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German VC Firm La Famiglia Raises $264 Million

The venture capital company La Famiglia, which is based in Berlin, announced the attraction of investment funds in the amount of $ 264 million.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Transact Campus Partners With Amazon to Introduce Unmanned Stores on Campuses

Fintech provider Transact Campus integrated its payment solutions with Just Walk Out technology by Amazon to deploy self-service stores on and off college campuses

Fintech & Ecommerce

Mashreq and i2c Partner to Aid Fintech Payments in UAE

Mashreq and i2c announced the beginning of cooperation, within the framework of which the companies will present digital payment solutions in the financial services market of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Fintech & Ecommerce

Payroll and Benefits Fintech Catch Shuts Down

Personal payroll and benefits fintech Catch announced the termination of operations.

Blockchain & Crypto

Coinbase Simplifies Web3 Onboarding With Wallet-As-A-Service

The leading crypto exchange Coinbase has introduced a new Wallet-as-a-Service offering for businesses to seamlessly onboard their users to Web3

Blockchain & Crypto

Silvergate Bank Faces “Voluntary Liquidation”

The parent company of one of the major crypto-friendly banking institutions, Silvergate Bank, decided to “wind down operations” and liquidate the bank

Finance & Economics

GIACT and Mastercard Team to Provide Secure Account Verification

Mastercard and GIACT announced the beginning of cooperation in order to provide customers with a secure account verification procedure.

Finance & Economics

UK BaaS Platform Griffin Becomes Bank

The British Banking As A Service platform Griffin has received the status of a bank, as a result of which additional restrictions apply to it from now on.

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Weavr Acquires Comma to Combine Embedded and Open Banking

Weavr, a London-based startup that provides companies with the opportunity to implement banking services and payments into mobile applications or SaaS platforms, has acquired the open banking platform B2B Comma Payments.

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Nationwide Overhauls Payment Processing With Accenture and Form3

Nationwide Building Society has partnered with Accenture and A2A platform provider Form3 to transform its digital payments infrastructure through the introduction of a cloud platform.

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BNPL Platform Affirm Quits Australia

The American Buy Now, Pay Later Affirm platform announced its withdrawal from the Australian financial services market.

Finance & Economics

ANZ to Trial Offline CBDC Payments

ANZ has established cooperation with two universities to test CBDC offline payments using smart cards, which can be loaded with funds and used as cash.

Finance & Economics

EBA to Crack Down on Banks Ignoring Gender Diversity

EBA noted the painfully slow progress of banks and investment firms in improving gender diversity policies and announced it wants supervisors across the EU to crack down on those non-compliers

Science & Technology

Cilab’s New Feature Lets Engineers Visualize NFC Terminal RF Field

NFC testing company Cilab has improved its high-speed tester with a new feature that enables NFC terminal manufacturers to test a device’s RF field by making it visible

Finance & Economics

Westpac Announces Initiatives To Back Women Business Leaders

Westpac announced new measures to help female-led SMBs with dedicated start-up and scale-up loans, as research reveals accessing finance is one of the main challenges for women in business

Finance & Economics

Varo Bank Raising $50 Million at 28% Discount

Varo, an American neobank with the charter of the national bank, reported a capital raising of $50 million at a discount of 28% compared to its last estimate.