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This week we are looking into investors love for fintech companies operating in B2B, the correlation between banks and fintechs stock prices, the new smart payments ring by design star Philippe Starck, the Stripe expansion into the African continent, the Robinhood accounts hacked, and much much more.
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Fintech is lauded for improving consumer-finance, but investors are much more interested in startups serving banks and enterprises. Who are the top players?
When Stripe announced earlier this year that it had picked up another $600 million in funding, it said one big reason for the funding was to expand its API-based payments services into more geographies.
Bangalore-headquartered Razorpay, one of a handful of Indian fintech startups that has demonstrated accelerated growth in recent years, has joined the coveted unicorn club after raising $100 million in a new financing round, the payments processing startup said on Monday. The new financing round, a Series D, was co-led by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC […]
Canadian robo-advisory firm Wealthsimple has achieved Unicorn status on a CA$114 million investment round led by by TCV, along with Greylock, Meritech, Two Sigma Ventures and existing investor Allianz X
Trading app Robinhood said that a “limited number” of customer accounts were recently targeted by cyber criminals, though the service itself was not hacked.
Digital banking app Revolut is planning to apply for a bank charter with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and California’s Division of Financial Institutions within weeks, CNBC reported on Monday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.
A new fintech startup is hoping to solve two problems in one: convenient consumer payments and the global deforestation crisis. Ready for a wooden debit card?
Alessandro Ravanetti- Freelance content writer and copywriter. Working in the fintech industry since 2011, I built and managed digital companies with distributed teams and international partners, gaining experience with both startups and large corporations. I am an independent expert with the European Commission, FundingBox and the Eureka Network, and an advisory board member of SXSW. alessandro.ravanetti@startupdigestmail.com
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