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Global FinTech News - 16th September 2022

Global FinTech News - 16th September 2022
By Holland FinTech  • Issue #168 • View online
Dear reader,
This week European Union plan showed that fossil fuel and green energy firms may have to share their excess profits to help European households and industries cope with red-hot energy bills
Meanwhile, the end of the Covid-19 pandemic is “in sight”, the World Health Organization has declared, after revealing that weekly deaths from the virus around the world were at the lowest level since March 2020.
You can find information about upcoming events, new investments, research and breakthroughs within the industry. In addition, find more ways to support Ukraine here. Happy reading!
From the Holland FinTech team, we wish you a great weekend.

Connect with the fintech ecosystem at some of the upcoming events.
And its a wrap! From NFT to ESG, we covered all topics in Fintech. Thanks to our great speakers, a wonderful crowd of attendees and of course our supportive sponsors: Mambu, Google Cloud, Plaid, Fincog, Dusk, Ergomania, Enfuce, Payhawk, neo by Five Degreese and Cognito. We had an amazing event. Do you want to get a glimpse of what we discussed? Check out the video on our YouTube Channel here.
And for all our attendees, speakers and partners: see you next year at XFW23!
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11th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum
11th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum is a face-to-face event that aims to provide the opportunity to connect and explore new business opportunities with key decision makers from across the entire Payments & RegTech community. The forum will take place on the 21- 22 September 2022 in Athens, Greece.
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Investor Breakfast and Networking - Holland FinTech
Networking for every one actively investing in fintech startups and scale-ups. A selected group of startups will be able to pitch to the investors.
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Highlights from last weeks news related to fintech
Stay up to date with the latest news from fintech! This week, we bring you updates and developments on partnerships, banking, crypto, regulations and more:
  • The massive overhaul of Ethereum known as the Merge has finally happened, moving the digital machinery at the core of the second-largest cryptocurrency by market value to a vastly more energy-efficient system after years of development and delay
  • UK-based payments platform Clearpay has partnered with booking platform Alternative Airlines to launch ‘Pay in 4’ for flights for UK-based customers
  • JP Morgan has struck a deal to buy cloud-native payments technology firm Renovite Technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed
  • Atom Bank has called off GBP 700 million merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) but may still IPO on the London Stock Exchange
  • Starbucks has announced the introduction of Starbucks Odyssey, a loyalty programme that will combine Starbucks’ Rewards with an NFT platform
Read more about this week’s news here.
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The largest funding rounds we found from across the world
New week – new closed funding rounds! This week’s funding highlights cover personal finance, software, crypto, BNPL, and many more:
  • Nordic embedded finance start-up Moneyflow has entered a €250 million debt financing agreement with banking-as-a-service (BaaS) provider Aion Bank
  • AtoB Has Raised $230 Million To-Date to Fix Fleet Transportation’s Broken Financial System, Address Supply Chain Failures, and Bring Financial Services to Drivers and Operators For First Time
  • Goldman Sachs Group Inc. provided a $140 million credit line to help finance a Mexico expansion for Latin American fintech Xepelin Holdings Inc., which offers services including payments and credit to small and midsize companies that do business with other firms
  • Compliance startup VerifyVASP has concluded its Series A investment at a US$100 million valuation
  • Alloy, the New York-based company behind an operating system that helps banks and fintechs make better identity and risk decisions, has raised $52 million at a $1.55 billion valuation
  • Berlin-based fintech topi is empowering retailers and manufacturers to access subscription-based transactions and helping to fuel the shift to a circular economy
  • SteelEye has raised $21 million in a Series B round led by Ten Coves Capital
Read more about this week’s funding rounds here.
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A selection of recent research reports and papers worth reading
For this week’s research article, we dive into new insights on fintech overview, ESG, security and crypto:
  • “The Future of ESGTech 2023, A Sibos Special Edition” via (Finextra) - While new risks emerge, so do new opportunities for financial services providers to lead technological innovation and drive positive global change
  • “Prepaid cards increasingly popular in France, study shows” via (Paypers) - A study released by ResearchandMarkets.com has found that the value of the French prepaid cards market jumped by 5.9% between 2017 and 2021
  • “New FinTech unicorn announcements hit new low in August” via (Fintech Global) - New FinTech unicorns may become as rare as an actual unicorn soon as August saw the birth of only two new FinTech unicorns
  • “INDXX GLOBAL FINTECH THEMATIC INDEX” via (INDXX) - The Indxx Global Fintech Thematic Index is designed to track the performance of companies listed in developed markets that are offering technology-driven financial services which are disrupting existing business models in the financial services and banking sectors
  • “Pulse of Fintech H1’22” via (KPMG) - The optimism that permeated the fintech market at the end of 2021 quickly transformed into concerns about a potential recession in H1’22 as uncertainties related to the RussiaUkraine conflict, ongoing supply chain challenges, and rising inflation and interest rates took their toll on public and private companies alike
Read more about this week’s research here.
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Background information and insights from opinion leaders and experts
And we’re finishing off the week with new analysis and opinion on investing, open banking, metaverse and more:
  • “Where does crypto go from here?” via (The Paypers) - It’s a fascinating time for the crypto space, with lots of headline-grabbing changes to the status quo
  • “Amsterdam’s 101 Fastest Growing FinTech Startups” via (Fintech Energy) - Fintech Energy track over 200,000 fintech startups and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. they use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organizations which deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting
  • “What Dutch farming tells us about climate agendas” via (Euromoney) - The government is prepared to take drastic measures to reduce the nitrogen produced by livestock
  • “There’s No Future for DeFi Without Regulation” via (Coin Desk) - Believe it or not, the blockchain era is really America’s second experiment with decentralized finance (DeFi)
  • “‘Everything’s Down This Year’: FTX Founder SBF” via (Decrypt) - The heavyweight CEO of crypto exchange FTX Sam Bankman-Fried also struck a balanced perspective on the debate over regulatory oversight
Read more about this week’s analysis and opinion here.
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