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World’s Best SME Banks 2025: Regional Winners

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Its digital platform offers a complete, integrated portfolio of SME products and services—providing access to the bank’s credit, guarantees, insurance, investments, foreign exchange, and derivatives products. A knowledge base on the bank’s website instructs would-be entrepreneurs at the very earliest business stages.

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FinTech Startup Revolut Raises $80M In New Funding, Now Valued At $5.5B

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London startup mobile bank Revolut Ltd. Founded in 2015, Revolut began by offering prepaid debit cards that allowed users to avoid foreign exchange fees while traveling abroad. has secured $80 million in new funding at a $5.5 billion valuation as part of its Series D round that kicked off five months ago.

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FinTechs Expand Open Banking Opportunity For Banks

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German banking platform Mambu has announced a collaboration with TransferWise to enhance banks’ cross-border payments and foreign exchange management operations, the companies recently revealed. FAB Teams Up For Digital Invoicing. TransferWise Integrates With Mambu.

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Small Business FinTech Takes Center Stage With VCs

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Targeting China’s SMB community, XTransfer provides cross-border payments, collection and foreign exchange solutions, with its eye fixed on exporters. The startup announced this week a $10 million fundraiser led by China Merchants Group, while 01VC, Yunqi Partners and Gaorong Capital also participated in the Series A round.

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World’s Best Banks 2024: Global Winners

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million small-business clients, the bank broadened its suite of payment acceptance offerings, including invoicing and a tap-to-pay option allowing merchants to accept card payments via their mobile devices. This time, the failures disproportionally affected the venture capital-backed tech startup sector that these banks catered to.

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Robotics Process Automation Rakes In The VC Cash

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This week, RPA startup Automation Anywhere made waves with its $300 million investment from the SoftBank Vision Fund, reports said Thursday (Nov. The FinTech targets friction and costs associated with foreign exchange (FX) conversion fees and volatility that corporates experience when making payments to their vendors across borders.

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Investors Open Their Wallets For B2B Payments Efficiency

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It was another stellar week for B2B FinTech startups, which announced a collective $191.8 Funding rounds this week were all about the startups that help businesses get paid faster, through more channels, more securely, regardless of geographical location. million in venture capital and growth equity investment this week. IbanF irst.

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