SEC Clears GCash’s Record P92-Billion IPO — Using a Rule That Didn’t Exist a Year Ago
Mynt's SEC-approved P92.32-billion IPO is the first to use a new lower public-float rule for mega-issuers, while bankers now say…
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Affirm’s Max Levchin Wants His Buy-Now-Pay-Later App to Act Like Your ‘Smarter Older Sister’
The PayPal co-founder built Affirm around no late fees and no compound interest — and just laid out a roadmap…
GCash’s Own Tech Chief Just Drew the Line on What AI Doesn’t Get to Decide
Weeks before Mynt's record-setting IPO, GCash's own CTOO laid out exactly where AI is and isn't allowed to make the…
Vlad Tenev’s X Account Got Hacked to Push a Fake ‘Vladhood’ Coin. Robinhood’s Real Chain Launched Days Earlier — On Purpose.
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev's X account was hijacked to promote a fraudulent memecoin days after the company's own real Robinhood…
A WhatsApp Chatbot Just Raised $200 Million to Become Latin America’s Bank for the Unbanked
Félix, a Miami-based startup that started as a WhatsApp remittance bot for Latino immigrants, just raised $200 million — split…
Stripe’s Own Data Says New Business Formation Just Doubled. Its CEO Says That’s AI Creating Winners, Not Concentrating Power.
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison told Y Combinator's Startup School that new business formation on Stripe's platform has roughly doubled year-over-year…
A Filipino-Founded Startup Just Convinced Tala’s Founder to Bet on It. Kita Raised $4.5 Million to Fix the Credit Scoring Problem Tala Spent a Decade Trying to Solve.
Kita, an AI credit-assessment startup co-founded by a Manila-born Stanford graduate, raised a $4.5 million seed round backed by Tala…
A Startup Building the ‘Global Dollar Bank’ Just Raised $180 Million — and Southeast Asia Is One of Its Four Named Markets
Augustus raised a $180 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation to expand dollar account access and payment rails…
A Startup Building the ‘Global Dollar Bank’ Just Raised $180 Million — and Southeast Asia Is One of Its Four Named Markets
Augustus raised a $180 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation to expand dollar account access and payment rails…
Visa Just Paid $2.4 Billion for a Company That Catches Fraud by Watching How You Type
Visa agreed to acquire behavioral biometrics company BioCatch for $2.4 billion in cash, betting that AI-powered scams have gotten cheap…