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4 Conversations Banks Must Have in 2022
In many ways, my predictions of what to expect in fintech in 2021 still stand in 2022. Indeed, the trends I anticipated– embedded banking, open banking, automation, and banking-as-a-service– are still...
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Scalable Capital Goes Crypto
Digital investment platform Scalable Capital launched a crypto offering this week called Scalable Crypto. The new tool, which Scalable Capital is launching in partnership with Europe’s largest digital...
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Worldline CMO on the Evolution of Payments
With the new year just two weeks away, it’s a good time to reflect. We spoke with Justin Passalaqua, CMO of North America for Worldline, on what he has seen in the payments space this year and the...
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Rocket Companies Acquire TrueBill
Rocket Companies, the parent company of tech-driven real estate, mortgage, and financial services businesses, acquired personal finance app TrueBill today. The deal is expected to close by the end of...
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Credix Raises $2.5 Million
Decentralized credit platform Credix landed $2.5 million in early stage seed funding this week. The Belgium-based company will use the fresh capital to speed up the release of its alpha version and...
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CRIF Partners with Swoop Funding to Help Small Businesses Unlock Working Capital
Late last month, credit management solutions provider CRIF announced plans to team up with Swoop Funding, a business funding and savings platform. CRIF anticipates the partnership will help the U.K.’s...
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Tink Completes Acquisition of FinTecSystems
Visa-owned open banking platform Tink has finalized its purchase of FinTecSystems. The acquisition, which was initiated prior to Visa purchasing Tink, was first announced in May of last year. The...
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Bink to Receive Investment from Lloyds Banking Group
Sky News announced this week that Lloyds Banking Group plans to invest in loyalty app Bink. According to the source, Lloyds will invest “millions of pounds” in exchange for a minority stake in the...
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Fractal Lands $360 Million from Alternative Asset Firm TPG
AI-powered decision making firm Fractal Analytics landed a $360 million investment from alternative asset firm TPG Capital this week. The round brings the 21-year-old company’s total funding to $685...
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A Chat with Huawei’s Siri Børsum on What’s Next for Digital Transformation
Last November, I chatted with Siri Børsum, Global VP of Finance Vertical Eco-Development and Partnerships at Huawei, as part of our Women in Fintech series. At Huawei, Børsum is responsible for...
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MoneyGram Makes Strategic Investment in Cryptocurrency Cash Exchange
Pre-digital P2P payments and remittance player MoneyGram made a strategic investment in cryptocurrency cash exchange company Coinme this week. The amount of MoneyGram’s strategic investment in Coinme...
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Starling to Launch Software-as-a-Service Offering
If you forecasted banking-as-a-service as one of the top trends in 2022, you can go ahead and put a check mark next to your prediction. That’s because U.K.-based digital bank Starling Bank announced...
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PayPal Plans to Launch its Own Stablecoin
PayPal has confirmed recent rumors regarding plans to launch its own stablecoin. According to Bloomberg, which broke the news last week, a developer found evidence of PayPal’s future stablecoin in the...
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Revenue Got You Down? Accenture Offers Four Keys to Get Out of the Slump.
As we survey the damage from the pandemic and its multiple variants, technology services and consulting firm Accenture has some advice, “It is critical that every bank becomes a challenger.” In a...
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Brex Raises $300 Million to Expand Product Portfolio
Credit card and cash management solutions company Brex closed a $300 million D-2 round today. The round, which values the company at $12.3 billion, was led by Greenoaks Capital and Technology...
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Tandem Bank Acquires Oplo
Founded in 2015, Tandem Bank used to be among the ranks of U.K. challenger banks Monzo and Starling. But Tandem Bank has remained relatively quiet for the past year-and-a-half– seemingly sidelined...
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iPhone Turns 15. Here are 5 Ways it Helped Reinvent Fintech
Apple’s iPhone celebrated its 15th birthday this week (if that doesn’t make you feel old, I don’t know what will). Since its launch, the iPhone has been through 33 different models and Apple’s market...
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TransUnion Brings Credit Data to Public Blockchain Networks
Consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion is moving in the direction of Web3. The Illinois-based company announced this week it will bring off-chain consumer credit, identity, and compliance...
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Mastercard Adds Two Partners to its Business Payments Service
Yesterday, Mastercard unveiled two new clients for its Mastercard Track Business Payment Service. The New York-based payments giant announced that BMO and Moneris Solutions Corporation have joined...
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Ford Inks 5-Year Deal with Stripe
Remember when Andreessen Horowitz’s Angela Strange said that every company will be a fintech company? Though there has been much debate over the now-infamous catchphrase, there is news this week from...
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