After a tumultuous year, banking-as-a-service (BaaS) startup Synapse has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and its assets will be acquired by TabaPay, according to the two companies. The […]
Equities platform Midas raises $45M Series A as fintech retains its sparkle in Turkey
Midas, a fintech startup that allows people in Turkey to invest in U.S. and Turkish equities, says it has raised $45 million in a funding round led by […]
Finmid raises $24.7M to help SMBs access loans through platforms like Wolt
Berlin-based finmid — one of the many startups building embedded fintech solutions, in its case targeting marketplaces that want to provide their own payment and financing options — […]
What African B2B e-commerce startups can learn from OmniRetail’s profitable run
Save for fintech and cleantech, B2B e-commerce and retail was the leading destination for venture capital dollars over the last five years. The premise of digitizing the continent’s […]
‘Banking as a Service’ startup Griffin riases $24M and attains full banking licence
Founded by former Silicon Valley engineers, UK-based Griffin Bank bills itself as an API-driven ‘Banking as a Service’ platform. After raising $28.1 million, it has now raised another […]
Pomelo stacks $40M to scale its payments infra business in LatAm
Argentinian payments infrastructure startup Pomelo has raised $40 million in a Series B round of funding. The Buenos Aires-based company started in 2021 with the goal of giving fintechs […]
3 ways the right payments partner can elevate your business
J.P. Morgan Payments is preparing merchants for a lucrative future.
It’s critical to regulate AI within the multi-trillion-dollar API economy
Alex Akimov Contributor With two decades of tech leadership experience, Alex Akimov, former head of API at Adyen, now revolutionizes embedded finance at Monite by building best-in-class APIs […]
Swan secures $40 million to bring embedded banking to Europe
For the past few years, everybody working in fintech has been talking about embedded finance. It’s supposed to be the next revolution in financial services — bringing financial services […]