PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2018

Alternative finance apparently won’t stop catching the attention of investors — at least, not any time soon, if this week’s B2B venture capital roundup is any sign. Drip Capital. TradeIX integrates blockchain technology and a decentralized API platform to integrate into existing trade platforms.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

Japan-based business card management service Sansan has announced news of fresh venture capital in support of its solution which helps professionals with business information management and networking. An announcement Monday (Aug. An announcement Monday (Aug. The service launched in Japan in 2012.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

The first onshore bond default came about in 2014, and since then, there have been 395 delinquencies. The technology sector had the most defaults through June, Bloomberg reported, while real estate has seen almost none. Of those, 31.9 Location-wise, Beijing led the pack with 75.3 billion yuan ($10.7 billion.

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NCR

AUGUST 30, 2016

Biometrics, Geolocation and the Blockchain are technologies ripe for deeper implementation within financial apps. However, I believe that the blockchain and a combination of geolocation and advances in biometric technology can be used to better bank customers’ user experience. Imagine this. Imagine this. By adopting some form of cryp.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2017

Technology that has the ability to transform cities has given power to how people live their everyday lives. One city that’s been growing in its technology sector over the last few years is Mexico City. Before we jump into the post, here are a few facts about Mexico City and its tech scene: . For Latin America, 36.6

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

We want to make sure that everybody has an ability to participate in the modern economy and that everybody has an ability to leverage the technology that's available, the services that are available and have a better life,” Jess Turner , executive vice president for North America Products and Innovation, told PYMNTS in an interview Thursday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

That’s a staggering leap from the 14 live faster payment schemes that existed worldwide in 2014, when FIS first released Flavors of Fast. “If The increased use and adoption of P2P technologies, like Zelle and Venmo, demonstrates the consumer demand for this type of frictionless payment option. Particularly in the U.S,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

The bank offers corporate banking, retail banking, treasury management, capital markets, credit cards and wealth management services in a range of consumer and corporate offerings. That’s a significant drop from 2014, when businesses raised a combined $93 billion, though 2017 stats are an improvement from 2016 levels.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Nets , the Denmark-based card payment services company, has reportedly set the price range for its initial public offering. equity firms back in 2014. The company, which issues what Reuters said is the most used debit card in Denmark, will offer investors 40–60 percent of the total shares, including up to 42.3 billion–$4.83

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question. In some cases, the technological changes inspired by Covid-19 will come in the form of an acceleration of existing trends — for example, industrial automation and contactless payments. Teletherapy.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Moka was founded in 2014 and was one of the first FinTechs in Indonesia. It’s raised about $40 million from investors like Sequoia Capital. Moka POS systems also accept cashless card payments from companies like Kredivo and Akulaku. . Moka has terminals peppered all over the country. .

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 23, 2016

Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More. Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

And, although Google searches for “bitcoin” and “blockchain” have slid, companies are still flush with cash from 2017’s ICO boom, cryptocurrency price run-up, and venture capital investment — and are spending it. See how venture firms, corporates, regulators, and builders are shaping the future of blockchain technology.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2016

22) it closed a round of venture capital funding. The Series A round of funding, which netted the startup $29 million, was led by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) and also included New Enterprise Associates, Soros Fund Management, Haystack Partners, Quadrant Capital Advisors and Blue Delta Capital.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It was a mixed bag of funding, with a few startups working in more traditional B2B technology, including expense management and SaaS. A $10 million Series B funding round for India-based corporate expense management company Happay was announced this week, reports in VCCircle said, with backers from Sequoia Capital leading the investment.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Revenue is primarily generated by debit card fees and it breaks even on most customers in less than a year, the sources said. Britt co-founded Chime in 2014 with Ryan King, who serves as chief technology officer. The startup’s valuation is about 20 times its revenue, which is estimated at $300 million this year.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2018

Square’s founder and chief executive, Jack Dorsey, helped to enable merchants to accept bitcoin as a payment method back in 2014. payment volume, RBC Capital Markets analyst Daniel Perlin predicted in a recent note to clients. He also famously said, “Bitcoin: we tried this with our eCommerce store years back. Didn’t see much.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

A consumer can own multiple credit cards and live in a highly technological society and still want to pay via a method that can come pretty close to resembling cash. That is among the emerging lessons offered by Paidy , which in late 2014 launched Japan’s first instant post-pay credit service for eCommerce consumers. The Appeal.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below). I will update with milestones from 2014 to today and publish next month. Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago. I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

