Harlem-based MoCaFi raises a Series B to help people get banked (TWIF 6/10)

Hello Fintech Friends, We’re excited to share that Griffin, one of our Fintech Fund portfolio companies, just raised their Series A. Griffin provides banking-as-a-service for UK fintech companies and also has an FCA banking license, meaning it can provide fully-verticalized bank support to fintechs. Our fearless podcasters Julie and

New Default Guarantee guidelines for lending | TWIF - 10th June, 2023

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This Month in Fintech - China (May’ 23)

Hey there fintech friends, It's time for another dose of the latest and greatest news in the world of money moves! We've got a lot to cover this month, from Ant Group's delayed license application to Airwallex's big expansion to Israel. But don't worry, we promise to keep things light

Begun, the crypto war has (TWIF 6/9)

Hello Fintech Friends, Every new industry goes through growing pains as it finds its footing. To butcher an old quote, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then there is a massive coordinated regulatory response to keep you from growing, then you win.” This week, Coinbase and Binance

TWIF Latam June 4 - Banco Afirme launches digital bank Billú 🇲🇽, crypto bill advances in 🇨🇴

$50 million in fintech funding (debt) Hola amig@s fintech, Yesterday, the Mexican states of Mexico and Coahuila elected their governors. The State of Mexico made history by appointing its first-ever female governor, with both candidates being women. The world is gradually changing, and as the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Who are the three new profitable european fintechs? - (05/06)

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Indian lenders draw the attention of private equity (TWIF 6/4)

Hello Fintech Friends, I'll be flying to Tel Aviv in a week to host our first-ever Israeli Fintech Meetup with our friends at TLV Partners. Will I see you there? TLV Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in Israeli entrepreneurs that are pushing the boundaries of what is

Wirecard puts on a fake mustache and changes its name to NomuPay (TWIF 6/3)

Hello Fintech Friends, Come one come all! If you’re at Money2020 Amsterdam this week, we’ll be partnering with our friends at AWS Fintech to co-host a networking happy hour on June 7th. We were excited to see Fintech Fund portfolio company Vault* get the TechCrunch treatment from fintech

Razorpay launched Turbo UPI; Binance granted license in Thailand | TWIF - 03rd June, 2023

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Will we see Universal Basic Income in our lifetimes? (TWIF 6/2)

Hello Fintech Friends, 🗣️ This Thursday, in our Slack community, we’ll host an Ask Me Anything with Art Chang, one of the 2021 Candidates for Mayor of New York City, Chair of the Board of the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families, and Founder & CEO of Allie, a builder

Beyond Two Percent: Mental Health ft Jayne Sibley & Saira Rahman

"89% of people said that managing everyday money was a major cause of stress and worry for them. So being able to alleviate that in one way or present people with a solution that helps them and takes that away is why we're here" - Jayne Sibley

Signals: The biggest winner of BNPL is... Mastercard?

The Apple Pay Later launch underscores card networks’ emerging role in the Buy Now, Pay Later market.

This Week in Policy (5/31)

Hello Fintech Friends, Welcome to another week of fintech policy updates. While Congress remains preoccupied with the heated debates over the debt ceiling, crypto regulation is garnering attention from various international organizations that are striving to establish unified global standards. Within the U.S., the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is

A fintech great bows out - (29/05)

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TWIF Latam 28 May - Citibanamex change of plan 🇲🇽, QED bringing $925 million in fresh funds for global fintechs 🚀

$149 million in fintech funding (equity and debt) Hola amig@s fintech, Happy Memorial Day and ‘puente’ to our US-based fintech friends.  📣  For the VCs and investors in the audience, if you haven’t already done so, be sure to share your input for a first-of-its-kind mapping of diversity in

Fifth Third embeds with Rize (TWIF 5/28)

Hello Fintech Friends, Please find another week of fintech exits and deep reads below. ☯️ Exits 🤝 M&A - Fintech * US regional bank Fifth Third surprised the fintech community this week with the announcement that it acquired banking-as-a-service software provider Rize. The terms of the deal were undisclosed, but Fifth Third’

Tipalti raises $150M and PhonePe adds another $100M (TWIF 5/27)

Hello Fintech Friends, When I'm not writing about great fintech startups, I spend my time investing in them. If you're an early-stage founding team, we have a few more checks to write out of our Fund I, so feel free to reach out! (Fund II coming soon.) 👍👎 Have feedback for

Singapore Fintech Living Room, PhonePe raises yet another $100mm | 20th May, 2023

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The IRS is getting into taxes (TWIF 5/26)

Hello Fintech Friends, We're excited to partner with our friends at TLV Partners to host our first Tel Aviv Fintech Happy Hour on June 15th! I'll be flying there personally for it; who should I meet with while I'm there? TLV Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in

🎧 Podcast: Hey Fintech Friends ft James Mirfin (Visa) & Parilee Wang (Alloy)

"We always talk about fraud, and we talk about financial crime. But I always come back to the fact that there's a human impact to this. So at the end of the day, people are getting taken advantage of, and it's typically the most vulnerable."

Signals: High interest rates? No problem for Robinhood in Q1 2023 earnings

We read Robinhood’s 10-Q so that you don’t have to.

This Week in Policy (5/23)

Hello Fintech Friends, This past week, crypto regulation was the most salient topic in fintech policy debates. We’ll address novel policy issues related to taxing crypto and partisan divides over stablecoins in the U.S. We will also shed light on important updates related to central bank digital currencies

Heading to M2020 Europe? - (22/05)

TWIF UK & Europe - The latest fintech news across the UK and Europe

TWIF Latam 21 May - Uber Mexico granted fintech license 🇲🇽, Colombia to develop digital payment rails á la Pix 🇨🇴

$450,000 in equity fintech funding Hola amig@s fintech, Happy New Moon in Taurus 🌚♉️, apparently full of good luck and abundance.  Cheers to that! 👉 Btw friends, be sure to check out Daniela’s ClimateTech Corner below and send her your comments, questions, and suggestions!   💛 Until next weekend. Até a

PayPal is looking to Xoom out (TWIF 5/21)

Hello Fintech Friends, A big shout-out to Trovata for recognizing our own Helen Femi Williams' podcast Hey Fintech Friends as one of the 5 Top Fintech Podcasts to Stream in 2023 and for Feedspot for including it in their 40 Best Financial News Podcasts! If you're not yet listening to

ZestMoney founders resigned, Paytm launched RuPay credit card | 20th May, 2023

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Procure-to-pay platform Zips up $100 million (TWIF 5/20)

Hello Fintech Friends, The fintech fundraising market is showing signs of life in-spite of the doom-and-gloom of 2023 💪 We’ve had an exciting week at The Fintech Fund, with fund portfolio company Vault announcing its follow-on seed round from our friends at Fin Capital and Gradient, and syndicate portfolio Percent

The fintechs want to help small businesses (TWIF 5/19)

Hello Fintech Friends, It’s hard to believe it’s almost June - one more month and we roll into 2024 planning 💀 For anyone who will be out at Money2020 Europe in a couple weeks, TWIF and the AWS fintech team would love to see you at our Amsterdam Fintech

This Week in Policy (5/17)

Hello Fintech Friends, Welcome to another edition of This Week in Policy! We are thrilled to be back after a brief pause and are eager to share updates with you about the latest developments in fintech and digital assets. In this edition, we cover several major policy and legal developments

And the Best British Bank is ...- (15/08)

TWIF UK & Europe - The latest fintech news across the UK and Europe

TWIF Latam 14 May - 80% of Brazilians have used PIX 🇧🇷, Grupo México set to buy Banamex 🇲🇽

Hola amig@s fintech, It has been an eventful week in the region, with significant developments such as the vote for drafting Chile's new Constitution, the end of Title 42 in the US (which impacts Latam migration), and the continuing rise in Argentina's inflation rate. I must say that alongside

Revolut is ready to buy-now (TWIF 5/14)

Hello Fintech Friends, Two more great fintech events in the books this week! First, Osborne hosted our first fintech Delhi meetup of the year, then Cristina and the Community team hosted our spring meetup in New York. If you're based in India, come join us next Thursday in Mumbai -

Minting the next wave of fintech (TWIF 5/13)

Hello Fintech Friends, Incubators and accelerators provide great opportunities for early-stage entrepreneurs to build their products with the resources and support of a community behind them. Snowflake and Moderna were both famously originally incubated by VCs. Earlier-stage startups (at the idea phase) normally are a better fit for incubators – sometimes

Thank you, Delhi! Mumbai, you're up next; Paytm reported $1bn in annual revenues, Razorpay is flipping to India | 13th May, 2023

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Crypto gets ready for semester abroad (TWIF 5/12)

Hello Fintech Friends, Who should we have join us for our next fintech Ask Me Anything session in our Slack? (Which recently crossed 6,800 members! Come join us.) 🌷 Or if in-person is more your thing, we are partnering up with our friends at AWS Fintech to bring together the

Fintech is back?- (08/05)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Fintech is heading to the moon according to a report from BCG and QED, with revenues set to hit $1.5trn by 2030. Please find another week of fintech news, financings and exits below. Sponsored Content Want to be a This Week in Fintech -

TWIF Latam 07 May - Revolut launches in Brazil 🇧🇷, Nubank grew 33% in one year to 79.1 million customers in Latam 🚀

$29.6 million in fintech funding (equity and debt) Hola amig@s fintech, Happy early Mother’s Day 🦸🏽‍♀️ to those in 🇲🇽🇸🇻🇧🇿🇬🇹 this Wednesday!  And for those of you in Bogotá 🇨🇴, join the TWIF Latam community at Monaco Rooftop on May 17th, 2023 for a spring happy hour sponsored by CIM,

This Month in Fintech - China (April’ 23)

Greetings, fellow fintech enthusiasts!  It's time for our monthly newsletter again. From exciting product launches to licensing updates and everything in between, we've got you covered. So grab a cup of tea (or coffee if you prefer) and let's dive into some Chinese fintech news together! Enjoy, Ning Venture Financing

Peter Thiel may revive fintech SPACs with Asian credit card biz (TWIF 5/7)

Hello Fintech Friends, I love reading along and following the conversations in our Slack Community – it’s clearly all about fintech people helping other fintech people, and I feel like I learn more than I share in there ❤️ 👍👎 Have feedback for us? Let us know! Please find another week of

Delhi NCR Happy Hour, Pine Labs deferred its IPO, CRED doubles its loan portfolio and more | TWIF - 06th May, 2023

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Fake it til you break it (TWIF 5/6)

Hello Fintech Friends, My favorite story this week was that of Array, an ‘algorithmic currency system,’ which put out a press release that announced a $10 million investment from Singaporean investor Temasek, with such quotes as “Array is thrilled to reveal that its valuation after this investment is rumored to

For whom the FDIC receivership tolls (TWIF 5/5)

Hello Fintech Friends, Do you miss the touch, look, and vibe of seeing your fintech friends in-person? Come join Osborne and our TWIF India team in Delhi next week! Subscribe here to join 60,000+ other fintech enthusiasts! 👍👎 Have feedback for us? Let us know! Please enjoy another week of

Valuations down- (01/05)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Please find another week of fintech news, financings and exits below. Sponsored Content Want to be a This Week in Fintech - UK & Europe sponsor? Reach out to me at michael@thisweekinfintech.com and see our sponsorship information here. 💡This Week in Fintech is a

TWIF Latam 30 April - Belvo acquires Skilopay 🇧🇷, Fairplay and Clara fundraise 🇲🇽

$175.9 million in fintech funding (equity and debt) Hola amig@s fintech, Big fundraising news week after a bit of a pause following Semana Santa.  For those who have Monday off for International Workers’ Day, enjoy the long weekend (and remember to take a break).  Happy May Day! Please

Acquisitions, acquisitions, acquisitions! (TWIF 4/30)

Hello Fintech Friends, It was another banger of a week for fintech M&A: 16 new deals were announced between banks and fintechs, it emerged that JP Morgan has acquired over 40 fintech companies since 2021, and – as a bonus – we may have our first fintech IPO since last year

Vesey Ventures and Anthemis blaze a trail for women in VC (TWIF 4/29)

Hello Fintech Friends, We had some exciting news for The Fintech Fund this week, as our portfolio company Ansa*, led by Sophia Goldberg and JT Cho, came out of stealth. We've missed seeing all of our friends in LatAm fintech, and so we are coming back to Bogotá! Come join

We hosted our first Fintech Happy Hour of 2023, Jupiter gets NBFC license, Stripe launched new products for SEA | TWIF - 29th April, 2023

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Europe jumps ahead of the US in crypto regulation (TWIF 4/28)

Hello Fintech Friends, 🌴 We're coming to Miami for Fintech Americas! Join us on May 4th for some networking, socializing and fun! We will be hosting a Luncheon with Galileo and VU Security at Fontainebleau. Sign up here. We can't wait to see you there :) 🏙️ Also, if you missed this week’

🎧 Podcast: Hey Fintech Friends ft Emily Man

"I saw this firsthand, growing up in China, what made us move from being a cash-based society to something that was pretty much all app and instant payments based. This was the fact that there was a smartphone in everyone's pocket" - Emily Man

Signals: Fintech joins the frontlines of the war in Ukraine

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is uprooting the global financial system. As new technology accelerates a changing world order, fintech has a renewed responsibility towards its end users.

