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For the first time in motorsports history, four of its seven over-the-wall pit crew members will be women. De Silvestro's two spotters...
For the first time in motorsports history, four of its seven over-the-wall pit crew members will be women. De Silvestro's two spotters...
Congratulations to portfolio company Centrifuge on their successful public token sale with the potential to bring trillions in new assets...
The pace of finance talent moving into crypto jobs has picked up sharply, according to recruiters and industry insiders. Coinbase this...
Criminals are locked in battle with forensics firms tracking how "Treasure Men", privacy wallets, and gift cards are used to turn virtual...
Germans who give their hard-earned euros to banks attached to fintechs are being perfectly prudent. They are often doing so in return for...
In the Gulf, BNPL companies present themselves as an alternative to cash on delivery, the most common payment method for online purchases...
The pandemic has caused online retail to step into the spotlight and become a necessity for many brands. Online retail sales as a...
Netherlands based AI-powered payment fraud detection system has raised $3.3m in Seed funding led by BiG Start Ventures and BYND Venture...
Portfolio company Balancer is on a mission to become the leading source of programmable liquidity for DeFi, adding $24m to its arsenal...
Agreement will bring access to digital banking services and automated direct deposits to millions of multi-generational immigrants, many...
Square is quietly preparing to offer checking and savings accounts to those customers, taking direct aim at behemoths such as JPM....
ACI Worldwide announced a collaboration with J.P. Morgan that will enable merchants in certain European countries to deliver in-store...
Goldman Sachs is the first financial service player to sign up to a new Green Software Foundation founded by Microsoft, Accenture, GitHub...
Portfolio company Extend was selected and certified for Visa’s new fintech program - Visa Fintech Partner Connect, designed to help...
New York-based provider of e-commerce fraud prevention solutions raised $300 million in Series F funding led by Tiger Global.
Forter today focuses mainly on identifying fraud at the point of transaction and building an AI-based platform that “learns” more...…
Sao Paulo based real estate marketplace focused on rentals and sales raised $300m in Series E funding led by Ribbit Capital.
“Whether you are looking to buy or to rent, QuintoAndar can support customers through the entire transaction process: from browsing...…
Fintech remains the top sector post-COVID, attracting record amounts of capital. Brazil and Mexico remain Latin America's key fintech...
The company, which recently closed a deal valuing it at $40b, came under fire after users complained they were being accidentally logged...
From newly financially included users to new fintechs and services seeking financial institution licenses, the pandemic led to...
Coinbase Global Inc is facing competition from a new breed of upstarts that look less like the New York Stock Exchange and more like...
Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said a cryptocurrency backed by the central bank could provide a variety of benefits. Getting...
U.S. Treasury Deputy Secretary Adeyemo said he expects strong backing from G7 peers for Washington's proposed 15%-plus global minimum...
Latin America’s lending fintechs are looking to add new services and functions for clients, as competition in the vertical increases.
Latin America’s lending fintechs are offering additional financial products in a bid to stand out in a market that is increasingly...…
Colorado based payment facilitation startup raised $11m in Series A funding led by Canvas Ventures.
“Once they transitioned, their options weren’t exciting and the limitation was that the technology left a lot to be desired,” Avery...…
San Francisco based conversational commerce platform raised $50m in Series C funding led by B Capital Group.
“COVID fast-forwarded us into the future and with it the need for conversational commerce increased significantly,” he said. “It went...…
Italy based provider of e-commerce APIs raised $16m in Series B funding led by Coatue.
“eCommerce has become core to our everyday lives. As a result, big brands and enterprises need better ways to shift from retail and build...…
Ireland based financing platform for e-commerce merchants raised $76m in Series A funding led by Left Lane Capital.
“There’s a lot more opportunity for companies like ourselves to differentiate because essentially, we focus on the merchants. And when we...…
France based cashflow management platform raised $100m in Series B funding at a $500m valuation led by Greenoaks.
“This Series B comes at a key moment in our development,” co-founder and CEO Sébastien Beyet said in a statement. “It demonstrates our...…
San Francisco based provider of point-of-sale payment solutions raised $125m in Series D funding at a $1.75b valuation led by Andreesen...
Boston based Amazon marketplace rollup platform raised $775m in Series A funding led by SoftBank Vision. Fund 2.
“We are building the next-generation consumer products company,” said Chris Bell, founder and CEO of Perch, echoing the objectives...…
Indonesia based crypto exchange raised $6m in Series A funding led by Pantera, Intudo and Coinbase Ventures.