Not because he didn’t have a buyer, but because his buyer didn’t have that much cash— and McKelvey didn’t take credit cards. In 2014, Starbucks stopped accepting Square’s mobile wallet, and shortly thereafter, Square pulled the plug entirely on that mobile wallet experiment. So, how has Square shaped payments and what’s next?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The magnitude of the market is attractive even to B2C FinTechs, though the industry has quickly understood that B2B problems cannot be addressed with tools and technologies designed for consumer. SatoshiPay , a FinTech based in London and Berlin, launched in 2014 with the intention of solving micro consumer payments friction.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

Founded in 2014, Zoox has been working to develop electric-powered robot taxis in a difficult multipronged effort, simultaneously creating driverless technology, a ride-hailing network and a bespoke autonomous vehicle at scale. However, Amazon already has a team devoted to driverless vehicle technology.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As if that wasn’t enough, regulators took a sledgehammer to debit fee income with Reg II changes that will begin reducing card-not-present interchange fees starting in July 2023. 2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Except maybe they did partly.

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NCR

APRIL 26, 2018

The growth of contactless technologies as a fast, convenient option for everyday payment has been illustrated by new figures from Transport for London (TfL), which have revealed half of all pay as you go journeys on the UK capital’s transport networks now use this technology.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

One emerging player in the Australian FinTech market has just secured another round of capital. According to TechCrunch , this round had participation from Australian VC funds Rampersand and Reinventure, along with existing investors Cultivation Capital, along with Mark Harbottle, cofounder of logo marketplace 99Designs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

This week, Zylo announced it secured new venture capital to the tune of $9.3 The Series A funding was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, while Salesforce Ventures, the Slack Fund, High Alpha Capital, GGV, SV Angel and Hyde Park Venture Partners also participated. There are a lot of hands that touch these tools too.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. ‘PayFac’ technology simplifies underwriting and onboarding. Virtual card issuance. Business lending and corporate cards.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2017

percent between 2014 and 2014 representing the highest growth in a decade, researchers said. For instance, in mature APAC markets, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are driving digitization of B2B payments through increased use of digital invoices, virtual cards and cloud-based financial management and accounting solutions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

However, most people assumed that was survivable, and that the new millennia — powered by the emerging, mysterious technology known as “the internet” — was going to be a great place to live. That explosion in interest is often ascribed to the emergence of Apple Pay in 2014 — five years ago this month. When people asked “what’s next?”

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2015

Firms started in the dorm room that have no employees, just an eager volunteer, no revenue, and no capital need not apply. So FinTech (six) firms need capital and revenues to grab a foothold in the financial services market. They establish the "Chip & Choice", a battery powered card that has multiple EMV chips.

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

DBS launched its Singapore innovation lab to break out of its “traditional banking mindset to think, behave, and deliver more like a technology company,” according to Neal Cross, chief innovation officer. Fidelity — Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT) and Fidelity Labs. Founded: 1999 and 2005. Founded: 2015.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Webpay failed to gain user traction and was shut down in 2014, unlike up-start Venmo (now a part of rival payments processor PayPal). Swipe fees alone are a $90B-a-year business for banks, card networks like Visa, and payment processors like Stripe. It’s likely that Amazon was too early to P2P payments.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

In this week’s edition of PYMNTS’ Weekly Tech Center Roundup , we set our sights on Brazil, where, despite the political and economic issues that tend to dominate the headlines, the country’s technology market is still going strong. million as of 2014. Estimated population was 6.35 The city’s GDP per capita is $19,131.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

During a busy year we saw Jill supporting her local community, blogging with Mark Cuban, spinning up new PPP technology and innovating with things like curbside banking. For more than 20 years, John has helped City National grow its niched commercial and private banking businesses with strategic technologies. THE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS.

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Accenture

MAY 22, 2019

percent between 2014 and 2016. Companies are moving cash off the balance sheet and investing in areas like wages, capital expansion and innovation. No cash, check or credit card required. Data and advice become the real products to manage risk, maximize working capital and optimize money movements. The road ahead.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

ISOs sold terminals and card processing, mostly to brick-and-mortar merchants. Most people were still paying taxi drivers with cash, and if those drivers had POS terminals, they – hmm – weren’t working when you wanted to use a card to fund the ride. Chip cards didn’t exist in the U.S. billion of the 6.93

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