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Despite the ups and downs of the fintech space, people still really care about it

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Real estate tech companies continue to get hammered by high mortgage rates

Once valued at over $2 billion, rent-to-own startup Divvy Homes conducted its third round of layoffs in a year's time.

Finding business opportunity in startup failure

Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. if you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign

Inside Rent Butter: Why credit scores shouldn’t tell the whole story

Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. As we head into a long holiday weekend here in the U.S., we look at — among other things — a

Better.com’s public market debut was Miserable.com

Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. Better.com finally went public last week, and the stock’s performance was worse than expe

A tale of two payments companies

Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There was plenty going on as usual — with fintech investors sounding off, payments compa

How a frugal approach helped land Lula more runway amid a market downturn

It was an eventful week in fintech startup land, and we did our best to capture the highlights. We covered some raises, new product lines, at least one M&A deal and more. Oh, and if you want to re

Ramp expands into procurement, lands Shopify as a customer

Ramp continues to ramp up its business. The fintech startup announced today that it is entering the procurement space as it focuses more on “complex” enterprises and that it has landed a n

When you’ve got two exits under your belt by the age of 26

In this week’s edition of The Interchange, we touch on M&As in the fintech space as AngelList nabbed a startup and Uplift got bought for less than it raised in venture funding. We get into those

FedNow may finally be live, but will it be too costly for businesses to adopt?

Welcome to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. It was an event-filled week in the fintech world, what with FedNow launching, the former CEO of fintech Bolt — and the c

The fintech funding slump, by the numbers

Welcome back to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. When it came to fintech news, we saw a pretty sluggish first half of 2023, and that is evidenced by the sobering fundin

Clair raises, Deel defends allegations and Mercury shares post-SVB growth figures

It was a short week and that was reflected in the amount of news we covered in fintech land last week. But there was still plenty to talk about, including Clair’s raise, some allegations against

Fintech M&A gets a big boost with Visa-Pismo deal

It was a very busy week in the world of fintech, which certainly kept us on our toes. We covered a couple of notable M&A deals (including one of the biggest of the year so far), a different kind o

Did this one feature entice Robinhood to acquire X1?

Welcome back to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. We’re back after a brief hiatus, with lots of fintech news, including Robinhood’s latest acquisition, Plai

FIS acquires, and Better.com lays off

Welcome back to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. We’ll be taking a break next weekend as Mary Ann and Christine both take much-needed vacations (we didn’t

Inside Stripe’s latest moves

Welcome back to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. While there is always a lot going on in the world of fintech, this week felt a little subdued overall — at least when

QED Investors says pace of investing from new funds will be ‘extremely disciplined’

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Fintech startup Brex was among the bidders for SVB’s early-stage and growth portfolios

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The fintech space continues to be competitive and drama-filled

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Spend management space sees a large raise, and layoffs, in the same week

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