Lucinda Shen is an Editorial Outreach Specialist at Axios, with a focus on covering fintech. She has previously worked at Fortune Magazine and her work has appeared in Yahoo News. Lucinda's articles cover a range of topics in the fintech industry, including deals, people moves, and emerging trends.
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Lucinda Shen's coverage heavily focuses on fintech, venture capital, startups, and cryptocurrency. She predominantly covers press releases and private sector announcements related to these areas. If you have insights into new developments within the fintech space such as fundraising activities by startups or investment analysis with a focus on cryptocurrencies or blockchain technology, your pitch would likely align with her coverage interests.
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The raise comes as fintech valuations have been slashed to pieces.
The founders of Warbler Labs, the company behind the Goldfinch private-credit DeFi lending protocol, have launched Heron Finance, a robo-adviser built on top of blockchain, Axios' Crypto's Crystal Kim writes.
Traditional banks in the rest of the world are making tentative moves into offering services to the crypto-curious, Axios Crypto's Brady Dale writes.
Enterprise blockchain projects from the world of traditional finance usually go nowhere, but one European bank's stablecoin could flourish outside the confines of its walled garden, Crystal Kim wrote Thursday.
Curbwaste, a SaaS software and payments provider to the waste management industry, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Flourish Ventures, the company tells Ryan exclusively.
Future, a climate-focused fintech, has raised $6.5 million in new funding and acquired a startup to expand its rewards platform, the company tells Ryan exclusively.
Global merger and acquisition activity in 2023 fell 17%, to $2.87 trillion, the lowest level in over a decade, according to London Stock Exchange Group data.
The win this week comes after another patent kerfuffle barred the company from selling its Apple Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 in the U.S.
It's the second straight year of declines.
Financing to fintech companies fell 40% in 2023 amid a dearth of IPOs and megarounds, with companies raising an estimated $53.7 billion through the year, per FT Partners.
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