21st Century Financial Marketing

Stripe | March 26, 2020

Stripe has led a $20 million Series A funding round in San Fransisco-based one-click payments startup Fast. Designed to overcome the problem of shopping card abandonment, Fast Checkout enables consumers to complete purchases with a single click on any browser, platform or device. The product, set to launch in the coming weeks, will complement Fast Login, the company's free-to-use one-click login tool. Fast says it will use the investment to accelerate the global rollout of Fast Checkout and ...

Business Wire | October 09, 2020

Marqeta, the global modern card issuing platform, and Mastercard today announced an extended global partnership to expand into new geographies, open access to new products, and launch additional card programs together. As part of this partnership, Mastercard has also made a financial investment in Marqeta. This new agreement represents a deeper global collaboration between Marqeta and Mastercard. Since 2014, Marqeta and Mastercard have been working together to help fintechs, digital banks and co...

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Yolt Technology Services, Amazon Web Services | May 07, 2021

According to recent research from leading open banking provider Yolt Technology Services (YTS), more than half of business leaders in banking, retail, leasing, investment platforms, and PFMs are not using open banking technology due to data protection and privacy issues. In response, YTS announced today that it would be using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide the highest level of protection through its open banking services. YTS is able to quickly scale using AWS, which ...

Casper | January 27, 2020

Casper Sleep Inc, the online mattress retailer whose investors include actor Leonardo DiCaprio and rapper 50 Cent, expects its initial public offering valuation to be well below the roughly $1 billion it commanded in the last funding round. In a regulatory filing on Monday, the company said it expects the offering of 9.6 million shares to be priced between $17 and $19 per share. At the top end of the range, the IPO will raise $182.4 million and give the firm a valuation of $768 million. Casper w...