Top News In Fintech And Beyond For March 3, 2022

👉 Top Things To Know In TradeFi �

• Aries growing to over 120 countries.
• Freetrade eyes a launch in Sweden.
• Thetanuts Finance adds new round.
• VALR secures $50M Series B round.
• Shares added $40M in a new round.

👉 Top Things To Know In Fintech �

• FinTech Sandbox Demo Day in NY.
• Acorn Finance and Joist teamed up.
• Goldman eyeing embedded finance. GS
• A breakdown banking as a service.
• Wedge teamed with Sila over cards.
• Plum Life raising $5.3M in a round.
• Pianity added $6.5M in seed round.
• Zeller went from 0 to $1B in 2 years.
• Zest AI releasing new lending tech.
• Clear Capital eyes network growth.
• Mesh Payments intros a new card.
• Alviere, AutoPayPlus are partnering.
• MayStreet launches next-gen offer.
• Praxent partnered up with NEWITY.
• Meriwest selected NCR over digital.
• Grasshopper plans for relaunching.
• M&T CEO pushes fintech regulation.
• Ontology releasing virtual machine.
• Schwab files w/SEC on crypto ETF. SCHW
• Quiver Quantitative taps $2M round.
• Sovos offering updated automation.
• Paga is expanding offers to Ethiopia.
• Volante adding service for FedNow.
• Remitly is honing growth initiatives.
• My Digital Money is cutting its fees.
• CryptoPunks getting loaned against.
• Sberbank withdrawing from markets.

🔦 Spotlight: In the early stages of your startup focus way more on sales, marketing, and distribution than product.

Source: Andrew Gazdecki

👉 Interesting Reads �

• The bond market in easy language.
• Walmart eyeing new deliver service. WMT
• Primer: SWIFT & sanctions impact.
• Fed plans a rate hike in two weeks.
• Vlad miscalculated cost of invasion.
• The opportunity in hedged markets.
• Paying top dollar for pricey markets.

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📚 Thought-Provoking Statement: We have not seen moves in European bond markets like these since the Euro-crisis (2011-2012), and there are few episodes like this in general (ERM crisis 1992, GFC 2008)

Bonds fully understand the gravity of the situation.

Source: @jnordvig

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