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Alibababacked facial recognition startup Megvii raises 750 million

TrueLayer nabs 130M at a 1B valuation as open banking rises as a viable option to card networks

Tribal Credit which provides credit cards to startups in emerging markets raises 343M

Fintech Kasheesh wants financially strained customers to say bye to BNPL

Ant Group buys Singapores 2C2P to further global payments ambitions

Balance raises 25M in a Ribbit Capitalled Series A to grow its consumerlike B2B checkout platform

PayU doubles down on LatAm fintech acquires Ding and leads 46M investment in superapp Treinta in Colombia

All the reasons why you should launch a credit or debit card

Affirms CTO talks transparency and the tech that makes BNPL possible

SoftBank Sequoia China back this ERP startup enabling Chinas online exporters

Stitch gets a 2M seed extension hires Benjamin Dada to lead Nigerian expansion

Messenger adds Venmolike QR codes for persontoperson payments in the US

In the buy now pay later wars PayPal is primed for dominance

Namibian B2B ecommerce retail platform JABU raises 15M led by Tiger Global

Fresh round of 355M lifts online checkout company Bolt into decacorn territory

Banked raises 20M Series A led by Bank of America and Edenred for US expansion

Flutterwave and Alipay partner on payments between Africa and China

SumUp raises 624M at 85B valuation with its payments and business tech now used by 4M SMBs

WeChat ewallet teams up with Line to target Japans 7M Chinese tourists

WhenThens nocode payments platform attracts 6M from European VCs Stride and Cavalry

MFS Africa raises additional equity and debt capital to take its Series C to 200M

Stitch raises 21M for its API infrastructure and embedded finance platform

India unseats China as Asias top fintech funding source

Equity podcast: More funding for scooters Cruise gets a boost and Chinese IPOs

Lydia the French payments app with 8 million users launches mobile banking app Sumeria

Looking to emulate Venmo JoomPay preps a Euro launch for easy bill splitting and cash payments

Blocks Cash App adopts Lightning Network for free bitcoin payments

Whats a fintech even worth these days

MFS Africa acquires GTP for 34M as it looks to issue prepaid cards to its clients

African fintech Flutterwave triples valuation to over 3B after 250M Series D

With a 10 million round Nigerias Paga plans global expansion

Interswitch receives 110M investment from LeapFrog and Tana Africa Capital

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

Highnote emerges from stealth with 54M and a plan to take on Marqeta in the world of card issuing as a service

Venmo adds a checkcashing feature waives fees for stimulus checks

Looks like some neobanks will be OK after all

Ousted Flipkart founder Binny Bansal aims to help 10000 Indian founders with new venture

Thepeer an APIbased startup that connects African businesses raises 21M led by Raba Partnership

Payment orchestration platform Gr4vy pulls in another 15M in a Series A extension

Apple enters the BNPL market as regulation competition intensify

Enterprise ecommerce in 2022: As TAM expands the platform wars are heating up

Ivorian ecommerce startup ANKA formerly Afrikrea raises 62M preSeries A

ShipBlu bags 24M for its ecommerce and fulfilment service in Egypt

China Roundup: facial recognition lawsuit and cashless payments for foreigners

IROKO cofounder Bastian Gotter raises 32M seed for new venture Bamba

Razer goes big on payments with Visa prepaid card

African fintech firm Flutterwave launches SME ecommerce portal

Elavon to acquire Sage Pay a gateway that competes with Stripe PayPal and Adyen for 300M

Stripe is the latest fintech to falter taking a 28 internal valuation cut

Mono aims to be first bankingless bank for Latin Americas small businesses