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FHFA announces Office of Financial Technology

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On July 18, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”) announced the launch of a new Office of Financial Technology with the goal of advancing effective risk management as it evaluates fintech developments in the housing finance space. In the introduction to the RFI, the FHFA noted President Biden’s March 2022 executive order.

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Ripple Closes $55 Million Venture Capital Round

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” Existing Ripple investors include GV (Google Ventures), Andreessen Horowitz, IDG Capital Partners and Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures. . “We’re thrilled to have these world-class investors joining forces with us to help make this vision a reality.” Ripple has received a total of over $93 million in funding.

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Fintech Deals to Watch: Fall Festivities

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Treasury management provider Dragonfly Financial Technologies launched independently from an ACI Worldwide sale. Core: Core-n Mazes and Hayrides FIS acquired embedded finance provider Bond Financial Technologies and announced plans to spin off merchant solutions (to be named Worldpay ).

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FinTech Sleek Lands $4M For Corporate Services Platform

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Financial technology company Sleek has reportedly netted $4 million in venture funding for its efforts to take on the traditional corporate services industry. SEEDS Capital , the investment arm of Enterprise Singapore , led the funding round, which also included MI8 Ltd.,

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Fintech Deals to Watch: Back to School

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Industry expert John Meyer digs deeply into the implications of this industry-changing rollup deal here. banks Rocket Companies acquired personal finance app Truebill in a $1.275B deal that launched Rocket Money Digital financial platform MoneyLion acquired embedded finance marketplace Even Financial.

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B2B Neobank Qonto Gets $115M In Series C Round

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It also plans to hire more employees with the capital. Challenger banks have been an attractive industry for venture capital activity, as firms continue to pop up and try to disrupt the status quo. Compliance startup Chainalysis landed $30 million in a funding round, and Open Financial Technologies raised $4.6

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Letter from the Editor: Bankers as Buyers 2020

William Mills

Dear Readers, The speed of change in financial technology has never been faster – nor has the rush to learn about it, foster it, and invest both capital and resources to achieve better performance. There are literally tens of billions of dollars budgeted for technology in the financial industry in the U.S.;