Fintech

Payments using facial recognition are growing in South Korea as the tech improves; South Korean fintech app Toss has scaled its “Facepay” service to 1M+ users (asia.nikkei.com)
1 day ago Korea Fintech Facial Recognition

Total global VC funding to fintech startups totaled $51.8B in 2025, up 27% YoY and above pre-pandemic totals, but much lower than 2021's peak of $141.6B (news.crunchbase.com)
6 days ago Fintech Startup

Polygon buys crypto startups Coinme and Sequence for a total of $250M+, as it seeks to bolster its stablecoin and fintech infrastructure and compete with Stripe (fortune.com)
8 days ago Fintech Startup

Fintech Firm Betterment Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Send Fake $10,000 Crypto Scam Messages (it.slashdot.org)
9 days ago Fintech

Source: OnePay, the fintech firm behind Walmart's “super app”, recently bought back shares from employees at a price that values the startup at more than $4B (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago Fintech Startup Walmart

Dutch fintech Bunq applies to become a US bank; the OCC conditionally approved national trust bank charters for several crypto firms in 2025, including Circle (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Fintech Netherlands

African fintech Flutterwave acquires Nigerian open banking startup Mono, sources say in an all-stock deal valued at $25M to $40M; Mono raised $17.5M since 2020 (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago Fintech Startup Africa Nigeria

Mumbai-based Knight Fintech, which builds core infrastructure connecting banks, lenders, platforms, and borrowers, raised $23.6M led by Accel (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
19 days ago Fintech

Sources: top Monzo shareholders, including Accel and Iconiq, are pushing to oust the fintech's Chair Gary Hoffman after the surprise departure of CEO TS Anil (www.ft.com)
2025-12-17 Fintech

Hong Kong-based RedotPay, a fintech focused on stablecoin-based payments, raised a $107M Series B led by Goodwater Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$200M (www.theblock.co)
2025-12-17 Hong Kong Fintech

Mexico-based fintech Plata raised up to $500M in a financing deal arranged by Nomura Securities International, as it moves toward becoming a full-fledged bank (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-16 Mexico Fintech

Dutch payments group Mollie agrees to acquire London-based fintech GoCardless for €1.5B, set to close in 2026; GoCardless was last valued at $2.1B in early 2022 (www.ft.com)
2025-12-12 Fintech Netherlands London

JPMorgan Chase Wins Fight With Fintech Firms Over Fees To Access Customer Data (news.slashdot.org)
2025-11-15 Fintech JPMorgan

JPMorgan Chase secures deals with fintech middlemen, like Plaid, covering 95%+ of third-party data pulls, and will receive payment for access to customer data (www.cnbc.com)
2025-11-15 Fintech JPMorgan

Japanese fintech JPYC launches a yen-pegged stablecoin, the country's first, and its issuance platform JPYC EX, targeting $65.4B in circulation in three years (www.theblock.co)
2025-10-27 Japan Fintech

Mexico-based fintech Plata, approved for a banking license in December 2024, raised $250M at a $3.1B valuation, as it seeks to transition to a full-fledged bank (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-18 Mexico Fintech

A judge sentences Frank founder Charlie Javice to 85 months in prison for defrauding JPMorgan Chase by overstating how many customers the fintech company had (www.cnbc.com)
2025-9-30 Fintech JPMorgan

Sources: Flipkart is investing $30M in its fintech unit Supermoney, after a $20M 2024 spin-off round; Supermoney disbursed $700M+ in loans via lending partners (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-24 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)
2025-9-7 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)
2025-9-6 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)
2025-9-5 Fintech

Hackers breach fintech firm in attempted $130M bank heist (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-9-3 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)
2025-8-16 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

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