This Week in Policy (4/24)

Hello Fintech friends, Welcome to another exciting week of fintech policy updates. Last week was marked by several highlights, including the European Parliament's approval of the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, which is expected to have far-reaching implications for the crypto industry in Europe, and possibly around the world. As

Another successful London Fintech Happy Hour - (24/04)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, London Calling, and Fintech Answers Thank you to @sytaylor, @MJenkins88, @HelenFemix, and the great @backingthebold team for tonight's UK Fintech Week meetup! pic.twitter.com/xDDvSJyPSA — This Week in Fintech (@twifintech) April 20, 2023 Are you even in fintech in London if you were not

TWIF Latam 23 Apr - Brazil ready for digital real proposals, 🆕 ClimateTech corner, 🔦 Retail x Fintech

$4 million in debt funding Hola amig@s fintech, Happy (belated) Earth Day!  Did you know?  20% of the Earth’s freshwater is in Brazil 🇧🇷with a total of 5,116 square miles of freshwater concentrated in the Amazon Basin. Colombia 🇨🇴 also boasts an impressive ranking as the sixth largest

Pagaya rules everything around me (TWIF 4/23)

Hello Fintech Friends, ⚠️Editor's Note: Because of the double-post from our publishing software glitch on Friday, I'm combining this week's Saturday and Sunday posts to avoid cluttering your inbox. What a week for content! First, we had a great guest post for Signals from Sara Hayden Van Velkinburgh on Why

One unicorn minted globally in Q1 2023, Razorpay sets up an Advisory Council, Adyen launched in Malaysia | 22nd April, 2023

Hi fintech friends, Osborne here! Please enjoy all the news and updates from the past week in today’s edition. If you feel TWIF brings you value, please share it with your friends (and maybe suggest they subscribe too). Don’t forget to share with fellow fintech friends! Subscribe Now

First Bank of Apple (TWIF 4/21)

Hello Fintech Friends, I had a great time with the London fintech community celebrating this year’s UK Fintech Week yesterday! Big thank you to everyone who braved the rain to make it to our Fintech Happy Hour, and to the Fintech Brain Food and Element Ventures teams for co-hosting

Beyond Two Percent: Imposter Syndrome

"Every time you've been in a situation where you feel like an imposter, try to assess the situation, what went well, and what didn't, and then go to other people for feedback." - Katie Evans, Head of PR at Swarm

Why fintech has failed Mexico’s unbanked

The era of fintech was expected to bring millions into the formal financial system in Mexico. Yet from 2018 to 2022, only 3.4 million people opened a formal bank account, begging the question, “Why has fintech failed to meet its potential in Latin America’s second-largest consumer market?”

This Week in Policy (4/17)

Hello Fintech Friends, Welcome to another week of fintech policy news. This week, we'll cover some of the latest updates in crypto and stablecoin regulation, enforcement, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and payments. As always, if you are not yet subscribed to the Policy Edition of This Week in Fintech,

Big week for payments - (17/04)

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TWIF Latam 16 April - 129 total funding rounds in 1Q23, DM acquires FortBrasil 🇧🇷

$15.8 million in fintech funding Hola amig@s fintech, Feliz domingo tod@s!  Anyone catch this gem on SNL last night?  Que risa 😆 Please find below this week’s front page of Latam fintech news. If you’re reading this on the web, we’d appreciate your support by

The IPO window remains locked shut (TWIF 4/16)

Hello Fintech Friends, In this week's Signals subscriber newsletter, guest writer Emily Tsitrian – a foremr Stripe employee and co-founder of Yeeld – wrote on what everyone is getting wrong in the Adyen vs. Stripe debate. "These analysts deserve respect and are worth a read - quantitative triangulation is hard, but unfortunately,

Clear Street blasts through the fundraising slump with $270 million (TWIF 4/15)

Brought to you in partnership with Finley. Hello Fintech Friends, 📈 Keeping up with the breathless pace of fintech can be hard... as soon as I hit 'send' on yesterday's newsletter, Twitter announced a partnership with eToro to let users trade stocks and crypto on the app. 💡 We're excited to announce

Indian Fintech startups raised $1.2bn in Q1 2023 and Sea Bank reported net profit of $18mm | 15th April, 2023

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Plaid and Visa dive into the instant payments race (TWIF 4/14)

Brought to you in partnership with our friends at Finley. Hello Fintech Friends, One of our main goals here at TWIF is to highlight the incredible work of our diverse community. Our Fintech Frontlines and Builders Series are two social media campaigns that spotlight individuals who are building the future

This Month in Fintech - China (March’ 23)

Hi fintech friends, What a March, right?! In recent years, the Chinese government has been tightening its control over the country's financial systems and technology industry. This has been particularly evident in the government's crackdown on large companies like Alibaba and Tencent. Notably, this past March we saw the establishment

Signals - Adyen vs. Stripe: What everyone is getting wrong

Stripe’s annual letter highlights that payments are not a commodity. What are comparisons of the two payments giants missing?

Stripe vs Adyen: The looming battle - (10/04)

Happy Easter TWIF UK & Europe friends, Please find another week of fintech news, financings and exits below. Sponsored Content Want to be a This Week in Fintech - UK & Europe sponsor? Reach out to me at michael@thisweekinfintech.com and see our sponsorship information here. 💡This Week in Fintech is

New acquisitions for Acorns, SoFi, and Navan (TWIF 4/9)

Hello Fintech Friends, Fintechs are getting more acquisitive! We’re starting to see not only banks and strategics acquiring fintechs, but large fintechs acquiring their rivals as well. Though the market has slowed for fundraises, it continues to be a bonanza for M&A teams. If you’re coming to

Markets are still peachy for Africa's Peach Payments (TWIF 4/8)

Hello Fintech Friends, This week, our Premium Content Editor Sophie Vo covered the last quarter in fintech in Signals. A few insights? Banks are leading the pack as the biggest acquirers of other banks and fintech companies. Over $350 million was still raised by fintech venture funds. Digital business banks,

TWIF Latam 7 April - Kaszek Ventures raises $975 million, FEMSA acquires NetPay

Hola amig@s fintech, Happy Semana Santa (aka Holy or Easter Week). 🐰 Enjoy the long weekend and this week’s front page of Latam fintech news below. If you’re reading this on the web, we’d appreciate your support by sharing and subscribing.   💛 Until next weekend. Até a próxima!

Stripe's annual letter on the payments economy (TWIF 4/7)

Hello Fintech Friends, This was a tough news week for the community. Bob Lee, the creator of Cash App and former CTO of Square, was killed in San Francisco. The tragedy has provoked an outpouring of fintech community sympathy and gratitude for Bob’s life and his impact on ours.

Signals Q1’23: The onset of carbon offsets

Amid bank runs, an AI frenzy, and a shifting venture landscape, one concept quietly drew attention from fintech investors in Q1: Carbon credit markets.

Signals Fintech Founders: Ness's Derek Flanzraich

On swinging big, contrarian bets, and building a full stack fintech. Hello Everyone! Keeping today’s edition of Fintech Founders short and sweet. Today we have the pleasure of chatting with Derek Flanzraich, the founder of Ness. Ness is a health and wellness company looking to fundamentally realign the relationship

This Week in Policy (4/3)

Hello Fintech Friends, As we enter the second quarter of 2023, it appears that this year is shaping up to be the "year of crypto enforcement" given the unprecedented frequency and severity of enforcement actions against crypto firms. The latest of these is the complaint filed last week by the

Meet me at the crossroads - (03/04)

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Mastercard and Visa square off to acquire Brazilian fintech Pismo (TWIF 4/2)

Hello Fintech Friends, 🎙️ This week for Hey Fintech Friends, our host Helen Femi interviewed Commerce VC’s Vivek Krishnamurthy. Come give it a listen on Spotify or Apple! 🌲 Also this week, AWS’ FinTech Africa Accelerator opened applications to take part in an equity-free program focused on supporting early stage startups.

TWIF Latam 2 April - Conekta launches cash withdrawals 🇲🇽, BCB authorizes Nvio (Bitso), Pomelo & WEPayments 🇧🇷

$34 million in fintech funding (equity and debt) Hola amig@s fintech, Argentina’s inflation is now officially at 102.5%. This hyperinflation has not happened since the early 1990s. Goods and services are more than twice the price/cost than they were one year ago. The government has tried

Fintech fundraising is creeping back up (TWIF 4/1)

Hello Fintech Friends, 📈 With 33 new fintech fundraises announced this week, it's starting to feel alive again around here. 🔦 A special spotlight on our Head of Community Cristina Ciaravalli, who did an interview for Women’s History Month this week with Fundrise’s Saira Rahman and the team at VGS.

NPCI introduced MDR on PPI based UPI, SEA Fintech startups raised $113mm | 01st April, 2023

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The regulators are coming for crypto and... so are Nasdaq and Swift? (TWIF 3/31)

Hello Fintech Friends, If you hear that rumble off in the distance… that’s the sound of fintech conference season coming right around the corner. 🌴 If you’re in LA and want to collaborate on a fintech happy hour around June 5th, reach out to Tori on our team at

🎧 Podcast : Hey Fintech Friends #16 ft Vivek Krishnamurthy

But, we try to take ideas from the earliest stages, and help them get to the maximum exposure, right, whether that's helping the most amount of consumers or banks or insurance carriers as possible.

