Category: Technology
Klarna credit card launches in the US as Swedish fintech grows its market presence
Klarna is launching its credit card in the United States, the Swedish fintech giant told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview. “It was one of our [more…]
India scrambles to curb PhonePe and Google’s dominance in mobile payments
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the governing body overseeing the country’s widely used Unified Payments Interface (UPI) mobile payment system, is set to [more…]
Flatpay rings up $47M to target smaller merchants with simple payment solutions
As the world waits for $65 billion payments tech giant Stripe to go public, a wave of smaller startups continues to roll into the market [more…]
Google Wallet appears in India, with local integrations, but Pay will stay
Google Wallet will finally launch in India — nearly two years after its relaunch as a digital wallet platform in the U.S. — according to [more…]
Finmid raises $24.7M to help SMBs access loans through platforms like Wolt
finmid is building an embedded finance product that targets that relationship between marketplaces and sellers, and raised a Series A round to further build out [more…]
Jio Financial and BlackRock to tap India’s wealth management and broking market
Jio Financial Services, part of the Indian conglomerate Reliance, is forming a joint venture with U.S. asset manager BlackRock to set up a wealth management [more…]
TechCrunch Fintech: Meet PayJoy, a fintech operating at the intersection of doing good and making money
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at how two fintech companies serving the underserved are faring, and more! To get a roundup of [more…]
How PayJoy built a $300M business by letting the underserved use their smartphones as collateral for loans
Lerato Motloung is a mother of two who works in a supermarket in Johannesburg, South Africa. After her phone was stolen, Motloung had to go [more…]
TransferGo raises $10M to expand its remittance business in Asia, doubling valuation
TransferGo, the UK-based fintech best known as a consumer platform for global remittances, has raised a $10 million growth funding round from Taiwan-based investor Taiwania [more…]
Fintech representation in YC’s Demo Days is definitely shrinking
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at just how many fintech companies made it into Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 cohort, how much funding [more…]
