PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Latin America -based Loft , a digital real estate startup that aims to make buying and selling real estate in the region easier, has raised $175 million in a series C funding round, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

Open banking is often associated with the European Union (EU) almost by default as the region pushes the envelope further on regulation than anywhere, partly to encourage — but also to keep up with — imaginative FinTech innovators going to market throughout the Eurozone. FinTechs Flourishing. Similarities To The EU.

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PYMNTS

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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Celent Banking

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Celent has been collaborating to help create the fintech ecosystem in the Latin American region since its inception and I had the honor, for 2nd time, to judge the fintech start-ups participating in the BBVA Open Talent, which brought the Latin American finalists into town as part of Finnosummit. Discover the finalists of all regions here.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In a press release , Visa said the investment will go to help Conductor expand its products and to accelerate innovation in payments. Conductor, which has been backed by Riverwood Capital since 2014, is a key technology processing platform for retailers, banks and other companies in Brazil, according to the press release.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. billion bank in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

VTEX has been around since 1999, but it hasn’t had the need to raise a significant amount of capital thus far, mostly operating off of its own revenues. . The funding round is significant because its one of SoftBank’s bigger investments with its Innovation Fund, which is targeted specifically to Latin American companies.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

Some of the company’s achievements last year included raising $100 million in new funding, expanding its presence in Asia-Pacific and EMEA and making significant gains in both regions. Our team, both our employees and our investors, have put us in a great position to capitalize on a massive opportunity.”.

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BankInovation

JUNE 1, 2020

Santander Group’s venture capital fund, Santander InnoVentures, has deepened its presence in Latin America with its fourth investment in the region, this time funneling $5 million in a Series A funding round into a55, a niche alternative SME lender, the VC firm announced in a release last week.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

This week’s B2B Venture Capital roundup is all about data. However, the biggest funding round of the week went to a company that is not yet in the B2B FinTech space, though it has plans to use the capital to launch a cross-border, small business (SMB) money-transfer service. Catch up on the latest investment rounds below.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 11, 2017

rehabilitation and growth has lagged behind the rest of the world, youth unemployment in the region continues to grow, political unrest is destabilising the continent, the progressive socio-economic pledge of Europe is being challenged and vitally, Europe has failed to develop any new corporate global powers for the digital age.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Our recent webinar — The State of Fintech Q2 2020: Funding Rebound Reveals the Next Leg of Fintech Innovation — highlighted key fintech trends and deals from the second quarter of 2020, including the rise of embedded fintech applications and demand for digital banking services. Free Download: State of Fintech q2’20.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

Because many banks are now producing below their cost of capital, growth further exacerbates their issues and drives them out of business (likely through a sale) faster. Without the windfall of profit accrued to banks in 2022 because of faster-than-expected rate increases, banks will need to be better allocators of capital.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

noted, Augmentum Capital led the iwoca fundraising, where participation also came from NIBC, a Dutch Bank and a number of other investors. Tim Levene, the CEO of Augmentum Capital, told Yahoo Finance that the U.K. The funding will be used to expand into North America and Asia. As Yahoo Finance U.K.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Commerce Ventures, Flint Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, Synchrony and Sorenson Capital also participated, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2017

More than $30 million in venture capital stuck around the U.K., Preparations for corporate banking disruption and PSD2 are stirring the innovation pot, it seems. million in Series A investment funding led by Propel Venture Partners; Freestyle Capital, Compound, Upside Partnership and Transmedia Capital also participated.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

And while partnerships, collaboration and internal product development have helped banks to improve their reputations for innovation among their corporate clients, a new report from Boston Consulting Group says it’s not enough. ” Positive Developments, New Opportunities. “The only question is which banks will be among them.”

