Connecting the dots in FinTech... by Marcel van Oost

Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here . Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS Stripe is making its bank transfer offering available to businesses in the UK, EU and Mexico. The Stripe infrastructure promises to take the friction out of bank transfers, saving businesses hun...

Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here . Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS This month, the South American country of Brazil unveiled a legislative bill that would allow cryptocurrency to be used as a payment method and prevent users' private keys from being used by the...

Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here . Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS Three months after announcing it would make a big push into software and enterprise, FinTech giant Brex is apparently abandoning the very segment it started out to serve – SMBs. Startup customer...

Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here . Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said that the company will reduce its workforce by 18% — nearly 1,100 people — to “stay healthy during this economic downturn.” JUST IN: Zopa is reportedly delaying...

Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here . Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS After Apple shook up the Buy Now, Pay Later market with news that it would now be a competitor to established firms, PayPal this morning is introducing another buy now, pay later product to foll...

Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here . Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS Bitcoin has crashed to its lowest level since December 2020 after one of the crypto-economy's largest lenders, Celsius Network, suspended withdrawals on Sunday. JUST IN: MoneyGram International...

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Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here . Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS Revolut is looking to hire an Investor Relations team, a move that could mark the starting gun on its long-awaited stock market listing. The job advert, published on Revolult's careers page, is...

Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here . Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS Not all fintech unicorns are cutting jobs. After Klarna announced plans to lay off 10% of its workforce Monday, some rival fintechs are making it clear that they have no intention of cutting job...

Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here . Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS Klarna is shifting its business away from growth and towards short-term profitability as the Swedish FinTech tries to raise capital and cuts 10 per cent of jobs due to fears of a looming recessi...

Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here . Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS One-click checkout startup Bolt has laid off at least 100 employees and counting across go-to-market, sales and recruiting roles, sources say. CEO Maju Kuruvilla⚡️ confirmed the workforce reduc...

Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here . Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS Fred Ehrsam purchased more than one million shares of Coinbase worth roughly $75 million, stepping in as the crypto exchange's stock price plunged following the company’s weak earnings report. H...

Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here . Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS J.P. Morgan shared a first look at the early success of its multi-million dollar bet on launching a challenger bank in the UK. Chase , which only launched in September 2021, has already reached...

Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here . Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS Block founder Jack Dorsey has told investors the acquisition of Afterpay will help it create a financial services and retailing platform that combines the company’s original payments services wi...