Sabi will be operating through a partnership with Vumele in the new Johannesburg office location to enable and empower South Africa’s...

Dubai based platform for buying fractions of rental properties raised $8m in Series A funding led by BY Ventures.

Kenya based SME embedded finance platform raised $6m in Series A equity led by Women’s World Banking.

Singapore based real estate transaction platform raised $12m in Series A funding led by Vertex Ventures.

Estonia based crypto options trading platform raised $50m in new funding led by Gem Digital Limited.

India based digital lending company raised $110m in new funding led by TPG's Rise Fund and Norwest Venture Partners.

Nigeria based banking-as-a-service platform raised $1m in pre-Seed funding led by Byld Ventures.

Nigeria based international bank account provider for African freelancers raised $2m in Seed funding led by YC.

Singapore based blockchain cross-border payments company raised $50m in Series B funding led by LDA Capital.

Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation's new fiber network went online this week, making it the first open-access 100-gig network...

FedNow should launch in 2023 between May and July, which is the most specific the Fed has been yet about when the service will go live....

NextCapital’s platform will become part of Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Multi-Asset Solutions (MAS) business, and the company’s team...

Nearly two-thirds of Wall Street professionals and individual investors surveyed believe meme stocks — and the volatility that comes with...

The accelerator, which will be run in eight-week cohorts, is geared toward individual founders and small teams, developers working on...

Willa aims to serve the 60 million people in the US that do freelance work, a group Aron says is underserved when it comes to booking...

London based NFT and DAO infrastructure firm raised $2.5m Seed funding led by Borderless Capital.

Australia based buy-to-earn startup raised A$4.5m in Seed funding led by Vectr Fintech Partners.

Senator Dick Durbin is poised to introduce legislation that would take another swipe at credit card giants Visa and Mastercard by...

Gen Z Americans have grown up sharing their lives on social media and see no reason to stop just because they’ve entered the corporate...

Revenue derived from cryptocurrency-related crime is down by 65% in the first half of 2022 compared to the corresponding period in 2021,...

This week, the largest digital bank in the region announced it had expanded its customer base sixfold in the country over the past year,...

Fintech and regtech outfit Computer Services Inc is set to go private after agreeing to be bought by investment firms Centerbridge...

For more than a year, the firm’s consumer-banking arm has strained to ready online checking accounts that will let users set up direct...

This week, Freeman sold his more than 6% stake in the retailer, which operates cavernous stores stuffed with household goods and gadgets,...

Last year, five US professors opened two brokerage accounts and placed identical orders to test an algorithm. The next day, one was down...

Talking to the WSJ, Mr. Bankman-Fried says his ultimate goal is to bring crypto to the masses. He wants to make FTX a household name and...

Wall Street’s biggest banks have largely avoided investing directly in cryptocurrencies. But many are quietly working to integrate...

Andreessen Horowitz is betting on crypto to break up the excessive concentration of Big Tech power that the firm played a prominent role...

From the ETH Foundation Blog: Following years of hard work, Ethereum’s proof-of-stake upgrade is finally here! The successful upgrade of...

New York based web3 startup focused on credit risk assessment raised $23m in growth funding led by General Catalyst and Social Capital.

Pakistan based wealth management startup raised $2m in growth funding led by Vostok Emerging Finance.

San Jose based compensation and benefits strategy startup raised $4m in Seed funding led by Accel.

United Kingdom based micro-investing startup raised a £4m in Series A funding led by Fuel Ventures. 

Dallas based startup focused on digital banking tools for credit unions raised $5m in growth funding led by ATX Venture Partners.

San Francisco based crypto infrastructure startup focused on DAOs raised $6m in Seed funding led by Galaxy Ventures, Digital Currency...

Dallas based payroll lending startup raised $13m in Series A funding led by Jump Capital, Costanoa Ventures and Foundation Capital. 

Singapore based payments company raised $13m in Series A funding led by Jump Crypto.

New York based artificial intelligence platform for the financial services industry raised $16m in Series C extension led by Fidelity and...

Fintech companies, which have different business models and funding structures, are taking steps to strengthen their funding, including...

FTC portfolio company Pemo has added physical and virtual Visa payment cards to its all-in-one spend management solution - and with...

Many of Wall Street’s biggest banks are nearing agreements to pay as much as $200m each and admit that their employees’ use of personal...

Tether and its peers accounted for 2 percent of the market for Treasury bills as of May, according to research from JPMorgan, more than...

The crypto exchange’s revenue soared more than 1,000% from $89m to $1.02b in 2021. Its profitability, like many start-ups, depends on how...

A terrific long form write up by the NewYork on two Andover graduates who ran a Singapore-based crypto hedge fund called Three Arrows...

The banks have just hired a new CEO to run it with a “network background”. This is likely a new consortium. This CEO will be tasked with...

A new proposal for regulating credit cards could shake up the payments industry with the new proposal focusing on credit cards and is...

