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A young entrepreneur is building the Amazon of Bangladesh

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

xentral an ERP platform for SMBs raises 75M Series B from Tiger Global and Meritech

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

Indias Meesho which enables social commerce via WhatsApp raises 50M

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

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

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

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

Alibababacked facial recognition startup Megvii raises 750 million

Costco now supports Apple Pay across all of its US stores

DEUNA enters Latin Americas crowded oneclick checkout sector flush with 37M

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

Momo Vietnams top payment app lands big Series C investment led by Warburg Pincus

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

Venmo adds a checkcashing feature waives fees for stimulus checks

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

Indias Mswipe raises 30M to grow its smart pointofsale terminal business

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

China Roundup: Beijing is tearing down the digital walled gardens

TechCrunch roundup: Stealth recruiting virtual sales kickoffs Google Clouds Q4

Square to buy buy now pay later giant Afterpay in 29B deal

SpotOn raises 300M at a 315B valuation and acquires Appetize

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

Why Square is shelling out 29B to snag BNPL player Afterpay

Razer goes big on payments with Visa prepaid card

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

Blocks Cash App adopts Lightning Network for free bitcoin payments

Pomelo raises 9M to build a payments infrastructure for LatAm fintechs

India unseats China as Asias top fintech funding source

Looks like some neobanks will be OK after all

Brazils new fintech startup Cora raised 10 million on the strength of its founding team

Egyptian fintech Sympl raises 6M for its save now pay later service

PayPal debuts Grant Payments to shift charitable giving from paper checks to electronic transfers

Payrails emerges from stealth with 64M led by a16z to build the OS for payments

MoneyHash gets 3M to build a superAPI for payment operations in Africa Mideast

InfraDigital helps Indonesian schools digitize tuition and enrollment

African fintech firm Flutterwave raises 35M partners with Worldpay

Naspers is in talks to invest in Southeast Asias Carousell

Fintech Kasheesh wants financially strained customers to say bye to BNPL

In the wake of Fasts collapse Volume thinks it can crack the payment checkout conundrum

Stripe cofounder John Collison explains why online payments powerhouse opened an office in Seattle

Nigerias ThankUCash secures 53M to build infrastructure for cashback deals and BNPL services

ZirooPay raises 114M to scale its mobile POS solutions for retailers across Nigeria

Nelo joins the BNPL rush with 20M in new funding and the Mexican market in its sights

Chinas growing digital influence in Africa

Fastgrowing Chinese media startup ByteDance is raising 25B3B more

Klarnas potential valuation cut to 15B appears sufficiently steep

Play2Pay raises 13M to convert mobile user engagement into bill payment

Slope takes in first capital with visions of being Stripe for global B2B payments