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Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Stripe’s big product announcements, a bump in valuation for a Brazilian fintech startup and much more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s…

Stripe’s big changes, Brazil’s newest fintech unicorn and the tale of a startup shutdown

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at Robinhood’s new Gold Card, challenges in the BaaS space and how a tiny startup caught Stripe’s eye. To…

Robinhood’s new Gold Card, BaaS challenges and the tiny startup that caught Stripe’s eye

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! Apologies for being out last week — a cold got the best of me, but I’m back and here to talk about the…

When startups fail, these startups clean up

We started the year with news of a couple of new venture funds that will be writing checks into fintech startups.

Early-stage fintech startups just got more funding sources

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Fintech’s wild ride in 2023

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Here are the newly minted fintech unicorns

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Fintechs go shopping

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Inside Brex and Ramp’s AI ambitions

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Klarna’s and Affirm’s very good week

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Why last week felt like 2021 in fintech

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A look at how one fintech CEO’s PR decision backfired

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Is Plaid’s potential IPO a sign of fintech turning a corner?

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Braid shuts down, Stash marches toward an IPO and what happens when a fintech relationship fizzles out

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Here’s how fintech Rainforest, a budding Stripe rival, aims to win over software companies

Rainforest raises $8.5M and PayPal gets hit with a lawsuit. We take a look at this and other hot fintech news from the previous week.

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Here’s how fintech Rainforest, a budding Stripe rival, aims to win over software companies

Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every…

Why we’re seeing so many seed-stage deals in fintech

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Despite the ups and downs of the fintech space, people still really care about it

Once valued at over $2 billion, rent-to-own startup Divvy Homes conducted its third round of layoffs in a year’s time.

Real estate tech companies continue to get hammered by high mortgage rates

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Finding business opportunity in startup failure

Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. As we head into a long holiday weekend here in the…

Inside Rent Butter: Why credit scores shouldn’t tell the whole story

Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. Better.com finally went public last week, and the stock’s performance was worse…

Better.com’s public market debut was Miserable.com

Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There was plenty going on as usual — with fintech investors sounding off,…

A tale of two payments companies

It was an eventful week in fintech startup land, and we did our best to capture the highlights. We covered some raises, new product lines, at least one M&A deal…

How a frugal approach helped land Lula more runway amid a market downturn

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Ramp expands into procurement, lands Shopify as a customer

Ramp continues to ramp up its business. The fintech startup announced today that it is entering the procurement space as it focuses more on “complex” enterprises and that it has landed a new customer in Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify. Over time, Ramp has continued to add on to its offerings — having started out as…

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Ramp expands into procurement, lands Shopify as a customer

In this week’s edition of The Interchange, we touch on M&As in the fintech space as AngelList nabbed a startup and Uplift got bought for less than it raised in…

When you’ve got two exits under your belt by the age of 26

Welcome to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. It was an event-filled week in the fintech world, what with FedNow launching, the former CEO…

FedNow may finally be live, but will it be too costly for businesses to adopt?

Welcome back to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. When it came to fintech news, we saw a pretty sluggish first half of 2023, and that…

The fintech funding slump, by the numbers

It was a short week and that was reflected in the amount of news we covered in fintech land last week. But there was still plenty to talk about, including…

Clair raises, Deel defends allegations and Mercury shares post-SVB growth figures

It was a very busy week in the world of fintech, which certainly kept us on our toes. We covered a couple of notable M&A deals (including one of the…

Fintech M&A gets a big boost with Visa-Pismo deal

Welcome back to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. We’re back after a brief hiatus, with lots of fintech news, including Robinhood’s latest acquisition, Plaid’s newest product…

Did this one feature entice Robinhood to acquire X1?

Welcome back to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. We’ll be taking a break next weekend as Mary Ann and Christine both take much-needed vacations (we didn’t…

FIS acquires, and Better.com lays off