Video: Top fintech stories this week – 19 February 2021
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
The $115 billion figure is more than threefold its $36 billion valuation.
Data analytics and customer engagement firm plans expansion with new funding.
Public.com – as on 1 February – decided to stop making profits from payment for order flows.
The fintech anticipates year-over-year growth of around 88%.
Featuring Fraction, BharatPe, Agibank, Monzo, and Coinsquare.
SoLo brought in $12m, which includes a $2.8m seed round and a series of convertible notes.
Nymbus is gearing up to launch “Nymbus Labs”.
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
We round up some of the funding rounds that may have slipped you by.
Currently, the start-up makes money on partial interchange fees.
Featuring Stash, Built, LeaseLock, Valon Mortgage, and Metromile.
Stash’s last valuation sits at around $812 million.
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
The start of February has seen a whole host of funding rounds around the world.
Allegations allege Robinhood succumbed to pressure from big-paying hedge fund clients.
Partners already include AFEX and MoneyCorp.
Featuring Albert’s $100 million Series C funding round and Crux Informatics’ $36 million convertible note.
Featuring Robinhood, Nubank, Melio Payments, Albert and Rhino.
Check says it already works with 100,000 small businesses in the US
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
Lending start-up plans extra growth after round led by QED Investors.
US-based insurtech believes the industry is set for “explosive growth”.
Two-year-old Fast has enjoyed exponential growth in the last year.
The Spac is eyeing up fintech, wealth management and gaming sectors.
US fintechs have enjoyed a wealth of VC interest since the Plaid-Visa deal hit headlines.
In 2020, Modern Treasury customers reconciled $1 billion using its platform.
It will double the engineering and product teams and expand the “self-service” element of the platform.
Featuring PPRO, iSTOX, Indy, Mercado Bitcoin, and Brigit.
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
Brigit’s CEO is a former Deutsche Bank and Infosys executive.
Featuring Checkout.com, MX, Blend, Creditas, and Enfusion.
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
Affirm managed to halve its losses by June 2020.
Lending firm plans to expand team and grow its products with the substantial raise.
Featuring Grab, Mynt, Divvy, Mambu, and SimpleNexus.
The IPO will value SoFi at $8.65 billion.
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
Cloud core banking vendor has raised over €150m since launch.
The round was led by Shopify and Checkout.com backer Insight Partners.