This Week in Policy (3/27)

Hello Fintech Friends, Welcome to another eventful week of fintech policy. Last week saw a number of significant enforcement actions and policy developments related to cryptocurrencies. From the arrest and indictment of Do Kwon, founder of collapsed Terraform Labs, to the Wells notice served to Coinbase, and the White House's

Cheers to Fintech- (27/03)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, ICYMI, we announced our next London Happy Hour last week.  Sign up here! Please find another week of fintech news, financings and exits below. p.s. can you guess which European city is above? Sponsored Content Want to be a This Week in Fintech -

All-female founding teams get 1% of the funding (TWIF 3/25)

Hello Fintech Friends, 🗣️The ratio is not improving for all-female founding teams: per new data from Unconventional VC, women-led startups in Germany raised 1.3% of funding; in the Nordics, only 1.1%. This is something all of us in fintech need to work to improve, and is why we

Kredivo raised $270mm and Kreditbee launched cardless installment payments | 25th March, 2023

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Marry, Fed, Kill (TWIF 3/24)

Hello Fintech Friends, The first Fintech Meetup was an incredible success! While I wasn’t able to make it (and had FOMO for the duration of the conference), it looks like the entire fintech world converged once more for two days in Las Vegas. From what I heard, it was

🎧 Beyond Two Percent: The Male Perspective

"I feel like it's almost as if at least some humans have this, this need to create in groups and out groups, and say, I'm part of this elite group, and we are better than you." Shamir Karkal, Sila

Signals: The Silicon Valley Bank that never was

Like many readers, I chose to open my first business bank account at SVB. SVB is the bank that gave me my first mortgage. Uniquely, it's also the bank that bought my first company. This essay explores my experience selling to SVB, working there, and our disagreements with them over

This Week in Policy (3/20)

Hello Fintech Friends, Happy spring equinox! Today marks the day when sunset and sunrise are 12 hours apart, making the day and the night equally long. Yet as we welcome the arrival of spring, distress in the banking sector continues to impact financial markets, posing significant implications for the crypto

Credit Suisse: to the window or to the wall? - (20/03)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, It has been a rollercoaster of a week with too much being written and tweeted about  SVB.  Real companies and real people, including staff at SVB and SVB UK have been impacted and my thoughts go out to them all. Some informative posts written by

TWIF Latam 19 Mar - Clara raises $90M in debt, EWA Capital launches $10M fund, BBVA Spark launches in 🇨🇴

$107.4 million in fintech funding (equity and debt) Hola amig@s fintech, Whew!  What a fortnight it’s been 🍸.  Sorry about missing last week’s newsletter.  We, as well as probably many of you had erm, quite a lot of things on our minds.  Hope you are all getting

Join our AMA with Frank Rotman (TWIF 3/19)

Hello Fintech Friends, Ask-Me-Anything with Frank Rotman - Thursday, March 23rd Frank Rotman has been a pillar of the fintech community since before it was called 'fintech'. As the Founding Partner of QED Investors, he has led investments into industry trailblazers like Credit Karma, Prosper, Avant, SoFi, GreenSky, LendUp, and

Stripe raises $6.5B at $50B (TWIF 3/18)

Hello Fintech Friends, Who wants to partner with us on our first fintech happy hour in Joburg? Drop me and wiza@thisweekinfintech.com a line! I'd also be curious to hear from founders: which fintech-focused venture capital firm do you think of as having the best reputation? ie: Which is

PhonePe raised $200mm and SEA group launched its digital bank | 18th March 2023

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We all had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day (TWIF 3/17)

Hello Fintech Friends, There is a poignant line at the end of the biopic of 90s rap group NWA: That is how this week feels. We’ve begun a new chapter in fintech and banking. It’s time to see what the aftermath of the last week in banking will

This Week in Policy (3/14)

Hello Fintech Friends, Last week, two competitors - bank land and crypto land - experienced a rare interplay, where significant developments in one caused seismic events in the other. In this post, we discuss the failure of the now infamous three S's: Silvergate Bank, Silicon Valley Bank, and Signature Bank.

Signals: "SVB, Signature, & Silvergate"-gate

Three of the fastest bank runs in US history took place in the past week. A recap on what's happening and our takeaways so far.

Is the music stopping? - (13/03)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, The big news last week was the rapid collapse of SVB and SVB UK, both of which were taken over by regulators.  Insured deposits are likely to be paid out quickly on Monday, the recovery of the remainder of depositors assets will be a managed

Maybe Better's next SPAC will go better (TWIF 3/12)

Hello Fintech Friends, I'm not sure whether I'm the only one feeling this way, but my default expectation with many products today (airlines, banking, Quickbooks, etc.) is that they won't work as planned. Delays, accidental charges, bugs - which can only be resolved through byzantine customer service flows - seem

The Great British Bank-Off (TWIF 3/11)

Hello Fintech Friends, The UK fintech scene doesn't seem to be slowing down, with three new fundraises announced this week - the largest a combined £500 million in debt and equity to British open banking / consumer lending startup Abound. With rumored IPOs for Monzo and Starling around the corner this

Slice acquired stake in a Bank, GoPayLater is facing high defaults | 11th March, 2023

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Silvergate reaches the pearly gates (TWIF 3/10)

Hello Fintech Friends, Well... Please enjoy another week of fintech and banking news below. 💬 Quote of the Week This bit from Jorn Lambert at @Mastercard on Tap to pay on phones and impact on expansion of acceptance, new use cases etc was really interesting pic.twitter.com/FadZLqBwxH — Sid Singh

Signals Fintech Founders: Sydecar’s Nik Talreja on storytelling, the founder experience, and the evolution of private assets

TWIF Latam 07 Mar - Evertec acquires PaySmart, Bitso launches debit card in 🇲🇽

$272.3 million in fintech funding (equity and debt) Hola amig@s fintech, Spring is just around the corner, and Mexico City is already ablaze with beautiful shades of purple! If you happen to be in the city, make sure to take a leisurely stroll along Reforma and marvel at

This Week in Policy (3/6)

Hello Fintech Friends, It's been a busy week in the world of fintech and digital currencies, with numerous developments related to crypto regulation, enforcement, central bank digital currencies (CBDC), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and cross-border payments. Let's dive in! As always, if you are not yet subscribed to

Is it still revenue if your auditor can't verify it? - (06/03)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, The FT reported that Revolut's auditors were “unable to satisfy ourselves as to the completeness” of these revenues, meaning that references to the company’s revenues “may be materially misstated”. The concern about the not fully verified £477m of revenues (75% of the 2021 total)

Will UK neobanks Monzo and Starling go public this year? (TWIF 3/5)

Hello Fintech Friends, Sharing a message from our premium content editor, Sophie: Check out the Guest Writer overview here. (btw, if you haven't read it yet, check out Sophie's great writeup, ESG is broken– how to fix it) 👍👎 Have feedback for us? Let us know! Please find another week of

CRED launched Tap to Pay, Brankas launched multibank API's & RBI fined Amazon Pay | 05th Mar 2023

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This Month in Fintech - China (February’ 23)

Hello Fintech friends, Welcome back to the This Month in Fintech - China Newsletter! February was a month of ups and downs for the industry that included significant expansion plans, offset by new regulatory measures. As always, we're here to keep you informed on all the latest news and trends

Goldman's One Million Black Women launches a $225 million credit facility (TWIF 3/4)

Hello Fintech Friends, We're coming to Seattle! We'd love to have you join us for our Seattle Happy Hour hosted by Seattle Bank happening on March 30th from 5-730pm PST. Get your ticket here. Want to join our next one? Drop a line to organizers Cristina and Tori on our

Interchange will get you going, but it won't get you far (TWIF 3/3)

Hello Fintech Friends, We're excited (are you?) to share the winners of our fintech swag contest: * 1st Place: RTP - Ready To Party (Jenny Johnston) * 2nd Place: All About That BaaS (JC Bahr-de Stefano) * 3rd Place: NACHA Average Hat (Jenny Johnston) These and more are all now available at thisweekinfintech.

🎧 Podcast : Hey Fintech Friends #16 ft Sophie Schulman(Visa) & Justin Smith (SamCart)

"It's easier than ever to build an audience online. And it's easier than ever to monetize that audience online. And this is sort of my opinion, but I think that we've shifted from in the future thinking of jobs as a singular revenue stream."

This Week in Policy (2/27)

Hello Fintech Friends, Last week, the regulation of cryptocurrency took center stage as several international organizations made headlines with their discussions and proposals. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Financial Stability Board (FSB), and the G20 were at

UK open banking hits 7m users - (27/02)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Interested in attending fintech happy hours in cities across Europe? Sign up here! If you city is not listed, reach out and let us know. Please find another week of fintech news, financings and exits below. Sponsored Content Want to be a This Week in

TWIF Latam 26 Feb - Mercado Pago launches credit card in 🇲🇽, Daviplata grew 55% last year, Minu merges with Plerk

$6.7 million in fintech funding (equity and debt) Hola amig@s fintech, Today, I'll be heading out to join thousands of citizens are expected to take the streets this Sunday in more than 80 cities, rallying in support of maintaining current electoral institutions and assuring that every single person’

Who else is coming to SXSW? (TWIF 2/26)

Hello Fintech Friends, Want to catch up on all things fintech at SXSW? Come join our teammates Alex and Cristina at the Fintech Fortress, featuring fintech executive panels, catered networking breakfasts and happy hours, and a killer game room and pool deck! 👍👎 Have feedback for us? Let us know! Please

Investing in fintech adjacencies (TWIF 2/25)

Hello Fintech Friends, We have a few exciting new investments to share from The Fintech Fund in the next few weeks. My own professional background – before pivoting to early-stage investing – was in building early-stage fintech startups. My favorite part of investing in pre-seed and seed-stage teams is that I get

UPI launched cross border payments with Singapore | 25th Feb, 2023

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More fintech events than you could shake a stick at (TWIF 2/24)

Hello Fintech Friends, Our events calendar is kicking into full gear and I hope we get to see you at one of our upcoming fintech meetups! We collaborated with our pan-African City Host and fintech adventurer Wiza Jalakasi to bring 600 people together in Nairobi last week (thank you to

Signals: ESG is broken– how to fix it

The investing world is designed to promote shareholder value, not shareholders' values. Today’s ESG model is ripe for disruption.

This Week in Policy (2/20)

Hello Fintech Friends, I am excited to announce that, starting this week, the Policy Edition will be publishing contributions from you, our valued readers. As a community-driven publication, we believe that everyone has a story to share and a unique perspective to offer. That's why we want to give you

UK fintech funding fell 56% in 2022 - (20/02)

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TWIF Latam 19 Feb - Nu posted another record quarter

$23.1 million in fintech funding (equity and debt) Hola amig@s fintech, It's time to samba! Carnaval has returned to Brazil after a two-year hiatus, attracting over five million people to Rio de Janeiro alone  🇧🇷 Over the next five days, nearly 46 million revelers are expected to participate in

The Worldpay is not enough (TWIF 2/19)

Hello Fintech Friends, 🗣️ I really enjoyed this open and frank conversation on intersectionality and identity with two fintech founders, Nadia of Tome and Neepa of Themis*. I hope we can facilitate more of these conversations; there are very real human questions that underlie how we navigate in the fintech world,

Singaporean neobank Aspire raises $100 million (TWIF 2/18)

Hello Fintech Friends, This week we saw 32 new fintech fundraises, 3 fundraises over $100 million, Metaverse commercial opportunity calls – we are so, so... back? This week was also the thrilling conclusion of Jenny Johnston’s 3-part real-time payments overview. If you missed them, you can catch all three segments

PhonePe, InsuranceDekho and Aspire raised mega funding in India | 18th Feb, 2023

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The coins are stable but the regs are not (TWIF 2/17)

Hello Fintech Friends, Sometimes we are confronted by news that transcends our day-to-day lives in importance, and reaches across our immediate projects, aspirations, and rivalries. Last week’s devastating earthquake in Türkiye and Syria has already claimed 42,000 lives and affected countless others. In his outgoing speech in December,

🎧 Beyond Two Percent: Finance and technology go beyond “intersectionality”

"People go through identity transformations at multiple points in their life. And I think our products don't really allow for a lot of flexibility for that transformation" - Nadia

Real-time Real Talk: A Real-time Payments Download (3 of 3)

Part III - Unblocking and Unlocking What needs to be true For FedNow to take off, many things need to be true. Below are my top five: * Bank incentives * Consumer, merchant, and B2B adoption * Ideally interoperability * Access for non-bank PSPs * Communication Bank incentives FedNow is fundamentally a service to banks.

