Arturo Villanueva spent over four years on Stripe’s financial partnerships team. During that time, he led partnerships with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and regional banks across …
CertifID, which develops products to prevent wire fraud, raises $20M
CertifID, a startup developing fraud prevention tech for the real estate market, today announced that it raised $20 million in a funding round led by …
Finding business opportunity in startup failure
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Fintech faces its reckoning: It’s only a matter of time until the house of cards collapses
The fintech business models that wooed consumers look increasingly tenuous. It’s only a matter of time until the house of cards collapses.
Square says it has resolved daylong outage
Fintech giant Square says its services are coming back online after a daylong outage left small business owners unable to process payments. The Block-owned company …
Firstcard raises seed funding to help college students build better credit
Kenji Niwa, an immigrant entrepreneur, experienced the challenges of getting financial products, including a credit card, without a credit history when he moved to the …
Inside Rent Butter: Why credit scores shouldn’t tell the whole story
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. As we head into a long …
All that fintech investment had a real impact on banking penetration in Latin America
When a group of startups works on a similar set of problems, they frequently bring about massive shifts in how day-to-day life is lived.