FinTech
Klarna lands buy now, pay later deal with DoorDash, notching another win ahead of IPO
Buy now, pay later firms like Klarna and Block’s Afterpay could be about to face tougher rules in the U.K. Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Klarna, the buy now, pay later lender that’s headed for an initial public offering, said on Thursday that it’s signed on DoorDash as a partner, another sign of […]
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Trump’s World Liberty Financial crypto project says it sold $550 million in tokens
The World Liberty Financial website arranged on a smartphone in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial crypto project said on Monday that it raised $250 million in its second token sale, bringing the total amount of coins sold to $550 […]
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Block bets on lending expansion after stock slump
In this photo illustration, the logo for the US tech firm “Block” is displayed and reflected in a number of digital screens on March 03, 2023 in London, England. Leon Neal | Getty Images With its stock down more than 30% this year and revenue growth slowing, Jack Dorsey’s Block is going bigger in lending. […]
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David Sacks sold $200 million in crypto-related holdings before taking White House job, ethics memo says
U.S. President Donald Trump sits next to Crypto czar David Sacks at the White House Crypto Summit at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 7, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters David Sacks, the Trump administration’s AI and crypto czar, sold over $200 million worth of digital asset-related investments personally and through his firm, […]
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Toast, Shift4 lead drop in fintechs as investors exit stocks tied to consumer spending
A screen displays the company logo for Toast Inc. during the company’s initial public offering at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on Sept. 22, 2021. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Economic concerns are hitting the stock market broadly, but they’re having an outsized impact on fintech companies that are tied closely to […]
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Binance token rises following report that Trump family has discussed stake in the crypto exchange
The Binance logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Binance’s BNB token bucked the wider crypto downturn on Thursday, jumping 4% following a Wall Street Journal report that the Trump family has held talks to secure a financial interest in the U.S. arm of the world’s largest […]
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Crypto payments company MoonPay looks to compete with Stripe with Iron stablecoin acquisition
MoonPay co-founder and CEO Ivan Soto-Wright at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami. MoonPay Crypto payments giant MoonPay is expanding its push into the enterprise market with the acquisition of Iron, an API-first stablecoin infrastructure startup. This marks MoonPay’s second significant acquisition in two months, underscoring its ambition to dominate the rapidly growing stablecoin payments […]
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Fintech stocks plummet as Wall Street worries about consumer spending, credit
People wait in line for T-shirts at a pop-up kiosk for the online brokerage Robinhood along Wall Street after the company went public with an initial public offering earlier in the day on July 29, 2021 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images It was a bad day for tech stocks, and a […]
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Trump’s first White House Crypto Summit has VIPs pushing for favorable laws
Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, slammed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He also said the cryptocurrency exchange is looking to invest more outside of the U.S. Carlos Jasso | Bloomberg | Getty Images Now that President Trump has announced plans for a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, crypto industry leaders can focus on what else they […]
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Trump signs executive order establishing U.S. strategic bitcoin reserve
AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks speaks with President Donald J Trump as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House on Jan. 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty Images President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, […]
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