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Business banking startup Mercury, founded in 2017, is now launching a consumer banking product. Mercury today serves more than 100,000 businesses, many of which are startups, via its B2B practice. The expansion is a natural move for the company and one…
U.K.-based Revolut saw its valuation being reduced earlier this year, and the company is once again in the headlines for reasons that it won’t like.
Revolut sees its valuation reconsidered as public markets stir the fintech pot by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch
Anne Boden nearly lost a grip on Starling Bank years ago when the neobank was in the middle of a coup effort led by its CTO, but now it looks like Boden who is doing the walking away. The outspoken founder of Starling Bank — which was last valued at over $3 billion, is profitable […]
Anne Boden, founder of UK’s Starling Bank, steps down as CEO by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Revolut’s situation seems like awful news for other neobanks. How much more room do less profitable neobanks have to fall?
Revolut’s valuation troubles signal a stormy horizon for less-profitable neobanks by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch
It’s essential to consider this moment as an opportunity to start banking with some of the few Black-owned banks.
Now is the time to invest in Black-owned banks by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch
While it is possible to build a neobank that isn’t bone-grafted to the venture capital markets, it can be a very long road to get to that point.
The profit divide running through the neobanking sector by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
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Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Every Monday, Grace and Alex scour the news and record notes on what’s going on to kick off the week. Thankfully we did not start this episode by talking about Elon Musk and Twitter! You are welcome! […]
Daniel Sathyanesan spent two years at tech behemoth Apple as a user experience designer on the Apple Card before venturing out on his own. While running his own business — a service-based design agency — Sathyanesan quickly realized that banking options for a digital solopreneur were less than ideal. In his view, there were “amazing […]
Unless you own many shares of financial technology startups, this will be fun.
Unless you own many shares of financial technology startups, this will be fun.