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| 01.11.2025 | Evolve Bank CEO fired after propositioning FBI agent who pretended to be a teen boy | Evolve Bank & Trust has fired CEO Bob Hartheimer after just three months at the helm.
Hartheimer was arrested last week for attempted production of child pornography and transfer of obscene material to a minor, court records show.
Evolv... |
| 07.09.2025 | FINRA Targets Former Synapse Execs in Misconduct Probe Following Fintech’s Collapse | The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has launched an investigation into allegations of misconduct by former executives of Synapse Financial Technologies Inc., a now-defunct fintech company whose collapse earlier this year lef... |
| 20.08.2025 | Bankrupt Fintech Linqto Gains Court Approval to Sell Private Company Stakes | Linqto Inc., a once-promising startup that facilitated investments in private companies, has received court approval to liquidate valuable stakes in hard-to-access private firms to fund its ongoing bankruptcy proceedings.
As first reported ... |
| 24.12.2024 | Walmart sued by US watchdog for opening 1 million illegal accounts, making false promises to delivery drivers | Walmart Inc and its financial technology partner, Branch Messenger Inc, are facing allegations from the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) over claims that they opened costly bank accounts for delivery drivers without their cons... |
| 05.12.2024 | FDIC looks to direct monitoring of fintech firms after Synapse collapse, Bloomberg News reports | The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has started to directly monitor financial-technology companies that partner with banks across the U.S., Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.
The fintech monitoring system will help FDIC examiners a... |
| 21.11.2024 | Banking-as-a-Service will provide plumbing for half of future banking activity, says NatWest Boxed boss | Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) will provide the plumbing for "at least half of banking activity in the medium to long term", according to a top executive with Natwest's BaaS offering.
Speaking on the Tech.eu podcast, George Toumbev, ... |
| 27.09.2024 | Banking-as-a-Service is a “dirty word” with US investors, says European fintech boss | Banking-as-a-Service is a “dirty word” with US investors, according to the boss of a European fintech, which embeds financial services into the businesses of its B2B clients.
Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) has been one of the hottest trends in... |
| 17.09.2024 | US regulator proposes strengthened rules for banks working with fintechs | Boards, Policy & RegulationGovernment
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| 17.09.2024 | US regulator proposes strengthened rules for banks working with fintechs | :A top U.S. banking regulator on Tuesday proposed that banks bolster recordkeeping requirements for accounts held by fintech companies on behalf of their customers, following the collapse of bank-fintech middleman Synapse Financial Technolo... |
| 19.07.2024 | Restrictions on onboarding new customers lifted at UK fintech Modulr | UK embedded payments provider Modulr has had a temporary ban on onboarding new customers lifted but must give the financial regulator a warning when doing so.
The collapse of US Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider Synapse has increased the... |
| 28.05.2024 | What more regulatory scrutiny means for banks and BaaS startups | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Amidst increased regulatory scrutiny, banks are being more selective about which fintechs they choose to work with, and that's changing the economics of those relationships, Unit CEO Itai Damti tells ... |
| 28.04.2024 | Stripe’s big changes, Brazil’s newest fintech unicorn and the tale of a startup shutdown | Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Stripe’s big product announcements, a bump in valuation for a Brazilian fintech startup and much more!
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories de... |
| 31.03.2024 | Robinhood’s new Gold Card, BaaS challenges and the tiny startup that caught Stripe’s eye | Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at Robinhood’s new Gold Card, challenges in the BaaS space and how a tiny startup caught Stripe’s eye.
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most impo... |
| 19.04.2022 | Fintech NovoPayment raises first venture round in 15 years to expand its full-stack banking API platform | The digital transformation of banking and payments services is a red-hot trend that’s shown no signs of slowing down. Banking-as-a-service (BaaS) products like Synapse, Unit and Bond have helped fuel the shift by allowing companies to quick... |
| 10.10.2021 | BaaS served three ways: A closer look at a rapidly evolving market | The BaaS market is evolving rapidly and so are the options for companies who wish to quickly spin up new financial services by leveraging these bank-in-a-box APIs.
