Category: Fintech
Fintech
MWC: Ethiopian fintech eQub digitizes peer-to-peer credit
Ethiopian startup eQub won the fintech pitching battle at 4YFN 2024, the startup event of Mobile World Congress. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For [more…]
Spain’s Embat, which has raised $16M, plans to compete with Trovata in real-time accounting
For obvious reasons, financial teams can spend a great deal of time on corporate treasury management, accounting and bank reconciliation, so anything that speeds up [more…]
MoneyHash raises $4.5M for its payment orchestration platform serving merchants in MENA
The payment landscape in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region is marked by significant fragmentation, with numerous payment providers and methods in each country, [more…]
Vijay Shekhar Sharma steps down from Paytm Payments Bank board
Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and majority owner of Paytm Payments Bank, has stepped down from the board of the troubled unit days after the Indian [more…]
Google Pay takes its QR sound-box to small merchants in India after trial run
Google said Thursday it plans to roll out the SoundPod, its portable speaker designed to instantly validate and announce successful payments, to small merchants across [more…]
Grifin’s new model can automatically invest your money as you shop
Investing app Grifin today officially launched its anticipated investing model called “Adaptive Investing,” which enables you to automatically invest in your favorite brands that you [more…]
Zūm Rails takes in first capital to launch new banking-as-a-service, FedNow offerings
Zūm Rails manages the flow of money by verifying a customer’s identity, linking directly with bank accounts and facilitating payments via the method of the [more…]
Goldman Sachs bets on Simetrik’s payments infrastructure tech
Simetrik created the Simetrik Building Blocks, scalable and adaptable concepts based on no-code development and generative AI technologies. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For [more…]
Nigerian digital bank FairMoney in talks to buy Umba in $20M all-stock deal, sources say
FairMoney, a digital bank based in Lagos and headquartered in Paris, is in discussions to acquire Umba, a credit-led digital bank providing payroll and financial [more…]
Singapore-based fintech Xalts acquires digital trade platform Contour Network
In a role reversal, Xalts, a Singapore fintech startup founded 18 months ago, has acquired Contour Network, a digital trade platform set up by eight [more…]
