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Inflation might be in the air, but that hasn’t stopped American consumers from shopping online and at physical stores this holiday season in a rush to beat the supply chain blues. BNPL has come into its own in 2021.  Mastercard and Visa both have their sights set on digital payments. Credit unions want more control over their crypto holdings. And billionaire tech entrepreneur Jack Dorsey is stirring the pot in the VC community. 

This week we're back with a fresh round of new Top 5 VC deals, and the funding numbers continue to exceed $100M+ and cover the globe, though most were out of the US this week. This week's top deal came out of the Philippines - the other four top deals all came out of California. Hospitality, NFT gaming and payments platforms were amongst the categories funded

This week we're back with a fresh round of new Top 5 VC deals, and again, we're seeing major diversity this week in the types of deals getting completed.

Not to sound like a broken record, but we often do. But I believe this week's internatoinal VC deals in the fintech sector may have hit an all-time high, inasmuch as the smallest deal was $200M USD, and we by-passed numerous deals in excess of $100M for this week's list.

Now that we're officially post-Labor Day, we're looking at the top 5 largest fintech deals of the summer, and there have been some whoppers. To give you a perspective, the LOWEST funding level in this Top 5 list for the summer was a $500M Series G for equity management system Carta. The top deal came in at $1B+ (yes, "B") for NC-based financial reporting software firm insightsoftware.

This week, we're back again with a fresh new round of top 5 VC deals in the digital wealth sector, and in the famous (non-sensical) words of Yogi Berra, "it's like deja vu all over again". ONE MORE WEEK with every deal at $100M USD+ and we even had to trim one - Employment Hero ($100M USD) - because we had 3 deals come in right at $100M and could only use two for our weekly story.

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This week, same as I always do, I went to my trusted source for listings of these deals and the first 5 were all over $100M. I thought to myself, "hmmm, this column will be a piece of cake this week!" BUT - I scrolled down and saw MORE deals - HUGE deals - on the following pages. So we have again hit another round of massive funding this past week - EVERY ONE OVER $300M USD!

This week we explore how insurtech has finally reached the institutional sector, explore what digital asset derivatives exchange is behind the naming rights of a NBA team stadium and chat with Tryone Ross, Jr. of Onramp Invest in our DWealth Muse podcast series. Check it out!

FTX, a digital assets derivatives exchange, just became the first cryptocurrency exchange to sponsor a professional sports arena in the United States.