“For most Indonesians, the concept of investing and trading is new, because historically penetration in these categories have been so...…
Chicago based payment platform for gamers raised $3.5m in Seed funding led by 4490 Ventures.
“Ultimately, our goal is to encourage people to pursue their passion of gaming and use that to touch every aspect of their lives, online...…
UK based mobile payments platform raised $125m in Series B funding at a $700m valuation led by One Peak.
Indeed, Paysend points out that there is still a lot of growing and evolution left to do. Citing McKinsey research, it notes that some...…
San Francisco based digital mortgage closing platform raised $150m in Series D funding at a $1.5b valuation led by Tiger Global.
“Closings require tight coordination between many parties in a fragmented ecosystem, all of whom have their own systems and processes,”...…
Chicago based insurance platform for property investors raised $10.7m in Series A funding led by Battery Ventures.
“Historically, we’ve been an agency-based business but we are in the process of putting together our own product that is slated to roll...…
San Francisco based financial and corporate research platform raised $20m in Series B funding led by Ten Coves Capital.
“With the incredible adoption of the Sentieo platform, it is clear we are experiencing a massive shift in how financial and corporate...…
India based banking software startup raised $250m in Series D funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2.
“Banks are still stuck in the ’80s. Many of them still use COBOL programming language. They offer poor user experience,” said Turakhia in...…
To further the INDYCAR’s “Race for Equality and Change” initiative announced last year, and in honor of International Women’s Day,...
Congrats to portfolio companies Flutterwave and Plaid on being included in CNBC 's Disruptor50 list of private, venture-backed companies...
Los Angeles based life insurance sales automation platform raised $4m in Seed funding led by Foundation Capital.
“We are unique in the sense we are not going direct-to-consumer, but rather to the broker and agent,” said founder and CEO Nelson Lee....…
The BAL announced a multi-year partnership with Flutterwave that makes the payments technology company its associate partner. The...
San Francisco based banking and tax platform for the self-employed raised $12.8m in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital.
New York based developer of virtual debit cards raised $43m in Series B funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
According to CEO and co-founder Bo Jiang. “We set out to create the safest and fastest way to pay online. Our mobile app and web...…
San Francisco based consumer lending and blockchain platform raised $200m at a $3.2b post-money valuation co-led by 10T Holdings and...
Ireland based corporate gifting platform raised $7.2m co-led by First Round Capital and LocalGlobe.
Gifting can be powerful. According to one study the company cites, customers who feel emotionally connected to a brand have been shown to...…
Germany based trading app raised $900m in Series C funding at a $5b valuation led by Sequoia Capital.
“It’s our ambition to be present across the entire Eurozone in the next four months,” he said in an interview with TechCrunch. That might...…
San Francisco based provider of cashflow management solutions raised $15m in Series A funding led by Kleiner Perkins.
“These companies suffer from the problem where there are these huge cash flow gaps from buying inventory, waiting to receive it and then...…
London based payroll automation startup raised $15.6m in Series A funding led by General Catalyst.
Pento co-founder and CEO Jonas Bøgh Larsen told me: “The biggest process we’re replacing is payroll outsourcing where companies are...…
Singapore based cross-border payments network for emerging markets raised $60m in Series B funding led by Insight Partners.
Thunes wants to bring transparency to cross-border payments by telling users how much it will cost upfront, be able to move the money...…
New York based investment portfolio management platform raised $65m in Series C funding led by Ribbit Capital.
The premise behind Vise is to use tech to empower humans, “as opposed to replacing them” by automating an industry that’s very old. The...…
Miami based B2B financing platform for SaaS companies raised $100m in venture funding at a $2b valuation led by Greenspring Associates.
The startup has been operating with a lean and mean strategy and has a current headcount of 34. Pipe plans to use its latest capital in...…
New York employees and contractors wage access platform raised $175m led by Carrick Capital.
More than half, or nearly 56%, of the U.S. wage and salary workers in 2020 were paid hourly, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said in...…
San Francisco based B2B API integrations platform raised $4.5m in Seed funding led by NEA.
“What we built is more similar to Plaid than MuleSoft or other things,” Feig said. “We built a unified API, so we’re fully embedded in a...…
California based online car insurance brokerage raised $28m in Series B funding led by Goodwater Capital.
For some context, Jerry sold a few million dollars of insurance in 2019, according to Agrawal. This year, he said, the company is on...…
New York based alternative assets platform for retail investors raised $30m in Series B funding led by Accel.
