Venmo on Monday introduced a new rewards program, Venmo Stash, offering cash back to customers who transact with their favorite brands on the payments app and engage with Venmo’s products. While cashback rewards are a common incentive for credit cards, Venmo’s rewards — which can be up to 5% — are returned to Venmo’s Mastercard […]
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Pine Labs, an Indian merchant-commerce startup backed by PayPal and Mastercard, is going public this week at a valuation about 40% lower than its last private round — even as it doubles down on plans to take its fintech platform global. The Gurugram-based fintech has set a price band of ₹210–₹221 (about $2.00–$2.50) a share,
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On Thursday, at the end of Coinbase’s third quarter earnings call, CEO Brian Armstrong admitted that he was “a little bit distracted,” because he’d been “tracking the prediction market about what Coinbase will say on their next earnings call.” “And I just want to add here the words Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Staking, and Web3 to
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Navan, the corporate travel and expense platform, finished its first day of trading on the Nasdaq on Thursday down 20% from its $25 IPO price, resulting in a valuation of approximately $4.7 billion for the 10-year-old company. The company was the first to use a new SEC rule that allows public listings during a government
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India’s free digital payments revolution has upended how money moves — but not how fintechs make it. Now, Flipkart’s fintech arm Super.money is partnering with one of India’s top commercial banks, Kotak Mahindra Bank, to change that, bundling UPI payments, savings, and secured credit into a single account aimed at turning usage into profit. The
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Vram Ismaliyan spent nearly 14 years at Wells Fargo, selling payment infrastructure strategies to Fortune 500 companies. Despite being a top performer in the payments division, he felt constantly bogged down by the bank’s antiquated technology. “I spent at least five to 10 hours preparing for customer meetings,” he told TechCrunch. “I had to work
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Solana Labs CEO and Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko takes the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, to chart where crypto goes next — from the meme coin frenzy to real-world finance and everything in between. This is one fintech conversation you will not want to miss. Save
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U.K. fintech Revolut has hit yet another roadblock to its longstanding mission of becoming a real bank in its home country: Its full banking license is on hold because the country’s central bank is concerned over whether the startup can maintain its risk management controls in the face of its blazing fast international expansion. The
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Super.money, a financial service platform spun off last year by Walmart-owned Flipkart, has quietly partnered with payments infrastructure firm Juspay as it expands into direct-to-consumer (D2C) checkout and targets $100 million in annual revenue by 2026. The partnership, unaccompanied by press releases or social media posts and only mentioned in a blog post on Breeze’s
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