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Fintech Unicorn GCash To Raise $1.5 Billion In What Could Be The Philippines' Biggest IPO
Gcash is among the popular digital payment options in the Philippines. © 2023 Bloomberg Finance LP The IPO of Mynt—operator of e-wallet GCash and backed by Jaime Zobel de Ayala and his family's Ayala Corp.—is raising 92.3 billion…
Google Ventures Backs Fintech Started by Former Axiom Space CEO
Alphabet Inc. 's Google Ventures led a funding round to provide $30 million in seed money to a fledgling space fintech company founded by Axiom Space Inc. 's former Chief Executive Officer Tejpaul Bhatia. The startup, called Nebex, will serve as an…
Shift4 Payments: Staying Bullish On Leading FinTech (NYSE:FOUR)
Shift4 Payments (FOUR) is positioned as a leading integrated payments processor with strong niche market leadership and a diverse customer base. FOUR's Q1 results outperformed 2026 guidance, with volume up 24% yoy and international revenue up 51%…
FinTech Partnerships Force Banks to Fix API Oversight
Banks are shifting from adding FinTech partners to governing APIs, credentials, user permissions and third-party connections across expanding digital ecosystems. PYMNTS Intelligence finds partnerships remain central to innovation, but…
Elon Musk's 'bank' is live. What it needs to threaten fintechs
Key insights: Elon Musk's X Money has launched to a select group of users, with a wider rollout expected. What's at stake: Musk for years has been touting X's ability to be a platform for financial services, in competition with PayPal, Cash App and…
Turtlemint Fintech listing today
Shares of Turtlemint Fintech Solutions will be listed today. The IPO was subscribed1..20 times overall. The IPO price has been fixed at ₹152. According to exchange data, the retail investors' portion was subscribed 1.07 times, while the…
Google Invests $30 Million in X-Border Payment FinTech Nebex
The company's seed round, announced Monday (June 29), will help it expand its platform and link sovereign space programs with the founders and companies developing new technologies to serve the space industry. In an interview with Bloomberg News…
Turtlemint Fintech shares list at 10-11% discount on BSE, NSE
Turtlemint Fintech Solutions made a weak stock market debut on Monday, with its shares listing at a discount. The stock debuted at ₹134.90 on the NSE, an 11.25 per cent discount to the issue price of ₹152, while it began trading at…
The Primacy Imperative: How Financial Institutions Can Win-And Keep-Market Share
JB Orecchia is the President and CEO of SavvyMoney. Over half of Americans feel overwhelmed by their finances. They're stressed, actively researching financial products and making decisions about where to borrow, save and invest. Many are in-market…
AI Is Repricing Software Which Is Splitting Old Moats
'Bodiam, UK - July, 10th 2010: Historic Bodiam Castle and moat in Kent frames by nearby trees at dawn' Last week a Blackstone-led group took control of Medallia from Thoma Bravo, and Thoma Bravo wrote off close to $5 billion. By one widely cited…
Applied Materials Stock: Equipment Market Surge Priced Into Stock Price (NASDAQ:AMAT)
Applied Materials benefits from a robust semiconductor equipment market, driven by accelerating industry capex and strong AI/data center demand. Applied Materials's revenue growth is projected to accelerate to 16.2% in FY2026 and 34.3% in FY2027…
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[Vantage Point] Can the market handle GCash?
GCash has already proven it can redefine digital finance. But is the Philippine Stock Exchange ready for it? A P470-billion IPO would test the market's liquidity, depth and ability to attract fresh capital — making the listing not just a…
Seoul bets big on global startup platform as AI reshapes industries
Over the past seven years, Seoul's startup ecosystem has ballooned in value by more than $100 billion, generating tens of thousands of high-paying jobs and cementing the Korean capital as a premier global hub for innovation. Now, the city is…
The Feed Is Becoming Crypto's New Trading Terminal
Founded in 2025 by former dYdX executives Se Yong Park, Paul Erlanger, and Prashan Dharmasena, Fomo combines multi-chain trading with a social feed where users can follow friends, traders, and public portfolios in real time. Speaking on the…
WhatsApp to let people chat without swapping phone numbers
WhatsApp is set to let people chat without having to reveal their phone number - by exchanging unique usernames instead. It will be rolled out globally to the platform's three billion account holders over the next few months, the platform said.
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