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Trading app Public.com debuts alternative asset offering with Birkins, Banksy and CryptoPunks

Investment app Public.com (Public), a Robinhood competitor that pivoted away from the contentious payment-for-order-flow (PFOF) revenue model, is expanding its offerings in a big way. The three-year-o

FrankieOne nabs $16M to provide fintechs with ID and fraud management as a service

Fraud continues to be a major issue in the world of digital transactions, a situation that research shows was only compounded in the last 20 months of online activity growing as a result of COVID-19.

Optimism reigns at consumer trading services as fintech VC spikes and Robinhood IPO looms

You could be excused for expecting the boom in consumer asset trading to keep going up and to the right. But will it? There are data in both directions.

With software markets getting bigger, will more VCs bet on competing startups?

As startups get more broad and stay private longer, the space into which VCs can invest may narrow.

As expected, stock trading service Public raises $220M at unicorn valuation

The day before Robinhood goes under the the Congressional hammer, domestic rival Public.com announced this morning that it has closed a $220 million funding round at a $1.2 billion valuation. News of

The Venn diagram between crypto and OnlyFans

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. For the first time in donkey’s years, we di

Robinhood pays $65M to settle SEC charges for past ‘inferior’ pricing execution, misleading customers

Today, American securities watchdog the SEC announced that Robinhood, a free-to-trade broker that has grown rapidly in recent years, has paid a $65 million fine to settle charges relating to some of