Rally founder Rob Petrozzo said, “We’ve always had a focus on the assets that matter most to our investors and the assets that have the...…
UK based cryptocurrency custody firm raised $50m in Series B funding co-led by Dawn Capital and Target Global. Dawn Capital and
San Francisco based provider of extended warranty plans raised $260m in Series C funding on a $1.6B valuation led by Softbank Vision Fund 2
“Same day delivery, buy-now-pay-later, and other tools: we are now all part of that core e-commerce toolset,” Levin said in an interview....…
India based merchant payment and commerce platform for Southeast Asia raised $285m in venture funding Baron Capital Group, Duro Capital,...
The European Commission's main agency for supporting innovation, the EIC, funds or subsidies more than 5000 firms. Caixa Bank's Payments...
Last month, Biden also signed an executive order lifting the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $15 in early 2022 from the...
FTC investor Carlos Alonso Torras was featured in the session, alongside portfolio company minu's co-founder and CEO - Nima Pourshasb -...
Portfolio company MoneyLion's CEO - Dee Choubey - was featured in an interview by American Banker, where he shared his views on...
The impact of the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic has delayed economic recovery in Southeast Asia, as Thailand became the fourth in six major...
That has allowed New Zealand to spend “large sums of money” on helping its low-income population while still keeping its net debt in...
At least four leading rating agencies have trimmed their GDP growth forecasts for India for the financial year ending March 2022.
These agencies had initially estimated double-digit growth for the Indian economy due to a low base and revival of business activities...…
With some two dozen African heads of state and financial institutions attending, the agenda of the gathering is to provide assistance for...
Fed officials at their April meeting said “it might be appropriate at some point” to consider tapering asset purchases if the economy...
A big Indonesian tech-stock listing is in the works for later in the year, this time for a brand-new company called GoTo Group. Unveiled...
The rapid growth of Chile’s fintech ecosystem has driven interest in promoting the country as a Latin American hub for financial...
The three entities published a note Tuesday confirming bans originally implemented in 2013 and 2017 that bar financial and payment...
Europe’s most valuable startup, Klarna Bank AB, said its decision on whether to move ahead with a blockbuster listing in London hinges on...
The new head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency warned that some banks are taking undue risks and signaled a more...
Italy's SIA has launched a dedicated connection channel to major payments networks for banks running applications hosted by top cloud...
"As with cash transactions, businesses that receive crypto assets with a fair-market value of more than $10,000 would also be reported...
The European Central Bank has warned that the charges levied by banks for instant payments are proving a barrier to uptake and "must...
Egypt based consumer digital bank raised $5m in pre-Seed financing led by Sequoia.
“I was fond of the idea, and it was coming from a huge pain of payments we had in Egypt and the region. And for me, I was kind of like...…
Fintech startups are launching green pension products. But can they actually get people to engage with the important — but boring — issue...
Portfolio company Antler's Tyler Norwood (US partner) is featured in Futurized, speaking about seed VC trends. He is interviewed by host...
The collaboration, powered by NFP’s InsurChoice program, enables MoneyLion members to shop for and buy insurance products and solutions...
The three entities will test an instantaneous cross border payment solution, which will include the use of digital currencies. It will...
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin donated $1 billion worth of shiba inu coin — a dogecoin spinoff — to a Covid-19 relief fund in India....
Sao Paulo based financing platform offering LatAm businesses access to growth capital raised $3.6m in equity funding led by Better...
Almost half of current life insurance and annuity owners already hold digital assets, like bitcoin. They want their insurer to catch up....
Toronto based digital banking platform for small businesses raised $19.4m in equity funding led by Bain Capital Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to increase customer acquisition, grow the engineering and product teams, and further integrate its...…
From January to March 2021, Polish mobile payment system BLIK users performed over 153m transactions worth PLN 20b. At the end of the...
Over the past week, official data have shown April job creation falling far short of economists’ forecasts, evidence of a shortage of...
These new offerings complement instant loans up to N500,000, free bill pay, airtime top-ups, and other existing services found within the...
Adyen is looking to combat climate change at the checkout, giving merchants the ability to offer shoppers the opportunity to offset the...
The company has partnered with Western Union and Wise, both of which have integrated their services into Google Pay. The company is...
Digital creators used the blockchain to create a whole new art scene. Then their work started selling for thousands — sometimes millions...
