Nhatt Nichols Nhatt Nichols is a multidisciplinary artist and writer raised on top of a mountain in the Okanogan, Washington State. A graduate of The Royal Drawing School in London, she uses drawing, poetry, and comics to break down political and environmental issues, finding new ways to meet people where they are and ask them […]
Vivek Patel (left), Andrew Brown (center) and Eric Stromberg (right), founders of Check On today’s episode, I was joined by Andrew Brown, Founder & CEO of Check. The Check platform makes embedded payroll possible. Check helps leading companies launch a successful payroll business in a fraction of the time for a fraction of the cost. […]
Kevin Greene of Tassat While there are plenty of instant payment options for consumer like Cash App, PayPal, Venmo and Zelle. But when it comes to business payments it is a different story. And those aforementioned payments are not really instant, they still settle like all other bank transactions, typically in two business days. This […]
Mexican fintech Aviva recently announced that it raised $2.2 million in a pre-seed round. The raise was led by local fund Wollef, with the participation of Newtopia VC, Seedstars International Ventures, 500 Startups and Xtraordinary VP, and a dozen angel investors from Latin America. According to the company, this round stands out as one of […]
The following is a guest post by Patrick Kelly, Americas Head of Sales, Shufti Pro. Digital transformation has been a boon to the banking industry. Adopting advanced technologies enabling secure online sales and payments resulted in higher profits from dot.com businesses (U.S. e-commerce sales grew 7.2% in this year’s second quarter). Unfortunately, the increased online […]
Latin America has been one of the most relegated regions in digitization, with online trade as a share of total retail second only to Africa. Yet on the backdrop of the pandemic, e-commerce is catching up fast, and non-traditional alternatives such as instant payments or e-wallet transactions are gaining market share, a study by fintech […]
“Not your keys, not your coins” has long been the refrain of many in the Web3 community, more so in the wake of the FTX fall. While applying to coins, the concept can be taken much further than the crypto exchange. “While the exchange capabilities are interesting, that is not the fundamental basis of this […]
Prism Data’s CashScore v3 utilizes anonymized, consumer-permissioned open banking data to provide a clearer view of actual credit risk. It builds on earlier models developed by sister company Petal, which spun Prism Data into a standalone, B2B-focused company last year. CashScore: How it works General manager Erin Allard said CashScore v3 uses open banking to […]
Last month, Brazil’s PicPay, one of the largest digital wallets by the number of users, launched its peer-to-peer lending business for companies. It is one of the first fintechs in the country to do so and represents its latest innovation in a bid to enhance the product suite. The feature will complement a previous peer-to-peer […]
While crypto’s chaos may have stolen the limelight for the better half of the year, fintech has also had a rocky 2022. Hit by the global macroeconomic climate, valuations have been falling, and the latter half of the year has been tainted by endless stories of tech layoffs. Startups and unicorns face difficult times, with […]