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Backbase raises its first funding 128M at a 26B valuation for tools that help banks with engagement

Orum raises 56M to help speed up interbank transfers

Ridehailing firm Grab launches new venture to back startups in Southeast Asia

Unique a Swiss AI platform for finance raises 30M

Airwallex raises 200M at a 4B valuation to double down on business banking

Reliance spinoff Jio Financial Services slides on market debut

Merging Airbnb and the traditional hotel model Mexico Citys Casai raises 23 million to grow in Latin America

Visas Africa strategy banks on startup partnerships

Europes antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager set for expanded role in next Commission

Fintech NovoPayment raises first venture round in 15 years to expand its fullstack banking API platform

B2B challenger bank Finom raises 7M Seed from Target Global and General Catalyst

Africa turns to mobile payments as a tool to curb COVID19

Wannabe social bank Kroo swerves VCs to raise a 245M Series A from HNWs

Tala grabs 145M to offer more financial services in emerging markets

Plaid expands financial service API to include all US banks

Yaydoo secures 20M aims to simplify B2B collections payments

Nordic neobank Lunar raises 77M at 2B valuation launches crypto trading platform and B2B payments

Grab launches new consumer financial services including microinvestments and loans

YouTrip a challenger bank in Southeast Asia raises 25M for expansion

Muslims come into the frame in Southeast Asias fintech boom

RiskRecons security assessment services for third party vendors raises 25 million

Privacycom rebrands to Lithic raises 43M for virtual payment cards

Sequoia Heritage Stripe and others invest 200M in African fintech Wave at 17B valuation

3 investors explain why earned wage access startups are set to cash more checks

Nigerias OnePipe raises 35M to double down on its embedded finance offering

CausaLens gets 45M for nocode technology that introduces cause and effect into AI decision making

TechCrunch roundup: Fintech investor survey datadriven fundraising VC scouting jobs

Chilebased Kredito raises 4M to help businesses get loans

Nowports raises 16M to build the OS for LatAms shipping industry

Indias Cashfree raises 55M from Koreas Smilegate Y Combinator and others

Who really benefits from digital development

Thought Machine closes 200M for its cloud native banking SaaS and becomes a unicorn

Nigerias Paga acquires Apposit confirms Mexico and Ethiopia expansion

Thought Machine nabs 83M for a cloudbased platform that powers banking services

AI as a blueprint for fintech startups

Investors show LatAm fintechs the money

Balancing risk: Modern architectures role in the BNPL playbook

Robinhood aims to court users by offering attractive 1 interest rate on cash

Remitly revenue climbs 69 to 121M in first earnings report as public company

Berlins Tilo raises seed round to tackle unstructured data sets with a serverless platform

Contentstack raises 575M for its headless content management system

FlexID gets Algorand funding to offer selfsovereign IDs to Africas unbanked

Guesty books 170M to double down on property management tools for Airbnb and other rental platforms

Vivid Money a financial super app raises 114M at an 886M valuation to expand in Europe

Are subscription services the future of fintech

Constrafor grabs 106M in equity credit to finance construction subcontractors

H2Oai raises 100M at a 16B premoney valuation for tools to make AI usable by any kind of enterprise

Zipline begins US medical delivery with UAV program honed in Africa

2019 looks to continue another lights out year for fintech startups

2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns