Fintech & Crypto Short Takes: Samsung Pay Card, $72B on Blockchain, Argent DeFi wallet, and Halflife in VR
Hi Fintech Architects --
Welcome back to the subscribers-only letter! Here are the top updates hitting our radar —
Samsung to launch a Samsung Pay debit card this summer (link here)
Former Westpac execs raise $33 million for digital mortgage startup (link here) and Judo Bank raises $148.5 million (link here)
Bought By Many raises $98 million (link here)
Banks extend $500B in PPP loans to help struggling SMBs (link here)
Visa’s Fast Track Program propels growth of the Fintech industry worldwide (link here)
Treasury Prime raises $9 million (link here)
OCC deal to move $72 billion in equities to Axcore Blockchain (link here)
Argent announces a $12 million Series A round (link here)
Crypto Forensics Firm TokenAnalyst Shuts Down, Some Employees Hired by Coinbase (link here)
Intel acquires Moovit for approximately $900 million (link here)
Analysis: ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ adds nearly 1 million VR users to Steam in record gain (link here)
Symend raises $52M to help mediate when customers are at risk of defau…