544. News: As RobinHood IPOs, how important is building a community around a brand?

Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor and Gwera Kiwana, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include:

Billie Simmons, CCO and co-founder, Daylight

Peter Lord, CEO of Codat

Soundbite:

Daniel Marovitz, Senior Vice President of Fintech, Booking.com

We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space:

Robinhood files to go public 2:40

Daylight raises millions to build a digital banking platform designed for and by the LGBTQ+ community 14:58

Codat raises $40M from Tiger for its SMB-focused API service 27:54

Booking.com creates fintech unit 37:00

Nigeria's FairMoney raises $42m 48:02

Pleo raises $150M for managing expenses for SMBs 49:06

Barclays stops UK clients from sending funds to Binance 50:11

Chase customers become instant billionaires 51:26

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Special Guests: Billie Simmons, Daniel Marovitz, and Peter Lord.

Links:

Robinhood files to go public

Daylight raises millions to build a digital banking platform designed for and by the LGBTQ+ community

Codat raises $40M from Tiger for its SMB-focused API service

Booking.com creates fintech unit

Nigeria's FairMoney raises $42m

Pleo raises $150M for managing expenses for SMBs

Barclays stops UK clients from sending funds to Binance

Chase customers become instant billionaires

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