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Egyptian investment app Thndr nabs 20M from Tiger Global Prosus Ventures and others

Amount raises 99M at a 1B valuation to help banks better compete with fintechs

A year after expanding to Europe Nigerian fintech Lidya raises 83M to scale lending operations

Helping banks refine sales pitches and customer service Minneapolisbased Total Expert raises 52 million

Privacycom rebrands to Lithic raises 43M for virtual payment cards

Financial comparison super app Jeff raises 15M seed extension

CowryWise microsavings service opens highyield government bonds to everyday Nigerians

Fintech app Portabl raises 25M to help consumers securely store financial data

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao talks regulation and platforms activities in Africa

Belvo LatAms answer to Plaid raises 43M to scale its API for financial services

Nigerias Kippa gets 32M preseed for its small business finance management app

Emerging markets lender Lendable seeks 100M to fund fintech companies

Motif and Goldman Sachs launch new cobranded indexes for better performing ETFs

Fintech and clean tech An odd couple or a perfect marriage

Digital bank Umba raises 15M plans to expand into three new African markets

Payment service Toss becomes Koreas newest unicorn after raising 80M

Southeast Asian fintech Fazz raises 100M Series C to serve businesses of all sizes

Biometrics security technology developer BioCatch raises 145 million

Nigerias Mono raises millions to power the internet economy in Africa

Brazils Olist gets its horn with new 186M funding round

Investors show LatAm fintechs the money

Philippines buy now pay later startup Plentina raises 22M seed round

YouTrip a challenger bank in Southeast Asia raises 255M for expansion

South Africas Yoco raises 16 million to boost digital services to small businesses

Visa and Kenyas Safaricom partner on MPesa payments and tech

Reliance spinoff Jio Financial Services makes muted market debut

How the law got it wrong with Apple Card

Indonesian insurtech startup PasarPolis gets 54 million Series B from investors including LeapFrog and SBI

Visa is acquiring Plaid for 53 billion 2x its final private valuation

Factor raises seed round to streamline an overlooked part of the supply chain

Lending startups are angling for new business from the COVID19 bailout

White label fintech platform Toqio secures 94M Seed led by Seaya and Speedinvest

South Africas Root gets 3M plans to expand lowcode insurance platform to Europe

Remitly launches Passbook a neobank aimed at immigrants to expand beyond money transfers

Brazils Positive Ventures closes on 10M fund for impact investing

Partnering with Visa emerging market lender Branch International raises 170 million

Hasura raises 25 million Series B and adds MySQL support to its GraphQL service

ExSquare execs launch Found to help the selfemployed raise 1275M from Sequoia

Quix raises 32M from Project A and others for its Stream centric approach to data

Fidelity Visa and Kingsway back South African fintech JUMO in 120M round

Robinhood almost imploded during the Gamestop meme stock chaos

Digital Garage teams up with Blockstream to develop blockchain financial services in Japan

FintechOS raises 14M to help banks launch products as fast as FinTech Startups

Moneytransfer startup Remitly launches Passbook a neobank aimed at immigrants

Vontive wants to be the Palantir of real estate investing

Paytm extends losses after quashing Jio Financial deal rumor

Nigerias Kwik gets 2M to add financial services to its lastmile delivery offerings

Lana has launched in Latin America to be the onestop shop for gig workers financial needs

Fintech platform Synapse raises 33M to build the AWS of banking

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