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SoFi Revamps Auto Loan Investing with MotoRefi Partnership
Digital financial solutions provider SoFi is getting into the vehicle loan refinance game. The online lender formed a partnership with MotoRefi to offer users yet another reason to use its services....
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Avant Acquires Digital Bank Level
Online lending platform Avant is building out the breadth of services for its underbanked clients this week. The Illinois-based company acquired Zero Financial and its neobank Level for an undisclosed...
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TrueLayer Raises $70 Million to Build for the Next Phase of Open Banking
Open banking platform TrueLayer recently landed $70 million in Series D funding. The investment, which brings the London-based company’s total funding to $142 million, was led by Addition, with...
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FIS On Ecommerce Trends & BNPL Market Predictions
What’s behind all of the buzz surrounding the recent buy now, pay later (BNPL) trend? We spoke with Jason Pavona, FIS General Manager for North American E-commerce, to get his thoughts on the matter....
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MoneyLion Enables Users to Buy, Sell, and Earn Cryptocurrencies
Mobile banking platform MoneyLion announced a move into the crypto realm today. The New York-based company will soon unveil tools that enable members to buy, sell, and earn digital currencies. The new...
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Better.com Lands $500 Million in Funding After Record Year
Mortgagetech innovator Better.com recently landed a $500 million investment from Japan-based Softbank, bringing the company’s total funding to over $900 million. According to the Wall Street Journal,...
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Hatch Raises $20 Million for Small Business Banking
Small business financial services platform Hatch unveiled its funding total today. The California-based company has pulled in $20 million in two funding rounds since it was founded in 2018. The first...
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SoFi is Making Early IPO Investing More Accessible– But it’s Not Alone
Alternative banking services company SoFi unveiled a new product last month that will enable eligible members to participate in upcoming IPOs. The tool will sit within SoFi Invest, a suite of...
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Highlights from the FinovateSpring Stage
While Finovate is all about demoing the newest fintech, we’re also into discussing it. At this year’s FinovateSpring conference, which will be held digitally on May 10 through May 13 in Central...
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Why Coinbase’s Public Debut Matters
The news is abuzz with excitement about Coinbase’s IPO. The San Francisco-based digital currency platform began trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker COIN for $381 per share today and closed out the...
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How Can We Tap Into the Female Financial Market?
This is a guest post written by Dr. Anette Broløs of Broløs Consult and Dr. Erin B. Taylor of Finthropology. Finances have long been considered a man’s domain. Women’s economic power is, however,...
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Digital Identity’s New Frontier
After the world went digital last year, the digital identity crisis began taking on new life. Most fintech players are involved in digital identity in some way, and Experian is no exception. We...
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Fintech Trends Budding Up this Spring
We’re four and a half months into 2021, and we’re already starting to see the fintech and banking industries shake off the 2020 mindset. That’s not to say that companies have left behind their digital...
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Greenlight Almost Doubles Valuation in $260 Million Round
Greenlight, a company that provides financial services technology for kids, announced today it has landed $260 million in funding. Today’s investment nearly doubles the Georgia-based company’s...
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Nutmeg Reaches $4.2 Billion AUM
When it comes to European wealthtech companies, Nutmeg is the original gangster. The London-based company was founded in 2011 and demoed at FinovateEurope a year later in 2012. Today, the company...
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Fiserv Launches QR Code Payments at the Point of Sale
Today brings yet another indication that QR codes are back in style. Fiserv announced it is partnering with PayPal to enable businesses to use QR codes to offer touch-free payments at the point of...
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Personalizing the Digital Divide at FinovateSpring
We may still be enduring the absence of in-person networking, but there are a handful of ways to stimulate casual banter among conference participants. At FinovateSpring, taking place digitally May 10...
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Google Pay Steps Up Embedded Finance, Banking Tools
After reviving Google Pay in November of last year, Google made an announcement today that is sure to turn some heads in the fintech space. The two most relevant elements in today’s news release are...
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Sezzle Plans to File for U.S. IPO
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) company Sezzle is planning to strike while the iron is hot. The Minnesota-based firm, which is already publicly-listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), is hoping to...
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Expensify Planning IPO
In an era when SPACs are the hip new way to take a company public, corporate expense management technology company Expensify is taking the old fashioned route. The San Francisco-based fintech...
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