This Week in Fintech (3/20)

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💸 Venture Financing

Stripe raised $600 million at a $95 billion valuation.
CRED, an Indian credit card rewards platform, is raising $200 million at a $2 billion valuation.
Bitpanda, an austrian digital currency brokerage, raised a $170 million Series B to expand its investment platform to traditional fintech assets such as gold and equities.
CreditShop, a credit issuing startup, raised $100 million and rebranded to Mercury Financial.
PayFit, a French payroll SaaS platform, raised a €90 million Series D.
Socure, the financial identity verification provider, raised $100 million at a $1.3 billion valuation.
UK bank merchant-acquiring startup Pollinate raised a $50 million Series C.
Genesis, a UK capital markets software, raised a $45 million Series B.
Republic, the private share retail investing platform, raised a $36 million Series A.
Brim, a Canadian payments-as-a-service firm, raised a $25 million Series B.
Kuda, a Nigerian neobank for Africa and the African diaspora, raised a $25 million Series A.
Zeller, focused on building Australian payments services, raised an A$25 million Series A.
Invstr, a UK financial education platform, raised $20 million and announced the addition of trading and banking services.
Leap, an Indian student loan credit verification company for students abroad, raised a $17 million Series B.
Adumo, focused on making payments more affordable for small businesses in South Africa, raised R225 million ($15 million) in new funding.
Fondeadora, a Mexican neobank, raised a $14 million Series A extension.
AcreTrader, a farmland investment platform, raised a $12 million Series A.
Yap, an Indian and Southeast Asian financial data API provider, raised a $10 million Series B.
Gatsby, a no-commission stock trading app, raised a $10 million Series A.
Enfuce, a Finnish payments and open banking startup, raised a €7 million Series B.
Lendo, a Saudi SMB lending marketplace, raised a $7.2 million Series A.
Diem, a UK debit card with an instant-payment product return feature for recycling purchases, raised a $5.5 million seed.
Capdesk, a UK equity management platform, raised a £5 million Series A extension.
Landlord financial services provider Zibo raised $4.5 million.
B-North, a UK small business-lending bank, raised £4.45 million.
upSWOT, a fintech platform for SMBs, raised a $4.3 million seed.
Trullion, a real-time accounting workflow automation platform, raised a $3.5 million seed.
Higo, a ‘Venmo for B2B payments in LatAm,’ raised a $3.3 million seed.
Pledge, a non-profit fundraising platform, raised a $3 million seed.
Dayra, an Egyptian workforce financial services platform, raised a $3 million pre-seed.
Honeycomb Credit, a peer to peer lending platform, raised a $1.8 million seed.
NowPay, an Egyptian payroll and employee financial wellness platform, raised a Pre-Series A round.
After ending its proposed Visa merger, Plaid is in talks to raise $600 million at a $10 to $15 billion valuation.

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💵 Debt Financing

SumUp, a UK startup that facilitates business payment acceptance, raised €750 million in debt.

☯️ Exits and M&A

💻 Fintech

US neobank Chime is preparing an IPO that could value it at over $30 billion.
Airtel Africa sold a $200 million stake in its trans-continental mobile money business to TPG’s Rise Fund.
Apollo Global Management ended talks to acquire bankrupt supply chain lender Greensill’s UK assets for $60 million.
Robinhood acquired recruiting firm Binc to increase its recruiting capabilities.
Digital lending startup Blend acquired title insurance and settlement services provider Title365.
Credit data provider UniversalCIS raised more capital from Lovell Minnick to fund its continued acquisitions.
Private equity firm Endicott Growth Equity Partners took a minority position in government spend software GovSpend.
US homebuilder Lennar is divesting its non-core units in order to become a housing financial services company.

🏦 Bank

HSBC is in talks to sell its unprofitable French retail banking division to New York private equity firm Cerberus in a restructuring.
Australia’s Westpac Bank will sell its mortgage business to Arch Capital Group.

💲 Investment Management

Fidelity acquired a minority stake in private market strategy provider Moonfare as part of a joint venture to provide private investment advice to Fidelity’s wholesale clients.
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus took a minority stake in investment advisory firm Edelman Financial Engines at an implied $7.3 billion valuation.
Eurazeo bought a stake in French wealth management firm Groupe Premium at a €290 million valuation.
Financial advisory firm Resolute is looking to sell itself for $1.5 billion.

📈 SPACs

Online trading platform eToro agreed to go public at an implied $10.4 billion enterprise value through a merger with The Bancorp founder Betsy Cohen’s FinTech Acquisition Corp. V.
EFIC1, a financial services SPAC that was founded by former Commerzbank CEO Martin Blessing, is filing for a €415 million IPO in Amsterdam.
Reverence Acquisition, a fintech SPAC, filed for a $300 million IPO.
BharCap Acquisition, focused on financial services and fintech, filed to raise $250 million.
Fintech SPAC Thunder Bridge Capital Partners IV filed for a $225 million IPO.
1Sharpe Acquisition, looking for a fintech target, filed for a $225 million IPO.
Fintech SPAC Newcourt Acquisition filed for a $200 million IPO.