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

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. Sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong , and we’ve written about corporate innovation theater before.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

North America has its own late payments problem, new research shows, and the data suggests it’s getting worse — despite a strengthening economy, particularly in the U.S. Canada and Mexico at Atradius , which has just released new analysis on B2B payment practices across North America. . percent in 2017 to 1.8 percent this year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2018

Cross-border B2B payments company Flywire secured $100 million in funding this week, led by Temasek, while existing backers Bain Capital Ventures and F-Prime Capital Partners also participated. The company’s platform attracted $14 million in Series B funding from investors this week, led by Jump Capital.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are all prevalent themes in this week’s venture capital breakdown, with startups working to overhaul entire processes for their enterprise customers, from logistics to workforce management. New backers Edge Capital Group and World Innovation Lab tacked onto the round, too.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

As a lifestyle retailer, SEVEN FUN is innovating the retail landscape in China,” said Jonathan Wang, head of 7FRESH, JD.com, said in the post. to China, grocery retail innovators are designing their stores around experiences to make them destinations for shoppers. Sales increased 2 percent to 4 percent in the Americas.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

Dubai is considered to be a hotbed for financial technology and innovation, not just in the Middle East but globally. The centrally located city, which is globally recognized as a hub for European, African and Asian business, is placing its focus on boosting its status as a FinTech capital of the world.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 12, 2019

billion), making it the biggest listing in Europe so far this year and the third major IPO of a payment-processing institution in the region in less than a year. The initial public offering of payment-service company Nexi SpA raised 2.01 billion euros ($2.3 Shares were offered at 9 euros each, giving the company a value […].

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

Best Picture — Payments Innovation. By offering QR-based digital payments, smaller retailers can achieve these goals and create greater customer stickiness with little to no investment beyond the phone they already have,” said Jorn Lambert, EVP, Digital Channels and Regions, Mastercard. And the winners are….

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2018

It is critical that we respond to the needs and concerns of Main Street America,” said Snowe in a statement. Small businesses are essential job generators, and the major driver of economic growth and vibrancy for all regions of the country.”.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 26, 2021

SoftBank’s capital firepower has helped it become the #2 unicorn investor in the world. Clearco provides growth capital for small businesses. Investments into e-commerce appear to be more regionally focused than other industries. The investor identifies a key player within each geographical location and floods them with capital.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

Innovation can sometimes be seen as a solution looking for a problem, but it’s time to stop thinking of technology as bells and whistles and start looking at it as a necessary element of doing business for a changing consumer base – and up against a changing landscape of challenges and threats.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) with a rare bi-partisan move showing that pinch-your-banker-and-hug-your-merchant is apparently as wholesome America as apple pie. Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

Whether it’s San Francisco, New York City, London or Hong Kong, each of these areas have become well-known for developing and implementing innovative ideas. These ecosystems tap into a worldwide circulation of ideas, knowledge, talent and capital. While global growth is only at 2.6

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

As we reported about three weeks ago, Bank of America has announced its plans to invest $1.5 I helped to start the Charlotte Entrepreneurs Organization’s (EO) chapter in 1998 to help foster dialogue in the Queen City around innovation and opportunities. PYMNTS: How has Charlotte’s startup ecosystem changed in recent years?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Citi, to name a few, all scaled back their physical bank branch locations between 2012 and 2016, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The price of real estate is prompting even the largest players in the banking world to scale back their branch operations.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

A market that Praeger’s firm, AvidXchange, is in the business of serving by offering invoice automation and payment processes services solutions for those “Mighty Middle” businesses in North America. Currently, the firm boasts integrations into 130 accounting and other back-office systems across 5,500 customers in North America.

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Gonzobanker

JULY 7, 2015

Capital One* 29,565,607 54,374,989 24,809,382. Capital One figures are for Capital One USA direct bank and not the regional bank components. The major card-based direct banks – American Express, Capital One and Discover – have all done very well. Ally Bank $23,212,768 $60,709,382 $37,496,614.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2017

ND: Heal is transforming health care with unhurried house calls through qualified doctors doing what they love and purposeful innovations that enable you to spend less time getting well and more time actually being well. PYMNTS: In your own words, what is Heal about? PYMNTS: How many rounds of funding has Heal received? politician).

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 24, 2016

Here’s a funding from one of our more interesting alums that slipped below the radar last month: mobile payment innovator Passport has raised $8 million in new funding. The Series B round was led by MK Capital, and featured participation from Grotech Ventures and Relevance Capital. ” Youakim said.

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