Satispay, the Milan-based mobile payments company that became Italy’s second unicorn in 2022, is reportedly planning to raise up to €120 million ($139 million) in fresh funding. The round would fuel the fintech’s expansion beyond payments into stock and ETF trading, savings, investments, and pensions. Existing investors are set to vote on the round on […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
London-based digital challenger bank Allica Bank has officially crossed the unicorn threshold after closing a $155 million Series D funding round that valued the company at around $1.2 billion. This p [...]
When I first wrote “Vector databases: Shiny object syndrome and the case of a missing unicorn” in March 2024, the industry was awash in hype. Vector databases were positioned as the next big thing [...]
Coming from South Africa but living in Europe, I can tell you that sending money to family and friends back home is a bit of a nightmare. Typically you must use a traditional bank, which can take a we [...]
Instead of raising prices again, Netflix may have to lower its subscription costs in Italy. A court in Rome recently ruled that Netflix owed its Italian users a refund for price hikes between 2017 and [...]
Wise began trading on Nasdaq on Monday under the ticker WSE. Shares opened at 15.96 dollars. The London-founded fintech, which went public on the London Stock Exchange in July 2021 via a direct lis [...]