Robinhood to let users lend out their shares in its attempt to diversify revenue
Trading platform Robinhood is launching a feature that will allow its users to lend out their stocks in hopes of earning passive, recurring income from borrowers, the company announced today. Robinhood...
View ArticleRobinhood aims to court users by offering attractive 1% interest rate on cash
Investing app Robinhood is on a roll with announcing new features as it looks to appeal to more customers amid dwindling transaction revenue. Less than a week after unveiling plans to allow users to...
View ArticleConstrafor grabs $106M in equity, credit to finance construction subcontractors
Large construction projects often take a long time to finish, and subcontractors can get caught up in the flow of money, waiting, in certain circumstances, up to 80 days to be paid by general...
View ArticleLevered up, doubled down
Image Credits: TechCrunch Ever since Celsius halted withdrawals last month, it seems like a new crypto project has been going under almost daily, with Peter Thiel’s Vauld and publicly traded Voyager...
View ArticleClearco cuts 25% of staff, considers ‘strategic options’ for international...
Clearco, a Toronto-based fintech capital provider for online companies, tells TechCrunch that it has laid off 125 people, or 25% of its entire staff. Those impacted will receive severance pay, a...
View ArticlePredatory loan apps in India rake in huge fees, and are driving some users to...
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View ArticleClearco cuts international staff as it retracts presence, announces new partner
Clearco, a Toronto-based fintech capital provider for online companies, is walking back the international expansion it once touted as the future of the company. One month after cutting 25% of its total...
View ArticleIndia’s central bank gives lenders November-end ultimatum to comply with new...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has given lenders until the end of November to implement adequate systems and processes to ensure that new and existing loans comply with its digital loan rules issued...
View ArticleIndia to control which lending apps are permitted to app stores in latest...
India plans to mandate which loan apps are allowed on app stores in the country, the latest in a series of recent steps from the world’s second largest internet market to crack down on sketchy and...
View ArticleKredito banks $6M as the LatAm business lender eyes international expansion
Over a year after grabbing $4 million in pre-seed funding, Chile-based Kredito, a business lending startup, is back with another $6 million in new funding. The company launched to the public in 2021...
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View ArticleZopa, the UK neobank, raises $93M more at a $1B+ valuation
After raising $300 million in a round led by SoftBank back in 2021, U.K. neobank Zopa has closed a deal to put more funding in its coffers. The company — which provides consumers with lending services,...
View ArticleChinese influence, loan-collection practices are reasons for India’s...
India’s push to ban over 90 lending apps has sent shock waves through the fintech industry as many scramble to understand why they have been impacted. The Ministry of Electronics and IT’s move is...
View ArticleOpen banking startup Abound nabs $601M to supercharge its AI-based consumer...
After a slow start in the U.K. and Europe, open banking is catching on with fintechs, which are using APIs to access banking data and rails and using them as an alternative to traditional credit...
View ArticlePercent lands $30M investment to connect investors with private credit
In 2018, Nelson Chu founded Percent with the goal of bringing investors, borrowers and underwriters together to modernize private credit. Seeing an opportunity to tackle the lack of risk management in...
View ArticleIndia’s Flipkart begins customer lending in bid to boost sales
Updated at 10.48AM IST, July 7: Flipkart confirmed on Friday that it has partnered with Axis Bank to offer lending to customers. “We are delighted to now introduce a Personal Loan service in...
View ArticleApple purges predatory lending apps in India following scrutiny
Apple removed several predatory lending apps from the App Store in India this week, days after users and media questioned the legitimacy of those services. Pocket Kash, White Kash, Golden Kash and OK...
View ArticleCrypto lender Maple Finance raises $5M to enter Asia amid regulatory clarity
Maple Finance, an on-chain, institutional credit marketplace that’s aspiring to fill a gap left behind by the collapses of crypto lending heavyweights like BlockFi and Celsius, has its sights set on...
View ArticleZopa, the UK neobank, hits 1M customers and raises another $93M
In 2021, U.K. neobank Zopa, which has been around since 2004, leapt to a $1 billion valuation on the back of a big investment from SoftBank and a plan to go public by 2022. Now it’s 2023, and Zopa is...
View ArticleBrazilian fintech QI Tech lands $200M led by General Atlantic
Brazilian banking-as-a-service startup QI Tech has raised $200 million in a Series B round of funding led by New York-based General Atlantic. The raise is believed to be the largest in Brazil — across...
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