In South Korea, there are about 7.3 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) — defined as firms with less than 250 employees. Their workforces combined …
Railsr, the fintech formerly known as Railsbank, raises $46M
Embedded banking has been on a growth tear in the last several years as companies turned to APIs to embed financial services like credit, payments and …
South African startup Talk360’s seed funding hits $7M after new backing
Months after the initial close of its seed round, Talk360, a South African Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) startup, has raised an additional $3 million, …
Despite the venture slowdown, fintech startups are still hiring
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Why build a fintech any more when you can just raise €20M and white-label it to banks?
Financial institutions have struggled to develop their own technologies, hence the rise of neo-banks which used Open Banking regulations to build their own fintech stacks. …
Inside the human cost of Better.com’s brutal layoffs
Digital mortgage lender Better.com continues to lay off staff, and seemingly in as callous a way as possible. Indeed, whereas most companies try to avoid …
This new app is helping Gen Z invest in cars, food, video games and other ‘themes’
Michael Haddix Jr. is a former college basketball player who was pre-med until he discovered investing after finishing his undergrad studies. After being exposed to …
Iliad launches its own payments processing platform Stancer
Iliad, the telecom company owned by French billionaire and startup investor Xavier Niel, is launching a payment subsidiary called Stancer. The team has focused on …
Regate modernizes accounting and financial tools
French startup Regate has raised a $20 million Series A funding round (€20 million) led by Valar Ventures. The company has built a modern software-as-a-service …
Insurtech goes niche
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