This week's list of top stories include:

Apple Working to Bring More Financial Services In-House

• New effort is dubbed “Breakout”
• Payment processing, credit risk assessment, fraud analysis, credit checks
• Focused on future products
• Could  impact GS, Green Dot and CoreCard
• Apple is working on BNPL, merchant processing,

Visa launches NFT program as it considers the digital art a new form of e-commerce

• Effort to bring SMB into the digital economy
• One year immersion: Visa Creator Program
• Artists, musicians, fashion designers and filmmakers
• Help them build their business with NFTs

Blockchain.com Raises New Funding at $14 Billion Valuation

• More than doubling their valuation
• Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
• Last round was in March 2021, $300m at a $5.2b valuation

Cross River raises $620M Series D

• Values the company at > $3b
• Co-led by a16z and Eldridge Capital
• Banking partner of choice for many of the biggest names in fintech

CFPB’s Chopra promises crackdown on repeat offenders

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