Former PayPal CEO and serial fintech entrepreneur Bill Harris has moved to Miami to launch Nirvana, a global digital bank. Harris was...
Argentina based fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America raised $9m in Seed funding led by Index Ventures and monashees.
“We know from previous experiences…that building a fintech, and particularly issuing cards, in Latin America is a real nightmare,” said...…
New York based data platform for commercial insurance raised $20m in equtiy funding led by 3L and Greenfield Partners.
Planck’s database, which includes online images, text, videos, reviews and public records, allows it to give insurance providers...…
San Francisco based back-office platform for the self-employed raised $20m in Series A funding led by General Catalyst
He added: “Before Collective, consultants, freelancers, and other solo founders had to string together their back-office solution using...…
Financing big-ticket purchases through “buy now, pay later” is gaining ground internationally. In Latin America, the credit model faces a...
Kaszek, whose main office is in São Paulo, pictured above, is seeking $400 million for an early-stage fund and $400 million for a growth...
Tesla has “suspended vehicle purchases using bitcoin,” out of concern over “rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for bitcoin mining,”...
California based software platform for corporate invoice management raised $50m in Series C financing led by Insight Partners.
“There are all these payment providers that monetize on the payments themselves,” said Feldman. “We provide payments as a service to our...…
San Francisco based financial tool-kit for app and gaming publishers raised $3.5m in Seed financing co-led by Index Ventures and Initial...
Colombia based payroll and tax manager for international teams raised $4.5m in Seed funding led by Point 72 Ventures.
“We were born in the middle of the pandemic when remote work was exploding and evolving in ways where emerging countries become clusters...…
San Francisco based banking-as-a-service startup raised $20m in Series B financing co-led by Deciens Capital and QED investors.
As is increasingly common among insider-led fundraises in recent years, the startup in question was not in dire need of new funding...…
Singapore based software provider for corporate finance and treasury raised $16m in equity funding led by Point72 Ventures.
“We are at a critical point of growth for our firm. We’ve secured an extensive list of global bank partners and this investment will help...…
Denmark based contract automation platform raised $30m in Series B financing led by Tiger Global.
“We allow companies to automate all the mundane manual tasks related to those contracts — whether you want to auto-generate contracts...…
Hong Kong based crypto asset management and lending platform raised $40m in Series A funding led by Tiger Global.
Mainstream investors are jumping into the crypto scene partly because many see bitcoin as a way to hedge against “solvency and...…
New York based mobile banking solution for freelancers raised $55m in Series B funding led by Group 11.
Lili aims to be “an accountant within your hands,” Bar David says, and especially within the hands of those who identify as...…
Brazil based payments platform raised $190m in Series B funding led by Coatue.
“We are democratizing the payments industry in Brazil, by empowering entrepreneurs through technological, inclusive and life-changing...…
San Francisco based consumer debt management platform raised $11m in funding led by QED Investors.
“If you are just doing it directly you are not going to get traction, but if you build it into existing channels, such as banks, grocery...…
John Dalby, CFO of Bridgewater Associates, is joining the NYDIG team, bringing more than two decades of experience in capital markets,...
Cuy Sheffield, head of Crypto at Visa, and Shivani Siroya, founder and CEO of Tala, said a new partnership between the two firms is aimed...
The digital wallet from Brazilian ride-hailing app 99, owned by the Chinese giant Didi Chuxing since 2018, when the app became the first...
Facebook’s messaging app, used daily by millions of Brazilians, will turn the dynamics of the country’s retail payments industry on its...
The group is the latest banking giant to consider pushing into the new markets according to Itay Tuchman, its global head of...
The development won’t surprise anyone familiar with U.S. banking laws. No outfit can represent itself as a bank or credit union unless...
It's every founder's worst nightmare: You take money from a venture capitalist, who then uses what he learns from due diligence and board...
Bill.com, a leading provider of cloud-based software that simplifies, digitizes, and automates complex back-office financial operations...
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is trading at more than $421,000 per Class A share, and the market is optimistic. That’s a problem. The price has...
The jump from one speculative asset to another is indicative of the broader frenzy that has driven up prices for a range of assets...
After stints at Salomon Brothers and Lehman Brothers, Swensen returned to his alma mater in 1985 to lead its investment office. At the...
San Francisco based insurance fraud detection company raised $220m in Series D funding led by Advent International.
“The entire Shift team has worked tirelessly to build this company and provide insurers with the technology solutions they need to...…
New York based payments company raised $22m in Series C funding led by Invictus Growth Partners.
