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Every day the Fintech Nexus News team writes original stories from around the world, and we archive them chronologically on this category landing page.

Fintech

·Apr. 14, 2023

How the SVB collapse helps DeFi

The Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse will improve financial system health if it moves systems towards decentralized finance (DeFi). That pulls them away from the single points of failure that caused the most damage over the past few weeks, Paystand CEO Jeremy Almond said.

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Fintech

·Apr. 12, 2022

Step to add stock, crypto investing for teens

Co-Founders CJ MacDonald and Alexey Kalinichenko launched Step to offer teens financial tools. They plan to add stock and crypto investing.

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Fintech Nexus Newsletter

·Nov. 22, 2023

Fintech Nexus Newsletter (November 22, 2023): CZ Out as Binance Chief, Pleads Guilty

The OpenAI story was eclipsed yesterday by monumental news in the world of crypto. The world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, has agreed to pay $4.3 billion in fines to the U.S. government for violating anti-money-laundering requirements.

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LatAm

·Oct. 4, 2022

RappiPay obtained $112 million to expand financial inclusion in Colombia

RappiPay announced it has obtained financing for $112 million in credit to increase its service offering and consolidate the RappiCard.

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Popular

·Sep. 30, 2025

Renton’s Take: Major Shifts for Small Business Lending?

Tariff headwinds are causing a headache for many businesses with sprawling supply chains and large importers, yet small businesses continue...

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Fintech Nexus Newsletter

·May. 1, 2024

Fintech Nexus Newsletter (May 1, 2024): Binance founder CZ gets four months in prison

Back in the go-go days of 2021 the two biggest names in crypto were known just by their initials: SBF (Sam Bankman-Fried) and CZ (Changpeng Zhao). They often took to Twitter arguing with each other about where the market was going and whether certain tokens were overvalued. But there were no bigger names than SBF and CZ. They controlled the biggest crypto exchanges, outside of Coinbase: FTX and Binance.

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