Fintech

Dealroom: European VC deals are set to rise 3-4% YoY in 2025 to $57B, about the same as in 2023, driven by rising startup valuations in AI, fintech, and defense (t.co)
8 days ago Europe Fintech Startup AI

Source: Balderton Capital, one of Revolut's earliest VC backers, has sold ~$1B in shares through multiple transactions that valued the fintech company at $45B (t.co)
9 days ago Fintech

Lead Bank, a 97-year-old Missouri bank rebuilt to serve fintech and crypto firms, raised $70M from a16z, Khosla Ventures, and others at a $1.47B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Fintech

Hackers breach fintech firm in attempted $130M bank heist (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
12 days ago Fintech

The Federal Reserve continues its relaxation of crypto oversight by ending a program created in 2023 to scrutinize fintech and crypto activities by banks (www.coindesk.com)
30 days ago Fintech

Fintech, Crypto CEOs Urge US President To Block Banks' Data-Access Fees (news.slashdot.org)
2025-8-15 Fintech

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and 80+ fintech and crypto CEOs urge Trump to block US banks from charging fees to access customer data (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-14 Trump Fintech Shopify

Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $65.5M led by Tencent and VR Capital at a ~$1.5B valuation, up from $1.16B in March 2024 after a $114M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 VR Fintech Tencent

Spend management startup Alaan raised a $48M Series A led by Peak XV, one of the Middle East's largest Series A rounds for a fintech, after a $2.5M seed in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 Fintech Startup

Tyler Winklevoss claims JPMorgan paused crypto exchange Gemini's onboarding after he criticized the bank's data access fees for fintech and crypto companies (cointelegraph.com)
2025-7-27 Fintech JPMorgan

Sources: JPMorgan Chase told fintech companies it will start charging fees for access to customers' account data, which could drastically reshape the industry (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-12 Fintech JPMorgan

Wells Fargo Scandal Pushed Customers Toward Fintech, Says UC Davis Study (news.slashdot.org)
2025-7-4 Fintech

Spinwheel, which helps fintech companies and banks authenticate users, automate data retrieval, and facilitate payments, raised a $30M Series A led by F-Prime (www.axios.com)
2025-6-30 Fintech

Sources: Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky could get a multibillion-dollar payout if he drives the fintech's valuation to ~$150B, under an Elon Musk-style pay deal (t.co)
2025-6-23 Fintech Elon Musk

Filings: Bengaluru-based fintech Cred, which offers rewards for paying credit card bills and more, raised ~$72M at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.4B in 2022 (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2025-6-15 Fintech Credit Card

A profile of Airwallex co-founder Jack Zhang, who turned down Stripe's $1.2B offer seven years ago; the fintech is now valued at $6.2B and plans an IPO in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-6-12 IPO Fintech

A profile of Nigerian fintech PalmPay, which raised $140M+ from Transsion and other Chinese firms, says it has 35M+ registered users, and aims to be “super app” (t.co)
2025-6-5 China Fintech Nigeria

Global Payments says it will sell its Heartland Payroll Solutions unit, which has 50K+ clients, to Michigan-based fintech Acrisure for $1.1B, closing in H2 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2025-5-28 Fintech

The UK, which launched open banking in 2018, is seeing its fintech sector struggle to make open banking-powered payments a viable alternative to card payments (t.co)
2025-5-27 Fintech

Latin American e-commerce and fintech giant MercadoLibre reports Q1 revenue up 37% YoY to $5.9B, $494M in net income, and Argentina revenue up 125% YoY to $1.3B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-8 U.S. Fintech Latin America

Beauhurst: UK equity crowdfunding, once one of fintech's hottest trends, fell 58% from its 2021 peak to £335M in 2024, and dropped ~60% YoY in Q1 2025 to £42.6M (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-30 Fintech Equity Crowdfunding

CB Insights: fintech startups globally raised a combined $10.3B in Q1, the highest since Q1 2023; 19 US fintech startups have raised over $50M in 2025 so far (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-26 Fintech Startup

Leaked email: the US CFPB plans a 50% reduction in supervisory activities and a shift in focus from fintech companies back to traditional banks (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-18 Fintech

Fintech Founder Charged With Fraud After 'AI' Shopping App Found To Be Powered By Humans in the Philippines (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-4-11 Fintech AI Philippines

Sources: Italy is seeking €1.2B from fintech group ION following a probe by prosecutors in Bologna into alleged tax evasion over the 2013-2023 period (www.reuters.com)
2025-4-10 Italy Tax Fintech

Circle's S-1 shows that it is basically a fintech and that, as of December 31, 2024, ~85% of USDC reserves were held in a BlackRock-managed money market fund (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-3 Fintech

Prolific fintech VC and QED Investors co-founder Frank Rotman says he will become partner emeritus by the end of 2025 and focus on launching his own startups (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-30 Fintech Startup

Mercury, which helps startups manage their finances, raised $300M led by Sequoia at a $3.5B valuation; the fintech saw $2B in deposits after SVB's collapse (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-27 Fintech Startup

Sources describe the collapse of fintech middleman Synapse that left ~$200M in customer money frozen, with entities blaming each other for shoddy recordkeeping (fortune.com)
2025-3-9 Fintech

Renaissance Capital: 12 of 40 fintech firms that went public in the US since 2020 have given positive investor returns; only Shift4 and AppLovin are profitable (www.axios.com)
2025-2-22 Fintech

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