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Fintech Update, 6/3 - 6/9

June 10, 2024, 12:50 p.m.

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Fintech Update, 5/13 - 6/3: Hi! It’s Monday, June 3, 2024 Hey all! Hope you had a happy and healthy Memorial Day weekend and a great week following. We’ve been off for a few weeks and we’re excited to be back in your inboxes with a three-week mega-update! Let’s get to the good stuff…

June 3, 2024, 11:30 a.m.

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Fintech Update, 5/6 - 5/12: Hi! It’s Monday, May 13, 2024. Tabapay ended its plans to acquire BaaS platform Synapse; and the CFPB fined Chime $3.25M for delaying refunds to customers who closed accounts; and a report from Visa found that 90% of all stablecoin transactions were facilitated by bots, not humans, suggesting such tokens might be further away from becoming a commonly used means of payment than expected.

May 13, 2024, 11:55 a.m.

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Fintech Update, 4/29 - 5/5: Acting Comptroller Michael Hsu discussed the challenges that community banks face when contracting with core providers, likening the banks to “hostages.” The Fed, FDIC, and OCC issued new joint guidance on third-party risk management for community banks (especially pertinent for those banks working with fintech partners!). Federal prosecutors are looking into alleged compliance lapses at Square and Cash App. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (“CZ”) was sentenced to four

May 6, 2024, 10:55 a.m.

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Fintech Update, 4/22 - 4/28: Hi! It’s Monday, April 29, 2024 The Rundown One, the Walmart majority-owned fintech, started offering BNPL loans “for big-ticket items at some of the retailer’s more than 4,600 U.S. stores.” It’s worth noting that Walmart has worked closely with Affirm for years to offer installment loans. Affirm became Walmart’s exclusive partner in 2019 and recently expanded their partnership to include Affirm at self-checkout kiosks. It will be interesting to see if Walmart contin

April 29, 2024, 11:31 a.m.

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Fintech Update, 4/15 - 4/21: Hi! It’s Monday, April 22, 2024 ICYMI, we dropped our first Big Idea in a while, check it out! The piece focuses on regulation in fintech and a few key questions: Is fintech's competitive advantage limited to regulatory arbitrage, or is there something more that fintechs have to offer in the long term? And what do regulators have to do with it?

April 22, 2024, 11:30 a.m.

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The Big Idea: Fintech, Meet Regulation: The uneven playing field of fintech regulation and the rise of Compliance-as-a-Service

April 19, 2024, 1:02 p.m.

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Fintech Update, 4/8 - 4/14: Hi! It’s Monday, April 15, 2024 Before we get to this week’s update, we have a quick plug for Wednesday, when we’ll be publishing our latest (and long overdue!) original piece on regulatory oversight in fintech, written by our colleague Abby Hogan! Abby is a consumer protection, lending, and bank regulatory expert and we’re so excited to share her Big Idea with you in T-minus 2 days. Keep an eye on your inbox! - Team TFU

April 15, 2024, 11:31 a.m.

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Fintech Update, 4/1 - 4/7: Hi! It’s Monday, April 8, 2024 The Rundown JPMorgan announced that it will allow marketers to target their users with deals and discounts based on prior spending history. Marketers in the new program, called Chase Media Solutions, will pay the bank when customers purchase items. According to the WSJ, this “new unit is born out of the company’s 2022 acquisition of card-linked marketing platform Figg.” The program should serve to help marketers more effectively target po

April 8, 2024, 11:31 a.m.

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Fintech Update, 3/25 - 3/31: Hi! It’s Monday, April 1, 2024. Robinhood announced its Gold Card, aimed at high earners and competitors like Chase Reserve; Visa and Mastercard agreed to settle a decades-long antitrust case brought by US merchants; and FTX co-founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison. All this + more inside!

April 1, 2024, 10:55 a.m.

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Fintech Update, 3/18 - 3/24: Hi! It’s Monday, March 25th, 2024 The Rundown The Department of Justice’s blockbuster antitrust case against Apple cites the tech giant’s alleged resistance to third-party digital wallets as an anti-competitive practice that helps Apple illegally maintain a monopoly in the smartphone market. Apple does not allow third party apps to offer its tap-to-pay functionality, and the suit alleges that prohibition means “Apple maintains complete control over how users make tap

March 25, 2024, 11:31 a.m.

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Fintech Update, 3/4 - 3/17: Hi! It’s Monday, March 18th, 2024 Apologies for missing your inboxes last week, but we are back with a bang!Thanks for reading The Fintech Update! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. The Rundown Are we witnessing The Great Consolidation in fintech

March 18, 2024, 11 a.m.

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Fintech Update, 2/26 - 3/3: Hi! It’s Monday, March 4th, 2024 The Rundown Klarna announced that its OpenAI-powered virtual assistant “has had 2.3 million conversations, two-thirds of Klarna’s customer service chats . . . is doing the equivalent work of 700 full-time agents . . . and is estimated to drive a $40 million USD in profit improvement to Klarna in 2024.” It is very interesting to see AI in the wild, especially such a successful deployment - we expect to see lots more like this from finte

March 4, 2024, 1:01 p.m.

