Issue #290 - Fintech M&A rebounds from the pandemic

Visa is to provide financial institutions and merchants with seamless access to a roster of 13 curated fintech partners offering a suite of value added digital payments services.

Railsbank, the London-headquartered Banking-as-a-Service platform, has raised $37 million in new growth funding.

All eligible PayPal account holders in the U.S. can now buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency, the company announced Thursday. The firm also increased the amount of crypto that users can purchase in a week.

Ant Group’s suspended initial public offering (IPO) has shed further light on a possible motivation behind China’s digital yuan. The Chinese government appears to view the payments giant as a destabilizing force to China’s economy, and the digital yuan is a way to keep companies like this in check.

Groundbreaking report by The Economist Intelligence Unit uses machine-learning to analyse over 10 million online conversations about personal finance

Well, it’s finally over, and Joe Biden will become President on January 20, 2021. Maybe some VC dollars need to flow to ‘votetech’ (and ‘pollingtech’, for that matter).

Mac Angelo credits the Army with instilling his most important management lessons.

Ripple to work with local and regional institutions to revolutionise payments industry

ChargeAfter and Personetics are among 13 fintech firms selected by Visa to be part of a suite of new payment techologies it is offering European banking clients