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Qomodo raises $13.9M to expand BNPL for Italy’s main-street retailers

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Payments and financial solutions are two-a-penny at this point, but mostly for online e-commerce. What about physical stores? In 2023 Qomodo, a Milan-based “all-in-one” payment methods aggregator for physical merchants, came out with a €34.5 million ($36.9 million) pre-seed round (mostly debt), which we covered, to expand the BNPL model into other categories. It’s now […]

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Worldview: US Textile Industry Calls for Restrictions on Nicaragua

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🇳🇮 US textile industry leaders call for restrictions on Nicaragua. Ahead of President Donald Trump’s recent inauguration day threats of tariffs on Mexico and Canada, US textile industry leaders were calling for punitive trade measures on another country in the region, Nicaragua. American textile giant Milliken & Company wrote to US trade officials saying that

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HPE investigating security breach after hacker claims theft of sensitive data

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Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is investigating a data breach after a well-known hacker claimed to have stolen sensitive information from the company. The hacker, who uses the alias “IntelBroker,” claims to have stolen a trove of data from HPE, the enterprise IT division of hardware giant HP.  In a post on a popular cybercrime forum on January

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MoneyHash, which provides single access to payment services in MENA, banks $5.2M

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When merchants or companies launch online, they typically start by partnering with one or two payment processors. But as they grow and expand into new regions, they often need to onboard additional payment partners to meet different customer (and sometimes regulatory) needs, a process that comes with some hurdles.  That’s given rise to companies to

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Trump Plans to Enact 25% US Tariffs on Mexico, Canada by Feb. 1

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President Donald Trump said he planned to impose previously threatened tariffs of as much as 25 percent on Mexico and Canada by Feb. 1, reiterating his contention that America’s two immediate neighbours are letting undocumented migrants and drugs flood into the country. “We’re thinking in terms of 25 percent on Mexico and Canada, because they’re

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Karmen secures $9.4 million for its revenue-based financing products

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French startup Karmen has secured a small funding round so that it can improve its instant financing products. The company offers short-term loans to small companies facing a working capital crunch. It’s a €9 million equity-and-debt round ($9.4 million at today’s exchange rates) with Seventure Partners buying a stake in the small startup. Financière Arbevel

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President Trump signs exec order to make Musk’s DOGE commission more official

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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an advisory commission spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk recommending deep cuts to federal agencies, could soon become more official, should an executive order signed by President Donald Trump pass legal muster. On Monday evening, Trump signed an order that renames the U.S. Digital Service (USDS), which was created in

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