Key Fintech Developments News Today

Thesis adds $21M Series A round. GlobalX has filed for a Bitcoin ETF. Visa bought Currencycloud fintech. Tiicker closed on a pre-seed round. Barclaycard tackles B2B payments. Currency.com joins an association. Cambridge Savings eyeing fintech. Core Scientific to offer on Nasdaq. Analyzing - the first bitcoin country. Spendesk nabs $118M for its tech. Prodigal adds $12M to streamline. Watch Out For This: Professional traders with a retail background are few and far between. This is due in part ...

Co-founder matching platform live. Banks eye pressure amid recovery. Market Moving Headline: The drop wasn’t entirely uncalled for. Into the seasonally-aligned price rise led by the Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500, inflows decelerated and breadth weakened. At the same time, a measure of inflation – via the Consumer Price Index (CPI) – rose the largest since the Global Financial Crisis. In response, the 5s30s curve resumed its flattening and the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield ended little changed. Ke...

A farewell to open outcry trading. Taking leap into entrepreneurship. 3 tips for new VCs trying to close. Measuring bitcoin’s performance. Market Moving Headline: The powerful economic restart after the Covid-19 shock is playing out. We remain pro-risk as the restart broadens. The more consequential question: What lies beyond? This juncture could be as critical as the shift to the neoliberal consensus in the 1980s. The post-global financial crisis (GFC) playbook won’t work, in our view, as...

MX on WH and CFPB data effort. Visa crypto partnerships growing. Banks increase their tech spend. Bolt added a new funding round. Crypto, blockchain funding soars. Analysis: Top fintech pitch decks. Fintech marketing tips to bank on. Willa secures $18M in financing. Circle announces SPAC merger. Clearco secured $215M in round. Ex-NYSE exec eyes Bullish SPAC. The future of fintechs in SE Asia. Gusto plans to acquire Symmetry. Booking’s taking a shot at banks. Dorsey doubling down on crypto. Wa...

When could China rule the world? Croatian Rimac took over Bugatti. OPEC in crisis as infighting looms. SoftBank buys Yahoo trademark. Jeff Bezos handing over CEO role. Premium Elon Musk adds to Tesla. Industries to thrive on millennials. Market Moving Headline: Last week, U.S. stock index futures auctioned sideways to higher into Friday’s employment report. The release showed an addition of 850,000 jobs in June, the strongest employment gain since last summer. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 led t...

Spotlight turns to M&A for SPACs. Tiger Global to back fintech Yap. Mintable raises $13M in funding. Karat raises for creator finances. Northern Trust digitizes servicing. Calaxy secures $7.5M in funding. Robinhood details a crypto surge. Swarm launches regulated DeFi. BNP signed FIS tech agreement. Codat adds $40M funding round. Covario added METACO custody. SoftBank funds Mercado Bitcoin. Mastercard, FDIC eye inclusion. Charlie adds DirectPay to toolkit. dxFeed, Small Exch. add product. Rapyd...

Boeing 777X to not win certifications. The need to prepare for a new crisis. Wuhan lab scientist is speaking out. Tesla recalls nearly 300K China cars. Learn marketing from the successful. Market Moving Headline: Last week, U.S. equity index futures discovered higher prices alongside some positive economic and political developments. Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 established new all-time highs (ATHs). The Nasdaq 100, though, found responsive sellers at a zone of overlapping Fibonacci-derived ...

Deutsche, Fiserv have partnered up. The battle rising in European fintech. Toss secured $406M at $7.4B value. Rewards program for rent payments. TrueLayer launches verification API. Fifth Third acquires fintech Provide. TT adds Cboe trading functionalities. Fundbox added to board of directors. Tabby taps $50M financing to grow. Myos raises $30M Series A funding. Moneycorp unveils enhanced APIs. Zeller lands $50M AUD led by Spark. Tradefeedr adds FX trading database. Mollie secured $800M for pay...

ABN Amro building payments tech. Mourning deaths of trading floors. MicroStrategy to sell $1B for BTC. Finley raises for its fintech platform. Kikitrade wins added $12M round. Nubank’s $30B fintech origin story. BMO taps AWS over banking tech. Galaxy Digital, NfX funding Ramp. Marlin & Associates was acquired. GIC invested $70M into BC Group. Broadridge to execute repo trades. Stripe has launched Stripe Identity. AmEx hones in on small business. Watch Out For This: The Supreme Court has given...

Quote To Start The Day: "[C]ost-push inflation will be the primary driver of inflation through the remainder of this year and into next. The Fed is ...