Fintech

We have seen this stat so many times. If you add up all the community banks and credit unions in the United States their scale would make them a top-five bank. Sure, but that really doesn’t make much sense because all these community institutions are separate companies.

This week the news was dominated by the President’s Executive Order on digital assets. The crypto industry breathed a collective sigh of relief as it was mainly positive news. We also had more news out of Russia, Better.com laying off half their staff, Marqeta announcing 2021 earnings and more.

Ahead of our NextGen Nordics conference on 27 April 2022, we will be putting together a weekly briefing of all the top stories that are emerging out of the region and setting the blueprint for payments innovation across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

As the Latin American startup scene has matured, founders and executives of multibillion-dollar companies in the region have started to move on to new ventures. On Wednesday, TechCrunch reported on Mara, a São Paulo-based startup that aims to “reinvent” the grocery shopping experience for the underserved in Latin America, and its $6 million raise. One...