ICYMI funding round-up: Exabel, ClearGlass, Cheese, Flowcast & more
Plenty of funding rounds may have slipped you by this week.
FinTech
Women in fintech: Clipped wings, part-time stigma & ignorant assumptions
Women highlight gender bias in the financial services workplace.
M1 Finance completes $75m Series D funding round
Chicagoan “super app” gains new funding just months after last round.
London fintech WorldRemit mulls taking $1.5bn Spac listing to US
Refinitiv data shows Spac mergers have surged to a record $170 billion this year.
Sontiq acquires Breach Clarity to deploy analysis tech
BreachIQ to be integrated with Sontiq’s existing product suite.
What are the odds…
Are the successful fintech entrepreneurs singing to themselves, “the odds are that we will probably be alright”?
MoneyGram and Ripple end partnership deal two years early
The two firms wind down their deal amid regulatory issues.
Women in fintech: “Aggressive” feedback, revealing audits and dress up comments
Women in fintech share their experiences of gender bias.
PayPal buys Israeli crypto wallet Curv for its new blockchain unit
PayPal expects the acquisition to close in the first half of 2021.
Banking Tech Awards 2020 Winners: Strands – Best Open Banking Solution
Opening up banking and account aggregation services.
Why do women still think they need to be palatable?
Lack of attention to certain stories inflicts grave damage on how marginalised people tell theirs.
Minu raises $14m to provide on-demand salary payments in Mexico
Minu has raised $20 million since 2019, and plans an expansion in its home country.
Looking after the health of your ATM fleet in a futuristic way
Setting a new standard for banking self-service solution performance.
Why fintech needs more mentors
Mentorship, in its many forms, is a powerful force.
Fintech funding deals globally 1-7 March 2021
Featuring Klarna, Papaya Global, TaxBit, Beam Technologies, and Xendit.
Women in fintech: Skewed numbers, vain assumptions, and investor bias
FinTech Futures has gathered insights from women across the global fintech industry.
Creating communities on International Women’s Day
Stephanie Clarke, SVP at Broadridge, shares her insights on IWD.
Why factoring industry needs fintechs
Fintechs are to factoring companies what bars are to high jumpers.
Webinar: Balancing app innovation and cybersecurity in financial services
25 March: Practical steps needed to implement an evolved enterprise app methodology.
What the Fintech? | S.2 Episode 6 | Open banking on the loose
Discussing all things open banking with Pablo Reyes, director of technology at Strands.
Square buys majority stake in Tidal for $297m as Jay Z joins board
Tidal is the latest in a few sales Jay Z has made in recent weeks.
Codat secures investment from Amex and PayPal
Codat gains big backers as it gears up for US launch.
Diversity & Inclusion Roundtable: How fintechs can go from words to action
Charitable D&I initiative Fintech Finishers joined forces with Captec, Revolut, Mouro Capital and Divido.
Understanding employee experience will give banks a leg up
It makes intuitive sense that happy employees lead to happy customers.
Wipro signs off on $1.45bn acquisition of Capco
Indian IT giant wants to grow in Europe and Asia.
FinTech Futures Industry Survey & Report 2021
A deep-dive into the trends defining 2021 and beyond, based on a comprehensive survey of the industry.
Trulioo hires new CTO in OpenText’s Hal Lonas
Lonas joins to spearhead the firm’s product development.
Stori raises $32.5m in Series B funding
The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Why the BNPL sector is growing like crazy
There is plenty of room for experiments in BNPL, and many customer segments are yet to be addressed.
Girl boss
Representation matters, for all of us. Represent what is possible, but above all, what is desirable.
Dear Luc: Your most pressing fintech problems solved
In Dear Luc, we answer the questions the industry’s fintech founders are too embarrassed to ask.
Square finally launches bank after filing first application in 2017
Previously, Jack Dorsey’s fintech partnered with Celtic Bank for banking products.
Crypto.com signs first-of-its-kind F1 sponsorship deal with Aston Martin
Aston Martin wants to be at the “forefront” of the crypto boom.
It’s a matter of comms | Episode 2 | Strategy
The corporate comms strategy is the spine that would hold start-ups accountable to their investors.
Goldman’s consumer head Omer Ismail leaves for Walmart’s fintech venture
Ismail architected the firm’s move into consumer digital banking.
What makes a successful data partnership?
How to make data monetisation measures an important part of your business strategy.
Regtech: watching personal mobile devices in financial services, but why?
The best policy is one which works. Soft policies, by their very nature, do not work as intended.
Fintech funding deals globally 22-28 February 2021
Featuring Chargebee, Tyme, TypTap Insurance, Anchorage, and Earnix.
Robinhood pushes on with IPO plans despite facing 49 GameStop lawsuits
Robinhood has held talks with underwriters about filing “within weeks”.
Brex raising at $8bn valuation following banking licence application
Tiger Global Management is reportedly backing the round.
