Top Fintech News Stories for August 5, 2021

Here are the most read news stories from our daily newsletter today:

  • How Square’s Alyssa Henry Used The ‘Amazon Playbook’ To Amass A $550 Million Fortune – Forbes
  • America’s financial institutions have failed Black and brown communities. Killer Mike has a solution – Fast Company
  • OCC conducting review of overdraft policies, acting comptroller says – Banking Dive
  • Financial insight platform Zeni raises $34M Series B – finLedger
  • Feedzai adds behavioural biometrics to its arsenal with acquisition of Revelock – Finextra
  • Neobank launches real-time cryptocurrency conversion – Banking Dive
  • Ripple’s blueprint to modernize Europe’s payments infrastructure – American Banker
  • Insurtech Hippo Now Valued at $5B after Going Public via SPAC, Company to Focus on Tech, Data, Engineering – CrowdFund Insider
  • New CBDC report highlights potential opportunities and challenges of introducing a Central Bank Digital Currency in the U.S. – TearSheet
  • DeFi Report from ConsenSys: 2.91M Unique Ethereum Addresses Using Decentralized Finance Protocols in Q2 2021, a 65% Growth from Q1 – CrowdFund Insider
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