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Asia/Pac Fintech News Roundup

·Apr. 2, 2019

Australian Digital Banks Begin to Make an Impact

Australia is beginning to feel the digital banking waves as challengers Volt and Judo begin to make inroads into a...

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Fintech News Roundup

·Aug. 14, 2017

Bitcoin Reaches New Highs

Bitcoin's price has been gaining in recent days; CNBC reports on its new high of $3,586.23 on Friday; over the weekend it continued to gain, surpassing $4,000; with the new highs the cryptocurrency’s value has gained over 24% in the past week and tripled in value for the year; its split into bitcoin and bitcoin cash has been a lead catalyst for its recent price gains; an additional upgrade called “segregated witness” is also being supported. Source

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Europe Fintech News Roundup

·Mar. 28, 2017

HSBC Shares Mobile Banking Insight from Development of HSBC SmartSave

HSBC has shared insight from the development of its HSBC SmartSave app which it developed within the Financial Conduct Authority's Regulatory Sandbox initiative in partnership with Pariti; the app provides personal finance management services using algorithms and four customer plans; overall the app has proved successful, saving customers 63.17 British pounds ($78.80) per month; of the four service plans HSBC reported "Rounding Up" to be the most popular, allowing customers to round up purchases to save spare change on transactions. Source

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·Apr. 6, 2022

Affirm is giving job offers to the ‘vast majority’ of Fast engineers

The one-click checkout platform shut down because of a lack of financial resources, according to an email obtained by TechCrunch.

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Fintech News Roundup USA

·Sep. 15, 2017

Top Small Business Lenders by Revenue

deBanked has taken the Inc 5000 list and provided a table of the top alternative small business companies by revenue; the top 5 include Square, OnDeck, Kabbage, Swift Capital and National Funding. Source

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·May. 30, 2022

Crypto lender Babel Finance raises $80m, reaches $2bn valuation

The Hong-Kong based crypto lender has applied for licences in the UK and Luxembourg.

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Fintech News Roundup USA

·Sep. 22, 2017

Y Combinator Interested in Blockchain Tech for Startup Investments

Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Sam Altman, who leads the Y Combinator stated, "We are interested in how companies like Y Combinator can use the blockchain to democratize access to investing We should try to figure that out.”; TechCrunch reports that sources say YC is further along in the process of making this a reality; Altman also provides his opinion on ICOs in the interview. Source

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·Jan. 28, 2022

Nexu recauda US$50 millones en financiación de deudas y capital

Fintech mexicana de préstamos para vehículos fue fundada en 2018 y formó parte del lote de invierno de 2020 de Y Combinator

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·Apr. 24, 2022

Podcast 356: Carlos Domingo of Securitize

Carlos Domingo is the CEO and Founder of Securitize. On the podcast he talks about tokenization of assets, moving cap tables to the blockchain, marketplaces and more.

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·Aug. 11, 2022

Tornado Cash Crackdown Shows Limits of Regulating Cryptocurrency Services

The U.S. sanctioning of a prominent cryptocurrency platform exposes technical gaps in the government’s ability to prevent criminals, national adversaries and extremist groups from using the services.

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