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Brex Notches $150M To Advance Expense Management Tools

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FinTech startup unicorn Brex has closed a $150 million funding round led by previous investor DST and new investor Lone Pine Capital, Brex said in a statement on Tuesday (May 19). It instituted a rewards program and integrated contactless payments with Apple Pay and Google Pay.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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All-digital, all-tech lending platforms that could deliver better user experiences and faster credit decisioning would become the new normal and take share from banks who were too big and cost-laden to keep — or catch — up. All tout an easy user experience via a mobile app that helps users track and monitor spend.

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Voice-Activated Tracker: Let’s Talk About Banks

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In recent weeks, a number of financial institutions and FinTech providers have begun testing, introducing or adding upgrades to voice navigation functionalities for their banking customers. Santander went with the former, while FinTech startup D3 Banking recently unveiled an intelligent voice banking interface. In the latter camp, U.K.

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How To Better Served The Unbanked In Nigeria

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FairMoney recently raised $11 million in venture capital funding in a Series A round led by Flourish, a venture of The Omidyar Group, with DST Global and existing backers Newfund, Speedinvest and Le Studio VC also participating. FinTech is helping to transform daily consumer life in Nigeria and other developing markets. That’s not all.

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Neobank Joust Raises $2.6M To Improve Freelancer Payments

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The bank guarantees invoice payments and has a “PayArmour” feature for same-day funding, which is available as an app in Google Play and the Apple App Store. “We We are so excited to partner with PTB Ventures, Accion Venture Lab, Financial Venture Studio and Techstars,” Zarrad said. “At

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J.P.Morgan’s Quorum becomes part of ConsenSys

Lex Sokolin

You can see this thesis proven out by the massive revenues Google, IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft generate in their Financial Cloud divisions. You would not be able to design this user experience, nor this attention platform without a technology footprint that began with cloud computing and the Internet.

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IBM, Reliance Jio, and the chassis for digital finance

Lex Sokolin

If you mix together data hosting for financial services companies with machine vision, you might get Google Cloud launching Lending DocAI?—?a Or one that hosts a marketplace of interchangeable capital to compete for underwriting? If Jio launched a bank, we think it would have at least 2 million users. They are features.