Browsing: Fintech
Stripe’s financial services platform is introducing a digital wallet purpose-built for the age of artificial intelligence where autonomous agents can perform tasks that include shopping, paying…
Y Combinator alum Skio sells for $105 million in cash, raised only $8 million, founder says
Shadow, a 2020 Y Combinator alum founded by college dropout Kennan Frost and acquired by competitor Recharge, the the companies announced on Thursday. Both Skio and…
Amazon and Meta are among the major companies set to lobby India’s payments regulator for Walmart-owned PhonePe and Google Pay to dominate the country’s fast-growing instant…
Steve Ballmer slams founder he backed, who pleaded guilty to fraud: ‘I was cheated and I feel stupid’
Silicon Valley tends to tolerate a certain amount of founder hyperbole when pitching investors, often dismissing it as part of selling a vision. However, some choices…
Salmon raises $100 million in equity and debt to bring digital credit to unbanked Filipinos
The Philippines has millions without a bank account adults, and the consumer loan market is starting to catch up. Salmon, a Manila-based consumer finance app, just…
Tech companies are always looking for new customers, and Cash App, the fintech company owned by Jack Dorsey’s Block, believes it has found a promising new…
British neobank Revolut appears to be eyeing a significant valuation boost when it finally goes public. The company aims for a market capitalization of between $150…
Once close enough for a takeover, Stripe and Airwallex are now going after each other
Jack Zhang was 34 years old, three and a half years into running a startup, and sitting across from one of the most powerful investors in…
Airwallex is set to take on Stripe and the rest of the payments industry — in the physical world
Airwallexthe Australian fintech that has spent a decade quietly building the global payments infrastructure is moving into personal payments. The move deepens its competition with Stripe…
Cash App, the peer-to-peer fintech app owned by Jack Dorsey’s Block, has launched a new “pay over time” deferred payment feature that allows eligible users to…