Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 20, 2021

At FintechLabs we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated constantly ( current list here ). Full Fintech Unicorn List. In November, we added 9 new unicorns, and lost 3, for a month-end total of 266. Their total market value is now $2.23 trillion, down $30B from last month (essentially flat). Total market value = $2.20

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). 168t ($1.3B): USA crypto tax software provider TaxBit. 200t ($1B): American lender Octane Lending. Full Fintech Unicorn List. In August, we added 17 new unicorns for a total of 225. Their total market value is now $2.1

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The rising rates have not only made debt more expensive, but they have been a weight on loan growth across both bank and FinTech lending platforms in the back half of the year. It’s easy to lend money. It was, as PYMNTS noted, a seesaw year in the alternative lending world. Resetting Mortgage Services.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 12, 2014

Fintech (note 1) has been part of YC from the beginning. The first class (Summer 2005) included one fintech startup, TextPayMe, among the eight companies. But as YC grew from 2005 to 2009, the number of fintech companies stayed at roughly 1 per year. Indinero [link] Accounting, taxes & payroll. During the past 4.5

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Jeff For Banks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

He retired in 2008 from BofA, but they thought so much of him they brought him back to assist with the Merrill Lynch integration. Since his joining the Board, the bank has stabilized, returned to profitability, recaptured it's deferred tax asset, and NPAs/Assets have declined to less than 3%. Yeah, Chan can own my team.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 25, 2015

And there are few fintech success stories bigger than 2008 alum, Credit Karma , which scored $175 million this week at a reported $3.5 That makes the credit score provider the second most valuable alum (after Lending Club , currently trading at $6 billion). So far this year, fintech has attracted $7.9 billion valuation.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 18, 2016

YC is less well known, but equally successful in the fintech vertical with Stripe and Zenefits , along with two Finovate alums, ZenPayroll and Coinbase , all in the $500+ million club (based on most recent funding). YC has hatched just 85 fintech companies (see list below), most in the past 30 months. Fintech Companies.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 25, 2019

There’s a lot to say about the overlap of Fintech and blockchain, but let’s find the very edge of the frontier and focus right there. Ethereum’s decentralized lending and trading are floating around 2,500 daily users. The lending product above is a bit more complicated. It’s like watching Mint.com emerge in 2007.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Download the free report to find out how fintech is shaping the future of wealth management and investing. This openness to banking alternatives presents opportunities for fintech startups looking to innovate in financial services from the outside. Borrowing: Credit-shy millennials embrace PoS lending.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

But regardless of all that, $1 trillion of value has indeed materialized and grown on blockchain-based financial networks since 2008. We love the robot as much as the next Fintech commentator. Like taxes. Second, Fintechs (e.g., It may one day reach $10 trillion, or $100 trillion, or stay at $1 trillion forever.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

But regardless of all that, $1 trillion of value has indeed materialized and grown on blockchain-based financial networks since 2008. We love the robot as much as the next Fintech commentator. Like taxes. Second, Fintechs (e.g., It may one day reach $10 trillion, or $100 trillion, or stay at $1 trillion forever.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In an interview at CB Insights’ 2019 Future of Fintech conference, CFO and CPO William Gaybrick indicated that businesses are more constrained by developer resources than by capital. Business lending and corporate cards. Most recently, Stripe has launched a Corporate Card and a Lending product geared towards small businesses.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Head of Alternative Lending at Equifax, Craig Tebbutt praised Zopa’s role in helping drive P2P lending in the U.K. Investors will be able to set up IFISA accounts through P2P lenders like Zopa and earn tax-free interest from lending portions of their savings to SMEs on the platform. More than 50,000 active lenders.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Exact rates will not be available until the first of March, but UK-based, P2P lending innovator, Zopa , is previewing three new lending products: Zopa Classic , Zopa Access , and Zopa Plus. Most interesting of the new products is Zopa Plus, which the company says will allow institutions to lend to higher risk borrowers.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Mozido’s fintech fraud fiasco. LendingClub was one of many online lending services founded in the mid-2000s as entrepreneurs eyed the Byzantine financial sector as an area ripe for disruption. Mozido’s fintech fraud fiasco. Zenefits skirts compliance regulations. The Honest Company not so honest about labeling.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

more than we, Kamil Kurmakaev and I, spent since the company’s inception in 2008 till August 2014. BTCjam, a P2P marketplace launched in 2012 to borrow and lend using bitcoin, announced the company has made “the difficult decision” to close up shop, according to multiple news sources. They have spent (in rubles) twice (!)

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