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Fintech Update, 2/19 - 2/25 : The Rundown Capital One plans to acquire Discover for $35.3 billion in one of the largest deals in American financial services since the 2008 financial crisis. If approved by regulators, the deal would combine two of America’s largest credit card companies, making Capital One the U.S.’s largest credit card company by loans (leapfrogging

Feb. 26, 2024, 12:31 p.m.

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Fintech Update, 2/12 - 2/18: Hi! It’s Monday, February 19th, 2024 To kick things off, we’re proud to share another cool milestone for The Fintech Update: we now have over 2k Substack subscribers! We’re very grateful for your continued support, and we’re pumped to share some exciting updates in the coming months as well.

Feb. 19, 2024, 12:30 p.m.

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Fintech Update, 2/5 - 2/11: Hi! It’s Monday, February 12th, 2024 The Rundown Last week's earnings announcements highlighted the importance of managing investor expectations, with mixed results across two payments giants: While PayPal beat Q4 earnings per share expectations ($1.48 vs. $1.36),

Feb. 12, 2024, 12:31 p.m.

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Fintech Update, 1/29 - 2/4: Hi! It’s Monday, February 5th, 2024 Thanks for reading The Fintech Update! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. The Rundown The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought charges against the co-founders of HyperFund, an alleged cryptocurrency mining firm uncovered to be a $1.89 billion fraud

Feb. 5, 2024, 11:55 a.m.

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Fintech Update, 1/22 - 1/28: Hi! It’s Monday, January 29th, 2024 The Rundown Klarna announced a subscription plan called “Klarna Plus.” Users who subscribe will pay $7.99 per month for added benefits “like no added service fees when using Klarna’s One Time Card, double rewards points and access to exclusive discounts with popular brands.” Sound familiar? Last September, we wrote about how

Jan. 29, 2024, 12:31 p.m.

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Fintech Update, 1/16 - 1/21: Hi! It’s Monday, January 22nd, 2024 Thanks for reading The Fintech Update! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. The Rundown Last week, we saw a number of late-stage fintechs expanding their product offerings… Both Varo and Current

Jan. 22, 2024, 12:30 p.m.

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Fintech Update, 1/8 - 1/15: Hi! It’s Monday, January 15th, 2024 Before we get into this week’s fintech update… 🍃Attn: all fintech founders and investors! Our friends at Better Tomorrow Ventures are gearing up for the next cohort of The Mint! This fintech-focused, pre-seed program improves the odds of a startup’s success, with:

Jan. 16, 2024, 11:55 a.m.

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Fintech Update 12/18 - 1/7: Hi! It’s Monday, January 8th, 2024. Happy New Year! We hope you had a happy and restful holiday season – we’re excited to be back in your inboxes for the 10th(!) year. Let’s get to it. 🙂 – Team TFU The Rundown Seven days into 2024 and Carta’s new year already has more drama than a high school cafeteria. Late last week, the co-founder and CEO of project management software company Linear took to zombie Twitter (er, X) to

Jan. 8, 2024, 12:55 p.m.

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Fintech Update, 12/11 - 12/17: Hi! It’s Monday, December 18th, 2023. Hi all – We’ll be off for the next two weeks, but we’ll be back in January to continue bringing you the latest in the world of fintech. We wish you all a very happy, healthy holiday season and a Happy New Year ahead! Thanks for your continued readership and support of the Fintech Update. Best – Joe, JC, Kieran, Anna & Abby

Dec. 18, 2023, 12:01 p.m.

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Fintech Update, 12/4 - 12/10: Hi! It’s Monday, December 11th, 2023. The Rundown Adyen will act as Klarna’s global acquiring bank for their consumer offerings, strengthening the companies’ long-running partnership. Adyen has offered Klarna’s suite of payment methods (including their interest-free Pay Now and pay later options) to their customers for over a decade. Now, it will take over for one of the BNPL provider’s existing acquiring banks, underpinning Klarna’s consumer offerings starting in E

Dec. 11, 2023, 12:30 p.m.

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Fintech Update, 11/20 - 12/3: Hi! It’s Monday, December 4th, 2023. Thanks for reading The Fintech Update! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. The Rundown According to several news outlets, Apple made an attempt to exit the partnership it has with Goldman Sachs

Dec. 4, 2023, 12:30 p.m.

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Fintech Update, 11/13 - 11/19: Hi! It’s Monday, November 20th, 2023. The Rundown There were mixed signals in the world of fintech this week, with some headlines reflecting that things aren’t as dark as they seem and others suggesting there’s still more doom and gloom to come—particularly in the consumer space..

Nov. 20, 2023, 12:30 p.m.

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