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Fintech Insider 648: News – Starling Pulls Back From Ireland While Stori Becomes Mexico’s Latest Fintech Unicorn
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Our expert hosts, Kate Moody and Amy Gavin, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week.
This week’s guests include:
- Sarah Kocianski, Independent Fintech Strategy Consultant
- Douglas Mackenzie, Chief Content Officer, Fintech Finance
With soundclips from:
- Katie Llanos-Small, CEO, Iupana
We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space:
- Starling pulls Irish bank application as international focus shifts – 3:25
- Stori becomes Mexico’s latest fintech unicorn following massive funding round – 14:35
- Brothers launch DIY investment platform for ESG investors – 27:40
- Several fintechs post growing revenues despite global downturn – 38:20
- Instagram’s new payments feature lets users buy products via DMs – 48:55
- Half a trillion dollars wiped from fintechs – 50:12
- Christie’s is getting into venture capital with a new fund for tech startups making financial tools for the art market – 52:00
- A pop-up ice cream truck is selling ‘Eat the Rich’ popsicles shaped like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg – 53:40
- Bluefin and Basis Theory Partner to Enable Unified Tokenization Across Digital and In-Person Payments Read more
- Invest Bank and AUTON8 Build Partnership to Drive Digital Resilience and Banking Agility Read more
- ING’s AI Roadmap: Platform, People, and Agentic AI Read more
- UK-fintech Provided Over £17.5m in Emergency Wage Advances to More Than 55,000 Employees in the Last Year Read more
- TreviPay Announces AI-Powered Growth Center to Help Enterprises Predict Buyer Behavior and Drive B2B Sales Read more
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