Let's Talk Payments

JUNE 7, 2019

A growing number of new players in any industry is a sign of an expanding market and opportunities for innovators. Increasing access to capital, consumer awareness, and acceptance to new ways of managing finances and other ecosystem drivers have been attractive for entrepreneurs in 2018 as well. FinTech is not an exception here.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The one thing we all have to learn: it is not about the innovations themselves. We get very excited about our innovative capabilities, and we are extremely proud of all of our IP and patents in this area. Those innovations have illumination that there is value here beyond a great light,” said Karner.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

GonzoBankers, 2018 has been a troublesome year. about the best and worst in banking for 2018 and get fired up to start again in ’19. Ladies and gentlemen, we bring you the 2018 GonzoBanker Awards ! Although all banks faced stock headwinds in 2018, we give the nod to William Demchak at PNC Financial Services.

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Accenture

AUGUST 20, 2019

Thereby providing value-added merchant servicing and delivering innovation lift to both transactions and businesses to ultimately benefit the end consumer. According to Worldpay’s 2018 Global Payment Report, mobile payments usage globally will grow to 28 percent in 2022 ¹. Market conditions are ripe for ISVs to move into payments.

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 25, 2019

Looking at the top five blog entries of 2018, we see that using technology to meet the ever-increasing scale and rate of regulatory change is top of mind for financial service organizations. As Marc Andrew’s notes in his blog, Demystifying AI for risk and compliance , in 2018, we saw AI tackle exhausting regulatory requirements.

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MAY 10, 2018

Capital is the lifeblood of economies, and of the companies (and yes, of course, individuals) that collectively make things and provide services … and in the age of FinTech, the capital comes digitally and across innovative channels. Within the FinTech space, there may be a resurgence of sorts for one firm. ”

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

"Our new financing will allow us to further distinguish our offerings and customer experience as an industry innovator," said Modal CEO and Founder Aaron Krane. American Honda has worked with Modal, formerly Drive Motors, since late 2018 to create branded online buying tools for Honda and Acura.

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MAY 27, 2020

Amazon is in talks to buy self-driving car startup Zoox in a move that would advance the eCommerce giant’s reach in autonomous vehicle technology, according to a Tuesday (May 26) report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing sources familiar with the matter. In a 2018 funding round, Zoox was valued at $3.2 We believe $1.1

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JANUARY 19, 2018

Automakers that want in on ridesharing, self-driving cars or innovative car financing options aren’t always developing their own technologies or starting their own ventures. As such, automakers are hitting the venture capital highway in droves. In other words, automakers are just starting to rev their investment engines.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 16, 2018

EXCLUSIVE—The legacy infrastructure of most banks leaves something to be desired, and payments technology provider Baton Systems wants to use the cloud, APIs, and distributed ledger technology to help.

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JUNE 22, 2020

Cedar, a provider of technology focused on fostering smooth financial interactions between healthcare providers and patients, announced $102 million in new venture capital funding and a new business relationship with a provider network on Monday (June 22). In addition to $77 million in venture capital from the Menlo Park, Calif.-based

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AUGUST 12, 2020

AscendantFX Capital , which works in technology-based payment innovations, has joined the SWIFT Network for the benefits it offers, including better transparency and faster payments, the company announced in a Wednesday (Aug. SWIFT gpi’s technology is revolutionary for the payments industry and gives power back to the customer.”

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Embedded finance, the release noted, refers to the integration of financial service technologies with other provider solutions. The method will grow tenfold in the next five years, the release stated, citing a Lightyear Capital analysis, as businesses look for ways to access simple, transparent business solutions.

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CB Insights

MARCH 20, 2019

From e-commerce to software to payments, several companies with $1B+ valuations exited in 2018. Using CB Insights data, we identified the startups with a $1B+ valuation that exited in 2018. We’ve also covered 2018’s 14 European unicorns , 37 Chinese unicorns , and 55 US unicorns.). Meituan Dianping.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

8) that Naspers invested $500 million of new capital into the company. The number of monthly listers on its marketplace has grown 65 percent since the beginning of 2018, letgo said. “We We are fueling unprecedented growth in the secondhand economy through meaningful innovation.

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MARCH 29, 2019

New research from UBS points to the largest spenders on bank technology: JPMorgan and Bank of America. banks’ technology budgets and explores which institutions are spending the most on innovation, using transcripts from conference calls, internal bank data released by the institutions and data from FactSet to reach its conclusions.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

The cross-border investment and asset management firm China Everbright Limited is leading a $283 million Series C1 funding round for Terminus Technologies, Deal Street Asia reported on Tuesday (Aug. Artificial intelligence provider Terminus Technologies will use the money for further development and additional staffing.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Innovative partnerships like this one can support the agility and resilience of supply chains, accelerating access to finance and improving efficiency,” Michael Froman , vice chairman and president of strategic growth for Mastercard, said in the announcement. trillion funding gap in 2018, long before to the pandemic. 8) announcement.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

We have deep dives into virtual card adoption and self-service technology, as well as a report on Kobe Bryant’s legacy. Bryant formed the Bryant Stibel venture capital firm in 2013 with Jeff Stibel, founder of Web.com. Old forms of cybersecurity are not sufficient to keep pace with fraudsters’ increasingly innovative attacks.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Although startups based in California, New York, and Massachusetts have traditionally accounted for the majority of VC tech investment in the US, VCs are spurring other hotbeds of innovation across the country. 2018 VC Report: global funding surges 21% compared to 2017. Merus Capital. Connecticut Innovations. BIP Capital.