This Week in Policy (2/13)

Hello Fintech Friends, This week, thousands of families in Turkey and Syria are mourning the loss of their loved ones after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck in Gaziantep province near the Turkish-Syrian borders. The earthquake, one of the deadliest this century, has so far claimed the lives of over

Fintech in the Baltics is booming - (13/02)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, The Baltics reported nearly a 4x increase in fintech investment in 2022, anchored by three $100m deals, demonstrating increasing development and maturity of the ecosystem. Also if you were not aware, there was a massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria, with the current deathtoll standing

TWIF Latam 12 Feb - PicPay acquires BX Blue, Ripio & Visa launches debit card in 🇦🇷

No (disclosed) new fintech funding! 😯 Hola amig@s fintech, For those in Mexico City, get ready for a blast of creativity and innovation because it's art week! We are taking inspiration from the bold colors, innovative designs, and imaginative expressions that make the art world so exciting. And the world

Robinhood wants its shares back (TWIF 2/11)

Hello Fintech Friends, Our podcast extraordinaire Helen Femi Williams interviewed Rodney & Travis, the co-founders of SoLo Funds, on building their company, the state of banking in Black communities, and why community banking matters. Listen in here. "In the event that that person would have an emergency, like a flat tire

Digital Lending Apps in India are banned, $150mm raised by SEA Fintech Startups | 11th Feb, 2023

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Where are all the consumer bank deposits going? (TWIF 2/10)

Hello Fintech Friends, If you are a recruiter or in charge of hiring for a fintech startup, I’d love to connect with you! We’re planning a few things specifically focused on fintech jobs and connecting the right candidates to the right workplaces, to shorten the hiring timeline for

Real-time Real Talk: A Real-time Payments Download (2 of 3)

Part II - The Why and How Why does real-time matter? All-day, every-day real-time gross settlement First, real-time gross settlement (“RTGS”). What is it? Breaking it into parts, we have real-time and gross settlement. Real-time settlement is when payments’ clearing (sending the message) and settlement (moving the money) occur more

This Week in Policy (2/6)

Hello Fintech Friends, It seems that not only crypto is having a winter. Last week, the northeast U.S. was hit by a combination of a record-shattering low temperature and powerful wind that was truly “brutal.” I hope all of you were safe and warm. Hang in there, spring is

Signals Fintech Founders: Getaway's Ali Nichols

Friends, Romans, Fintech Aficionados - We are back with the first Fintech Founder interview of 2023. And we’re going to be talking about the one thing that Millennials far and wide all love, but will never have. No, I am not talking about unlimited access to avocado toast (always

Is this the new bank branch?- (06/02)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, We are putting out a call out for some rockstar fintech folks in Europe that are eager to help build out our events and community in 2023. If you have a "get it done" mentality, are based in a fintech hub in Europe and interested

TWIF Latam 05 Feb - fintech took $4B of $7.5B regional VC funding in 2022, BuenTrip Ventures launches fund II

$152.1 million in fintech funding (equity and debt) Hola amig@s fintech, Hello from beautiful Nayarit, Mexico! Let's kickstart Friendly February together and spread positivity by making someone else's day a little brighter. Join the movement and keep the good vibes going! 🤙🏼 Please find below this week’s front

MNT-Halan in Egypt and Zopa in the UK join the unicorn club (TWIF 2/5)

Hello Fintech Friends, A few highlights from this week: 💡 Power, one of our Fintech Fund syndicate portfolio companies, was acquired by Marqeta in a $275 million all-cash deal (Marqeta’s first acquisition). 🕵️ Our portfolio company TrueBiz, a one-stop shop for KYB, announced their seed round (where we invested alongside our

This Month in Fintech - China (January’23)

Hello Fintech friends, Welcome to the January edition of This Month in Fintech - China! Lunar new year fell in January this year. After 3 years of tight pandemic controls, I was able to celebrate this new year with my family in my hometown (The Yellow Mountains). I included a

The stablecoins wanna know how you'd rate them (TWIF 2/3)

Hello Fintech Friends, Our fintech events are back with a bang! 🔥 In New York, we're hosting our first happy hour of 2023 on Feb 8th at The Glass Ceiling, sponsored by video dating app FilterOff. 🏋️ Also in New York, we’re partnering with our good friends at Founder League to

🎧 Podcast : Hey Fintech Friends #15 ft Rodney Williams & Travis Holoway (SoLo Funds)

In the event that that person would have an emergency, like a flat tire or medical bill, or the pet needs a new procedure, all of a sudden, where does that person get money when they don't have may have limited savings So that was a eureka moment, it happened at a very, very intimate level

Building a financial life ledger: Portabl and the promise of Dodd Frank 1033

Hi Fintech Friends 👋 Today, we have something special for readers - our first ever sponsored guest column, written in collaboration with our friends at Portabl. Portabl powers reusable, consumer-permissioned data based on data ownership.The team is on a mission to the simplest path for users to be trusted anywhere

Real-time Real Talk: A Real-time Payments Download (1 of 3)

2023 is promising to be an exciting year for payments, maybe. In the US, we should be getting our first new bank payment rail since the 1970s (the last one was regular ‘ole ACH in 1978, not counting Same Day ACH which rolled out in 2010).[^1] In 2022, the

This Week in Policy (1/30)

Hello Fintech Friends, Thank you to those who shared their thoughts on our TWIF surveys and the new TWIF Slack channel, TWIF finnovation! By the way, TWIF finnovation is open to everyone, so make sure to join if would like to closely engage with the TWIF team and community. By

Legacy banks are not catching up - (30/01)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Despite common rhetoric that incumbent banks are catching up or have caught up with challenger banks, a follow up study by Built for Mars (link in the Long reads section below) reveals they are in fact not catching up. Putting out a call for our

TWIF Latam Jan 28 - Mexico’s fintech ecosystem grew 26% last year

$17.3 million in fintech funding (equity and debt) Hola amig@s fintech, 29 days into 2023 - how’s it going so far?  As TWIF continues to grow in the region as well as globally, we’d love your input.  Would you take a couple of minutes to fill

Stripe starts the clock on Schrödinger's IPO (TWIF 1/29)

Hello Fintech Friends, We had a great guest writeup this week from Lakestar investor Youmna Sirgi on what the launch of the Wise platform tells us about fintech bundling. If you’re interested in the transition from direct to embedded fintech services, and what happens to an ecosystem when everyone

The pre-seed and seed valuations are coming down too (TWIF 1/28)

Hello Fintech Friends, Do you believe in angels? We hope so, because our editors Julie VerHage-Greenberg and Helen Femi Williams got to sit down with Monica Murthy, FinTech Sales & Partnerships Lead at Alloy, and Jenny Johnston, Investor at Better Tomorrow Ventures, to talk about all things angel investing. Give it

The banks will have their own wallet (TWIF 1/27)

Hello Fintech Friends, We're putting out a call for our most creative community members! After many requests we’re finally rolling out One Fintech Swag Store To Rule Them All. Our team has already designed some 🔥 swag - but we want to hear from *you*. We’re holding a design

Signals: What Wise Platform tells us about fintech bundling

When Wise went public in 2021 at an £8.75 billion valuation, it already had more than 10 million customers, was processing more than £5 billion in cross-border transactions per month, and scaling quickly. But organic growth comes from unexpected places, so when Wise noticed an uptick in sign-ups from

This Week in Policy (1/23)

Hello Fintech Friends, Three weeks after the District Court for the Southern District of New York set October 2, 2023 as the start date of the trial of FTX’s ex-CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, the whole FTX debacle is quickly retreating to the background. For the first time since FTX’s

TWIF UK & Europe (23/01) - UK still top in Europe

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Welcome back after a short break whilst I got some much needed winter sun. Last year the UK attracted $12.5bn in fintech investment, down from $13.5bn in 2021, but remaining larger than the next 10 European countries according to Innovate Finance. Please find

TWIF Latam 21 Jan - Global VC dropped 35% last year, Amplifica Capital launches first fund

$194.6 million in fintech funding (equity and debt) Hola amig@s fintech, #watercooler: Shakira and Bizarrap's new song became the fastest Latin video to reach 100 million views on YouTube in the platform's history, doing so in less than 72 hours of release!!! Mind-blowing 🤯 the only other artists to

Which bank will be the next to buy a fintech? (TWIF 1/22)

Hello Fintech Friends, So far in 2023, we’ve tracked 40 fintech and bank M&A deals, with a number of bank/fintech deals like JP Morgan’s stake in Viva Wallet, MUFG’s purchase of Kanmu, Banco Itaú’s acquisition of Prex, and now American Express’ acquisition of Nipendo.

PhonePe scoops up a whopping $350 million (TWIF 1/21)

Hello Fintech Friends, Ahhh - 31 new fintech rounds this week; either nature is healing or founders are doing their pre-fundraise process press. I had to edit the title of this one due to a late monster round from India's PhonePe, which is preparing to spin out from parent Flipkart.

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 21st Jan, 2023

Hi fintech friends, Happy New Year, 2023! Hope you had a great start to the year! We're running a quick reader survey. Appreciate you spending 30secs to help us improve this newsletter. Please enjoy all the news and updates from the past week in today’s edition. If you feel

Who had a Wyre hail mary out of bankruptcy on their bingo card? (TWIF 1/20)

Hello Fintech Friends, Mexico City is looking like the breakout winner of our poll for the next Fintech Trek destination – stay tuned. Our amazing Community team (Cristina, Analisa, Mateo, Tori, Puneet, and Carina) have a great slate of 2023 fintech events coming up, so I hope you're socialization-starved and ready

This Week in Policy (1/17)

Hello Fintech Friends, Happy MLK Day! As we remember the message of MLK’s immortal speech, I have a Dream, which is perhaps one of the most famous speeches in the English language of all time, have you ever wondered what MLK’s grade was in public speaking in his

Two weeks into 2023, we have two billion-dollar fintech acquisitions (TWIF 1/15)

Hello Fintech Friends, I’d like to share a quick recommendation for SheFi, a decentralized finance incubator founded by my friend Maggie that is currently on its eighth cohort. SheFi empowers women and non-binary folks to unlock financial freedom through crypto education, experimentation, and community. They offer a 14-week educational

TWIF Latam 15 Jan - Santander launches new digital bank

$10.7 million in fintech funding (equity and debt) Hola amig@s fintech, As part of our commitment to providing you with a streamlined and informative experience, we are excited to unveil a new, reduced-noise format for our newsletter. We read the news so you don’t have to 😉 For

Fintech companies still raised *checks notes* $40 billion last year (TWIF 1/14)

Hello Fintech Friends, We’re taking this year to spend more time focused on you: what you like about This Week in Fintech, what could be improved, and what you’d want to see us do next. We’d love to hear from you in this 3-question survey! 😊 / 😔 Let us

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 14th Jan, 2023

Hi fintech friends, Happy New Year, 2023! Hope you had a great start to the year! Note: We've moved from Substack to Ghost recently. If you face any issues receiving these updates, please let me know? Please enjoy all the news and updates from the past week in today’s

Where should we host our 2023 Fintech Trek? (TWIF 1/13)

Hello Fintech Friends, Moving into the new year and the post-covid lockdown era, we're focused on bringing together our community of fintech enthusiasts - not just online, but offline as well. One of our initiatives to bring people together across fintech ecosystems is our Annual Fintech Trek, where we curate

Beyond Two Percent: Episode Four - The Ins and Outs of Angel Investing

In this episode, hosts Helen and Julie speak to Monica Murthy, FinTech Sales & Partnerships Lead at Alloy, and Jenny Johnston, Investor at Better Tomorrow Ventures, about Angel Investing!

This Week in Policy (1/9)

Hello Fintech Friends, Happy New Year! At the turn of a very tough year for crypto, the implosion of FTX continues to be at the forefront of crypto policy debates. However, the developments over the last week suggest that most of 2023 might see a brief hiatus of FTX legal

TWIF UK & Europe (09/01) - Happy 2023

The latest in fintech news across UK & Europe

TWIF Latam 08 Jan - Fiserv acquires Yacaré

TWIF Latam 08 Jan - Fiserv acquires Yacaré, a16z's guide to growth metrics, $11 million in equity funding Happy 2023 dear readers! Two things are plaguing my newsfeed lately: Fintech predictions for 2023, and the most creative ways ChatGPT can help you work smarter. Do you have a favorite? send

Asian fintech M&A activity is heating up 🥵 (TWIF 1/8)

Hello Fintech Friends, I hope you have a relaxing, empty Sunday planned, because there are a lot of Deeper Reads in this week’s newsletter, including a long list of 2022 recaps and 2023 predictions. Speaking of predictions, I wrote for Forbes this week about the future of fintech in

This Month in Fintech - China (December’22)

Hello Fintech friends, Hope you all had a great holiday season with friends and families! China has unexpectedly lifted all the Covid restrictions in December and is going through a surge of covid cases. Why the government decided on this move remains unclear, but the bigger question for all of

🌶️It's looking to be spicy year for fintech fundraises (TWIF 1/7)

Hello Fintech Friends, I hope you all enjoyed the one week with no fintech fundraises, because it is 2023 and fintech venture rounds are back, with 4 rounds of over $100 million in this week's newsletter. Many of these announcements are probably from months-old rounds, teeing up investor interest for

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 07th Jan, 2023

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Signals Q4'22: Spend money to spend money to make money

What's your fintech New Year's resolution? (TWIF 1/6)

Hello Fintech Friends, Happy 2023 - did you miss us? It’s a new year and with new years come new opportunities. Let’s pursue them together! 🚀 My 2023 goal for TWIF is to radically simplify, double down on our core competencies, and keep the blinders on so that we

This Week in Policy (12/26)

Merhaba fintech dostları! Need a hint? Think of the “home country” of Santa Claus! Last week, the extradition of Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the former CEO of FTX, from the Bahamas to the U.S. captivated everyone’s attention both in the crypto world and beyond. Criminal law discussions, as well

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 24th Dec, 2022

Hi fintech friends, Welcome to the weekend of the year! We made it. Please enjoy all the news and updates from the past week in today’s edition. If you feel TWIF brings you value, please share it with your friends (and maybe suggest they subscribe too). Thank you, dear

TWIF UK & Europe (23/12) - Merry Christmas

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Programming Note 1 - as Monday 26th is a public holiday, I am sending the last edition of the year early.  We will return on Monday 2nd January 2023. Programming Note 2 - We have switched to a new newsletter platform.  Whilst this should result

Exploring the Fintech Hubs of the Future: Abu Dhabi & Dubai

Dear Fintech Friends, I hope this note finds you well, and starting to unwind and recharge for next year. I couldn’t be more excited to share a special edition of This Week in Fintech from the UAE, where we just hosted our inaugural Abu Dhabi and Dubai Fintech Trek.

