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Influencers have come to finance — and they’re making bank

Rob Litterst
Updated 9/21/21
Square scoops up Afterpay in the battle of BNPL

Rob Litterst
Updated 8/3/21
Apple joins the ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ party

Trung T. Phan
Updated 7/19/21
Robinhood’s $40B+ IPO, explained

Trung T. Phan
Updated 7/6/21
Digital banks are winning new customers by going niche

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 7/2/21
Stripe rolls out a super-fast ID verification tool

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 6/23/21
How Shopify became a payments company

Trung T. Phan
Updated 6/21/21
Fintech Klarna becomes Europe’s most valuable startup, worth $45B+

Kolby Hatch
Updated 6/16/21
Ethereum’s co-founder snags $65m to help modernize financial infrastructure

Kolby Hatch
Updated 4/16/21
Inside the monopoly of tax e-filings (and how to change it)

Trung T. Phan
Updated 4/13/21
How financial engineering can save lives

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/10/21
Why would Square buy streaming music service Tidal?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/30/20
How Stripe Treasury aims to disrupt banks

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/8/20
Visa’s $5.3B marriage to fintech startup Plaid just got blocked by the DOJ. Why?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/6/20
The ‘Stripe of Africa’ just got acquired by Stripe for $200m+

Trung T. Phan
Updated 10/16/20
Venmo and Cash App are a scammer’s paradise

Michael Waters
Updated 10/14/20
2 fintech old-timers are coming after Square with a $22B partnership

Conor Grant
Updated 10/3/20
Billd, a startup that offers short-term construction loans, raised $60m

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Updated 10/3/20
Good news and bad news: Flutterwave raises $20m, but loses its founder

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Updated 9/23/20

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