As our fellow fintech enthusiast Alex Johnson pointed out , there was one name that stood out on that list for being “not like the others”: fintech startup Brex. But far less common are fintechs dedicated to serving older members of our society.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. Fintech Roundup: Fintechs and banks are getting cozier. As of June 2021, Charlotte, N.C.-based

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Francophone Africa has its first unicorn, and if you’ve been following tech on the continent, you will be very unsurprised to hear that it’s coming from the world of fintech. Neobanking, based on mobile technology too, falls somewhere in the middle of the two). Wave , a U.S. L-R: Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Globally, the venture capital world is afire , pushing record sums into upstart technology companies. The Exchange is on a trip around the world, poking our heads into various startup markets to better understand how different geographies are faring during a historic boom in venture capital activity. But the capital is not flowing evenly.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

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. Effective onboarding is fintech’s Achilles’ heel. Effective onboarding is fintech’s Achilles’ heel.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

While the public market correction has been widespread, tech and fintech stocks have seen the largest declines, according to a recent report. trillion in late 2021, the F-Prime Fintech Index slid to $397 billion by the end of 2022. trillion in late 2021, the F-Prime Fintech Index slid to $397 billion by the end of 2022.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Vo was in the credit risk department at Barclays and a full-stack developer at Fintria, a fintech company, while Krishnamoorthy was an associate at several law firms including Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. ” Denim competes with other fintech firms in the space, including TriumphPay, HaulPay and OTR Capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 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. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Weekly News.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

In this week’s edition of The Interchange, we touch on the resilience of BaaS in a sometimes messy fintech space, earnings highlights, and much more. We are particularly excited this year because we have our very own Fintech Stage ! If you want to receive this in your inbox every Sunday, sign up here. This is a first.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Pezesha solves this through our robust API driven credit scoring technology,” Moraa, also the CEO, told TechCrunch. The fintech works with partner companies such as Twiga and MarketForce, which integrate its credit scoring APIs in their platforms to enable their customers to get real-time loan offers. Image Credits: Pezesha.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Bloom , a Sudan-based fintech that offers a high-yield savings account and adjacent digital banking services, has raised a $6.5 This financing welcomed participation from fintech giant Visa, Y Combinator, U.S.-based The fintech works with the Export Development Bank, a partner bank that handles deposits. million seed 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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

CRED plans to invest about $10 million in its lending partner LiquiLoans as the Indian fintech startup broadens its ownership in financial services, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed. Indian fintech CRED to invest in lending partner LiquiLoans by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 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. More fintechs are focusing on nonprofits. Fintech for good? Weekly News.

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