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Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast.
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THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS
Ali Niknam, founder & CEO at bunq, an Amsterdam-based challenger bank, has offered to help Ukrainian refugees by offering them safety and shelter in Bulgaria and Georgia, and by subsequently helping to bring them to the Netherlands on an HSM visa.
JUST IN:
London-based lender Zopa has pledged new support measures for Ukrainian candidates applying for jobs at Zopa in the UK.
ALSO:
The value of transactions enabled by Klarna Bank AB’s payment options rose 42% to $80 billion in 2021, as the company’s U.S. expansion continues to boost demand.
FURTHERMORE,
Despite reporting strong fourth quarter results, Coinbase saw its shares fall the last week of February trading as it warned of a rockier Q1.
WHAT ABOUT CRYPTO?
The United Arab Emirates is poised to issue federal licenses for virtual asset service providers by the end of the first quarter in an effort to attract some of the world’s biggest crypto companies, according to a government official.
WHAT ARE THE LATEST INSIGHTS?
In our latest #DoneDeal Newsletter Q&A, Pedro Carneiro from Edenred Capital Partnerssays "I would pay attention to B2B commerce, which is such a large space and still fundamentally manual and offline in its workflows."
WHAT ABOUT FUNDING ROUNDS AND INVESTMENTS?
Payhawk has raised an additional $100m to extend its Series B round to $215m. The Series B extension was raised at a valuation of $1 billion, making Payhawk the first ever Bulgarian company to achieve unicorn status.
Upswing Financial Technologies founded by ex-bankers Anupam Bagchi and Nihar Gupta, has raised $4 million from marquee global fund QED Investors and a clutch of renowned fintech founders.
UK-based fintech helping parents invest and plan for their children's financial futures, Nosso has raised $2.8 million (£2.1 million) funding.
Plinqit announced that it has raised $5 million in its latest Series A funding round, bringing the total to just under $10 million since its founding.
Skipify announced that it obtained a strategic investment round from investors that include PayPal Ventures, Synchrony, Amex Ventures and Okta Ventures.