TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Long before the pandemic, the way in which banks were regulated was changing. Initiatives like Open Banking and the Revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) were being proposed as a way to promote competition in the banking industry — allowing smaller challenger firms to break into a market that has long been dominated by corporate titans.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

Boulevard Capital delivers fast funding to help salons, spas, barbershops, and medspas accelerate business growth LOS ANGELES – March 20, 2024 – Boulevard ( www.joinblvd.com ), provider of the client experience platform purpose-built for appointment-based, self-care businesses, today announced the launch of Boulevard Capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The fintech startup has slowly been evolving its offerings beyond its core product of account linking. Payments feels like a natural evolution of its business. Its end goal is to generally give consumers more choice when it comes to bank payments. Earlier this year, it moved into identity and income verification.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

That’s because they’re on the hook for interchange fees, or transaction fees a merchant’s bank must pay whenever a customer uses a card to make a purchase. to enable customers to make online payments using their bank accounts. Customers sign up with their bank account information and pay within the flow. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

As of late Thursday night and Friday morning, the fallout from the shutdown of Silicon Valley Bank in the US had reached the shores of the UK and Europe. Yesterday afternoon, the Bank of England sought a court order to place Silicon Valley Bank UK Limited — the UK arm of the US institution — into an insolvency procedure.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

Zepto , an Australian real-time account-to-account (A2A) merchant payments platform, said Monday it has raised a $25 million AUD Series A (about 18.8 The instant payment platform lets merchants make, manage and receive secure payments by connecting directly from the payer’s bank to a merchant’s bank. .

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

trillion exists, presenting an opportunity for overall economy With the United States experiencing a major demographic shift over the coming decades, the business community has a reason to focus on diversity, both on the consumer and provider sides. Midsize businesses are critical to the health of our economy and communities.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance and open banking are among the hottest topics in fintech today. Make opening a bank account, storing money, receiving a payment card and lending money as easy as opening a social network account. The promise?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

Engineers at Polymath Robotics were working late Wednesday night on multiple projects when co-founder and CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher noticed chatter about Silicon Valley Bank in a YC founder WhatsApp group. His attempt to move the last of the remaining funds early Friday morning — above the $250,000 that FDIC banks insure — is still pending.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

According to a 2019 report by Deloitte , about 80% of South Africans have a bank account but only 24% of them make more than three transactions monthly. Digital payments gateways, on the other hand , have a unique use case, particularly when they can help people use their basic bank accounts to make payments.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

The round was led by Japanese bank Mizuho Bank, a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group that contributed $125 million. Image Credtis: Kredivo Formerly known as FinAccel, Kredivo is the parent company of Kredivo and Krom Bank Indonesia, its new neobank.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The company has been working on an application programming interface (API) that facilitates bank-to-bank payments for European businesses. While European consumers are already quite familiar with open banking and payment initiation, a lot of B2B transfers are still processed manually.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Amit Jain, the former head of Uber’s Asia Pacific division, revealed his new venture, Zamp Finance , that aims to simplify the process for businesses to invest their excess capital in US Treasury bills to hedge against bank failures and other uncertainties. The platform serves businesses of all sizes, it said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo , an open banking platform that serves Latin America. Fintech companies are increasingly collaborating with traditional players like banks, payment agencies, insurance providers and stock exchanges. Ximena Aleman. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

American Express announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Nipendo , a company that aims to automate and streamline business-to-business (B2B) payments processes for global businesses that has raised a known $12 million in funding. In particular, I’m interested in whether banks can be opportunistic.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 7, 2022

Have you dreamed of starting a creative business? It‘s possible to build a business and a life you love out of your creativity that is both fulfilling and profitable. . Furthermore, your social media accounts do not belong to you. A separate bank account. Here’s how to get started. The good news?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Zayn VC leads the investment and contributions from Palm Drive Capital, Deem Ventures, Q Business, and angel investors. Register EduFi , a fintech startup headquartered in Singapore, has raised $6.1

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2024

Different accounting rules govern revenue & cost recognition. 1 FCFY is a metric that measures this : how much of a company’s revenue, after funneling through every cost imaginable, is left over in its bank account at the end of the year. Quite a stark difference. That’s my mental model for it, anyway.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Robyn Klingler-Vidra is associate dean of global engagement and associate professor in entrepreneurship and sustainability at King’s Business School. Entrepreneurs who set up a business in a new country encounter more challenges. Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe. Contributor. All three of us are immigrants to the U.K.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

