Lydia adds stock and crypto trading to its payment app
French startup Lydia is entering a whole new category by adding trading to its financial super app later this year. The company is partnering with Bitpanda for this feature. Lydia…
Read More »In Amazon scuffle, Visa’s loss could be Affirm’s gain
Earlier this week, Amazon announced that it would stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in the U.K. due to high interchange fees on transactions. The company gave a deadline of…
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Sequoia, 120 angel investors back former Google execs’ consumer finance startup Arbo Works
A team of Google executives, many of whom worked with one another for years, left the company earlier this year to launch a startup. The fintech firm, Arbo Works, has…
Read More »Jiko announces partnership to launch a banking app for the transgender community
Jiko, a fintech startup that uses customer deposits to purchase short-term treasury bills, announced its first banking-as-a-service (BaaS) client today. It will partner with Euphoria, a technology suite for the…
Read More »South African payments gateway Ozow raises $48M Series B led by Tencent
According to a 2019 report by Deloitte, about 80% of South Africans have a bank account but only 24% of them make more than three transactions monthly. Unlike other African…
Read More »Defacto offers embedded credit products to small companies
Meet Defacto, a new French startup that wants to improve the credit infrastructure for small and medium companies. The startup wants to offer credit products using an API. It automatically…
Read More »Credit-focused company Upgrade raises $280 million at $6 billion valuation
Fintech company Upgrade has raised a Series F round just four months after raising its previous round. Today, the company is announcing $280 million in new funding at a $6…
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Justt comes out of stealth with $70M in funding to help online merchants fight false chargebacks with AI
Justt, a Tel Aviv-based chargeback mitigation startup, is emerging out of stealth today with $70 million in total funding. Founded in February 2020 by Roenen Ben-Ami and Ofir Tahor, Justt…
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Meet Imprint, the fintech that just raised $38M from the likes of Kleiner Perkins, Stripe and Affirm
Imprint, a one-year-old startup that offers branded payments and rewards products, today announced a $38 million Series A funding round co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Stripe. It’s not every day…
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Nomod raises $3.4M seed to allow merchants accept payments without hardware
Micro and small businesses in emerging markets still struggle to access digital payments for several reasons. One, most of them are excluded from various payment ecosystems globally due to their…
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