Hello Fintech Friends,

The energy was electric at our Lusaka Fintech Meetup last night!

Thank you to our friends at Peach Payments, Lupiya, and ChitChat for sponsoring - and as always to our great Head of African Community Wiza for hosting.

Next up: In just two weeks, we'll be coming to Cape Town for our last Africa fintech event of the season.

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Please find another week of fintech financing events below. (PS: Have feedback for us? 👍👎 Let us know!)

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📊 Stat of the Week

"Open Banking has been adopted by 68 countries globally, with the majority electing for a regulatory-led approach." (Source)

"More than a quarter of Brits are now using buy-now-pay-later." (Source)

💸 Venture Financing

1. QI Tech, a Brazilian banking-as-a-service provider, raised a $200 million Series B.
2. Tabby, a Saudi Arabian buy-now-pay-later provider, raised $200 million in Series D funding.
3. Atom Bank, the UK-based consumer neobank, raised £100 million at a £362 million valuation (down from £435 million last year).
4. Arteria AI, an AI-enabled documentation processing provider to financial institutions, raised a $30 million Series B. 
5. Railsr, the UK-based embedded finance provider that recently came out of bankruptcy, raised $24 million in new funding.
6. Payroll Integrations, a SaaS product for building financial wellness tools, raised a $20 million Series A.
7. Finkargo, a global sourcing, trade services and embedded financing for Latin America, raised a $20 million Series A.
8. Charlie, a neobank focused on transforming financial services for the 62+ year old community with features like anti-fraud protections, raised a $16 million Series A and $7 million in debt.
9. Accelex, a UK provider of AI automation for private markets data acquisition, raised a $15 million Series A.
10. Radius, an agent-centric real estate brokerage platform, raised a $13 million Series B.
11. Verqor, a Mexican lender to the agricultural sector (screenshot below), raised a $7.5 million pre-Series A.
12. Preczn, a financial services Command Center that specialises in vertical SaaS platforms, raised $6.8 million.
13. EarlyBird, a financial and investment gifting platform for kids, raised a $4.5 million seed round.
14. FERO Payment Science, a Dutch online checkout startup, raised $3 million in seed funding.
15. Zilch, a UK-based buy-now-pay-later provider, raised strategic funding from eBay at a $2 billion valuation.
16. Monzo, the UK neobank, is in talks to raise up to $300 million in new funding.
17. Bitstamp, a European crypto exchange, is looking to raise $50 million in new funding.
18. Kroo, a self-described "socially conscious" digital bank with £765 million in deposits, launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds.

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💵 Debt Financing

• Supply chain financing provider Twinco Capital secured a €50 million credit facility from BBVA.

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