Robinhood's chief product officer quits; & more!

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NEWS HIGHLIGHT

Robinhood's chief product officer quits. Robinhood has lost chief product officer Aparna Chennapragada. Chennapragada joined the company from Google a little over a year ago as its first chief product officer to oversee all product, design, and research. Link here.

FINTECH NEWS

#partnerships

• Shopify and Attentive have teamed up to build on text-to-buy services, enabling consumers to make purchases directly from an SMS conversation with a brand. Built with Shopify’s Shop Pay checkout flow, Attentive’s text-to-buy solution is designed to turn browsers into buyers with a frictionless checkout flow built for mobile devices. Link here.

#fintechinnovation

• Trezy opened its European headquarters in Amsterdam. Currently, Trezy is live in 32 European countries with a significant focus on the Netherlands, France, and Belgium. The Dutch-French tech company also secured €1M from angel investors and is planning another round of funding this year. Link here.

#breakingnews

• Rakuten is facing a further setback in its plan to launch payments on its Viber messaging app under the “Viber Pay” brand after the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) accepted an application to have its trademark invalidated. Link here.