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Google Pay Co-founders’ Indian Neobank Has Raised $13.2M

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Sujith Narayanan and Sumit Gwalani, both co-founders of Google Pay India — formerly called Google Tez — said the seed funding brings the neo-bank startup epiFi to a valuation of roughly $50 million. When we were building Google Tez, we realized that a consumer’s financial journey extends beyond digital payments.

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The Innovators 2024—Best Financial Innovation Labs

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In 2023, the lab honed its focus to concentrate on startups between seed and Series A funding stages. The lab, which had previously nurtured 76 startups, invested 500,000 Brazilian reais (approximately $91,000) in each of the six startups accelerated last year. Thus far, 64 startups have graduated from the lab.

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World’s Best Banks 2024: Global Winners

Global Finance

The banks “failed as a result of a combination of unrealized interest rate losses from their long-term, fixed-rate assets and the loss of the low-rate deposits that had funded these assets,” Larry Wall, research center executive director of the Atlanta Fed’s Center for Financial Innovation and Stability, explained in a blog post.

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Why It’s Time To Come Down On Bitcoin

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Headlines hyping its threat to existing financial systems abound, including one recently that somewhat distorts the threat that bankers feel about all FinTech startups that suggests that nearly 90 percent of bankers say they fear losing money to bitcoin startups. tell a very interesting story.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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According to a Crunchbase article published in February of 2018, investments in blockchain and blockchain-related startups (excluding initial coin offerings, or ICOs) were already 40 percent of what they were in 2017. Most of that spend will be concentrated in the U.S., Consider the money being poured into it. billion by 2021.

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Why Hello Kitty Has A Credit File

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Some of that money — supplied by investors such as Andreessen Horowitz , Nyca Partners and Max Levchin, founder and CEO of alternative lending startup Affirm — will go toward building an identity bureau, which will help lenders and financial firms verify identities. That’s the longer-term goal of the company.

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Filtering Down To The Most Impact-Weighted Work To Add Value

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So just most technology has been a little bit more either the pipes and infrastructure of how the financial system runs or something that lets people buy the products that they want to buy because they can just go online and buy it. But there’s this new emergence of advice- and advisor-oriented technology firms.

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