This Week in Policy (12/20)

Fintech Friends … Hola and Salut! Whether you rooted for Argentina or France, you would probably agree that the two teams gave the world perhaps the best World Cup final in history on Sunday. Congratulations France for exemplary resilience, and congratulations Argentina for the third World Cup title! Last week was

Beyond Two Percent: Episode Three - What It’s Like to Be a Woman in Venture Capital

This week's roundtable focuses on venture capital, and we're lucky to be joined by Jillian Williams, Partner at Cowboy Ventures, and Ana Cristina Gadala-Maria Principal at QED Ventures.

TWIF UK & Europe (19/12) - Large European fintech slashes valuation 70%

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, According to Fintech Global, Saudi Arabian fintech investment is up nearly 20% this year through the first three quarters.  BNPL provider Tamara grabbed the largest deal, a $100m Series B led by Sanabil. Please find another week of fintech news, financings and exits below. This

TWIF Latam 18 Dec - Open Co acquires BoletoFlex, PayU expands to Central America

Hola amig@s fintech! We are about to conclude 2022, and the fintech sector doesn't stop, this week we have new rounds of investment, new acquisitions, partnerships and regulatory news. We’ll be taking a short-break from our regular programming for the next two weeks – we look forward to seeing

If you're looking for your next adventure, check out our fintech Talent Collective (TWIF 12/18)

Hello Fintech Friends, We’d love to hear your fintech predictions for 2023! Send us your most controversial and outlandish takes by replying to this email, and we’ll post our favorites in the first edition of the new year. Programming Note: We’ll be taking a break the last

50,000 reasons to say thank you 🙏(TWIF 12/17)

Hello Fintech Friends, We were pleasantly surprised to see we crossed 50,000 readers this week. I wanted to take a moment to say thank you for being here. As rewarding as it is to compile this newsletter every week, it would be nothing without the great readership and community

Now is the time to double-down on fintech (TWIF 12/16)

Hello Fintech Friends, There is an old English curse that goes “may you live in interesting times.” Say what you will about this year - it has certainly been interesting. Or, as Index Ventures’ Mark Goldberg put it, “last year was the party; this year is the hangover.” Markets and

Hey Fintech Friends #14 ft Gil Akos & Nicole Stiller

Helen Femi Williams looks at the latest fintech news, discusses serious and non-serious fintech matters, and shares some of our most recent "Signals" article. This week's friend is Gil and Nicole!

This Week in Policy (12/13)

Hello Fintech Friends! The crypto world is still grappling with the aftermath of the implosion of FTX, which not only has affected tens of crypto firms but also is giving rise to some big changes in crypto policy, which we cover this week. As always, if you are not yet

TWIF UK & Europe (12/12) - Five hours to read out list of charges for payments executive

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Q3 fintech funding in Germany falls by 20% and projected full year numbers look likely to be 15% lower than 2021.  Without the huge $400m Series D of insurtech wefox, the situation would be even more bleak. The charge sheet against Wirecard boss Marcus Braun

TWIF Latam 11 Dec - fintech took 58% of the fundraising pie last month

Nu raises $330 million for Mexico, MeLi & Meta testing WhatsApp payments in Brazil, $373.5 million in fintech funding (equity + debt)

Which crypto companies do you think Goldman will buy? (TWIF 12/11)

Also: Galaxy Digital gets a self-custody platform and JG Wentworth gets into the fintech game.

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 11th Dec, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 11th Dec, 2022.

In a slow year for fundraising, London fintechs still raised $9.5 billion (TWIF 12/10)

Nubank finds $300 million more for Mexico and Allica Bank closes a £100 million Series C

Fintechs are in hot water for fraudulent covid loans (TWIF 12/9)

And - new product launches from Galileo, Robinhood, Paystack, Zimpler, and more.

Signals: The FTX scandal happened because of centralization, not crypto

This Week in Policy (12/5)

Salam kawan fintech! It sounds like Arabic, but it is not. It is rather the official language of a relatively small, sunny, tropical island in Southeast Asia which is one of the greatest crypto hubs on the planet and the world's most 'business-friendly' crypto country, according to a recent report

TWIF UK & Europe (05/12) - Time for fintech awards season

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Fintech investment in Turkey in 2022 is set to nearly 4x to just shy of $250m according to Fintech Global. A trend is starting to become clear of smaller country’s fintech ecosystems still growing strong while those that were previously leading the pack, slow

This Week in Fintech: Special Guest Jillian Williams

Nik sits down at Money2020 with Cowboy Ventures' Jillian Williams to talk about the defining moment of the decade, what lifestyle changes we'll see in our lifetimes, and (of course) fintech.

Our Dubai and Abu Dhabi Fintech Trek kicks off in just a week (TWIF 12/4)

Also, India's CRED acquires an underwriter and Chinese fintech giant MICT buys a telco

TWIF Latam (04 Dec)

$18 million in equity financing

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 04th Dec, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 04th Dec, 2022.

B2B fintech investment outpaced B2C this year, but crypto outpaced everything (TWIF 12/3)

Also, India's KreditBee raises $80 million and Keyrock raises $72 million

This Month in Fintech - China (November’22)

Hello Fintech friends, November was a chaotic month for China with the riots over the continued zero-covid policy. People have raised a lot of concerns on the negative economic impact of covid controls. One most recent examples of it is that Alibaba’s annual Singles Day has experienced the slowest

Would you go to your boss for a savings account and a loan? (TWIF 12/2)

Elsewhere: Brazilian Central Bank open-sources PIX and Twitter teases payments.

Hey Fintech Friends #12 ft Adaeze 'Dezzy' Onwumere

Helen Femi Williams looks at the latest fintech news, discusses serious and non-serious fintech matters, and shares some of our most recent "Signals" article. This week's friend is Dezzy!

This Week in Policy (11/28)

Hello Fintech Friends! I hope you all enjoyed a relaxing break, which was absolutely deserved after the past tumultuous weeks in crypto land. Do you know that some communities in the U.S., primarily Native Americans, do not celebrate Thanksgiving Day and instead observe what they call a National Day

TWIF UK & Europe (28/11) - Two more UK fintechs show signs of trouble

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, The European Women Payments Network (EWPN) released its shortlist of nominees for their annual awards.  Good luck to all the awesome nominees. Please find another week of fintech news, financings and exits below. This Week in Fintech is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts

Nu México offers deposits, BCB authorizes Visa WhatsApp payments (TWIF Latam 27 Nov)

$32.3 million raised in fintech funding (equity + debt)

Indian and Hong Kong fintech acquisitions heat up (TWIF 11/27)

PhonePe buys ZestMoney for $300 million and Quantifeed buys UK rival Alpima

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 27th Nov, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 27th Nov, 2022.

P2P lender Prosper Marketplace, est. 2005, is back with a fresh fundraise (TWIF 11/26)

Elsewhere: Ant Group can still raise $1.5 billion and Balance finds $350 million to lend to customers

Nirvana Money, Stilt, Onbo, and Glorifi shut down, but the light is at the end of the tunnel (TWIF 11/25)

Also - Klarna launches an open banking product, Plaid launches an ML risk engine, and Griffin opens its sandbox

This Week in Policy (11/22)

Hello Fintech Friends! As you know, the Policy Edition took a brief break last week because the This Week in Fintech team gathered in N.Y.C., along with 500+ fintech professionals and thought leaders, for The Fintech Formal. It was such a wonderful opportunity to meet so many talents

TWIF UK & Europe (21/11) - A bankruptcy worse than Enron is an achievement

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, “Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here,” said John Ray, the new FTX CEO leading the restructuring who previously oversaw the liquidation of Enron. Check out

This Week in Fintech Latam (18 Nov)

Hola amig@s fintech! Saludos desde Medellin reveling in the post-concert glow from Bad Bunny’s World’s Hottest Tour 🐰, which is on track to be the highest grossing tour of the year, having raked in $31.5 million (!) from two shows at SoFi Stadium alone.  YHLQMDLG ✌🏽 tl;dr: * $96

The fintech SPACs are back (TWIF 11/20)

JD.com is going to market, Intesa Sanapolo sells its Nexi stake, and Thompson Reuters acquires SurePrep for $500 million

Who knew there was so much dental fintech? (TWIF 11/19)

Elsewhere: A fun FTX acquisition story, diverse partnership raises $25M, and our Dubai fintech meetup

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 19th Nov, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 19th Nov, 2022.

Announcing our partnership with Visa and TWIF Finnovation board! (TWIF 11/18)

Elsewhere, Unit is coming for corporate charge cards, Klarna is coming for shopping, and JP Morgan and Mastercard is coming for pay-by-bank products.

Signals Fintech Founders: Vergo’s Rich Kane on fintech competition & entrepreneurship

Signals Fintech Founders: Vergo’s Rich Kane on fintech competition & entrepreneurship

Hey Fintech Friends #11 ft Kiaan Pillay

Helen Femi Williams looks at the latest fintech news, discusses serious and non-serious fintech matters, and shares some of our most recent "Signals" article. This week's friend is Kiaan Pillay!

Beyond Two Percent: Episode Two - Closing the investing gap

In this episode, hosts Helen and Julie speak to Margot de Broglie, Co-Founder of Your Juno, and Katie Perry , General Manager Innovation at Public

TWIF UK & Europe (14/11) - Co-mingled. Colluding. Illiquid. Bankrupt. Hacked

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Spanish fintech funding is trending down, counter to last weeks trend of Portugal and Switzerland hitting record high’s in 2022.  Spain’s fintech funding is projected to fall over 50% from 2021’s $985m level. The crypto industry faces its toughest challenge yet with

This Week in Fintech Latam (13 Nov)

Hola amig@s fintech, As we go through a massive market turmoil, and venture vibes seem a bit off, it’s a great time to remember that creativity is unlimited and communities are where magic happens✨ Jorge here, gearing up for a busy and exciting NFT Art Week in CDMX

No buyer materializes for FTX (TWIF 11/13)

And Bill.com, Worldline, and Tribal all go shopping for fintech acquisitions.

Late-stage fintech multiples are climbing back up to 2-3x revenue (TWIF 11/12)

Hello Fintech Friends, We’ve noticed from our own investing that pre-seed valuations are coalescing around $5-15M, while seed rounds are slightly broader at $12-25M. Obviously, there are a few outliers in both directions (as evidenced by some of the rounds below…) Is this consistent with what others are seeing?

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 12th Nov, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 12th Nov, 2022.

What impact will the FTX collapse have on fintech and financial services? (TWIF 11/11)

Elsewhere: Latin American fintechs are on fire! And JP Morgan continues to launch new products.

Signals: When it rains in crypto....

This Month in Fintech - China (October’22)

This Month in Fintech - China (October’22) Hello Fintech friends, The much anticipated Fintech Formal is happening tomorrow night (11/11) at the Metropolitan Club. Please get ready to meet some awesome fellow fintech folks and check out the exciting things that are happening in the fintech world! We

This Week in Policy (11/7)

Hello Fintech Friends! We have an eventful week ahead! Tomorrow, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested. Observers wonder if U.S. voters will renew their confidence in the Biden administration or take America in another direction.

