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Robinhood restricts users from trading Dogecoin for the second day
Nickie Louise Posted On April 16, 2021


Robinhood, a commission-free trading platform, is back at what it does best: restricting users from trading surging assets. We all remember back in January when Robinhood restricted its users from buying surging stocks like GameStop, AMC Entertainment, and BlackBerry. Robinhood founder and CEO […]


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Crypto exchange startup Coinbase to go public tomorrow at a $100 billion valuation
Nickie Louise Posted On April 13, 2021


The crypto exchange startup Coinbase is what everyone is talking about. The startup’s highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) is finally taking place tomorrow when Coinbase is set to go public in a direct listing that could value the cryptocurrency exchange […]


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London-based fintech startup TrueLayer raises $70 million to take on Visa and Mastercard
Nickie Louise Posted On April 8, 2021


It’s been a while since we wrote about TrueLayer, a London, England-based fintech startup that builds universal APIs or application programming interfaces to allow companies to capitalize on new Open Banking initiatives in the UK, and beyond. TrueLayer lets fintech apps like […]


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Fintech startup and online lender SoFi launches Lantern to let you compare auto loan rates
Nickie Louise Posted On April 7, 2021


Early this year, we told you about SoFi after the fintech giant and the online loan startup company announced plans to go public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, backed by venture capital investor Chamath […]


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Fintech startup Stripe launches in UAE as it makes its push into the Middle East
Nickie Louise Posted On April 6, 2021


Just a little over two weeks after raising a whopping $600 million at a $95 billion valuation, Stripe makes its first expansion into the Middle East and North Africa with Dubai launch. The latest launch in UAE is part of the […]


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Goldman Sachs to start offering bitcoin, crypto, and other digital assets to wealthy investors
Nickie Louise Posted On March 31, 2021


With institutional support from banks, payment companies, and investors, cryptocurrencies like bitcoins are slowly moving towards global adoption. Yesterday, PayPal announced the launch of “Checkout with Crypto” to enable PayPal customers in the U.S. to checkout with cryptocurrency alongside other […]


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“Don’t defy DeFi,” Elon Musk tweeted
Nickie Louise Posted On March 25, 2021


For many months, we’ve been trying to get the word out there about how Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is going to change the world financial system as we know it. Now for the first time, millions of people around the world […]


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Greenwood, a digital banking startup for Blacks and Latinos, raises $40M from JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America Corp , Wells Fargo, Citigroup, others
Nickie Louise Posted On March 25, 2021


Greenwood, an Atlanta-based digital banking startup designed for Black and Latino consumers and businesses, announced today that it had raised $40 million from six of the seven largest U.S. banks and the top two payment technology companies: Truist, Bank of America, PNC, […]


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Crypto startup Blockchain.com rides bitcoin mania to a $5.2 billion valuation after raising $300M in funding
Nickie Louise Posted On March 24, 2021


Blockchain.com, a provider of cryptocurrency services, announced today it has raised $300 million in series C funding. The round, which now puts the company at a $5.2 billion post-money valuation, was led by partners of DST Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and […]


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London-based fintech startup Capdesk raises £5M Series A extension to help startups manage their cap tables and issue employee equity options
Nickie Louise Posted On March 17, 2021


Capdesk, a London, England-based equity management fintech startup has raised £5 million in Series A extension, led by Fidelity International Strategic Ventures and MiddleGame Ventures, the early-stage fintech venture firm. Capdesk enables privately-owned companies to manage their equity digitally via a […]


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Crypto trading marketplace eToro to go public through $10.4 billion SPAC deal backed by SoftBank, others
Nickie Louise Posted On March 16, 2021


Back in 2018, we wrote about eToro (formerly called RetailFx) after the blockchain startup pledged a $1 million fund to support a research initiative on humanitarian blockchain to reduce wealth inequality and it is recruiting partners. eToro, a social trading and investment marketplace […]


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Stripe raises a whopping $600 million at $95 billion valuation ahead of highly anticipated market IPO
Nickie Louise Posted On March 15, 2021


We wrote about Stripe when the digital payments behemoth acquired Nigeria’s fintech startup Paystack for over $200 million to expand its footprint in Africa. The startup continues to grow with no sign of slowing. Stripe now operates in 42 countries. Of this […]


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Crypto lender BlockFi raises a massive $350 million in funding at a $3 billion valuation
Nickie Louise Posted On March 11, 2021


We wrote about BlockFi back in August 2020 after the crypto lending startup raised $50M in Series C funding to provide digital asset-backed loans to crypto investors. A lot has changed since then and the company has been expanding its […]


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London-based Greensill Capital, a FinTech startup backed by SoftBank with $1.5 billion in 2019, faces bankruptcy and warns of defaults
Nickie Louise Posted On March 10, 2021


We wrote about Greensill in May 2019 after SoftBank invested $800 million in London, England-based FinTech startup. The company claims to be the world’s leading non-bank provider of working capital finance for companies globally. A lot has happened since our […]


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Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) is poised to disrupt the $8 trillion U.S. credit card payment industry
Nickie Louise Posted On March 6, 2021


Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is a new payment option that allows consumers to receive their purchase right away (Buy Now), either online or in-store, and then pay (Pay Later) for their purchase in installments. The BNPL model has also attracted millions […]


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FutureFuel.io, a tech startup founded by a female Fintech CEO, raises $10 million Series A1 funding led by UBS to end student loan debt
Nickie Louise Posted On March 3, 2021


FutureFuel is a New York-based FinTech startup that works with employers, financial institutions, and universities to deploy digital solutions to help students pay down their student loan debt. Today, FutureFuel announced it has closed a $10 million Series A1 round to accelerate product […]


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Government’s stratospheric borrowing throughout the pandemic is the nail in the coffin for value of money
Nickie Louise Posted On March 3, 2021


While everyone is talking about coronavirus pandemic, not very many are talking about the government’s stratospheric borrowing throughout the pandemic period. As of June 2020, the total U.S. debt surged to $55.9 trillion amid big increases in corporate and government borrowing, […]


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Israeli FinTech startup Earnix raises $75M in growth funding to accelerate global expansion; now at $1 billion pre-money valuation
Nickie Louise Posted On February 22, 2021


Earnix, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based FinTech startup and a provider of a software platform for pricing analytics and optimization used by insurance and retail banking organizations, today announced it has raised $75M in growth funding with a pre-money valuation of $1 billion. The […]


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Vlad Tenev, founder and CEO of free-trading app startup Robinhood, is reportedly hiding from angry client mobs at an undisclosed location following the GameStop trading chaos
Nickie Louise Posted On February 16, 2021


We’ve written many stories about GameStop, a struggling video game chain brick-and-mortar game store across the U.S, which went from losing $470 million to become a $7.05 billion company by market cap. It all started late last year when a […]


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Goldman Sachs is launching Marcus Invest, a digital wealth-management platform
Nickie Louise Posted On February 16, 2021


Before now, you would need to have at least $10 million in investible assets to draw the attention of wealth managers at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. That all changed in 2016 when Goldman Sachs launched Marcus, a mobile banking app […]


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