This week in Fintech: TFT Bi-Weekly News Roundup 07/03

welcome to Fintech Times Bi-Weekly News Roundup Tuesday, March 7.

Financing and investments

Droit, a fintech and regtech company, has closed its Series B funding of $23 million with UBS as a key investor. Existing investor Goldman Sachs also participates in the financing round. The investment will support Droit’s expansion into wealth management through the development of new products to automate compliant decisions.

Bankjoya digital banking provider, announces a funding round led by Curql Collective. In addition to funding from Curql, several of Bankjoy’s current credit union customers, including AEA Credit Union, Community Wide Federal Credit Union and Statewide Federal Credit Union also invested in the company’s latest financing round.

Brazilian B2B payment platform Mustache has raised a seed round of $3 million. The round was chaired by NXTP and Force Over Masswith existing investors VentureFriends also participates. Barte said the investment will help it further scale its operations and product.

The job is moving

National business capitala fintech marketplace for business financing, has promoted Phil Fernandes to operations manager. Previously, Fernandes served as Vice President of Finance. His promotion is “one of several new executive appointments” the company plans to make as it continues to execute its growth strategy.

CoinFunda Web3 investment company, tech veteran announces Julie Mossler as head of marketing and communications. She will reimagine the firm’s marketing and narrative strategy, as well as support the portfolio companies in their positioning and go-to-market approaches.

All-in-one business platform Moniepoint (formerly known as Team Apt), has appointed Pawel Swiatek as operations manager. Swiatek joins the business from Capital One, where he served as executive vice president for over four years. He will initially focus on reworking Moniepoint’s operating system.

Gerard Dash has joined executive search and talent consulting firm Raines International. Dash has expertise in building capabilities for early to late stage VC and PE backed companies as well as global Fortune 500 companies. Before Raines, he was principal in fintech and product, data and technology practice at Real search.

PR company for technology and finance Third hemisphere has appointed Alan Jones as technology and investment director. He will split his time equally between his venture capital firm M8 Venturesand the third hemisphere’s portfolio of deep technology and financial companies, fund managers, incubators, accelerators and technology industry leaders.

Partnership

Inigo working together with hyperexponential to increase operational efficiency. Inigo relied on hyperexponential’s product Renew as its partner to activate the pricing strategy, and make data-driven decisions to develop models faster and reduce time to market.

Explorexa restaurant-focused full-stack SAAS fintech startup, has partnered with mswipe, to facilitate streamlined payment solutions for partner restaurants. This partnership will help the company deliver automatic settlement of tables and elimination of night audits. Manual audits consume two to three hours of staff time each day after the restaurant closes for the day.

Mortgage and banking technology company Phoebus has entered into cooperation with MIAC Analytics. Phoebus manages the mortgage books of lenders who now have access to MIAC’s advisory and software services, including property analysis, due diligence, independent stress testing and asset pricing/valuation.

App security company F5 working together with Visa to help merchants reduce sign-in friction for customers in a secure way. Following the collaboration, sellers can provide their customers with a seamless, secure and personalized shopping experience.