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Swedish fintech firm Klarna has become the undisputed champion in the fintech space. Sources indicate that the gains made his year alone has put the firm light years ahead of its peers and competitors. The e-payments firm has indicated that about 60,000 merchants have been added to its network and that it has created linkages with about 190,000 retail partners in addition to 16 million new users of the service as well.Moreover, it has emerged that the fintech firm is now worth about $5.5...

Popular stock-trading startup Robinhood has decided that it is no longer interested in becoming a federally insured bank. Months ago, the company applied for a bank charter with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), in an effort to become a fully-fledged bank but has now decided to shelve said plans.According to the statement, the company has taken this step to shift its attention away from banking to its own core business directed at improving the efficiency of the financial...

Banking app Revolut has introduced a new feature that will allow many users to use the app just like any other bank account. The introduction of the direct debit feature for the UK pound has enabled users to be able to pay for goods and services with direct debit as it is becoming the norm for many businesses at the moment. Already Euro direct debit services were started last year. Many businesses prefer direct debits as card transaction fees and chargebacks are usually more problems than...

Financial technology (fintech) is becoming the lifeline of both the finance and technology sectors. These two sectors have always had a thing or two in common and have worked hand-in-hand for a long time, with one always needing the other. However, and in recent times, the synergy between both sectors has been a whole lot more pronounced with multiple use-cases, up to the point where they are almost inseparable, hence, fintech.With all of the advantages of fintech, it still does get a bad...

Last year, the U.K. payment remittance platform TransferGo, announced that it had entered a partnership with Ripple and joined RippleNet, with a focus of helping Indian migrants in the U.K. make cross-border payments back to their families. However, the company has now announced that it will take the relationship a notch higher, and move its business to Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) which uses XRP.Speaking about the move, CEO Daumantas Dvilinskas has suggested that ODL will shoot the...

MiddleGame Ventures (MGV) that is a fintech-focused investment company announced on Monday that it had managed to raise assets for the new fund aimed at providing support to startups in Europe and North America.As per the announcement, MGV’s Venture Fund I reached its first close with the last target size attaining $165 million.The fund is going to enter into partnerships with both B2B and B2B2C startups and, of course, it will invest in them. The main goal is to get the transformation of...

Fintech startup Ualá which is a finance app that helps people with all things financial has just finished its Series C funding to the tune of $150 million. This round was led by Tencent and Softbank’s Innovation Fund which has as its specific aim the Mercursour region. The app functions very much like Monzo, Nubank and Revolut but this time the focus of this app is on the Argentine market without the trappings and requirements of financial institutions and regulations. With its CEO Pierpaolo...

Financial services company MoneyGram International Inc. announced on Monday that a provider of leading enterprise blockchain solutions for global payments Ripple Labs, completed its final $20 million investment in MoneyGram equity consistent to its primarily $50 million equity investment commitment that the company made earlier this year.The price of share Ripple paid was $4.10 that seems to be pretty much higher than MoneyGram’s current price on the market. As per the announcement, the...

It appears that Apple Inc., the maker of the popular iPhone series has indicated a forecast of more than 100 million sales of its next iPhone (iPhone 12 line). Sources indicate that the Cupertino California giant has been informing its partners within its distribution network and supply chain to expect this amount to come next year. Already though, iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro sales are expected to be in the region of 80 million units though an increase in this amount will definitely indicate...

Coinspeaker The People’s Bank of China Set to Create New Standards for Fintech and Blockchain The People's Bank of China has a plan to create a new set of standards for both fintech and blockchain industries in the nearest future. The People’s Bank of China Set to Create New Standards for Fintech and Blockchain Continue reading at Coinspeaker