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JUNE 22, 2020

nCino, which was founded in 2012, said it will use the proceeds of its stock sale to purchase additional office buildings, and may also use a portion to acquire, invest in or obtain rights to complementary technologies, products, services or businesses. . percent of total revenues) in fiscal 2018, representing a 64.7 million, or 74.7

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

percent of domestic and cross-border payments in December 2017, SWIFT found, with the company’s Head of Payments Markets, Asia-Pacific, Michael Moon noting, “Experts suggest that capital controls and uncertainties over future regulations mean that a significant reversal of the decline in RMB usage for trade and payments is unlikely in 2018.”.

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Insights on Business

JULY 31, 2018

This next generation of financial innovation may need to be created through the cooperation between both FinTechs and banks. It is the FinTechs—seeing and capitalizing on service opportunities that have gone unnoticed—that will spur the next wave of financial innovations.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Aurora, a self-driving car technology company, has raised upwards of $530 million in a series B financing round led by Sequoia Capital, with a large investment from Amazon and T. We are always looking to invest in innovative, customer-obsessed companies, and Aurora is just that,” Amazon said.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

is the first London IPO by a Kazakh company since uranium producer Kazatomprom listed in November 2018. The markets are pretty good, capital markets are good enough, and we have fantastic growth,” Lomtadze said. Kazakhstan itself is an extremely underpenetrated market, a growing market, innovating with new services.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. Necessity is the mother of invention. Invention can become necessity. Any number of musings have graced any number of websites these past few days about what it all meant and means.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Almost 33 years ago, David Letterman introduced his singular innovation in stand-up comedy: the Top 10 List. Since we would hate for anyone to go into the end of 2018 behind the eight ball, we decided to pay tribute to both a great bit and a great deal of news with our own top 10 list of the biggest news of summer 2018.

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JUNE 6, 2019

The round was led by Innovation Endeavors, with Dynamo Venture Capital, AngelPad, Fontinalis Partners and Trucks Venture Capital also participating. The company has been testing the vans on public roads in California since early 2018. Gatik said it would soon announce more commercial partnerships. “We

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JULY 9, 2019

In the age of quick-service restaurant (QSR) dining technology innovation, restaurants are frantically looking into ways to provide consumers with mobile ordering bells and whistles like third-party payment integrations, rewards programs and surprise-and-delight offers.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

Analysts at the financial institution (FI) said they expect mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity to heat up, and corporate finance teams must be prepared — both to strategically deploy capital for acquisitions, and to anticipate being a takeover target themselves.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Bank of America has announced that it has joined the Marco Polo Network , the leading trade and working capital finance network. The network — and its more than 25 member banks — aims to unlock a potential $1.5 trillion opportunity in global trade finance, according to a press release.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 1, 2019

Strategic participation in fintech climbed in 2018, with 41% of all fintech financings containing either a corporate VC or strategic investor. This is up from 35% in 2017, and way up from 18% in 2013, according to Financial Technology Partners’ 2018 Annual Fintech Almanac.

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JUNE 28, 2019

CEO Des Crowley said in a statement, per reports, “Jaja is an innovative company which shares our commitment to delivering outstanding customer service. FinTech market had a strong showing last year, with venture capital and private equity investments hitting $3.3 The report comes as news surfaced that the U.K.

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NCR

MARCH 19, 2018

Of the many new tools and innovations that have had an impact on how people live their lives in recent years, one of the most significant is voice technology. At the moment, voice technology is still largely a novelty, used only for simple tasks that don’t carry too much importance. Rising voice.

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APRIL 6, 2020

Philippines payments startup Voyager Innovations has closed a funding deal worth up to $120 million from existing backers, according to a Monday (April 6) statement from Voyager. The new funding follows a $215 million investment in 2018. The new funding follows a $215 million investment in 2018.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

From the digitization of medical records to smart patient care platforms, technology is disrupting the healthcare industry. One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. We put together a list of healthcare innovation labs from new entries to the field, as well as some of the oldest — and most familiar — names in health.

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Insights on Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The entire conversation about technology for banks has evolved from historically long development cycles to rapid, digital reinvention. In order to remain relevant to digitally astute and socially active customers, core banking processes, must be more reliable, scalable and secure requiring banks to constantly innovate.

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