Issue 351 · Feb 17, 2022 Weekly edition · 4 min read

Issue #351- Even the Oracle of Omaha Invests In Crypto-Friendly Companies

This is one of the most interesting news covered today by FinTech Weekly: blockchain technology and fintech firms are always attracting more investments. The last frontier of these technologies is the metaverse:

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10 fintech investors discuss what they’re looking for and how to pitch them in Q1 2022

Mary Ann Azevedo (TechCrunch) interviews 10 investors to know what they look for when investing in startups: Anish Acharya (Andreessen Horowitz), Christina Melas-Kyriazi (Bain Capital Ventures), Ethan Choi (Accel), Pete Flint (NFX), Munish Varma (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Nigel Morris (QED Investors), Tyler Griffin (Financial Venture Studio), Mark Fiorentino (Index Ventures) and Sheel Mohnot (Better Tomorrow Ventures).

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Portugal slowly becoming a ‘haven’ for European Bitcoiners Cointelegraph — Portugal is becoming one of the countries that are introducing more improvements for crypto investors. One of the most interesting aspects is the fiscal system, extremely favourable to crypto holders and investors. Open story ↗ African Digital Week FinTech Weekly — African Digital Week is a virtual event, dedicated to the digital transformation of modern society. It includes 15 forums, giving the viewers useful information about the essential trends related to digital technology. Experts and business leaders from Africa and around the World will come to share personal and professional knowledge, best-case practices and showcase project experiences. Open story ↗ Warren Buffett invests $1B in Bitcoin-friendly neobank, dumps Visa and Mastercard stocks Cointelegraph — Warren Buffet, the “Oracle of Omaha”, decreased his exposure in Visa and Mastercard to increase exposure in Nubank, the Brazilian fintech bank appreciated by Bitcoin investors. But Nubank is not the only crypto-friendly company in the portfolio of the popular investor. Open story ↗ The Next Step in Buy Now Pay Later? Fintech Industry Reacts to the New Klarna Card The Fintech Times — Finally, Klarna announced the launch of its physical card: the card will be launched in the UK as part of Klarna's “Pay in 30” program, so consumers will be able to delay payments also for purchases in physical stores. Open story ↗ News: GoCardless, Stitch and Vivid Money raise funding to solve money movement friction Fintech Insider — Ross Gallagher and Deepa Anikhindi are joined by Kiaan Pillay - co-founder and CEO of Stitch - and Catherine Birkett - CFO at GoCardless. Fintech Insider hosts and their guests discuss some of the most important news in the fintech space. Open story ↗ Synctera launches Community Bank with FinTech partner IBS Intelligence — Synctera provides its platform and tools to fintech creators, communities and entrepreneurs. The platform has recently participate in the partnership between Lineage Bank - the U.S. community bank - and GoGetr - the fintech platform that helps people with their savings and health. Open story ↗ The Coming Boom In Metaverse Lending For Banks Forbes — The metaverse is becoming more and more popular and successful: entrepreneurs and investors are buying lands and houses in the metaverse, and now also people who have no money to invest are starting to get mortgages to buy their virtual houses. Open story ↗ $1T opportunity: JPMorgan becomes first major bank in the metaverse Cointelegraph — JPMorgan invests in the metaverse: the blockchain-based world Decentraland hosts a virtual lounge of the bank. This market opportunity is worth $1 trillion. The name of the lounge is Onyx Lounge, and visitors can see a digital portrait of Jamie Dimon there. Open story ↗ Today in FinTech: Bank of America Invests in UK FinTech to Tackle Card Processing Fees PYMNTS — Fintech firms and banks are cooperating to find more innovative solutions for merchants and to enhance security: one of these collaborations is represented by the partnership between Bank of America and Banked to reduce transaction fees. Open story ↗ Ripple Partners With Central Bank Digital Currency Think Tank The Daily Hold — Ripple is cooperating with the think tank DEA (Digital Euro Association) to create CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies). This can be a further step towards regulation and the creation of different stablecoins. Open story ↗

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