We’ve all seen the statistics on how many businesses fail within the first few years of operation, and the current pandemic may accelerate that struggle for some startups. These businesses are making mistakes that not only hurt them during the current crisis, but may increase the chances that they will struggle in the years ahead.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Companies that offer banking as a service and help other businesses offer their own financial services and products in particular continue to rake in the dollars. Today, Dock operates 65 million active accounts through relationships with more than 300 clients. So the demand is there and we’re filling in that gap.”. “So

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

One startup is banking on the fact that businesses are eager to earn as much interest as possible on their cash. Mayfair is a new fintech startup that offers businesses up to 4.02% APY, a number it claims is among the highest out there. We’ve tied all that together,” said Mayfair co-founder and COO Munish Chopra. in interest.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

His startup is geared toward simplifying the decision-making process to help consumers and businesses understand sustainability and reduce their emissions, such as by making different purchasing decisions — and he points to a statistic that suggests around 88% of consumers in the U.S. want businesses to help them be more sustainable.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

fintech offering a business current account with built-in accounting features, has closed £9.1 It’s noteworthy that Countingup has previously taken investment from ING, and the addition of Sage as a backer is interesting since both could help the startup reach more business customers. Countingup , the U.K.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Challenger banks continue to see huge infusions of cash from investors bullish on the opportunity for smaller and faster-moving tech-based banking startups to woo customers from their larger rivals. The bank is already profitable. Challenger bank Starling is out raising a new £200M funding round. billion) post-money.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

By Sandeep Todi, Co-founder and Chief Business Officer at Truly Financial. Small businesses are only too familiar with the joylessness of dealing with traditional banks. According to a survey by BlueVine, less than 10% of small businesses feel that current banks meet their needs. Do you know why?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

The account receivables automation startup is out to change how businesses manage the debt owed to them by their customers through its SaaS product, which automates the processes of reconciling incoming payments and invoices, a labor-intensive process that is still predominantly manual for most local companies. origination fee.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Pakistan-based fintech platform, NayaPay , has raised $13 million in a seed round to rollout its multi-service messaging and payment app, and to build payment acceptance and financial management tools for businesses in the South Asian country. The youth and freelance communities in Pakistan are also majorly locked out by traditional banks.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Notable platforms included KB Kookmin Bank’s KB Star Banking, KB Securities’ M-able, and KB Kookmin Card’s KB Pay.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 13, 2023

As the situation is analyzed, lessons will be learned on everything from levered banking investment models and the impact of interest rate fluctuations on long term bonds to the allocation to cyrptocurrency investments. Look for future analysis of these points as more information becomes available. From the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Demand increased as more businesses went online during the COVID-19 pandemic and the startup says its user base tripled to 1.5 KoinWorks focuses on SMEs that are underserved by traditional financial institutions and may not have a bank account or credit cards. There’s still a lot of room for improvement”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The murder of George Floyd last May ignited many things in the United States last year — one of which that was perhaps unexpected: a rise in the number of digital banks targeting the Black community. Some members of the Black community took their belief that big banks are not meeting their needs and turned them into startup concepts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

TechCrunch spoke with Brex co-CEO and co-founder Henrique Dubugras, who confirmed that the company did in fact put its name in the hat for SVB but only for the early-stage and growth portfolios within its business. The idea actually came from a customer, he said, who thought Brex “could handle those customers better than big banks.”

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Ltd (NETS), the Association of Banks in Singapore, Payments Network Malaysia Sdn. In the next phase, MAS and BNM plan to expand the payment linkage to enable cross-border account-to-account fund transfers and remittances.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Malvern, Pennsylvania–based Savana, a company building financial software products for legacy banks, today announced that it raised $45 million. Prior to FIS, he launched Sanchez Computer Associates, a supplier of core banking systems. “Today’s consumers prefer digital-only banking. Image Credits: Savana.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 7, 2022

The last couple of years have accelerated the digital transformation of many businesses. As a specialist small business lender, we’ve seen our customers use their funds to invest heavily in technology – setting up e-commerce sites, implementing CRM systems, adopting cloud technologies and trialling digital marketing strategies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

If your service-based business is still collecting paper checks and only knows clients by their first name, Finli has an app for you. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, 9.9% businesses are small businesses. Finli is not alone in helping business owners manage their processes digitally.

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