According to analysis by S&P U.S. fintech funding is on pace to beat last year’s performance, even with the pandemic...
Acorns Targets Babies With New Custodial Account Capital raises $9M for its AI-based ‘capital as a service’ funding platform for...
Stripe has garnered the top spot on CNBC’s 2020 Disruptor 50 list as the fintech has seen big success through...
Payments fintech Stripe announced three major upgrades to their payments platform to help users increase revenue, direct connectivity to major...
Stripe, the payments platform has raised $600 million which is an extension of their Series G round that closed last...
Last year SoftBank agreed to make a €900mn investment into Wirecard; as part of the deal they were going to...
WhatsApp launches payments in Brazil and is unceremoniously shut down by the central bank a week later, MasterCard buys Finicity to protect itself against Visa’s recent acquisition of Plaid, Checkout.com continues its largely silent meteoric rise in payments, Softbank-backed and DAX 30 index component Wirecard “loses" $2 billion from its balance sheet and files for insolvency, Upgrade raises $40 million at a $1 billion valuation to extend its personal credit offering.
A new report by 11:FS found that small businesses believe fintechs are doing a better job at meeting their needs;...
This week, we look at Betterment launching a bank account and payments feature. They are not the first, but they could be the best! Still, it feels like the world has moved on. Barriers to entry around digital finance have collapsed, and shifted industry goal posts. Hundreds of companies are integrating API-based solutions that connect to banking and investment entities. Amazon, Google, and Apple are there already. And let's not forget the incredible pressure from the COVID recession: 20MM+ unemployed, $100 billion decrease in global remittances, 1 in 8 banks being unprofitable. Is it time for incremental improvement, or a sea change?
Fast is a platform that makes the login and checkout process through online store easier; CEO of Fast Domm Holland...