518. News: Going global - Plaid shake off the Visa breakup with new $13.4bn valuation

Our expert hosts, Adam Davis and Melissa Stringer, 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:

• Keith Grose, Head of Europe, Plaid
• Emily Nicolle, Fintech Correspondent, Financial News

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

• Plaid raised $425 million in a Series D funding round for a global financial data network 51:40
• Coinbase Posts Record $1.8 Billion In Revenue As Crypto Market Shoots Past $2 Trillion 13:10
• Revolut to launch major US blitz as it targets a million users this year 23:49
• Brazilian Central Bank Gives Green Light To WhatsApp Payments as Facebook US tests P2P payments 35:50
• Snoop partners with Accepty for 'hyper-personalised' lending tool 43:40
• Clubhouse partners with Stripe to let you send money directly to creators by tapping on their profile 45:24
• Former banking lobby chief Jones joins shared branches start-up OneBanks 47:30
• Coin-Baes: Two Coinbase employees wed by exchanging NFTs 49:34

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Special Guests: Emily Nicolle and Keith Grose.

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