“Boost’s unique positioning in the industry and the vast addressable market in B2B payments has led to tremendous growth that we expect...…
Boston based blockchain-based protocol for questions and answers raised $7.5m in Series A funding led by Framework Ventures, CoinFund and...
San Francisco based NFT enablement platform raised $19m in Series A funding led by a16z.
Bitski is aiming to allow mainstream brands and celebrities to bypass the crypto complexity of early marketplaces, hoping to give...…
In the past few years, new financial products and delivery mechanisms have been introduced that work with traditional banking services....
PayPal President and CEO Dan Schulman’s interest of late has been in telling the tale of the connected economy and PayPal’s role in it as...
PWB will now be the first bank to roll out such a simplified solution for payments processing in a white-labeled app available through...
An Accenture survey of 400 North American financial-services executives found that almost 80% prefer for workers to spend four to five...
Andrew is the special guest this week on the Leaders in Payments podcast. Andrew spent the first 10 years of his career at SAP and then...
Huge congratulations to portfolio company Avise on this Forbes feature article announcing the company coming out of stealth! Today...
The deal coincides with a surge in interest and a nearly yearlong rally in the crypto sector whose market value has surged to $2t. The...
Bitcoin may be taking another step toward mainstream adoption - for the first time, customers of some U.S. banks will soon be able to...
UK based insurance claims settlement startup raised £8m in Series A funding led by Octopus Ventures.
Niels Thoné, CEO of Sprout.ai, said in a statement: “Sprout.ai’s mission is to revolutionize customer service within global claims...…
Brazil based neobank raised $5.5m in Series A funding led by Union Square Ventures.
“Most fintechs just help wealthy people get wealthier, so I thought let’s do something with a social mission,” Liebmann told TechCrunch...…
Jamie Dimon is no fan of the new remote work structure that has taken hold during the coronavirus pandemic. The JPMorgan Chase chairman...
Mexico City based cryptocurrency platform raised $250m in Series C funding led by Tiger Global and Coatue.
“We’ve seen incredible growth in Mexico and Argentina, and we just launched in Brazil last week,” Vogel told Crunchbase News. “It took us...…
San Francisco based client communication and financial management platform for service-based SMBs and freelancers raised $155m in Series...
San Francisco based platform that helps companies protect, verify and manage customer identities raised $50m in Series B funding led by...
Less than five months after vaulting to a $1.6b valuation, Divvy, an expense reporting startup for small businesses, is in talks to be...
San Francisco based automated security and verified compliance platform raised $50m in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital.
“We’re at a crucial turning point as an industry: software is a huge part of our lives, but we trust software companies less than ever...…
Banks, which are among the largest employers in New York, have been eager to bring workers back into the office, concerned that an...
Through the partnership, Worldpay will leverage off Flutterwave’s technology to process domestic payments, starting with Nigeria and...
London based decentralized digital asset management infrastructure company raised $11m in Seed funding from G1 , Gumi Cryptos, Maven 11,...
San Francisco based lending startup raised $30m in Series B funding led by True Ventures.
“Our goal is to stop focusing on selling low interest rates — which is what everybody else in the industry does — and focus on what the...…
Boston based payments firm Flywire made its paperwork for a U.S. listing public and revealed a 38% surge in revenue in the latest quarter...
eBay CEO Jamie Iannone told CNBC that he is optimistic about the future for his company, including with the potential for the eCommerce...
The big benefit of TikTok is that it allows users to dole out and obtain information in short, easily digestible video bites. And that...
The Montevideo, Uruguay based company is working with banks including JPMorgan Chase on a listing that could occur as soon as this year,...
When its customers buy and sell stocks and options, Robinhood routes those orders to high-speed traders, which pay the startup brokerage...
Rush hour traffic is back. Noise complaints are picking up. And it’s once again difficult to score a reservation at your favorite brunch...
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has acquired skew, a U.K-based data analytics firm for cryptocurrency markets, allowing the exchange to...
Canada based robo-advisor raised $610m in new funding led by Meritech Capital Partners and Greylock.
With this funding, Wealthsimple plans to “expand its market position, build out its product suite, and grow its team.” The company also...…
Indonesia based robo-advisor app raised $65m in growth funding led by Sequoia Capital India.
In press statement, Sequoia Capital India vice president Rohit Agarwal said, “Indonesian mutual fund customers have grown almost 10x in...…
More than 30 of Europe’s largest banks and credit card processors are trying to create a payments giant capable of shattering a...
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