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| Mar 11, 2024 | Banking as a Service: State of play | Data: Pitchbook; Chart: Axios Visuals
Banking as a Service provider Synctera raised an $18.6 million Series A extension in March, even as other players in the BaaS market struggle with layoffs and acquisitions.
Why it matters: Once a popula... |
| Mar 10, 2024 | Why does every startup want to help you get paid? | Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at the piping hot global payroll space, neobank Dave’s financial results and related stock boost, and more!
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most... |
| Mar 8, 2024 | Synctera Secures $18.6M for Global Expansion | Synctera, a key player in embedded banking and finance, has just announced an $18.6 million extension to its Series A funding round. Lightspeed and Fin Capital are leading the charge, with support from previous investors NAventures and Diag... |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Exclusive: Synctera raises $18.6M for international expansion | Banking as a Service provider Synctera raised an $18.6 million Series A extension led by existing backers Lightspeed and Fin Capital, the company tells Axios exclusively.
Why it matters: The funding news comes amid broader turmoil in the Ba... |
| Mar 3, 2024 | When startups fail, these startups clean up | Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! Apologies for being out last week — a cold got the best of me, but I’m back and here to talk about the fact that shutting down startups is big business, Stripe’s new valuation, Klarn... |
| Jan 7, 2024 | Early-stage fintech startups just got more funding sources | Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. We wish you and your families a very Happy New Year! If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head he... |
| Dec 3, 2023 | Fintechs go shopping | Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! We’re back and making up for lost time... |
| Oct 15, 2023 | Braid shuts down, Stash marches toward an IPO and what happens when a fintech relationship fizzles out | Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! We covered lots of happenings in the w... |
| Oct 13, 2023 | Amid breakup, Synapse, Evolve address allegations about how their relationship ended | Partnerships between organizations end all the time. Sometimes it’s amicable, and sometimes it’s complicated. In the instance of Synapse and Evolve, it was complicated.
Synapse operates a platform enabling banks and fintech companies to eas... |
| Sep 24, 2023 | Despite the ups and downs of the fintech space, people still really care about it | Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! Disrupt!
Last week, our team was at Te... |
| Jul 24, 2023 | Have We Considered That Maybe Elon Musk Just Hated Twitter & The People Who Use It All Along? | I wasn’t going to write about Elon changing Twitter’s name and branding to X, because… who cares? I’m not sure what the point is. But, a lot of people have been asking me my thoughts, and the more I was trying to parse it all out, the more ... |
| Jul 9, 2023 | Clair raises, Deel defends allegations and Mercury shares post-SVB growth figures | It was a short week and that was reflected in the amount of news we covered in fintech land last week. But there was still plenty to talk about, including Clair’s raise, some allegations against Deel and exclusive post-SVB growth numbers sh... |
| May 14, 2023 | Fintech startup Brex was among the bidders for SVB’s early-stage and growth portfolios | Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, we’ll... |
| Apr 10, 2023 | 27 fintechs that could be acquisition targets, and the firms that might buy them, according to VCs, investment bankers, and analysts | M&A among fintechs is set to ramp up this year. iStock; Tetra Images/Getty; Gueholl/Getty; Anthony Redpath/Getty; Savanna Durr/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Mar 1, 2023 | Varo, Stripe said to be raising new funds at much lower valuations | With the market turning so dramatically in 2022, it’s no surprise that many startups are now believed to be raising down rounds.
This week alone, it was reported that Varo was raising a $50 million equity round led by Warburg Pincus at a “s... |
| Oct 18, 2022 | These are the top 10 firms scooping up Goldman Sachs employees after they leave the bank | Goldman Sachs has dealt with tech turnover within its consumer division, Insider has previously reported. AP Photo/Richard Drew, File This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Jun 23, 2022 | Varo, The First Fintech To Receive A National Bank Charter, Now Facing Cash Crunch | When it secured a banking charter and raised a half-billion dollars last year, Varo promised growth ... [+] and profitability. But an abrupt fintech downturn and high spending have left it with no choice but to slam on the brakes. SOPA Imag... |
| Jun 20, 2022 | The End Of The Neobank Era | Neobanks may have won the first battle with incumbent banks, but a new wave of competition is coming ... [+] from the likes of Square, PayPal, and Apple. It’s hard to imagine that venture capitalists will fund a new round of neobank startup... |
| Jun 5, 2022 | Affirm and Klarna ramp up competing efforts to attract US consumers | Welcome to The Interchange, a take on this week’s fintech news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.
Buy now, pay later has become nearly ubiquitous here in the U.S. As such, companies that offer that technology to merchant... |
| Jun 4, 2022 | This Week in Apps: WWDC preview, hitting the Top Charts, Instagram’s AMBER Alerts | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer sp... |
| Apr 25, 2022 | The $7 Trillion Embedded Finance And BaaS Gold Rush | Like the gold rush of the 1860s, there's a gold rush going on today in the world of embedded finance ... [+] and banking as a service (BaaS). getty |
| Dec 6, 2021 | Wealthsimple sells UK book of business as FinTech giant focuses solely on Canada (for now?) | As Wealthsimple exits another international market, the Canadian FinTech giant has completed the transition begun earlier this year to focus solely on Canada.
Wealthsimple announced today that the company has sold its UK book of business to... |
| May 11, 2021 | Buy now, pay later changed retail. Health care and rent are next. | Last March, in the midst of a nationwide lockdown that left millions out of work, the residents of Wasatch Property Management’s apartment complexes were presented with a solution to the impending problem of rent. It came from a little cart... |
| Apr 30, 2021 | Behind OppFi’s approach to reaching the credit underserved | OppFi (formerly OppLoans), a Chicago-based loan servicer that partners with banks to offer small-dollar loans to credit-challenged customers, is at the center of a debate around how best to reach customers with low credit scores.
OppFi seek... |
| Aug 26, 2020 | 8 New Fintech Newsletters You Should Be Reading | Woman hand using smart phone on old wood tablegetty |
| Varo Bank may run out of funds by year’s end—and additional funding may not be an option | The news: Varo Bank risks running out of funds before the end of the year, according to a regulatory filing, per Banking Dive.
Funding and burn rate: Varo was the first US neobank to obtain a banking charter from the Office of the Comptroll... |
| Varo Bank may run out of funds by year's end—and additional funding may not be an option | Varo Bank risks running out of money as it struggles to turn a profit.
As the first neobank granted a banking charter by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Varo has a competitive advantage in the US neobank space.
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| Fintech nightmare: ‘I have nearly $38,000 tied up’ after Synapse bankruptcy | A dispute between a fintech startup and its banking partners has ensnared potentially millions of Americans, leaving them without access to their money for nearly two weeks, according to recent court documents.
Synapse serves as a middle ma... |
| Inside Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon's struggles to right his Marcus consumer banking unit | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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