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

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

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

Visa pitches a program offering fintechs faster market access through an ecosystem of partners

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

Xiaomi backs Indian consumer lending startup ZestMoney in 134M deal

A young entrepreneur is building the Amazon of Bangladesh

Venmo adds a check cashing feature waives fees for stimulus checks

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

Paystack expands to South Africa seven months after Stripe acquisition

Africa Roundup: Canal acquires ROK Flutterwave and Alipay partner OPay raises 50M

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

Costco now supports Apple Pay across all of its US stores

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

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

Looks like some neobanks will be OK after all

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

Naspers is in talks to invest in Southeast Asias Carousell

Affirms CTO talks transparency and the tech that makes BNPL possible

China Roundup: facial recognition lawsuit and cashless payments for foreigners

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

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

Whats a fintech even worth these days

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

Flutterwave and Visa launch African consumer payment service GetBarter

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ivorian ecommerce startup ANKA formerly Afrikrea raises 62M preSeries A

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

Klarnas potential valuation cut to 15B appears sufficiently steep

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

Fintech Kasheesh wants financially strained customers to say bye to BNPL

The next phase of WeChat

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

African fintech firm Flutterwave launches SME ecommerce portal

Nigerian fintech firm TeamApt raises 5M eyes global expansion

Stripe and Plaid suit up for battle

Luxembourg to get 100M investment from Chinese payments startup Pingpong

Branch raises 48M from Lee Fixels Addition Indeed to provide accelerated payments to workers

Checkout is the key to frictionless B2B ecommerce

Headless commerce company fabric sews up unicorn milestone following new round

Blocks Cash App adopts Lightning Network for free bitcoin payments

Google to offer checking accounts in partnership with banks starting next year

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

China roundup: Tesla supplier CATL to buy Canadas Millennial Lithium

India unseats China as Asias top fintech funding source