Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Over the past decade, however, the country has quietly become the third-largest fintech hub in Latin America (trailing only Brazil and Mexico), home to nearly 300 fintech companies. In particular, several government actions have expanded fintech’s capabilities in Colombia in recent years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Disrupt will have six industry tracks , each with its own stage, including AI , fintech , hardware , SaaS , security and sustainability. On the Fintech Stage we will have some of the biggest industry players discussing some of the hottest topics in the industry. Come join us !

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Register At the Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) on November 16, 2023. Our financial technology solutions are designed to address the specific needs of our extensive and long-tail customer base,” said Hao Jiang, Vice President of MYbank, at the bank’s showcase during this year’s Singapore Fintech Festival.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Register The Southeast Asian fintech startup has been a dynamic landscape, with countries like China, India, Singapore, and Indonesia emerging as fintech hubs, each with unique strengths and focus areas. Besides, governments across Asia actively work on fintech regulations to balance innovation and consumer protection.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 8, 2024

Japanese fintech leader SmartPay has secured $7 million in a pre-Series A funding round, oversubscribed and led by SMBC Venture Capital. Smartpay, one of the leading fintech startups in […] Smartpay, one of the leading fintech startups in […]

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. billion last year — would join the long list of fintech giants letting go of workers. Weekly News.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann Now hiring Hello, hello! It’s great to see more women in leadership roles in the fintech community.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. On a high level, it’s no surprise that funding flowing into fintech startups was down both globally and in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The global downturn has impacted every sector, but fintech bore the brunt of it as public-market valuations fell off a cliff last year. CB Insights recently found that two of the largest global VC firms, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, actually backed more fintech companies in 2022 than any other category.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Welcome to my new weekly fintech focused column. This week, I wrote about a couple of instances in which fintech companies went horizontal with their approach. Women in Fintech. It feels like we are seeing an increasing number of fintech startups led by females and I’m very much here for it. sign up here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

In this week’s edition of The Interchange, we touch on the resilience of BaaS in a sometimes messy fintech space, earnings highlights, and much more. We are particularly excited this year because we have our very own Fintech Stage ! Christine Earnings A number of fintech companies released earnings in recent weeks.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests predominantly in fintech, consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 looks to continue another lights-out year for fintech startups. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. Based on that categorization, the fintech space ranked third behind food and transportation, respectively.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 23, 2024

Business analytics platform CB Insights released their State of Fintech 2023 Report which indicates the fintech sector experienced a greater downturn than the broader venture capital market—which reported that Q4’23 was “the harshest quarter for global VC in 6 years”. Globally, fintech funding was down 50% year over year to $39.2

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 4, 2024

Indonesian fintech startup Wagely has secured $23 million in funding. Wagely, known for its earned wage access […] The post Indonesian Fintech Wagely Secures $23M Funding to Expand Financial Wellness Solutions first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

For nearly all fintech startups, lending has long been the end game. Fintechs typically partner with banks to issue cards and then tie up with non-banking financial institutions or use their own NBFC unit to offer credit lines to consumers. “What the RBI is essentially saying here is don’t load credit line on PPI.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Singaporean fintech enabler Fluid has successfully raised $5.2 This latest investment follows […] The post Singaporean Fintech Enabler FLUID Raises $5.2M million in Series A funding, spearheaded by Insignia Ventures Partners. The funding aims to strengthen Fluid’s business-to-business purchase financing solutions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

On paper, this looks like a slam-dunk scenario for the burgeoning industry of new nimble fintech providers. It’s not – unless those fintechs can learn some lessons from established firms about customer onboarding. Effective onboarding is fintech’s Achilles’ heel. Effective onboarding is fintech’s Achilles’ heel.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. As our fellow fintech enthusiast Alex Johnson pointed out , there was one name that stood out on that list for being “not like the others”: fintech startup Brex. But far less common are fintechs dedicated to serving older members of our society.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Southeast Asia is already home to a thriving fintech scene, where Grab , GoTo and Sea have built super apps that encompass financial services, and startups like Xendit , Akulaku and Dana (to name a few) have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for payments, banking services and other financial tools. Indonesia emerged as the best choice.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

based fintechs already offering debit cards to children and/or teens, including Greenlight , Step and Current. As the IPO market has dried up, many industry observers had predicted that the fintech space would see more consolidation. Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here. We’d love to hear from you.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Solid , which rebranded from Wise in 2021, raised a $63 million Series B round of funding to continue providing its fintech-as-a-service offering for companies wanting to launch and scale their own fintech products. 8 fintech VCs discuss the shifting investing landscape and how to pitch them in Q3 2022.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Jenkins said that being a hybrid company, toeing the line between edtech and fintech, did help with closing investors. “ Every company is a fintech company ” is a common adage, but in today’s environment, the reasoning behind that shift may be more around survival and savviness than serendipity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. Wow, I take off one week and come back to all hell breaking loose in the fintech world. Weekly News.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

It’s not news that times have changed in the world of fintech. Instead, pain around the fintech sphere is varied and multifactorial. The gist, as you can work out from the above, is that fintech was the hottest thing around last year, a fact that may now turn into a venture capital and startup headache.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 21, 2023

Register Indian fintech platform PhonePe has raised an additional $200 million in investments from Walmart, bringing the company closer to its $1 billion target fundraise in capital. The fintech firm plans to make announcements accordingly.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

India’s Decentro , the Y Combinator-backed startup that helps companies enter the fintech market by deploying its APIs, has raised $4.7 “Whenever a fintech startup or a company wants to launch a new product in the market, it takes them a minimum of a few months to launch. million in a Series A round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2022

As venture capital grew around the world , tracking the fintech market was a fine way to understand the general health of the VC world; when venture was getting bigger, so too was fintech fundraising. So it is not a huge surprise that fintech had a big part to play in the venture boom that is now behind us. focused viewpoint.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. This will now be offered to 22 fintech companies across Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Many big companies in the fintech world cut jobs in the past month. Well, according to Spiros Margaris , a fintech venture capitalist and founder of Margaris Ventures, the current layoffs by some of these larger fintech companies were “caused by the challenging geopolitical market environment and inflationary pressures.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Register Indonesian fintech lending platform Investree has secured a substantial €220 million (approximately $230.8 Qatar’s JTA International Holdings spearheaded the funding round and saw participation from established investor SBI Holding, further underlining Investree’s prominence in fintech.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann Last week, I dug into CB Insights’ State of Fintech 2022 report.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Weekly News.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

They are responsible for communication between banks and fintechs to settle transactions for consumers and businesses swiftly. An alternative payment network with connected wallets allowing a mobile money user to transact with a bank account would fix this problem, and that’s the premise of Ghana-based fintech Dash.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Over the past several years, the field of fintech infrastructure has exploded with venture capital investment and entrepreneurial attention.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Global fintech funding totaled $15 billion in the first quarter of this year, growing 55% from the fourth quarter, according to CB Insights’ latest State of Fintech report. First, 2020 and 2021 were unique years where investment in fintech broke records. By comparison, fintech funding amounted to $75.2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Lee Li is a project manager and B2B copywriter with a decade of experience in the Chinese fintech startup space as a PM for TaoBao, MeitTuan and DouYin (now TikTok). With open banking on the horizon, the fintech-SME love story is just beginning. This is hardly surprising given that Asia leads the world in fintech adoption rates.

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