Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse Spent $4 Billion Buying Wall Street Infrastructure — Now He’s Dodging IPO Questions
Ripple's CEO built a $4 billion acquisition spree into Hidden Road, GTreasury, and Rail during what was supposed to be…
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Philippine Startup Funding Doubled in H1 2026, but Only Seven Deals Closed
A Kickstart Ventures and DealStreetAsia report says Philippine startup funding more than doubled to about $81 million in H1 2026,…
Revolut Is Quietly Asking for a Philippine Digital Bank License. The Pool of Available Licenses Is Nearly Empty.
After an October 2 meeting between Trade Secretary Cristina Roque and Revolut in London, the DTI said the UK fintech…
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…
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…