20年くらい前に、知人から保険の見直しについて相談されたことがある。彼女が加入していたのは積立型の終身保険と個人年金保険で、正直、かけすぎに思えたが、予定利率が5.5％（現在は0.25％程度）という、俗にいう「お宝保険」だった。そこで、入院特約や三大疾病保障のような余分なものをすべて外して、主契約だけ残す…
Amazon is adding a Venmo checkout option next year
PayPal today announced that Amazon.com will be adding a Venmo option to checkout for users in the U.S., starting next year. The news arrived as the online payment giant announced solid third quarter results, with a 13% year-over-year revenue increase. Beginning at some point in 2022, Amazon shoppers will be able to link their accounts […]
Watr launches ESG-oriented blockchain for commodities, partners with Algorand
With COP26 negotiations in full throw this week, the climate is probably the highest up the global agenda it’s ever been. And as the world slowly emerges from the global pandemic, more people are talking about re-writing the rules of trade, not just to unblock the clear inefficiencies made manifest by the Evergreen Suez-blocking debacle, […]
With a Section 1045 rollover, founders can salvage QSBS before 5 years
Section 1045 allows a founder or stockholder whose company has been sold before the five-year holding period to defer the capital gain by rolling the sale proceeds into a replacement QSBS.
TechCrunch+ roundup: Holiday marketing tips, low-cost NFTs, SaaS sprawl study
Cargo ships are stacked up outside ports, and empty shipping containers are in short supply, as are the truck drivers who would take them to market. This is not the time for doing business as usual.
Microsoft reclaims title of most valuable public company after Apple falls
iPhone maker cedes top spot to its tech rival after weak earnings.
Balancing risk: Modern architecture’s role in the BNPL playbook
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is an old form of payment that is new again in a big way. And that could mean trouble for BNPL fintechs that are just getting to know the world of lending.
Predicting the next wave of Southeast Asia tech giants
Despite the impressive growth and stellar companies grabbing headlines and tons of capital, Southeast Asia is only just entering the next phase of development.
Tiger Global leads $25M investment into Swap, which aims to be ‘LatAm’s fintech factory’
Swap, a São Paulo-based BaaS startup, announced today it has raised $25 million in a Series A led by Tiger Global Management. The financing was “heavily oversubscribed,” according to the company, which has now raised $28 million since its October 2018 inception. Endeavor, Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen, partners of DST Global, ONEVC, Global Founders Capital […]
Stitch gets a $2M seed extension, hires Benjamin Dada to lead Nigerian expansion
Two months into 2021, South African fintech Stitch came out of stealth and raised $4 million in seed funding, allowing it to begin to make inroads into Nigeria some months ago. Today, Stitch formally announced the expansion into Nigeria and a seed extension of $2 million to go with it; the total seed investment now stands […]