PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Alternative lending was the golden child among investors around 2015, but lately, the industry seems to have fallen out of favor thanks to regulatory uncertainty and questions over the viability of some business models. Alternative Lending. This week alone saw two examples of those concerns in action: One U.S. lawmaker, Rep.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Not one of the four alternative lending startups that secured investments this week were from the U.S. Alternative Lending. Late last week, South Africa’s LulaLend brought some rare attention to the nation’s alternative lending space. There’s talk that alternative finance is dead. Well, in the U.S.,

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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

JULY 29, 2019

We took that feedback to heart and have invested in both the infrastructure and the human capital to deliver on it.”. Based throughout Northern California, the consultant team will be led by Jim Pelka, who is joining the bank as head of Treasury Management Solutions, reporting to Chief Lending Officer Scott Myers.

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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

As reported, iwoca , a small business lender focused on online lending (with loans up to 250,000 pounds) said it raised 150 million pounds in debt and equity financing (where the division was 20 million pounds of equity financing and with the remainder as debt), as per reports Monday (Feb. In news that came from across the Pond, two U.K.-based

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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 fund has also invested in delivery company Rappi, lending outfit Creditas and tech company QuintoAndar. Gomide said VTEX needs to look beyond just serving its own region. “At

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Once again, the world’s alternative SMB lending industry regained the spotlight, with key deals in Asia and South America placing the industry in the top spot for this week’s B2B FinTech roundup. Alternative Lending. Blue Lotus Capital. CapitalBay. For its initial investment round, Sempli, based in Colombia, scored $3.6

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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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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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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

Latin America’s fintech scene is gaining momentum, with 80+ fintech deals closing for around $300M in 2016, and over 100 deals already closed in 2017. Latin America fintech companies are creating solutions aimed at rethinking banking, lending, and payments in the region. Riverwood Capital, Tiger Global Management.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Asia outpaced North America in funding volume for the FinTech world, and this week’s B2B venture capital roundup seems to reflect that, with several deals from VCs in the region. But North America surprisingly came out on top — blowing the competition out of the water with three deals valuing nearly $70 million.

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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.”. She noted that the risks of bad actors should be considered as part of the reforms made.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s possible some will, but if they can move quickly to offer new products across lending, investing, and wealth management, it’s also possible that the neobanks with sustained customer growth will survive as competitors or potentially become acquisition targets. However, the pipeline of companies in Asia is still very healthy.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 26, 2021

SoftBank’s capital firepower has helped it become the #2 unicorn investor in the world. Konfio , for instance, provides business credit and lending. Clearco provides growth capital for small businesses. Investments into e-commerce appear to be more regionally focused than other industries.

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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. 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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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

SME Lending. The B2B venture capital roundup this week is flush with startups providing services to other corporates that, in one way or another, impact the business’ bottom line. Konfio links microbusinesses in the region to financing. Take a look at where the more than $166 million in funding landed his week.

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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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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Through trial and error, the company has set up key financial pillars across payments, cash deposits, and lending. An RBC Capital Markets report put the average annual sales of an Amazon Go location at about $1.5M. We will be updating this brief on an ongoing basis as more relevant data, investments, news, and products are released.

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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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Javelin Strategy & Research

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

According to Wall Street Journal reports , the list of banks cutting off aggregators includes Bank of America, J.P. The irony is that some banks aggregate data on behalf of their customers, too, including BofA , USAA , and Regions Bank.

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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

As we reported about three weeks ago, Bank of America has announced its plans to invest $1.5 MP: I would say that the biggest challenge facing startups in Charlotte is access to early-stage capital. Since there haven’t been many liquidity events, there hasn’t been the opportunity to make capital available for others.

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Vitalik Buterin

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Yearn , a collateralized-lending platform. Three Arrows Capital , an investment fund. Defiance Capital , another investment fund. North America + Oceania, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, East + Southeast Asia) to try to give projects in more neglected areas a leg up. The Ethereum Foundation.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

See which startups are helping JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Citi build the digital banking platforms of the future. Both have access to significant financial capital to scale far beyond what’s available to even well-funded startup challengers. Existing startups like the UK’s Revolut are also looking to expand in the region.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

After lining up a series of regional bank and mid-large credit union signings over the past few years, Kony more recently acquired Umpqua Bank’s Pivotus Ventures to bring on Engage (in Umpqua parlance, formerly known as “BFF” and now “Go To Banking”), another non-transactional means of engagement that channels the mashup of service and sales.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

For the third consecutive year, we worked with The New York Times to identify and rank the top 100 venture capital professionals from around the globe. Below are the detailed profiles of the Top 20 Venture Capital Partners. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. Current Firm: First Round Capital (Founding Partner).

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

Mexico is one of Latin America’s high-growth markets. The company said its all-in-one platform also allows these businesses to quickly expand into other high growth markets in Latin America, almost instantly. That round of funding came from new investment firm Durable Capital Partners.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) appears before ICBA community bankers in 2013 to explain ICBA-backed legislation he co-sponsored that would have increased minimum capital requirements on the country’s very largest banks, as well as provided important regulatory relief for community banks. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) Shelby: Alabama roots.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

Investment rounds poured in across Asia, North America and Europe, with a Chinese “corporate wallet” securing the largest investment of the week. Below, PYMNTS rounds up the latest B2B FinTech venture capital funding rounds. With more than $93.7 Checkfront. In Canada, Checkfront revealed its $9.3

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 27, 2016

To gauge the temperature of fintech innovation in Europe, we looked at Finovate alums in different regions: Aire.io in the U.K., The article also notes that venture capital investment rose from £34 million in 2010 to £312 million in the first six months of 2015. Peer-to-peer bitcoin lending platform Bitbond is based in Berlin.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2017

That capital announcement comes despite fears over what Brexit might mean for the FinTech sector across the pond in general, and the peer-to-peer lending sector continues to grow — by some estimates, at about 50 percent annually. That funding will go towards boosting POS business in Europe and Latin America.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 15, 2021

By region: USA: 20 startups. Latin America: 8 startup. Streamline your debt capital raise and management. Embedded lending infrastructure for software companies. Lending #Cards. R2 Capital. Stripe Capital for Latin America. Capital #SMB. Lending #DebtManagement. Lending #SMB. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The funds will be used to triple the unit’s $100 million working capital portfolio, provided to small and mid-sized businesses in Mexico, according to Martin de los Santos, SVP of Mercado Crédito, adding that the goal is to “democratize financial services.”. The Goldman Sachs loan won’t be used to finance lending in Brazil. “We

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Demo: Customer Insight Dashboard for Regional Manager who can view their forward looking metrics such as customer attrition and look forward several quarters. Franchises – Americas greatest brands” They have a list view function where investors can investigate franchises near and far. franchising sector. Returns of 9 or 10%.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. Select Investors: AllianceBernstein, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital Partners. Select Investors: CapitalG, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital. Select Investors: BlackRock, Norwest Venture Partners, Sands Capital.

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