We recently took a look at who the ideal customers and partners are for bank... |
| 05.08.2021 | BaaS Fintech Synapse Introduces Credit Hub, a Full-Stack API Leveraging Mastercard Network to Serve Small Businesses | Synapse, a banking-as-a-service or BaaS platform developed to increase access to “best-in-class” financial products, has introduced the Synapse Credit Hub, which is described as a full-stack API platform created to support “innovative” cred... |
| 07.06.2019 | Fintech platform Synapse raises $33M to build ‘the AWS of banking’ | Synapse, a San Francisco-based startup that operates a platform enabling banks and fintech companies to easily develop financial services, has closed a $33 million Series B to develop new products and go after international expansion.
The i... |
| 06.06.2019 | Synapse Banks $33M to Grow its Automated Back Office for Fintechs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has jumped in to back San Francisco startup Synapse, which has assembled a plug-in infrastructure to process financia... |
| 06.06.2019 | Synapse raises $33 million to build APIs for financial services | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 06.06.2019 | Synapse raises $33 million to build APIs for financial services | Synapse, a San Francisco-based startup developing a platform that enables companies to extend financial services to their customers, today announced that it has raised $33 million in a series B round led by a16z, with participation from exi... |
| 07.09.2018 | Synapsefi Raises Over $17M in Series A Funding | Synapsefi, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a banking platform that enables FinTech companies to create innovative products for their customers, raised a little over $17M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Trinity Ventures and C... |
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| 06.09.2018 | SynapseFI raises $17m in new funding | SynapseFI is making public what insiders have known for months: the Bay Area banking platform provider closed a $17 million Series A late last year. Trinity Ventures and Core Innovation Capital led the round, reports David Penn at Finovate.... |
| 06.09.2018 | SynapseFI Snares $17M in Series A |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, SynapseFI has raised a $17M Series A round led by Trinity Ventures and Core Innovation Capital.
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| 05.09.2018 |
Core Innovation Capital Backs SynapseFi
| Los Angeles-based fintech investor Core Innovation Capital is one of the lead investors in SynapseFi, a developer of APIs and other tools for connecting into banking services. SynapseFi said it raised a $17M Series A--which actually closed ... |
| 05.09.2018 | Daily funding roundup - September 5th, 2018 | Caffeine, the social broadcasting platform for gaming raised $100M;
SynapseFI: SynapseFI is a banking platform that enables companies to provide finance products to their customers for a fraction of the cost of traditional banks. They help ... |
| 04.09.2018 | SynapseFI raises $17M to develop its fintech and banking platform | SynapseFI, a startup that helps banks and fintech companies work together to develop technology, has announced that it raised a $17 million Series A funding round.
The funding actually closed at the back end of last year, but CEO Sankaet Pa... |
| - | Savings app CEO says 85,000 accounts locked in fintech meltdown: ‘We never imagined a scenario like this’ | For three weeks, 85,000 Yotta customers with a combined $112 million in savings have been locked out of their accounts, CEO and co-founder Adam Moelis told CNBC.
The disruption, caused by a dispute between fintech middleman Synapse and Tenn... |
| - | Banks in Synapse mess make progress toward releasing deposits of stranded fintech customers | Banks involved in the mess caused by the collapse of fintech middleman Synapse have made progress piecing together account information for customers that could result in a release of funds in a matter of weeks, according to a person briefed... |
| - | Fintech nightmare: ‘I have nearly $38,000 tied up’ after Synapse bankruptcy | A dispute between a fintech startup and its banking partners has ensnared potentially millions of Americans, leaving them without access to their money for nearly two weeks, according to recent court documents.
Synapse serves as a middle ma... |
| - | [Funding alert] Financial service platform WeRize raises $8M in Series A led by 3one4 Capital, Kalaari Capital, and others | Bengaluru-based socially distributed full-stack financial services platform, WeRize, on Wednesday announced that it has raised $8 million in Series A round, led by 3one4 Capital, Picus Capital, Kalaari Capital, and Orios Ventures, according... |
| - | Synapse bankruptcy trustee says $85 million of customer savings is missing in fintech meltdown | There is an $85 million shortfall between what partner banks of fintech middleman Synapse are holding and what depositors are owed, according to the court-appointed trustee in the Synapse bankruptcy.
Customers of fintech firms that used Syn... |
