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• Is TikTok trying to leverage #FinTok success to become an accredited lender?
• A trusted financial firm wants creator businesses to bank on Karat

  Karat Financial is expanding its lineup of financial tools with the launch of a Karat Banking platform that caters to creator businesses.

  
• With Tax Day on the horizon, a startup wants to be the creator economy’s CPA-in-a-box

  Boring Stuff is launching to help creators with Tax Day prep and other financial items typically handled by a CPA.

  
• Fundmates adds $30 million to the creator economy’s financial services empire

  Fundmates says it's different from a lot of other entrants in the creator financial services space because it doesn't license creators' back catalogs (which is a popular form of collateral for creators getting lump-sum capital) or take any control or ownership of their channel (MCN-style). It also says it works with creators who receive funds to mentor them and help them grow their channels while they're paying back their loans.

  
• Karat Financial raises $70 million Series B to upgrade its creator credit card business
• With its members-only community, Creative Juice invites creators to join the Club
• For creators, taxes can be complicated. Creative Juice’s new product simplifies them.
• There’s a nifty perk for some Karat cardholders: Their faces on billboards.