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A new 124 million for Brazils Movile proves that investors still see promise in Latin American tech

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

Naspers is in talks to invest in Southeast Asias Carousell

Interswitch receives 110M investment from LeapFrog and Tana Africa Capital

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

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

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

Egypts Paymob closes 185M Series A to expand payments services across MENA

Venmo adds a checkcashing feature waives fees for stimulus checks

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

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

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

African fintech firm Flutterwave raises 35M partners with Worldpay

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

Fastgrowing Chinese media startup ByteDance is raising 25B3B more

PalmPay raised 100M Series A last August claims to have 5 million users

Ant Group buys Singapores 2C2P to further global payments ambitions

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

India unseats China as Asias top fintech funding source

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

A young entrepreneur is building the Amazon of Bangladesh

Blocks Cash App adopts Lightning Network for free bitcoin payments

Chinas growing digital influence in Africa

Google backs Indian rewards payments startup Twid

Alibababacked facial recognition startup Megvii raises 750 million

Nigerian fintech firm TeamApt raises 5M eyes global expansion

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

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

A wave of LatAm fintechs are laying down new global commerce rails

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

Flutterwave and Alipay partner on payments between Africa and China

Costco now supports Apple Pay across all of its US stores

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

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

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

BNPL in 2022: 4 fintech investors discuss regulation trends and how to stand out

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

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

Stripe and Plaid suit up for battle

Billogram provider of a payments platform specifically for recurring billing raises 45M

Afterpay unveils BNPL subscription offering for US customers

Potential winners and losers line up as Plaid pushes deeper into payments

The BNPL boom may be fading

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

Paystack expands to South Africa seven months after Stripe acquisition

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

Headless commerce company fabric sews up unicorn milestone following new round

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

UKbased Playter closes 55M round for its BNPL platform aimed at SMEs

Forget the piggy bank Till Financials kids spend management app gets Gates backing