TWIF UK & Europe (07/11) - Two European countries hit record fintech investment in 2022

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Switzerland and Portugal’s fintech ecosystems have hit record high investment already in 2022. Portugal’s fintech sector surpassed €1bn in investment in 2022, the first time. Fundraising was dominated by blockchain and crypto companies. In Switzerland, fintech investment is projected to surpass $1.1bn.

This Week in Fintech Latam (06 Nov)

The first winter World Cup ever is almost here! I’m sure we can still find more coincidences to point out before Nov 20. Andrea here, writing from my boarding gate to Bogota after an incredible few days in Cali. I have a feeling this month is going to be

Another tax software provider gets snapped up for $720 million (TWIF 11/6)

Hello Fintech Friends, What do people think the first order of business will be at the OCC’s new Office of Financial Technology? Help us nominate our 2022 Fintech Formal Awards winners below: Please find another week of fintech exits and deep reads below. Sponsored Content Rutter is a Universal

Fintech funding dropped 38% last quarter, but Portugal passed €1 billion raised (TWIF 11/5)

Hello Fintech Friends, With layoffs and hiring freezes starting to roll through the fintech industry, we’d love to know how we can help. We curate a Talent Collective - an anonymized community of fintech specialists and legends looking for their next roles - open for employers to look through.

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 05th Nov, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 05th Nov, 2022.

All the banks now want their own crypto platforms (TWIF 11/4)

Hello Fintech Friends, We are a week away from our annual Fintech Formal, and this year, we’re partnering with the Make A Wish Foundation to transform lives, one wish at a time. Help us create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses by donating here. And hope to see

Hey Fintech Friends #10 ft Kurt Lin

Helen Femi Williams looks at the latest fintech news, discusses serious and non-serious fintech matters, and shares some of our most recent "Signals" article. This week's friend is Kurt Lin!

This Week in Policy (10/31)

Dia dhaoibh a chairde fintech! It is Halloween! So, think of where All Hallows Eve was originally celebrated before it turned into modern-day Halloween! As always, if you are not yet subscribed to the Policy Edition of This Week in Fintech, make sure to subscribe below and also manage which

TWIF UK & Europe (31/10) - What will Rishi Sunak mean for fintech in UK?

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, The UK welcomed a new Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, recently, but what does that mean for fintech? Check out this good summary of his track record so far and Wise’s Adnan Chowdhury has three ideas the new PM could tackle. Please find another week

This Week in Fintech Latam (30 Oct)

Happy Halloween and Día de Muertos!  With two months left of the year, also a great time to do some reflection.  Check out this framework from VC investor Sahil Bloom. tl;dr: * $43.6 million in venture financing. * $792 million in seed investment has been deployed in Latam as of

This Week in Fintech - Exits and Deep Reads (10/30)

Hello Fintech Friends, We have a couple spots left for our our private NYC dinner this Tuesday with SoftServe (featuring a Michelin star chef). If you’re a CIO, CTO, COO, or engineering leader at a bank or Series A+ fintech, we’d love to have you join! Reach out

This Week in Fintech - Fundraises (10/29)

Hello Fintech Friends, A couple weeks ago, we announced our online fintech community at thisweekinfintech.com/community Since we announced it, we’ve grown to over 5,000 members (with 200+ signing up in the last couple weeks) but this is just where our work begins! There is so much

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 29th Oct, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 29th Oct, 2022.

This Week in Fintech (10/28)

Hello Fintech Friends, This week, I attended another exceptional Money2020 (I’ve seen estimates that between 15k and 20k fintech enthusiasts were there with me). I have a few thoughts and reflections from the conference which I’ve added in their own section below. As a result, you can expect

This Week in Policy (10/24)

Hej fintech vänner! Trying to guess the language? Think of the country that is not only the first issuer of banknotes in Europe but also the current world leader in phasing them out and going cashless. Not sure yet? Think the Nobel Prizes. As always, if you are not yet

The state of European fintech looks bleak (24/10)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, We’re also excited to share Make A Wish 🌟 as the official non-profit partner of this year’s Fintech Formal. Help us spread the love on 11/11 and make a wish come true! We’ve set out a $20,000 fundraising goal and I

Brazil fintech regulation for the win: from 57% to 86% banked

23 Oct 2022

India is putting its $8 billion state bank up for sale (10/23)

Also: Avalara tax gets scooped up for $8.4 billion and Mediobanca goes on a fintech buying spree

Fintech fundraises are still happening - but they're smaller (10/22)

27 new rounds announced this week, with $200 million to a Colombian neobank.

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 22nd Oct, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 22nd Oct, 2022.

Banks are launching more fintech products than fintechs (10/21)

In other news: Would you spend a Nubank Coin? And what got into the water at Plaid?

Signals: Business financial management intensifies

Hey Fintech Friends #9 ft Kirill Gertman

Helen Femi Williams looks at the latest fintech news, discusses serious and non-serious fintech matters, and shares some of our most recent "Signals" article. This week's friend is Kirill Gertman!

This Week in Policy (10/18)

Hello Fintech Friends! This past week offered a glimpse of what the coming weeks will look like for crypto policy as we move closer to the midterm elections. We are seeing less action on the Hill and more policy updates coming from the executive branch. Crypto policy professionals are making

This Week in Fintech UK & Europe (17/10)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, A few weeks ago This Week in Fintech announced, in partnership with Sila, the rebrand of the 5,000 member Global Finnovation slack community to TWIF Finnovation! We have a long list of resources, launches, and community initiatives that we’ll be releasing to members

Banks are buying fintechs, and fintechs are buying fintechs (10/16)

Hello Fintech Friends, The year is slowly drawing to a close, but you can find us in Las Vegas for Money2020, New York for a small group dinner, and Cape Town for Africa Tech Summit in the next month, all at https://lu.ma/twif (oh, and also at the

This Week in Fintech Latam (16 Oct)

Hola amig@s fintech, Libra season is almost over, where’s my Scorpio crew? Jorge here with the hottest fintech news reporting from rainy Mexico City🌧️ Shoutout to writer dream team Andrea, Elena, Daniela, and *virtual hugs* to Christine, who is celebrating her birthday somewhere in France. That being said,

This Week in Fintech - 33 New Fundraises (10/15)

Hello Fintech Friends, We had a big day yesterday, announcing the first episode of our second podcast, Beyond Two Percent! Beyond Two Percent analyzes the critical questions, issues, and dynamics that affect people differently by gender - and the intersection of those dynamics with finance. Our guests join our two

Beyond Two Percent: Episode One - Navigating Motherhood and a Career

We're excited to announce the first episode release of our new podcast, Beyond Two Percent!

This Week in Fintech (10/14)

Hello Fintech Friends, If you missed it last week - we officially launched our online community at www.thisweekinfintech.com/community and we would love to hear back from you: what would you want us to build in this community? We’re also excited to share Make A Wish ✨ as

Signals Q3'22: A macroeconomic vibe check

This Week in Policy (10/10)

Ya'at'eeh … Our greeting is abbreviated this week in observance of Indigenous Peoples' Day in the U.S. Wondering about the language? Think of the largest indigenous group in the U.S. as per the 2020 U.S. Census. And you can learn how to pronounce it here. As always, if

This Week in Fintech UK & Europe (10/10)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Please find another week of fintech news, financings and exits below. This Week in Fintech is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support us, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Please also share with your friends and colleagues. Subscribe Sponsored Content The

This Week in Fintech Latam (9 Oct)

Hola amig@s fintech, LOOK UP! The October night skies have a few tricks and treats in store for stargazers over the coming weeks 🔭🌟. Fun fact: This month’s full moon is at its peak today... so look for it low over the horizon around sunset, and you will see

This Week in Fintech (10/9)

Hello Fintech Friends, I’d be curious to hear people’s thoughts on a few recent payments practice updates. A Canadian settlement will allow merchants to add a surcharge up to 2.4% on credit card transactions, to help them recoup lost revenue from fees. Is this defensible? And PayPal

This Week in Fintech (10/8)

Hello Fintech Friends, Excited to share that we’ll be hosting our first event in Jakarta this coming week! Join us on October 12th. (Or in Austin, New York, and DC.) It’s been an interesting quarter in fintech investing; we’ll have our newest Signals out next week to

This Week in Fintech (10/7)

Hello Fintech Friends, Today, we’re excited to make an announcement about the next phase of This Week in Fintech’s growth: our global online community. As a team, we’ve been long-time members of the Global Finnovation fintech group, an online fintech community with close to 5,000 members,

Signals Fintech Founders: Kasa’s Roman Pedan on 3 Keys for early stage founders

This Month in Fintech - China (September ’22)

Hello Fintech friends, It’s the This Month in Fintech - China time again! In this edition, you’ll read about China’s recent efforts in promoting the internationalization of the Chinese Yuan, in addition to other banking and fintech news. I also included an interesting article on China’s

Hey Fintech Friends #8 ft Christina Melas Kyriazi

Helen Femi Williams looks at the latest fintech news, discusses serious and non-serious fintech matters, and shares some of our most recent "Signals" article. This week's friend is Christina!

This Week in Policy (10/3)

Need a hint? Think of the official language of the country that is not only the largest oil producer worldwide but also the world’s most “anti-crypto” country! As always, if you are reading this but have not yet subscribed to the Policy Edition of This Week in Fintech, make

This Week in Fintech UK & Europe (03/10)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Please find another week of fintech news, financings and exits below. This Week in Fintech is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support us, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Please also share with your friends and colleagues. Subscribe Sponsored Content The

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 02nd Oct, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 02nd Oct, 2022.

This Week in Fintech (10/2)

Hello Fintech Friends, Anecdotally, fintech M&A seems to have taken off compared to relatively flat venture activity (by number of fundraises; the dollar value of raises has dropped). Our colleague Sophie Vo will go into the data behind this Q3 shift in our subscriber Signals edition, but at a

This Week in Fintech Latam (01 Oct)

Hola amig@s fintech, It’s the spookiest month of the year 🎃 Shout out to all the pumpkin latte enthusiasts! Andrea here, taking over for Christine this month, with the dream team: Elena, Daniela, and Jorge 🧡💜 tl;dr: * $48.5 million in fintech financing, including Bravium’s $19 million debt

This Week in Fintech (10/1)

Hello Fintech Friends, Question for everyone here - what's the most novel fintech product or concept that you've seen in the last year? Please find another week of fintech financing events below. If you’re an early-stage startup founder raising equity or debt, we may be able to help -

This Week in Fintech (9/30)

Hello Fintech Friends, We have a couple big announcements to make in the next few weeks 👀 Watch this space… And join us for our NYC Tech Week Meetup on October 12th! We’ll be partnering with the Stonks team, as well as Charley Ma, Jillian Williams, Serge Kassardjian, Vaibhav Puranik,

This Week in Policy (9/26)

Hello Fintech Friends! This week, we are back at reporting on crypto policy news after dedicating last week’s issue to the seven policy reports that were recently released by the Biden administration. The reports gave a fuller picture of the administration’s comprehensive approach to digital assets. As always,

Signals: Skip the teller- Digital banking in emerging markets

This Week in Fintech UK & Europe (26/09)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Exciting times as fintech is going mainstream with a Netflix show about the Wirecard scandal. Please find another week of fintech news, financings and exits below. This Week in Fintech is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support us, consider becoming a free

This Week in Fintech (9/25)

Hello Fintech Friends, 📢 In case you missed it, on Friday we revealed the venue for this year’s Fintech Formal: New York’s prestigious Metropolitan Club (below). The club was first formed when “new money” banker J.P. Morgan bought the property in 1891, but we think it’s time

This Week in Fintech Latam (25 Sep)

Hola amig@s fintech, What’s shakin’? 😵‍💫 😅 Happy Autumn or Spring Equinox depending which hemisphere you’re in.  Please help me welcome to our TWIF Latam crew the lovely Daniela Olavarrieta. 👋🏽 (Hot tip: she’s on the market for analyst roles). Tl;dr: * $848 million in fintech financing (equity + debt)

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 25th Sept, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 17th Sept, 2022.

