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Enterprise Cloud Platform Company Takes The B2B Venture Capital Lead

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This week showed investor interest in B2B FinTech companies in international markets, as a trade finance platform in India and a human resources (HR)/payroll cloud software firm in the U.K. The fundraising was headed up by Advent International via Advent Tech and Sunley House Capital, an Advent affiliate. landed funding rounds.

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Hitachi Capital America Lands Trade Finance Takeover

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Hitachi Capital America , Hitachi’s U.S.-based In a statement, Hitachi Capital America EVP and General Manager of Commercial Finance and Corporate Development Mark Duncan said the takeover will help the company expand its footprint in the technology sector. The company released data in 2017 that found nearly half of U.K.

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What Industry Players Really Expect From 2017

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Analysts continue to flesh out their predictions for payments and FinTech in 2017, but one can never truly know the exact direction an industry will take. Executives from Payoneer, NCR, FTV Capital and Ingo Money touch upon all of these trends as they tell PYMNTS their own visions for B2B payments next year.

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Tech Center: Startup Genome’s 2017 Global Startup Ecosystem Report

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In its seventh administering of this research, dubbed the “Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2017,” Startup Genome was able to uncover the current state of the globalization of startups and their ecosystems. The technology industry currently sits at 4.5 While global growth is only at 2.6

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Commerce Signals Looks to Close Series B Round in April

Bank Innovation

Here’s something a little different: Commerce Signals posted on Crunchbase that it is raising a Series B round, slated to close in April 2017. Crunchbase is commonly used as the funding-resource-of record. The startup founded by Tom Noyes has already raised $4 million, according to the database.

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Hong Kong Alt-Lender Oriente Raises $50M

PYMNTS

The funding will also go toward technological advancements, more improvements on its product suite and better big-data capabilities. Prentice, a co-founder of Skype and ex-chief strategy officer, formed Oriente in 2017, along with Hubert Tai, a founder of Ping An’s Lufax and Chinese unicorn dangdang.com, and investor Lawrence Chu.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

Gonzobanker

Seriously, sit back with a pocket flask of Pappy Van Winkle, smoke a cigar (or your combustible of choice if you live in Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Main or Massachusetts) and enjoy the 2017 GonzoBanker Awards. Malls, retail stores and even some bank branch closings proliferated in 2017. Payments chaos.