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B2B FinTechs Diversify Funding Strategies With M&A, IPOs

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Talk of a decelerating FinTech venture capital market continued to mount this week with reports that digital banking startup Aspiration is struggling to raise money. Venture Capital Funding. raised $10 million from SEB Bank and Seed Capital for its commercial card technology. Bancorp in 2001 in a $2.1

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

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Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players.

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Green Dot CEO: 20 Years Of Innovating ‘Banking For The Masses’

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Those who called the company’s “call center” — which was essentially a storage closet with two desks and two phones at the time, Streit noted — were adults with jobs who either didn’t want to have a bank account or had issues that prevented them from getting one. What’s Next.

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Top 28 Digital Lenders to U.S. Small Businesses

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Unfortunately, we didn’t track when the first business loan application went online, but it was likely a few years later, let’s call it 2000/2001. But as you can see from the chart below, the digital SMB lenders started in earnest during and right after the 2007/2008 financial crash. CAN Capital. Lighter Capital.

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Fintech’s Third Crisis is Tipping Point to a Digital-Only Future

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Dot-com crash (2000-2001). And it took the rest of the decade for the capital to gravitate to all the good ideas. No one born after 2005 will ever picture a physical branch when they think of a “bank”. Digital Banks for Small Businesses. year run from high to low; for comparison the S&P dropped 48%).

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The 134 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Jan 2021 update)

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Personal Capital. Online Digital Banks for Small Businesses. Fintech Startup Debuts: Brave Credit & AWSM Bank Pitch @ 500Startups Demo Day (4 Feb 2021). 2-feb-2021. United States. United States. May 2020 round. United Kingdom. Dec 2020 round. Jan 2021 round. United States. 31-Dec-2020. United States. July 2020 round.

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Top 26 Digital Lenders to U.S. Small Businesses (SMB, May 2021)

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Unfortunately, we didn’t track when the first business loan application went online, but it was likely a few years later, let’s call it 2000/2001. But as you can see from the chart below, the digital SMB lenders started in earnest during and right after the 2007/2008 financial crash. CAN Capital. Lighter Capital.

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