This Week in Fintech (9/24)

Hello Fintech Friends, 🏙️🌴PSA: We’ve received 62 applications for our Dubai and Abu Dhabi Fintech Trek in December! We will start sending out invitations to attendees next week, but in the meantime, we would love to get a few more applications from people from diverse and traditionally underrepresented backgrounds

This Week in Fintech (9/23)

Hello Fintech Friends, 🏆 We’re opening up nominations for our Fintech Formal Awards to all of you! 🏆 Do you have a friend or colleague in fintech who you want to highlight, praise, or embarrass? Let them know by nominating them for an award - to be presented at our 2022

Hey Fintech Friends #7 ft Sasha Pilch

Helen Femi Williams looks at the latest fintech news, discusses serious and non-serious fintech matters, and shares some of our most recent "Signals" article. This week's friend is Sasha Pilch!

This Week in Fintech - Africa (9/19)

Moni Fintech Friends 👋🏽, (That's one way to say hello in Chichewa.) Here are this week’s Africa Fintech highlights: * Six fintech deals were announced for ~$22M in disclosed funding. * Bain published an interesting report on the embedded finance value chain. * There’s a new player in the African payments scene:

This Week in Policy (9/18)

Hello Fintech-enthusiasts! Last week was very busy in crypto land, not only because of the Merge, which ushers a new era for the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, but also because the Biden administration finally revealed significant aspects of its comprehensive approach to digital assets. Before we dive in, I would

This Week in Fintech UK & Europe (19/09)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, We’d  love to know how we can improve This Week in Fintech. Our team put together a quick survey to understand (1) what you like about our content, (2) what’s still missing, (3) what, if anything, you would change.Let us know what

This Week in Fintech (9/18)

Hello Fintech Friends, We’re looking for volunteers to join us for The Fintech Formal! If you’d be interested in helping us out from 3pm through the event on Friday, 11/11, drop us a line and let us know. (All volunteers get free tickets.) And congrats to Scott

This Week in Fintech (9/17)

Hello Fintech Friends, If you missed it, we’re headed to Dubai and Abu Dhabi at the end of the year to meet with the region’s fintech leaders. We’ve been overwhelmed by the response - already over 50 applications to join! - and we’ll start sending out

This Week in Fintech Latam (17 Sep)

Hola amig@s fintech, Happy Independence Day to Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Chile!  ¡Viva 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇸🇻🇨🇱! tl;dr: * $149.5 million raised (equity + debt) * Nubank to un-IPO from Brazilian exchange * More M&A: PayU + Ding, Western Union + Te Enviei, PayRetailers + Asamblo Please find below this week’s front page of Latam

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 17th Sept, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 17th Sept, 2022.

This Week in Fintech (9/16)

Hello Fintech Friends, We’re excited to take the wraps off something we’ve been planning for a while: our first Fintech Trek to Dubai & Abu Dhabi, taking place December 10th to 13th. For four days, we’ll bring together international fintech enthusiasts to meet with MENA financial leaders. We’

This Week in Fintech - Africa (9/12)

Mhoroi Fintech Friends 👋🏽, (That's one way to say hello in Shona.) Here are this week’s Africa Fintech highlights: * Two fintech deals were announced for ~$15M in disclosed equity funding. * McKinsey followed up last week’s must-read Fintech in Africa report with a new report on the Future of Payments

📢 This Week in Fintech - Announcements!

Hi fintech friends, We wanted to start your week off with a quick programming note from This Week in Fintech! There’s a lot happening behind the scenes and we’re excited to finally take the wraps off a few of our top-secret projects 🤫 Read on for more. Upcoming Events

This Week in Policy (9/12)

မင်္ဂလာပါ fintech ဝါသနာရှင်များ! Beautiful script, right? It is also the official language of a Southeast Asian country that witnessed a recent coup d'état and whose ousted government is seeking to use frozen funds to issue the first-ever “revolutionary” central bank digital currency (CBDC; yes,

This Week in Fintech UK & Europe (12/09)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, It’s been a busy week in the UK this week with a new Prime Minister and the sad passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, may she rest in peace. We also had the latest London Fintech Happy Hour sponsored by Fidel API last

This Week in Fintech Latam (09 Sep)

Hola amig@s fintech, Happy Sunday!  Just moved 🏡 this weekend so no internet yet.  Enjoy this newsletter written using all of my megas! Highlights: * $227.3 raised this week in fintech financing (equity + debt) * Argentinian M&A: Ualá acquires Ceibo Creditos and Nubi acquires Salary Flex * Binance is betting big

This Week in Fintech (9/11)

Hello Fintech Friends, 🎙️ This week on our podcast, Helen sits down with Giorgio Giuliani, product lead for UK merchant fintech provider SumUp, and talks through his philosophy of life. Give it a listen here! Subscribe (Psst - if you don’t have your Fintech Formal tickets yet, what are you

This Week in Fintech (9/10)

Hello Fintech Friends, 📰 We had a lot of news across The Fintech Fund portfolio this week! Griffin launched its new Verify BaaS identity API, Let’sBit’s concept card is now out in the wild, and Stitch announced their Stitch Scale Summit in Cape Town from October 13th-14th. 🌉 It was

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 10th Sept, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 10th Sept, 2022.

This Week in Fintech (9/9)

Hello Fintech Friends, 🇨🇳 Fintech in China can be an opaque topic for a westerner like myself, which is why I’m so excited about our new This Month in China edition, written by Ning Ye earlier this week. 📄We’d also love to know how we can improve This Week

This Week in Fintech - Africa (9/8)

Selam Fintech Friends 👋🏽, (That's one way to say hello in Amharic.) Apologies for the delay with this week’s TWIF Africa newsletter. That said, here are the week’s Africa Fintech highlights: * It was an interesting week for fintech funding on the continent with four deals announced for $13.3M

Hey Fintech Friends #6 ft Giorgio Giuliani

Helen Femi Williams looks at the latest fintech news, discusses serious and non-serious fintech matters, and shares some of our most recent "Signals" article. This week's friend is Giorgio Giuliani!

This Month in Fintech - China (August ’22)

Hi Fintech friends, Welcome to the latest edition of This Month in Fintech - China! In this edition, you’ll read about China’s recent efforts in digital currency as well as the slowing growth of tech companies, in addition to financing and product news. Voilà! Subscribe News of the

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This Week in Policy (9/6)

Hello fintech-enthusiasts. Happy Labor Day! If you are reading this but have not yet subscribed to the Policy Edition of This Week in Fintech, make sure to subscribe and also manage which other editions you are subscribed to! Remember the “cryptic” story about the future of cryptocurrency we discussed in

This Week in Fintech UK & Europe (05/09)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Chantal Swainston, PR manager at Wise has created The Heard, a women in fintech speaker index.  The initiative is bringing together women and non-binary people in the fintech industry who have put themselves forward for public speaking and other media opportunities. Check it out! I

This Week in Fintech Latam (03 Sep)

Hola amig@s fintech, Happy September!  Hope you had a great summer and welcome back to TWIF Latam!  We’re here with this week’s front page of Latam fintech news with Andrea on the venture and debt financing, venture funds, and exits beat while Elena brings you product launch

This Week in Fintech (9/4)

Hello Fintech Friends, We’re partnering with Ahmed Siddiqui, author of The Anatomy of the Swipe, on his new online course about payments and fintech. You can use promo code thisweekinfintech25 for 25% off the course - redeem it here. (I’ll be taking the course in the December cohort.

This Week in Fintech (9/3)

Hello Fintech Friends, 🌟A Fintech Formal Announcement, from Cristina🌟 We're here to help highlight, embarrass, and reward people for a year of hard work on 11/11. Is there a VC you think is the best in the business? A salesperson you think can sell anything to anyone? Or a

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 03rd Sept, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 03rd Sept, 2022.

This Week in Fintech (9/2)

Hello Fintech Friends, 🌅 I’ll be in SF next week, come by our meetup and say hi. 🇦🇪 We also have something big in the works for Dubai at the end of the year… more to share on that soon. 🎉 Lastly, we’re giving away a free ticket to Fintech Formal!

This Week in Fintech - Africa (8/29)

Sanibonani Fintech Friends 👋🏽, (That's one way to say hello in Zulu.) Here are this week’s Africa Fintech highlights: * It was a relatively slow fundraising week: just three relevant deals were announced for ~$7.4M in disclosed funding. * Binance was quite active across the continent: the crypto exchange launched local

This Week in Fintech UK & Europe (29/08)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, We have two upcoming happy hours in Europe in the new couple of weeks. Join us for a fintech happy hour alongside our hosts, TrueML, in Stockholm! Join us at the next London Fintech Happy Hour hosted alongside Fidel API. Please find another week of

This Week in Fintech (8/28)

Hello Fintech Friends, 🎙️ This week on our podcast, Helen sits down with Ray and Michael, co-founders of Fintech Fund portfolio co. Opareta., and tries out something new - letting them interview each other. Give it a listen here! 📰 Content Announcement: We’re splitting up this newsletter, which comes out on

This Week in Fintech (8/27)

Hello Fintech Friends, 🇸🇪 We are thrilled to be partnering with TrueML to host our first Stockholm Fintech Happy Hour next week on Thursday, September 1st. Join us by registering here. 🏆 We’re looking for one more person to join our Events team. This is a compensated, part-time role and you’

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 27th Aug, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 27th Aug, 2022.

This Week in Fintech (8/26)

Hello Fintech Friends, I wanted to take a moment to shout-out all our great writers and editors here at This Week in Fintech. If you don’t read them, you should definitely consider it. You can always adjust which newsletters you’re signed up for at #/portal/signup * This Week

This Week in Policy (8/24)

γεια σας λάτρεις του φιντεκ. Think the language the word “crypto” came from. Not sure? Here’s a noncryptic hint. This week’s post will be the last one that comes on Wednesday. Moving forward, the Policy Edition of This Week in Fintech will be published on Mondays. Subscribe to

Hey Fintech Friends #5 ft Ray Besiga & Michael Schwartz

Helen Femi Williams looks at the latest fintech news, discusses serious and non-serious fintech matters, and shares some of our most recent "Signals" article. This week's friend is Ray & Michael!

Signals: Rent is Rising – The Rent-A-Charter Model Just Got More Expensive

This Week in Fintech - Africa (8/22)

Editor’s Note After a long hiatus, we're back with a new edition of This Week in Fintech - Africa, written in Lagos, Nigeria, by Emeka Ajene, an Africa Tech expert with nearly a decade of diverse on-the-ground experience across the African startup ecosystem as a founder, operator, board advisor,

This Week in Fintech UK & Europe (22/08)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Please find another week of fintech news, financings and exits below. This Week in Fintech is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support us, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe Sponsored Content Want to be a This Week in Fintech -

This Week in Fintech (8/21)

Hello Fintech Friends, 😇 We’re proud to announce Halo Consulting as our latest Silver Sponsor for November’s Fintech Formal! 📰 Content Announcement: We’re splitting up this newsletter, which comes out on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, into three separate sections: * Headline News (Fridays) * Fundraises (Saturdays) * Exits & Deeper Reads (Sundays) You

This Week in Fintech (8/20)

Hello Fintech Friends, 💼 We could not be more excited to have business identity provider Middesk join us as a Gold Sponsor for the Fintech Formal this year! 📰 Content Announcement: We’re splitting up this newsletter, which comes out on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, into three separate sections: * Headline News (Fridays)

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 20th Aug, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 20th Aug, 2022.

