High interest rates and financial pressures make it more important than ever for finance teams to have a better handle on their cash flow, and several...
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Mercury’s latest expansions, wallet-as-a-service startup Ansa’s raise and more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and...
Chipper Cash, a pan-African fintech startup, has resumed operations in the US after a two-month pause, and after a restructuring exercise that saw the company remove...
Digital banking startup Mercury is layering software onto its bank accounts, giving its business customers the ability to pay bills, invoice customers and reimburse employees, the...
Thomas Li was working at Point72, the hedge fund founded by notorious investor Steve Cohen, when he realized that the financial industry relies heavily on manual...
When Itai Ben-Zaken’s first startup failed in 2018, the former BCG consultant and Wharton MBA spent months trying to understand what he could have done differently...
Cards are gaining ground in Egypt, with over 30 million in circulation (prepaid cards, particularly, are seeing more use than debit and credit cards combined). This...
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Nigerian young resident population now feels more mistrust and bewilderment, because of the FG’s recent attack against Nigeria’s crypto industry A crackdown on peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency...
Hans Tung, a managing partner at Notable Capital, formerly GGV Capital, has a lot of thoughts on the state of venture today. Notable Capital is a...
This article was contributed to TechCabal by Uzoma Dozie. I am going to do banking, but better. The vast majority of our current crop of African...
Ansa, a startup that helps merchants develop and offer branded virtual wallets, has raised a $14 million Series A round of funding, the company has told...
With the African tech ecosystem beset by a funding downturn, rising inflation, layoffs and startup shutdowns, the industry was off to a slow and uncertain start...
In the world of startups, it’s not uncommon to see talent from successful companies go on to found their own ventures. This is particularly evident in...
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Fundid’s founder shares how rising interest rates, VCs and partners killed the business finance startup Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Stripe’s big product...
Stripe, the fintech giant, continues to inch its way back into the cryptocurrency market. On Thursday the company announced that it would let customers accept cryptocurrency...
Open banking may be a global trend, but implementation is fragmented. The fintech startups doing the legwork to make it a reality in smaller markets could...
Paystand has acquired spend management software startup Teampay to create what the companies describe as a “no-fee B2B digital payment and spend powerhouse.” Financial terms of...
Stripe continues to hold the title of being the biggest financial technology business still in private hands, with a current valuation of about $65 billion and a...
Sanlo, a fintech startup that helps gaming companies manage finances, announced Wednesday the closed beta launch of its webshop tool, giving select game developers and studios...
India’s central bank ordered Kotak Mahindra Bank to immediately cease onboarding new customers through its online and mobile banking channels and to stop issuing fresh credit...
Winding down a startup can be bittersweet for founders. In the case of Fundid, rising interest rates killed the business finance startup. But VCs and partners...
Pomelo, a startup that combines international money transfer with credit, has raised $35 million in a Series A round led by Dubai venture firm Vy Capital,...
After a tumultuous year, banking-as-a-service (BaaS) startup Synapse has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and its assets will be acquired by TabaPay, according to the two...
When The Peer, a Nigeria-based API startup, shut down in April, the business still had up to twenty months of runway. The shutdown, which its founders...