Dubai based neobank for Gen Z users raised $3m in seed funding led by Goodwater Capital.

New York based provider of treasury and liquidity management software for the alt assets and investment management markets raised $14m in...

Saudi Arabia based BNPL startup raised $100m in a Series B funding led by Sanabil Investments.

Lagos based B2B e-commerce platform raised $5m in growth equity led by Timon Capital.

San Francisco based payments and financing construction startup raised $50m in Seed funding led by Chicago Ventures.

Charge volumes on virtual cards are expected to grow from $1.9 trillion to $6.8 trillion by 2026 with 71% of that volume getting...

The U.S. sanctioning of prominent cryptocurrency platform Tornado Cash exposed technical gaps in the government’s ability to prevent...

An anonymous troll is sending celebrities Ethereum from a Tornado Cash wallet—presumably as a way to demonstrate how difficult it will be...

Global investors who bought private shares ahead of its suspended initial public offering ,including Boston-based Fidelity Investments,...

Promissory notes have been around for millennia, enabling transactions to be competed in lieu of cash by letting sellers get paid based...

Mexican digital banking platform Covalto is planning to go public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger, a move that...

Silvergate, Signature and Customers Bancorp gobbled up deposits from crypto companies shunned by bigger banks. Now, they are dealing with...

Though customer trading remains the bulk of Robinhood’s revenue, the upswing in interest rates is helping show some progress on what the...

The Fed issued final guidelines this week for its 12 regional branches to use when evaluating applications for so-called master accounts...

Galaxy Digital is to press on with a planned listing on Nasdaq even as it called off plans to buy crypto custody platform BitGo for...

The FT explores that despite Solomon ploughing billions of dollars into businesses such as consumer banking, asset management and...

Genesis Global Trading is laying off 20% of its 260-person workforce weeks after court filings revealed that the crypto brokerage firm...

The percentage of iPhones with Apple Pay activated was 10% in 2016 and 20% in 2017. Adoption nearly doubled again in 2018. It hit 50% by...

Financial markets are a complex set of interlinked systems. Decentralized finance (DeFI) markets are even more complex: they move faster,...

New York based NFT trading platform raised $20m in Series A funding led by Paradigm.

Argentina based payments and subscription management startup raised $3.6m in Seed funding led by Tiger Global.

New York based neobank focused on small e-commerce brands raised $7m in Seed funding led by FirstMark and Mayfield.

New York based real estate investment management platform raised $20m in Series A funding led by Insight Partners.

India based micro saving app raised $22.6m in Series B funding led by Tiger Global. 

Jake Freeman, an applied mathematics and economics major at the University of Southern California, acquired nearly 5m shares in Bed Bath...

Austin based real estate transaction platform raised $4m in Seed funding led by LiveOak Venture Partners.

Boston based insurtech raised $4.2m in Seed funding led by Brand Foundry Ventures.

Seoul based equity management platform raised $11m in Series A funding led by Elefund. 

San Francisco based international money transfer company raised $20m in Seed funding led by Founders Fund and A* Capital. 

UK based fintech company founded by Funding Circle's founder raised £22.5m in new funding led by Accel.

After taking over as CEO of the bank, Solomon’s mission was to develop new income streams and “drive more durable revenue,” in the...

eToro, an Israel-based stock and crypto-trading platform, has agreed to acquire Gatsby, a Robinhood competitor, for $50m in cash and...

FTC Head of Community Parker Jay-Pachirat talks about building community as a panelist during DAO NYC '22 - check out the full recording...

Congratulations to portfolio company Vestwell for being ranked number 435 on Inc. Magazine's annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious...

IMMO, the tech-driven residential investment platform revolutionising renting, selling and investing in single-family rental (SFR)...

The bank’s new trading platform is called Mynt and will enable users to have direct access to bitcoin, placing it among the first leading...

The authorization will let the firm, which was valued at $33b in a recent funding round, offer crypto services to its 17m customers in...

Affirm has struck a partnership with BigCommerce, making it the preferred BNPL option on the e-commerce platform’s merchant checkout...

UK based provider of embedded banking solutions for small and medium businesses raised $4.8m in new funding led by Praetura Ventures.

San Francisco based SaaS startup focused bank raised $20m in Series A funding led by Left Lane.

San Francisco based startup with a payment system designed for truckers raised $75m in Series B funding led by Elad Gil and General...

SMB lender Lendflow announced a partnership with data analysis platform Ocrolus to quickly determine borrowers’ viability and provide...

Congratulations to portfolio company Ocrolus, which was recently named by Forbes as one of the country's 25 venture-backed startups most...

Flow, as Neumann’s new startup is called, will own and operate thousands of apartment rental units, marketing the housing to renters as a...

Nigeria based bookkeeping startup raised $5.5m in Seed funding led by TLcom Capital. 

UK based digital pensions platform raised $8.5m in Series A funding led by Bridford Group.

