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Robinhood was fined $1.25 million by the FINRA over concerns that it didn't provide users with the best deal on their trades.

Robinhood was fined $1.25 million by the FINRA over concerns that it didn't provide users with the best deal on their trades.
TransferWise reported a surge in revenue and $12.7 million in profits for the year ending in March. The fintech firm is valued at $3.5 billion.
Even helps automatically target personalized offers that consumers are more likely to qualify for and accept, helping banks acquire customers.
C2FO executives Sandy Kemper and Colin Sharp told Business Insider why the SoftBank-backed fintech is based in Kansas City, not Silicon Valley.
"Klarna is very user-oriented and does some things better than Paypal."
Oak HC/FT executives outlined five key areas across healthcare and financial technology that the firm is eyeing as it invests its third fund.
Berlin-based N26 said on Thursday it raised an additional $170 million in its latest funding round as it looks to expand to markets including the US.
The buzzy credit card startup Brex was most recently valued at $1.1 billion as of its Series C in October. Now, it's worth more than twice that.
Yoyo is a payments mechanism which provides users with access to loyalty schemes as part of their app at a variety of merchants and retailers.
The $35 million funding round, which closed on Tuesday, is set to help fuel the company's expansion further into Europe and Asia.
JPMorgan Chase has seen deposit growth slow as its customers withdraw their money and park it with competing banks that offer higher interest rates.
"Visa and Mastercard run the show, but UnionPay have a big ambition in this region and we are the first to offer their platform here."
A panel of expert VCs picked out the most interesting early stage companies for the event's "startup academy."
BI PRIME: PayPal announced that its small business lending division hit $10 billion in cumulative volume.
According to Pillar founder and CEO, the team wasn't looking for new funding but garnered interest from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley.
Plaid, the US fintech valued at $2.7 billion, has officially launched in the UK — marking its first expansion outside North America.
Facebook will roll out its digital currency in around a dozen countries by the first quarter of next year, and plans to begin testing it this year.
Fast-growing UK-based fintech TransferWise has seen its valuation double following a $292 million secondary share round.
The firm is valued at $3.5 billion after a funding round from investors including BlackRock. "We're likely to go public at some point," the CFO says.
BI PRIME: Apple Pay is bolstering its international expansion and launching support for ticketing in the US.