This Week in Fintech (2/12)

FNZ, a wealth management platform, raised $1.4 billion in new equity.

GoCardless, a UK direct bank payment provider, raised a $312 million Series G at a $2.1 billion valuation.

Tonik, a Filipino neobank, raised a $131 million Series B.

Alma, a French buy-now-pay-later provider, raised a €115m Series C.

Vivid Money, a German neobank, raised €100 million at a €775 million valuation.

Railsbank, a UK banking-as-a-service provider, is raising $100 million at a valuation over $1 billion.

Qredo, an infrastructure developer for defi, raised an $80 million Series A at a $460 million valuation.

Selina, a UK provider of home equity line-of-credit loans, raised a $35 million Series B and $115 million in lending debt.

Loanstreet, a loan management and analysis company, raised a $25 million Series B.

Rewire, an Israeli mobile banking platform, raised $25 million.

Slyp, an Australian rich receipts data app, raised $25 million from four Australian banks.

Taxfyle, an online tax filing accountant marketplace, raised a $20 million Series B.

Thndr, an Egyptian stock investing app, raised a $20 million Series A.

OpenNode, a bitcoin payment provider, raised a $20 million Series A.

Sardine, which provides fraud and compliance services for fintechs, raised a $19.5 million Series A.

Rift Finance, a liquidity provider to DAOs, raised $18 million.

Qlub, a Dubai payment solution provider for restaurants, raised $17 million in seed funding.

Daffy, a payments platform for charitable giving, raised a $17 million Series A.

Midas, a Turkish retail investing platform, raised $11 million in funding.

Pypl, a UAE-based blockchain payments firm, raised an $11 million Series A.

Neo.Tax *, a business tax management app, raised a $10 million Series A.

Streetbeat, a free investing and cryptocurrency trading app, raised $10 million in seed funding.

Brick, an API to create open finance in Southeast Asia, raised an $8.5 million seed investment.

Fintern, a UK low-ticket consumer lender, raised £8 million.

Infina, a Vietnamese investment app, raised a $6 million seed round.

Primex Finance, a decentralized prime brokerage liquidity protocol, raised $5.7 million in seed funding.

ComplYant, a digital tax assistant for small businesses, raised $5.5 million in seed funding.

Revere, a capital markets network for real estate investing, raised $5 million.

Highline, an overdraft and bill payment tool, raised $4.5 million in seed funding.

Addition Wealth, a financial wellness platform, raised $4.2 million.

Goodbill, a medical billing and payments platform, raised $3.4 million.

AiVidens, a Belgian predictive financial health platform, raised €1.5 million.

Duplo, a Nigerian B2B payment flow enabler, raised a $1.3 million pre-seed.

Grey, a Nigerian foreign exchange provider, received backing from Y Combinator.

Klarna, the buy-now-pay-later giant, is considering a round at a $60 billion valuation.

Keo World, a Latin American B2B buy-now-pay-later provider, raised $500 million in debt capital.

Brazilian cross-border payments firm Ebanx is delaying its IPO to the second half of the year due to market volatility.

byNordic Acquisition Corporation, a fintech SPAC, priced a $150 million IPO.

Oldenburgische Landesbank, a German bank owned by a private equity consortium, is eyeing a €1 billion IPO this year.

Bank core processing conglomerate Fiserv will acquire payments technology provider Finxact for around $650 million in order to expand its cloud capabilities.

Banking technology developer Amountannounced that it is acquiring lending origination tooling service Linear Financial Technologies for $175 million.

Branch, a Kenya-based mobile lending company, acquired a controlling stake in Century Microfinance Bank.

Wealth management app Betterment acquired crypto robo-advisor Makara.

Corporate travel payments platform Tripactions is acquiringComtravo, a Europe-focused travel management company.

DNA Payments, a UK vertically-integrated payments provider, is acquiring card acceptance solution Card Cutters.

ID verification platform Trulioo will acquire Danish no-code KYC service HelloFlow.

Indian payments processor Razorpay entered Southeast Asia via its acquisition of Malaysian fintech Curlec.

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia will acquire a 20% stake in local account-to-account payment tool Paypa Plane and invested in rent-to-own startup OwnHome.

DriveWealth will expand into facilitating crypto trading through its acquisition of Crypto-Systems.

Private equity firm Carlyle is in talks to acquire credit and lending firm CBAM Partners.