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African FinTech Payment Startup Chipper Cash Woos Investors, Including Joe Montana

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African FinTech payment startup Chipper Cash has attracted some high-profile investors and raised $2.4 The company has offices in Ghana and Nairobi, and it’s based in San Francisco. million in a funding round, according to a report in TechCrunch. It’s processed 250,000 transactions for upwards of 70,000 active users.

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Cred Crypto Lender Names PayPal Veteran As CFO

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He has 22 years of experience, most recently as a partner in the international law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, where he led the firm’s FinTech practice team. He is also a past chairman of the Financial Institutions Committee of the California State Bar, as well as a past president of the San Francisco Bank Attorneys Association.

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Does Fintech exit the UK with Brexit?

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As Brexit inches closer to its culmination date of March 2019, one unanswered question from the impending exit from the EU is will London still be seen as the ‘ capital of Fintech ” in Europe? The UK is currently facing its most serious challenge so far as the fintech hub of Europe. and Europe, the U.K.

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StanChart Deepens China Focus With Innovation Lab Launch

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7) that the Shanghai opening adds to Standard Chartered’s existing network of labs, which are open in Singapore, Hong Kong, Kenya, London and San Francisco. The latest lab will aim to promote collaboration between the bank’s employees, corporate clients and FinTech partners to develop new financial services for businesses.

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Digital Bank Chime Suffers Outage Affecting 5M Customers

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San Francisco-based Chime launched in 2013, offering debit cards, savings accounts and checking accounts to consumers without any fees. “Our payment processor has been experiencing issues today, resulting in our app + website being down,” Chime said in a tweet on Thursday (Oct. Earlier this year, it reached a valuation of $1.5

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

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Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. That’s enough to send normal people into the fetal position.

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PLI 25th Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute – 25% discount available

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The leadership and priorities of the CFPB, OCC, FDIC, and FTC have changed under the Trump Administration. The Institute is considered the country’s premier consumer financial services CLE program and this year’s Institute will once again explore in detail important developments in consumer financial services regulation and litigation.