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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Invests In Chipper Cash In Latest African FinTech VC Deal

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African FinTech Chipper Cash has landed a whale of an investor. Chipper CEO Ham Serunjogi confirmed on Twitter the startup, which got its initial foothold in the market as a peer-to-peer (P2P) payments service, has just wrapped up a $30 million Series B round of venture capital. Ribbit Capital, a VC firm in the U.S.

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4 Startups to Watch: Templum, AppZen, NKM Capital, and More

Bank Innovation

EXCLUSIVE- With mobile banking, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and other modern banking tools on the rise, the emergence of new players in the fintech space is a daily occurrence With that in mind, here are five startups to keep an eye on this week: Templum ICOs, or Initial Coin Offerings, are growing more and more popular […].

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Fintech Deals to Watch: Growing in the Digital World

Gonzobanker

Hot embers continue to glow in the fintech market that GonzoBanker mothership Cornerstone Advisors serves. According to CB Insights, US fintechs raised $14.6B Some perspective on how fast this fintech market is moving: Fintech Labs tracks 269 $1B+ valued fintech unicorns that have been founded in just the past two decades.

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UK FinTech Seeks License To Bank Crypto Firms

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London FinTech startup DAG Global is going after the first merchant bank license in the U.K. that serves cryptocurrency businesses, multiple reports indicated on Monday (Feb. For a number of cryptocurrency companies , lack of access to capital is a problem, and these firms turn to “shadowy middlemen” to meet their financial needs.

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Bank Innovation’s Picks for Top 5 Trends in Fintech in 2017

Bank Innovation

EXCLUSIVE — The year of 2017 has been marked with more than a few good and not-so-good trends: but we’ll stick to fintech.

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Bitcoin Daily: Japan's SBI VC Trade Debuts Crypto Lending; Bitcoin Closes In On All-Time High

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million, CoinDesk reported, the first IPO to use cryptocurrency as an accepted currency. FinTech STAX, a capital-raising platform that accepts both dollars and cryptocurrency, helped WCA raise the funds. “We million of the funds, 89 percent of the total, were paid with the stablecoin tether.

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Becoming a “Bahama Mama” Crypto-Style: A Closer Look at The Digital Asset Landscape in The Bahamas

Perficient

Highlights From Federal Bank Regulators’ Joint Statement on Cryptocurrency Assets – Perficient Blogs. In 2022, FTX broke ground on its new headquarters in Nassau, the country’s capital. In April 2022, Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, hosted the invitation-only Crypto Bahamas Conference. Crypto Conference.