🔥 Latest This Week in Fintech 🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺 sponsored by Sidekick is out!

3 news highlights

- bunq adds AI with NVIDIA, is working with Mastercard & is seeking a UK banking licence

- Monzo 🏦 announces £15.4m full year profits

- A2A provider @token_io launched hosted payment pages

The New Fintech era in 🇹🇿; Selcom acquired a bank( This Week in Fintech - Africa).

thisweekinfintech.com/tanzanian-fint…

Bangalore fintech friends! 🇮🇳

Come join This Week in Fintech and Carta for a founders & funders mixer on June 26th:

🎟️lu.ma/oeshfebp

thisweekinfintech.com/waystar/

Want to Pay Cash? That’ll Cost You Extra

From ballpark hot dogs to parking tickets, more cash payments are coming with a fee

wsj.com/personal-finan…

there are so, so many smart founders starting fintech companies these days

Is the IPO window back open for fintech?

'It just comes down to 'what do you want to think about on your death bed,' and I just want to have taken every shot, every chance - and again, anyone who's in the arena and working like that, I'm going to support it.'

- Jon Zanoff of Empire Startups for the This Week in Fintech podcast

It's New York Tech Week. It's Money2020 Europe. It's Collision Conference. It's London Tech Week. It's June and we have so, so many fintech announcements this week.

Grab a coffee for a long read of product launches, partnerships, and fintech innovation.

thisweekinfintech.com/hotfinsummer/

Gm from the nyc subway Mercury Ramp

well, yeah

Had an amazing time on a panel with
Nik and
Erica Dorfman discussing the future of financial products at Brex
this morning for #NYTechWeek ! 🙌 Tech Week

Thanks to all the founders who joined us and sparked some insightful conversations! 📷🚀

reddit is getting into fintech

reddit.com/r/fintechnews/…

What’s wrong with this picture?

Chase pays *0 interest* on 80% of its business accounts (mostly SMBs) across $260B in deposits.

If you need a talking point on why fintech matters, this is it

Competition from Square & others welcome

popularfintech.com/p/the-opportun… h/t Jevgenijs Kazanins

For our London-based risk leaders in banking, fintech, and lending:

We're co-hosting a TWIF & Oscilar private dinner discussion at Smith & Wollensky on June 26.

The topic is credit risk, fraud, and how to fight them!

No sales, just solutions.

lu.ma/riskconlondon

If had to argue why Fintech companies will capture more economic rents (ie have stronger moats) than SaaS companies in age of AI here it is:

Toy Thesis:
Even if cost of building software goes to zero

…ability to sell / install it won’t…Especially in regulated industries like

85,000 customers unable to access $112 million in savings because of a shady middleware operator....