In an interview with Fintech Review, FICO‘s Peter Lemon discusses the rapid digital transformation in finance for 2024. We delve into the anticipated progression of digital transformation in banking this year, as IT teams transition to becoming innovators and revenue generators. There is a shift towards enterprise-wide technology to...
Fintech exploded over the last five years. Startups in the category raised more than $350 million in VC funding from 2019 through 2023, according to data from CB Insights. Despite all that growth, Eric Gylman, the co-founder and CEO of Ramp thinks that the industry, and companies like his,...
Payments company Nala pivoted to offer remittance service in 2021, tapping the growing money transfer market in Africa, and demand for reliable and affordable services. Nala founder, Benjamin Fernandes, said they intended to build their products on this premise right from the outset. Over the last two years, the Tanzanian...
Miami-based Onyx Private, a Y Combinator-backed digital bank that provided banking and investment services for high-earning Millennials and Gen Zers, is terminating its bank operations. In a March 13 email to a customer viewed by TechCrunch, with a subject line that read: “Important Notice: Termination of Bank Operations and Account...
Stripe’s annual letter provides the outline of a business that is healthy and growing. Stripe is sufficiently large that when we consider its growth we have to weigh it against the overall growth in the payment space more generally. By that measure, the company is outperforming its market. Major growth...
Open Banking, a system that offers users access to their banking data via third-party applications, has been touted as the future of financial services. Since its inception, it has promised to increase transparency, enhance consumer choice, and promote competition in the banking sector. But how successful has it truly...
Founded by former Silicon Valley engineers, UK-based Griffin Bank, an API-driven banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform, just obtained a banking license, roughly one year after starting the application process. This means it has been given the green light from the UK’s financial services regulators, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial...
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at the piping hot global payroll space, neobank Dave’s financial results and related stock boost, and more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Sunday at 7:30 a.m. PT,...
While many entrepreneurs are currently facing the harsh reality of a VC funding crunch, Qonto isn’t one of them. The Paris-based business banking startup still has hundreds of millions of cash on hand. And it is using an undisclosed portion of its cash reserve to acquire Regate, an accounting...
By Chirag Shah, founder and CEO of Nucleus Commercial Finance and Pulse.io The fintech landscape has changed dramatically during the last five years, primarily due to the developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). The change has happened rapidly, revolutionising how financial services operate, including customer engagement and...