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We're looking for a Content Manager to join the team at Stablecon!

Want to build the next generation of payments events? The Junior Content Manager supports the planning, creation, and publishing of content for a quickly-growing stablecoin brand. This role is ideal for an early-career creator with strong writing skills, a genuine interest in digital assets and financial technology, and enthusiasm for events and a/v content.

Job Description- Junior Content Manager | Rachel Morrissey | 12 comments

Hey All! Hiring alert! I am looking to hire a Junior Content Manager for Stablecon! I’m looking for someone extremely hungry to do great work with the enthusiasm to be part of building a company. Please let me know if you recommend anyone! The gist of the role is as follows: The Junior Content Manager supports the planning, creation, publishing, and optimization of content for a brand focused on stablecoin conferences and fintech podcasts. This role is ideal for an early-career creator with strong writing skills, a genuine interest in digital assets and financial technology, and enthusiasm for events and audio/video content. The Junior Content Manager will work closely with senior content and marketing leads to grow an engaged audience of founders, regulators, payment providers, and ecosystem partners. | 12 comments on LinkedIn

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Stat of the Week

Fedwire Funds Service, the U.S. Federal Reserve's real-time gross settlement system, settles over $4.7 trillion in wire transfers daily, and migrated to the ISO 20022 messaging format this year — the same standard used by SWIFT. The move enables faster, more machine-readable, and more automated transactions, improving efficiency across payments.

Venture Financing

• Plata raised $500 million to launch a digital bank, marking the largest private funding ever raised by a Mexican fintech.
• RedotPay raised $107 million in Series B to expand its stablecoin-based payments infrastructure.
• Octane raised $100 million in Series F to grow digital financing for recreational purchases like powersports (motorcycles, ATVs), RVs, and outdoor equipment.
• Informed.IQ raised $63 million in growth equity to advance its AI-powered loan verification and fraud prevention platform.
• CapRelease raised $36 million to drive international and domestic expansion of its embedded working capital funding platform.
• Thread raised $30.5 million to grow its embedded banking platform and expand deposit, lending, and partner integrations.
• IMTC raised $12 million in Series A funding to boost development of its portfolio and order management software for fixed-income desk.
• Skydo raised $10 million in Series A to expand its international payments platform and fix hidden fees, slow settlements and compliance challenges in India.
• AIR raised $6.1 million in seed to modernize private credit ratings with its AI-powered credit intelligence platform.
• Tuhk raised $6 million in seed to grow its real-time data collaboration platform, improving fraud prevention and payments efficiency, as it preps for a market debut.
• Bon Credit raised $3.5 million in seed to support rollout of a mobile app focused on Gen Z credit and debt management.
• Vizmark raised $430,000 in a pre-seed round to automate portfolio operations for emerging and mid-sized private market investors.
• United Fintech secured a strategic investment from Barclays to grow its fintech infrastructure and ecosystem for financial institutions, asset managers and wealth managers.
• Transparency Analytics completed its second funding round to accelerate its private credit benchmarking and analytics platform.
• Sporta raised £122,923 (~$164K) from community investors to become the leading bank that powers sport, leisure and wellbeing.
• Mesa raised

Debt Financing

• i80 Group secured a $300 million credit facility with Brim Financial to offer funding-as-a-service for enterprises, fintechs, credit unions and banks, modernizing their payments products.
• PayJoy secured a $140 million corporate debt facility with Neuberger Berman to enable customers in emerging markets to purchase smartphones on installment plans.

Venture Funds

• Viola Ventures raised $250 million for two new venture funds to invest in early and growth-stage Israeli startups across AI, fintech, cyber, quantum and defense sectors.
• Ventures Platform raised its second fund with $64 million to back early-stage fintech, AI, health tech, agtech, and edtech startups in Africa.
• Accion Ventures closed a $61.6 million fund dedicated to early stage fintech companies meeting the needs of financially underserved people in Africa and globally.
• Step Venture raised a €30 million (~$35.1 million) fund targeting seed-stage Italian companies, including fintech, healthtech, and B2B software.

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