Daily Fintech Podcast - March 9th, 2022

Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here. Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. This podcast episode is sponsored by Provenir. Provenir does more than help with your current tech challenges. They eliminate them. Designed and built to power agility, their cloud-native technology puts your team in control. Loved by Startups. Trusted by Decacorns. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS Serena Williams’s early-stage venture capital firm, Serena Ventures, has raised an inaugural fund of $111 million that will invest in founders with diverse points of view, she told the DealBook newsletter. The investment firm led by the tennis star is already an active angel investor with a portfolio of 60 companies that includes SendWave, MasterClass and Daily Harvest. “I’ve always been fascinated with technology, and I’ve always loved how it really shapes our lives,” said Ms. Williams, who has been investing for nine years. JUST IN: Nubank added 20.6M new customers worldwide in 2021. That's an average of 56K every day. ALSO: Airwallex, a global fintech platform, announced its partnership with leading investing app, Plum, to support its cross-border payments and FX needs. FURTHERMORE, Sweater, a Boulder, CO-based fintech company building a fully-managed venture capital fund that is open to everyday investors, raised $12M in Seed funding. WHAT ARE THE LATEST INSIGHTS? Belvo, Rappi, Jeeves, Fintual, and Fondeadora are among the most valuable Y Combinator FinTechs from LATAM WHAT ABOUT THOSE MOVERS AND SHAKERS? Fiserv, Inc., announced that its Board of Directors elected Frank Bisignano, President and Chief Executive Officer and a current director of Fiserv, as Chairman of the Board. The board also elected Doyle Simons, a current director, to serve as lead independent director.