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The latest news, industry focused conversations and thoughts from the PCN team updated regularly.
Hello Berlin! We’re open for business.
- PCN -
- 08/02/2021
The latest news, industry focused conversations and thoughts from the PCN team updated regularly.
8 Berlin Fintechs to look out for in 2021
- Ali Kiraz -
- 04/11/2020
The latest news, industry focused conversations and thoughts from the PCN team updated regularly.
We’re excited to introduce you to the new look of our brand and website
- Team PCN -
- 02/11/2020
The latest news, industry focused conversations and thoughts from the PCN team updated regularly.
How to seamlessly change your career from banking to fintech?
- Mark Manzi -
- 02/11/2020
The latest news, industry focused conversations and thoughts from the PCN team updated regularly.
Venmo prototypes a debit card for youngsters
- Techzimo -
- 26/02/2020
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- Polly Harrison -
- 18/01/2021
While some financial sector bosses have welcomed remote working with open arms, others have struggled to trust their employees to work autonomously with some even ramping up on surveillance to track exactly what their workforce is doing. This may, however, be problematic for organisations looking to attract and retain
- Finextra -
- 18/01/2021
UBS is in talks to invest $400 million in Indian digital payments startup Paytm, according to Bloomberg. A fund run by UBS’s asset management arm is in discussions to buy a stake in Paytm alongside some of the Swiss bank’s clients, according to people close to the talks. UBS
- Silicon Canals -
- 15/01/2021
London-based fintech Curve, which combines multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and app, has announced that it raised $95M (nearly €78M) as a part of its Series C funding round. The investment comes from a slew of leading international investors. International expansion plans The latest funding round in Curve was
- Diane Bartz & Praveen Paramasivam -
- 15/01/2021
(Reuters) – Visa and financial technology company Plaid said on Tuesday that they would terminate their $5.3 billion merger agreement following a U.S. government lawsuit aimed at stopping the proposed transaction on antitrust grounds. The U.S. Justice Department had sued to stop the deal in November, saying that Visa
- Julia La Roche -
- 14/01/2021
Walmart (WMT), the world’s largest retailer, announced on Monday that it is launching a financial technology (fintech) startup in partnership with Palo Alto, Calif.–based venture capital firm Ribbit Capital, a backer of Robinhood, Credit Karma and Affirm. The new fintech company, which will be majority-owned by Walmart, aims to
- Ryan Browne -
- 13/01/2021
LONDON — Online payments firm Checkout.com is now Europe’s top tech unicorn. Checkout.com said Tuesday that it had raised $450 million in an investment led by Tiger Global Management — which is also an investor in rival payments giant Stripe — lifting its valuation to $15 billion. That’s almost three times
- Isabel Woodford -
- 13/01/2021
One European fintech sits among the top 10, reaching unicorn status in less than 4 years. The world is now home to over 70 fintech “unicorns” — startups worth over a billion dollars. If nothing else, this highlights the continued hype around the fintech sector, with investors tripping over themselves
- Doris Yu -
- 12/01/2021
“Grab, the Southeast Asian US$15 billion ride-hailing and food delivery giant backed by SoftBank and Uber, is accelerating its expansion into financial services with a new fundraising by its fintech subsidiary. Grab is betting on growing demand from the region’s rising class of merchants and consumers,” reported The Information. The
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Monument confirms £28 million fund raise
- Finextra -
- 26/02/2021
Monument, a digital banking startup for the well-heeled, has landed £28 million in new funding from existing backers and a trio of angel investors. Since inception, Monument has raised circa over £40m in funding, and it is now well placed to complete the build of its technological and operational capabilities and to be ready for launch in the Summer of 2021. The new investors in the firm are Eric Zinterhofer, of Searchlight Capital, entrepreneur Rakesh Loonkar and Harry Handelsman, founder and CEO of the Manhattan Loft Corporation. The startup, which is targeting people with between £250,000 and £5 million
