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TechCrunch roundup: Stealth recruiting virtual sales kickoffs Google Clouds Q4

European point of sale provider SumUp acquires customer loyalty startup Fivestars for 317M

Affirms CTO talks transparency and the tech that makes BNPL possible

PalmPay raised 100M Series A last August claims to have 5 million users

Indias Mswipe raises 30M to grow its smart pointofsale terminal business

Africa Roundup: Canal acquires ROK Flutterwave and Alipay partner OPay raises 50M

Sequoia Heritage Stripe and others invest 200M in African fintech Wave at 17B valuation

Privacycom rebrands to Lithic raises 43M for virtual payment cards

Klarna raises 460 million looks to expand its payments presence in the US

WhenThens nocode payments platform attracts 6M from European VCs Stride and Cavalry

Pomelo raises 9M to build a payments infrastructure for LatAm fintechs

UKbased Playter closes 55M round for its BNPL platform aimed at SMEs

Philippines payment processing startup PayMongo lands 12 million Series A led by Stripe

Stripe is the latest fintech to falter taking a 28 internal valuation cut

Venmo adds a check cashing feature waives fees for stimulus checks

Egyptian fintech Sympl raises 6M for its save now pay later service

Stripe and Plaid suit up for battle

Razer goes big on payments with Visa prepaid card

FrankieOne nabs 16M to provide fintechs with ID and fraud management as a service

Stitch raises 21M for its API infrastructure and embedded finance platform

MoneyHash gets 3M to build a superAPI for payment operations in Africa Mideast

xentral an ERP platform for SMBs raises 75M Series B from Tiger Global and Meritech

Indias Meesho which enables social commerce via WhatsApp raises 50M

Google to offer checking accounts in partnership with banks starting next year

SoftBank Sequoia China back this ERP startup enabling Chinas online exporters

China Roundup: Beijing is tearing down the digital walled gardens

Lydia the French payments app with 8 million users launches mobile banking app Sumeria

Ivorian ecommerce startup ANKA formerly Afrikrea raises 62M preSeries A

China roundup: Tesla supplier CATL to buy Canadas Millennial Lithium

Why Walmarts Flipkart is betting heavily on Hindi

Stripe cofounder John Collison explains why online payments powerhouse opened an office in Seattle

BNPL in 2022: 4 fintech investors discuss regulation trends and how to stand out

In the wake of Fasts collapse Volume thinks it can crack the payment checkout conundrum

Billogram provider of a payments platform specifically for recurring billing raises 45M

What Squares acquisition of Afterpay means for startups

Xiaomi backs Indian consumer lending startup ZestMoney in 134M deal

Mono aims to be first bankingless bank for Latin Americas small businesses

Elavon to acquire Sage Pay a gateway that competes with Stripe PayPal and Adyen for 300M

DEUNA enters Latin Americas crowded oneclick checkout sector flush with 37M

China Roundup: facial recognition lawsuit and cashless payments for foreigners

Alibababacked facial recognition startup Megvii raises 750 million

SpotOn raises 300M at a 315B valuation and acquires Appetize

South African payments startup Yoco raises 83M Series C backed by Dragoneer

India unseats China as Asias top fintech funding source

Jeeves emerges from stealth with 131M in debt and equity and a16z as a lead investor

The next phase of WeChat

Flutterwave and Visa launch African consumer payment service GetBarter

Fastgrowing Chinese media startup ByteDance is raising 25B3B more

Namibian B2B ecommerce retail platform JABU raises 15M led by Tiger Global

Apple enters the BNPL market as regulation competition intensify