Fintech of the week
Your next car crash claim could be decided by physics, not paperwork. Anyone who has been through a car accident knows the script. Photos, forms, phone calls. weeks of waiting while someone somewhere assesses what really happened. For insurers, it is slow, expensive, and full of fraud risk. For drivers,
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There are two ways to enter Brazil's financial system today: both are bad. Brazil's central bank has quietly built some of the most advanced rails in the world. Pix for instant payments: a serious open finance framework, regulators who actually ship. However, if you are a
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School fees feel less like a line item, more like a second mortgage. In the UK, the education journey quietly stretches over 20 plus years. Early years childcare can run from a few thousand pounds a year to the mid-teens, independent schools reach £19k to £50k annually, and university can
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Imagine your next debt collection call starts with empathy, not a threat. Talk to almost any lender in India, and you hear the same story. Collections are expensive, stressful for the team, and dangerous for the brand. For borrowers, it is worse: spam calls, pressure, and very little real help
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You can call this the problem of happy people who have money but no idea where it actually lives. Even in my very normal life, I feel it. One bank here, a brokerage there, a property in a spreadsheet I last updated months ago. If I tried to answer "
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Prediction markets are the cleanest opinion poll money can buy. Prediction markets are exploding, but the data is a mess. Polymarket, Kalshi, Metaculus, and others all have different endpoints, formats, and auth flows. If you want clean odds across platforms, you end up stitching everything together by hand. Dome is
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AI pays for AI. Paygentic makes sure the money moves. Here is the simple idea. Your AI product focuses on intelligence. Paygentic runs the billing and cash flow behind it. Step 1. You plug into one billing and payments stack. Step 2. You switch on hybrid, usage-based, and outcome-based pricing
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Goodbye SMS codes. Hello, sign in with your SIM. Here is the simple idea. Your phone's SIM becomes the key. Step 1. Your carrier sends a secure signal. Step 2. Сryptography confirms it is really you. Step 3. You get in: no passwords, no SMS. Glide is live
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Mexico runs on microbusinesses: street stalls, tiny shops, home-based makers. They move about $300B of GDP. But banking for them still feels like 1999. Grupalia is a neobank built for this reality. It starts with digital group lending that people already trust. Money can arrive in under 24 hours. Next
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The Portuguese startup is now helping Europe guard its digital currency. Feedzai is a fraud prevention company based in Coimbra. If you've ever made an online payment that felt instant and safe, there's a chance this team had something to do with it. Their platform already
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Health benefits people actually use. Employers set a monthly budget; employees pick the plan they prefer: medical, dental, vision, and spend any leftover on therapy, prescriptions, and more in Thatch's marketplace. No one-size-fits-all. This runs on ICHRA - a U.S. rule in effect since 2020 that lets
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Logins without the headache. Drop-in login for your app: Face/Touch ID (passkeys), one-tap email links, codes by SMS/email, and Sign in with Google, as plug-ins you add, not a system you rebuild. Used by 1,000+ organizations with hundreds of millions of identities managed, a sign it works