San Diego based fintech solutions provider raised $30m in new funding led by Castle Creek Capital.

Brazil based open finance API and data aggregation company raised $15m in Series A funding led by GSR Ventures. 

According to Galaxy Digital, Bitgo had failed to produce audited 2021 financial statements in a timely manner. Galaxy Digital, therefore,...

The United Nation’s Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD, has released three policy briefs on the dangers of cryptocurrency in...

China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot testing continues to onboard new use cases for the digital yuan. The country has now...

With another innovative RTP Network solution, U.S. Bank can now provide loan funds to auto dealers instantly after the loan contract is...

New York based blockchain analytics company raised $19m in Series A funding led by BECO Capital.

Arlington based Solana infrastructure startup raised $10m in Series A funding led by Multicoin Capital.

Canada based real estate brokerage tech startup raised C$36m in new funding led by Parker89.

Mastercard is facing pushback from retailers over a new product that allows customers to pay off their purchases in installments. The...

Authorities in Israel recently put in place further restrictions on cash payments as a means to combat illegal activity and spur digital...

Blackstone is gearing up to make its first major push into lending to startups and technology companies joining a corner of the debt...

The wide adoption of fintech has benefited many people in Asia, especially among the region’s large unbanked populations. But rapid tech...

Big-name money managers are stampeding into digital assets, finding new ways to monetise investor interest even as trading volumes and...

Decentralization leaves authorities without target for enforcement; ‘difficult, if not impossible, to shut down’

Called the Merge, the software upgrade has been in the works for years, and it will change the way Ethereum orders transactions to become...

The president of the Central Bank, Roberto Campos Neto, will meet with the president of the central bank of Colombia, Leonardo Villar, so...

Seattle based rental management software startup raised $2m in new funding led by 1984 Ventures.

San Francisco based blockchain payments startup raised $7m in a Seed funding led by Archetype.

Denmark based accountant marketplace raised €35m in growth funding led by CIBC Innovation Banking.

New York based wealth management startup raised $15m in Series A funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners.

San Francisco based embedded finance startup raised $30m in new funding led by The General Partnership.

MoneyLion released Q2 earnings this week, raising full year 2022 adjusted revenue guidance and reaffirming breakeven adjusted EBITDA...

The trust will be available to US-based institutional clients and will be BlackRock's first product that offers direct exposure to the...

“FinTech has become so critical to daily life that most U.S. consumers (69%) would consider switching institutions if their primary...

The convictions are the capstone of a seven-year Justice Department campaign to punish a style of deceptive trading in futures markets...

Nigeria based operator of a business payments and banking platform raised over $50m in new funding led by QED.

Seattle based zero-knowledge proof crypto startup raised a $12m Seed funding led by Bain Capital Crypto.

Berlin based startup DeFi wallet raised €12.5m in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Nebraska based decentralized media management system for NFTs raised $18m in Series A funding led by Greylock.

Las Vegas based blockchain infrastructure firm raised $22.5m in Seed funding led by Ayon Capital.

New York based layer-1 blockchain focused on DeFi and finance applications raised $40m in new funding led by Jump Crypto.

San Francisco based income verification startup raised $50m in Series C funding led by G Squared.

Los Angeles based salon focused booking and payments company raised $70m in Series C funding led by Point72 Private Investments.

Indonesia based digital wallet provider raised $250m in growth funding led by Sinar Mas.

Octane achieved record-breaking success in 2022 and delivered consistently strong performance. Between January and June 2022, Octane...

This acquisition will enhance Jack Henry’s payments-as-a-service (PaaS) strategy by adding the Payrailz consumer and commercial bill pay,...

London based equity capital marketplace raised £1.7m in new funding led by Frontline Ventures.

London based NFT minting platform raised $4.5m in Seed funding led by Eden Block.

New York City based life insurance brokerage for advisors raised $15m in Seed funding led by Thrive Capital.

India based wealth management startup raised $21m in Series A funding led by Accel.

The pandemic brought a shift toward digital payments, but now it seems more and more consumers are turning back to cold hard cash to help...

U.K. based digital pensions provider raised £7m in Series A funding led by Bridford Group.

London based crypto-based institutional asset manager raised £2.8m in Seed funding led by Draper Associates.

San Francisco based payments processor for grocers to accept SNAP EBT online raised $22m in Series A funding led by Nyca Partners.

In an all-cash deal expected to close in the second half of 2022, Vista will acquire all outstanding Avalara shares for $93.50 per share....

Mexico City based real estate broker focused on Latin America raised $10m in Series A funding led by Founders Fund.

Boston based digital investment platform focused on closing the racial wealth gap raised $3.5m in Seed funding led by Michael Gordon...

California based bitcoin-native banking software startup raised $4m in Seed funding led by Hivemind Ventures.

India based rewards points-based payment solutions start-up raised $12m in Series A funding led by Rakuten Capital.