Daily Fintech Newsletter | Mar. 24th
Hi!
In case you missed it, please see below today's most relevant fintech news.
John Detrixhe, Senior Reporter at Quartz, Chung-Man Tam, SVP Product Development at Affirm, and Jason Mikula, Publisher at Fintech Business Weekly, hosting a Clubhouse chat on "Does buy now, pay later make business better?" - Thurs, Mar 25 at 11:00 am US Eastern Time. Link here.
Millennials and Gen Zers seem interested in investing more than ever these days. As a result, a number of startups have emerged in recent years to give them more options. Link here.
One of the biggest gripes about investing apps is that they are not acting responsibly by not educating users properly and allegedly letting them fend for themselves. Link here.
Read the FinTech Futures ICYMI funding round article. Link here.
BOPP Payments, a brand-new payment platform that removes the need for cards, and uses Open Banking to facilitate immediate, secure payments directly from one bank account to another. Link here.
OEM Pay contactless transactions, driven by Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Google Pay, will reach more than $1 trillion in 2022, finds Kaleido Intelligence. Link here.
Trading app Robinhood has hired former Google executive Aparna C. as its first chief product officer. Link here.
Dreams, the financial wellbeing platform which empowers millennials to pay off debt, save, invest and feel better about their money, announced the appointment of Lucia Hegenbartova as its new Chief Commercial Officer. Link here.
Mobi724 Global Solutions Inc., a fintech enabler of AI-enhanced payment card-linked incentives, announces that on March 18, 2021, it signed a binding term sheet with Keira Capital Partners Inc. to jointly implement a commercialization strategy for the Chilean market. Link here.
This ends my Daily Fintech Newsletter. Let me know if there are any questions or news/insights worth mentioning in the next newsletter. Until the next!
Regards,
Marcel van Oost
marcelvanoost.com
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