Less than six months after raising $8 million in seed funding, Chilean proptech startup Houm has raised $35 million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Goodwater Capital. Fifth Wall also participated in the financing, along with existing backers OneVC, Elad Gil, Liu Jang and new investors Fen Ventures, Broadhaven...
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Volt has expanded operations to Brazil to make way for real-time payments, currency export and foreign exchange to the Central Bank of Brazil.
The platform is aimed at first-time investors; among the cryptocurrencies already available are Bitcoin, Ethereum, and BRZ
Fintech savings app Digit will launch a neobank product in early December, offering a full-fledged banking app and paid subscription service to access saving products.
Credit card-led fintech Stori announced Thursday its had closed a $125 million over-subscribed Series C round co-led by GGV Capital and growth-stage
It’s mobile-centric, meaning they see credit cards living on mobile devices as pieces of code that can be delivered quickly to their customers. It operates from the cloud, allowing for scalability and removing the need for building new databases or buying new servers or hardware.
In a letter to the agency’s new director, top Senate Democrats recommended policy steps intended to limit mistakes in consumers’ credit files that they said “can ruin lives.”
The bank also aims to put $50 billion by 2030 toward financing customers and projects that have a positive environmental impact. It said it is establishing a framework to more clearly track that figure.