Antitrust investigators are scrutinizing financial incentives Visa gave to Square, Stripe and PayPal.
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John has been in communications since graduating from Creative Communications at Red River College Polytechnic in Winnipeg in 1992. He launched one of Canada's first digital-only local news sites called Winnipeg First in 2007, which led to digital editor postings with the Winnipeg Free Press and Edmonton Journal. In 2012 he joined Bankless Times as managing editor, later becoming president and CEO. He and the Bankless Media co-founders completed a sale and exit in August 2021.
On episode 24 I talk with Carl-Alain Memnon of Grain. Grain is the Digital Credit Card for Everyone, they provide a line of credit based on your cash flow, not your credit score.
Updraft intends to lend £200 million in 2022 to help reduce high-interest borrowings for UK consumers and improve their finances.
Yokoy, the all-in-one global spend management platform, has announced that it raised $26M (approx €22.4M) funding in a Series A round.
Similar to how fintech is scaling vertical SaaS, the pandemic-fueled disaggregation of healthcare has created new players that are taking a page out of the fintech revolution book.
Sweden’s credentials in sustainability and Stockholm’s vibrant fintech ecosystem are converging into a flourishing green fintech market where players are gaining traction and starting to expand globally.
Groww has tripled its valuation to $3 billion in just six months as the Indian fintech startup looks to broaden its offerings and help more millennials start their investment journey in the world’s second largest internet market. Iconiq Growth led the Bangalore-based startup’s $251 million Series E financing round. Alkeon, Lone Pine Capital and Steadfast...
Accelerated Payments has topped €500 million worth of invoice financing as it celebrates its fourth anniversary, according to a note from the Fintech. The company also noted that it has expanded its UK office to support the increasing number of businesses that are grappling with supply
Singaporean embedded finance company Nium has launched in the US and extended its range of Banking-as-a-Service products to include cryptocurrency buying.
With small businesses responsible for almost half of the carbon emissions generated from business and industry, a group of financial