FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 1 April 2022
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Super-app
State of play: fintech and telco
How we pay, what we pay, and who we pay is changing, and telco firms are well positioned to take advantage.
Fintech app Curve launches in US, loses COO
Curve launched in 2018 and has already spread to 31 markets across the globe.
Fronted appoints new CTO as co-founder Simon Vans-Colina joins Singapore’s BigPay
Fronted’s lead software engineer Jonathan Kim has been promoted to the role of CTO.
Kenyan start-up MarketForce lands $40m Series A funding
The oversubscribed round was led by Africa-focused investment vehicle V8 Capital Partners.
UK challenger Revolut secures Aussie credit licence
Revolut Australia CEO says the firm is creating the “world’s first truly global financial platform”.
