Another $150M fintech fundraise

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🔥The latest This Week in Fintech UK & Europe is out 🔥

Check out all the latest fintech news across UK & Europe including highlights below and more!

Can you guess the European city?

thisweekinfintech.com/ukeu290424/

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The speed at which some fintech's launch or expand is unbelievable.

Who do folks think is the🐐?

Ramp? @revolt? Klarna?

The Fintech Cruise last week was super fun. Thanks to everyone to braved Bangkok's traffic and weather to make it there.

The cruise was the perfect way to unwind after the conference last week.

See you again soon, Bangkok!

This Week in Fintech

“One day, we will just call them payments” - Nik

Flutterwave is prepping Africa's next fintech IPO (This Week in Fintech 4/28)

thisweekinfintech.com/twif-4-28-2/

An evergreen resource from Aaron Frank, Lachy Groom, cokie, @magoldman, Charlie Deutsch, walt, amanda peyton, Will White

notafintech.company

Pay-by-bank is the way for merchants to “talk” to the issuers (account servicers in this case) to increase authorization rates and decrease fraud. That’s the unlock, not the pricing 👇🏻

Ben Brown Fintech Takes Only one of those is venture backed, fwiw.

Terrible wedge product for VC as it takes 5-6 years and $75-$100M to validate the product works before you know the economics.

Hard to wedge into a market.

new @visa dashboard shows that Solana has significantly more stablecoin transactions than any other blockchain

Spot on Nik

Brazil's QI Tech becomes the country's next unicorn; Rippling hits $13.5B; introducing cascadingai

(@TWIFintech 4/27)

thisweekinfintech.com/casca/

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Friday it had seized the Philadelphia-based Republic First Bank, which did business as Republic Bank and had roughly $6 billion in assets and $4 billion in deposits as of Jan. 31. on.nbc10.com/7RSO0Ir

Philadelphia-based Republic Bank was closed late today by Pennsylvania bank regulators, which appointed the FDIC as receiver. To protect depositors, we entered into an agreement with Fulton Bank to assume substantially all deposits and assets of Republic.

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Will this be the year that pay-by-bank finally becomes a thing?

This Week in Fintech 4/26

thisweekinfintech.com/paybybank

After 6-year hiatus, Stripe to start taking crypto payments, starting with USDC stablecoin

techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/aft…

The Broker App-pocalypse Is Here

The pandemic was a wild time for brokerage businesses.

But today, many brokerages which were enticed by the allure of payment for order flow (PFOF) are seeing no sunlight.

From Noah Weidner in This Week in Fintech:

thisweekinfintech.com/the-broker-app…

🚀The latest from This Week in Fintech Policy Edition:
💼New #stablecoin bill by Senator Cynthia Lummis & Kirsten Gillibrand
🌎More challenges for Worldcoin #AI project
📱EU to greenlight Apple's NFC mobile #payments updates! thisweekinfintech.com/this-week-in-p… #fintech #regulation #policy