This Week in Fintech (8/19)

Hello Fintech Friends, It’s been a busy week over here! 🇨🇳 This week, we launched the first issue of our new China Monthly Fintech Wrap-Up, written by Ning Ye. Sign up for it here. 👨‍⚕️ We are excited to share that Paytient will be joining us as a Gold Sponsor for

This Week in Policy (8/17)

สวัสดีผู้ที่ชื่นชอบฟินเทค! Hint: think of a Southeast Asian country that will soon pilot a retail central bank digital currency which will look very similar to the digital yuan. If you’re still stumped, think pad Thai! If you have not done so, do not forget

This Month in Fintech - China (July '22)

Editor’s Note Welcome to our newest issue: This Month in Fintech - China, written by Ning Ye! Born and raised in China, Ning is deeply passionate about the technology scene back home. She now lives in New York City with her husband and two crawfish. Ning brings 10+ years

Signals Fintech Founders: Qanlex’s Yago Zavalia on Building Fintech in Inefficient Markets

This Week in Fintech UK & Europe (15/08)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Please find another week of fintech news, financings and exits below. This Week in Fintech is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support us, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe Sponsored Content Want to be a This Week in Fintech -

This Week in Fintech (8/14)

Hello Fintech Friends, We would officially like to welcome payroll and employment verification provider Argyle as a Silver Sponsor for our upcoming Fintech Formal! Tickets are going fast, with all Earlybird and GA Early tickets sold out. 📰 Content Announcement: We’re splitting up this newsletter, which comes out on Fridays,

This Week in Fintech (8/13)

Hello Fintech Friends, We’re excited to share our investment from The Fintech Fund into Modern Life. Life insurance brokerage is a complex and broken business, and Modern Life is improving it for everyone with a simple UI for financial advisors. Elsewhere, I joined the Bain & Company fintech team on

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 13th Aug, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 13th Aug, 2022.

This Week in Fintech (8/12)

Hello Fintech Friends, We’d like to thank Fin Capital for joining us as a Fintech Formal Gold Sponsor! We’re excited to co-host fintech’s only annual black-tie event with the team in New York this November. 📰 Content Announcement: We’re splitting up this newsletter, which comes out on

This Week in Policy (8/10)

привет финтех-энтузиастам! Challenging hint: Think of the country that has recently expanded its ban on the use of digital assets for domestic payments, but still wants to use them for international payments. It also gave the world War and Peace (no pun intended)! Do not forget to subscribe to the

Hey Fintech Friends #4 ft Swati Chaturvedi

Helen Femi Williams looks at the latest fintech news, discusses serious and non-serious fintech matters, and shares some of our most recent "Signals" article. This week's friend is Swati Chaturvedi

This Week in Fintech UK & Europe (08/08)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, TWIF UK & Europe is back after a short, but very hot, summer break. Please find another week of fintech news, financings and exits below. If you are reading this but haven’t already subscribed, you can click below 🙏 Subscribe Don’t forget to also share

This Week in Fintech (8/7)

Hello Fintech Friends, If you’re in Los Angeles, we’re hosting a meetup next Tuesday, August 16th! We keep hearing from people that they didn’t realize we have a fintech investment fund, so here are the details: * The Fintech Fund * A $10 million venture capital investor in the

This Week in Fintech (8/6)

Hello Fintech Friends, We’re officially sold out of Early GA tickets for the Fintech Formal, fintech’s one and only end-of-year black tie event. If you haven’t grabbed yours yet, they’re going quickly at https://www.fintechformal.com/rsvp Check out the recap video below from our

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 06th Aug, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 06th Aug, 2022.

This Week in Fintech (8/5)

Hello Fintech Friends, If you’re in Lagos and haven’t signed up for our August 25th happy hour yet, we’re getting near capacity, with over 200 tickets sold 🍻 We’re also starting to look for a Social Media Manager to join the team at This Week in Fintech.

This Week in Policy (8/3)

Hint: It is the home country of the most expensive rug in the world! It is also the country in relation to which Kraken, the U.S.-based crypto exchange, has been under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department since 2019 for potential non-compliance with U.S. sanctions. Starting

This Week in Fintech Latam (31 July)

Hola amig@s fintech, Enjoy this newsletter - we’re going to be taking a short summer break 🏝 for the month of August.  If you want to get involved with our community via the newsletter or events around Latam, give me a shout! Please find below this week’s front

This Week in Fintech (7/31)

Hello Fintech Friends, Calling all LatAm Fintech Readers! If you’re not getting Christine’s weekly overview of all the fintech news from Latin America, you’re missing out: Subscribe here. (And manage which newsletters you’re subscribed to here.) Also, if you haven’t yet checked it out, our

This Week in Fintech (7/30)

Hello Fintech Friends, We’re hosting our 2022 Lagos Fintech Meetup at Bayroot Bar & Lounge on Thursday, August 25th. Come join us, pick up your ticket here. Please find another week of fintech financing events below. Subscribe If you’re an early-stage startup founder raising equity or debt, we may

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 30th July, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 30th July, 2022.

This Week in Fintech (7/29)

Hello Fintech Friends, This November 11th, we’ll be back in New York for the Second Annual Fintech Formal, featuring awards, music, games, prizes, secret rooms, and more. Even though last year’s venue, The Central Park Boathouse, is closing down, we’ve found an even more spectacular (and historic)

This Week in Policy (7/27)

हैलो फिनटेक-उत्साही. Challenging for sure! Hint: not necessarily the home of chicken tikka masala but the country that imposes a 1% tax on all crypto transactions! If you are reading this but have not yet subscribed to the Policy Section of This Week in Fintech,

This Week in Fintech Latam (24 July)

Hola amig@s fintech, Please find below this week’s front page of Latam fintech news, written to the sounds of 🎙Ella Fitzgerald and brought to you by Andrea Luna on VC & debt financing, venture funds, and exits, and Elena Cruz on product launches & partnerships, other news, policy, and deeper

This Week in Fintech (7/24)

Hello Fintech Friends, Please find another week of fintech exits and deep reads below. If you’re looking to hire from a group of 10,000+ smart, motivated fintech professionals, come pick up a Collective Pass and post a job here. If you’re looking for your next adventure at

This Week in Fintech (7/23)

Hello Fintech Friends, We’re looking for a China Fintech Editor (especially in-light of recent events), who can write a weekly newsletter covering all things China fintech for us. Know anyone who fits the bill? Let us know! Please find another week of fintech financing events below. If you’re

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 23rd July, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 23rd July, 2022.

This Week in Fintech (7/22)

Hello Fintech Friends, I want to find the right cadence for a weekly newsletter at This Week in Fintech. At the beginning, this newsletter was a 1x / week standalone Friday email. Over time, fintech news started growing by such an order of magnitude that I had to break out VC

This Week in Policy (7/20)

Ciao appassionati di fintech! Need a hint? Well, what is the singular of cannoli? And where do they come from? FYI, you can now subscribe to the Policy Section of This Week in Fintech by clicking below! Subscribe Now! This week’s post is Part 2 of 2 of our

Signals Q2’22: You mean a *payment* crossed this border?

Hey Fintech Friends #3 ft Wiza Jalakasi

Helen Femi Williams looks at the latest fintech news, discusses serious and non-serious fintech matters, and shares some of our most recent "Signals" article. This week's friend is Wiza Jalakasi!

This Week in Fintech UK & Europe (18/07)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Just to let you know there will be no TWIF UK & Europe for the next two weeks ( 25th July and 1st August) but we will return to normal service on 7th August. Hope you all manage to stay cool in the meantime. Please find another

This Week in Fintech Latam (17 July)

Hola amig@s fintech, Happy Everybody Deserves a Massage Week 💆🏽‍♀️ — indeed we do!  Please find below this week’s front page of Latam fintech news. tl;dr: * $455 million in fintech financing (equity + debt) * VC investment in Latam & Caribbean fintech down 60% from $3 billion in Q1 ‘22 to $1.

This Week in Fintech (7/17)

Hello Fintech Friends, Please find another week of fintech exits below. Sponsored Content Fintechs are the hottest targets for fraud. Watch this in-depth chat with fraud experts from Lili Bank and Paypal as they discuss how fintech Risk & Compliance leaders can take control of fraud via building robust fraud management

This Week in Fintech (7/16)

Hello Fintech Friends, For anyone in the mood for a warm-weather fintech meetup, we have two opportunities around the corner in SF and NYC. Come join us at https://lu.ma/twif PS: Did you know we run our own Fintech Talent Collective? Please find another week of fintech financing

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 16th July, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 16th July, 2022.

This Week in Fintech (7/15)

Hello Fintech Friends, This week, we published our first installation in our new interview series, written by FirstMark Capital’s Desmond Fleming. This week, he talks with Decimal co-founder Matt Tait about fundraising during a downturn and all things fintech. Check out the full interview here. Tickets are also moving

This Week in Policy (7/13)

Hello fintech-enthusiasts! As promised last week, this week we take a deep dive into two landmark crypto legislations that were politically approved in the EU on June 29th and June 30th: The Transfer of Funds Regulation (TFR) and the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA). Due to their expansive nature, coverage

Signals Fintech Founders: Decimal’s Matt Tait on Fundraising During a Downturn

This Week in Fintech UK & Europe (11/07)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Please find another week of fintech news, financings and exits below. If you are reading this but haven’t already subscribed, you can click below 🙏 Subscribe Don’t forget to also share with colleagues and friends! Sponsored Content Europe's anti-money laundering regulatory frameworks are evolving.

This Week in Fintech Latam (10 July)

Hola amig@s fintech, Adding up the total fintech funding reported via TWIF Latam, 1H22 closed out at $3.96 billion including equity and debt.  Shout out to Andrea Luna for this speedy summation! 🙌🏽  In the first half of this year, we also hosted seven events in four cities, with

This Week in Fintech (7/10)

Hello Fintech Friends, Will we see you in a couple weeks at our NYC picnic? 🙃 I’ll be traveling for the next week, so the weekly newsletter will be a bit lighter, but see you all for a fintech news deluge on the other side. Please find another week of

This Week in Fintech (7/9)

Hello Fintech Friends, If you missed it, we released our second podcast episode of Hey Fintech Friends this week, speaking with Pierre Whatley of FS Vector. Listen to Helen’s interview here and let us know who else we should be talking to by reaching out to helen@thisweekinfintech.com!

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 09th July, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 09th July, 2022.

This Week in Fintech (7/8)

Hello Fintech Friends, We would love to have you nominate your favorite builders for our Builders Series to highlight the folks behind the fastest growing fintech companies. Think about the folks who rarely get the spotlight for their hard work, the people who put in the grind and churn out

This Week in Policy (7/6)

Hola entusiastas de fintech! When you do magic, whether you are Cinderella’s fairy godmother or France, it should all end by midnight. Before the end of its presidency of the European Council on June 30 at midnight, France worked its magic by getting the European Parliament, Council, and Commission

Hey Fintech Friends #2 ft Pierre Whatley

Helen Femi Williams looks at the latest fintech news, discusses serious and non-serious fintech matters, and shares some of our most recent "Signals" article. This week's friend is Pierre Whatley!

This Week in Fintech UK & Europe (04/07)

Hello TWIF UK & Europe friends, Please find another week of fintech news, financings and exits below. If you are reading this but haven’t already subscribed, you can click below 🙏 Subscribe Don’t forget to also share with colleagues and friends! Sponsored Content Europe's anti-money laundering regulatory frameworks are evolving.

This Week in Fintech (7/3)

Hello Fintech Friends, We miss you all and we want to see you in-person ❤️ Join us at our upcoming  SF Summer Social on July 21st and our NYC Fintech Picnic on July 23rd! Please find another week of fintech exits below. If you’re looking to hire from a group

This Week in Fintech Latam (02 July)

Hola amig@s fintech, Is anyone else watching The Hidden Lives of Pets on Netflix? 🙀 Rats driving cars, goldfish playing soccer (football), dogs who ‘talk’ – absolutely astonishing what our animal friends are capable of!  Here’s my gal who is bravely and quickly recovering from a wee car accident.  Thanks

This Week in Fintech (7/2)

Hello Fintech Friends, We miss you all and we want to see you in-person ❤️ Join us at our upcoming  SF Summer Social on July 21st and our NYC Fintech Picnic on July 23rd! We’re also excited to welcome Alex Gillette to This Week in Fintech’s team! Alex currently

This Week in Fintech - Asia | 02nd July, 2022

Fintech news, updates and fund raise announcements from Asia for the week ending 02nd July, 2022.

This Week in Fintech (7/1)

Hello Fintech Friends, Last week, New York hosted an ebullient Pride Parade, as the city and country both move beyond the era of covid lockdowns. And yet - the celebration equality was not without an ominous undertone following the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Fintech

This Week in Policy (6/29)

Hallo Fintech-Enthusiasten! Who doesn’t love pretzels? Last week, we talked about the crypto winter and why we should expect to see more liquidity crises, crypto runs, and legal proceedings. Well, another failure episode of crypto ventures happened this week with the default of the prominent crypto hedge fund Three