PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

It feels like 2014 again with the ongoing popularity of alternative lending startups. Earlier this week, reports emerged that some alternative lending and industry professionals are beginning to heighten their anxieties about incoming regulation, particularly as some ponder whether the U.S. Alternative Lending. MarketInvoice.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Kueski , a consumer lending and credit startup, has raised $202M — $102M in Series D funding from StepStone Group, Richmond Global, and Angel Ventures Mexico, among others, and $100M in debt funding from Victory Park Capital. The fintech expects to exceed 1M unique users and $100M in ARR by the end of the year.

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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

MAY 5, 2017

SME Lending. Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments led the investment, Nav said, while CreditEase FinTech Investment Fund, Point72 Ventures and Clocktower Technology Ventures also participated. Based in China, IceKredit wields Big Data to provide credit evaluation services for small businesses. W2 Global Data.

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Celent Banking

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

While Dan was the one really working (he presented on “How Big Data can change Financial Services”) I mingled around the participants of this vibrant ecosystem encompassing entrepreneurs, financial institutions, investors, and regulators among other stakeholders. Share with us please!

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

In Kenya, the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has issued its “FinTech Sandbox Guidance Note,” which is now finalized as policy. The first step is one that takes in market-specific operators within a number of spaces, including robo-advisors, crowdfundng and algorithmic trading. Poland, Germany and France.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2020

Hong Kong-based FinTech Oriente has raised $50 million in its ongoing Series B round, according to finews.asia. Oriente said it will use the money to boost its growth in existing markets and further new developments in places like Vietnam. Peter Lee, who is the co-founder of property developer Henderson Land and website developer Wix.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

and Asia, and PYMNTS lined up all the B2B FinTechs that recently scored fresh funding. The executive said BitPesa plans to use the funding to continue to disrupt the industry, expand and add new products like trade finance and other corporate lending solutions. This week’s B2B venture capital activity led to an impressive $141.2

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

These market conditions may not seem ripe for FinTech innovation, but where there are challenges, there are opportunities. Like many markets around the globe, a generational divide has created a rift between what younger entrepreneurs are seeking from their financial services providers and what the legacy banking sector has to offer.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

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. Yellowbrick Data. Catch up on the latest investment rounds below. Biz2Credit. WorldRemit.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Also, incoming European Union (EU) leaders are planning laws governing artificial intelligence (AI) as well as big data. While consumers are flocking to eCommerce, merchants working on expanding and selling online in more markets must comply with local sales tax regulations. Incoming EU Leaders Plan New AI, Data Use Laws.

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FICO

APRIL 21, 2023

A: I think players in the non-prime and near-prime space are trying to get the most complete picture of credit worthiness for any potential borrower, so it’s becoming a “must have” in a lot of ways to stay competitive against new Fintechs in the space and not run into adverse selection. I’m a big believer in testing different data sources.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

The small business credit gap is a global issue, a problem that banks and FinTechs continue to hack away at, yet one that remains stubbornly persistent. In markets like Southeast Asia, high rates of credit-invisible, underbanked small businesses make filling the small business credit gap an even more difficult challenge.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

If Finovate Spring was dominated by companies in lending and underwriting, then Finovate Fall was all about startups and service providers equipping banks with tools to help them provide better customer service.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

The alternative lending space is crowded — oversaturated, some may say — and in the U.S. marketplace lender OnDeck, alternative lending is likely to be mainstream in Australia as soon as the end of the decade. Australia, however, isn’t yet feeling the heat from financial market watchdogs. According to U.S. But in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2017

As small digital lending startups have recently began flourishing across China, government officials are getting ready to exert just a bit more control over them. This crackdown follows a similar move made in recent months to bring more regulatory oversight to P2P lending in China.

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Abrigo

MARCH 6, 2017

His recent research reports have covered SMB lending, alternative lenders and automating commercial lending. 3) @JohnRBarlow – John Barlow is president of Barlow Research, which provides market research for commercial banks. It often Tweets columns tied to breaking news and statistics. Learn more here.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

According to news from Reuters , the new joint venture, dubbed AiBank, is aimed at getting into China’s fast-growing FinTech market. China CITIC Bank and Baidu are following in the footsteps of other technology and financial companies that have joined forces to launch FinTech businesses.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 22, 2022

In 1983, Commodore International, with its Commodore 64 commuter, was the largest personal computer manufacturer in the market controlling over 50% of sales. Commodore’s demise is a case study of how NOT to care about your customers and why business intelligence through proper data architecture is critical.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2019

based B2B FinTechs led the way in this week’s investment roundup, with more than $212 million in new funding falling in the hands of startups targeting a range of enterprise operations. Accounts payable, cloud migration, Big Data and even legal management for startups raising new funding were all targeted among investors.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

It’s quite rare that a FinTech startup that focuses on B2B payments emerges — even rarer that venture capitalists would step in to support it. Alternative Lending. The company said it will use the support to grow its presence in the alternative small business lending space through marketing and developing.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2017

Israel’s Prospera uses its Big Data analytics and artificial intelligence technologies for a niche market: farming. The company helps farming businesses optimize their production via analysis of troves of agricultural data. This week, the B2B investment roundup is all about niche markets.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2017

Microsoft will be lending its Azure Cloud technology to the companies so they can enhance their cloud, IoT, Big Data and analytics capabilities. The Accelerator will also link the startups with marketing, sales and research teams.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 13, 2017

How are the big trends in fintech like virtual reality, the blockchain, and big data analytics dictating trends in proptech? It is worth keeping in mind that trends in proptech are controlled by the same forces that drive trends in other parts of technology such as fintech. Big Brains and Big Data.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2016

. $203 billion to be spent on Big Data analytics solutions by 2020 , said IDC, highlighting banking and manufacturing as the industries that will fuel this spend. That’s due to the capabilities of risk management, fraud detection and prevention and compliance within data analytics solutions. One-fifth of U.K.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2016

In small business lending, the rush of alternative players entering the market is beginning to give way to consolidation — or, at least, collaboration. Good Data, Bad Data. In the era of the cloud and Big Data, companies are beginning to figure out how to sort good data from bad data.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

In what’s becoming an increasingly popular theme for B2B startup investors, this week’s funding rounds for B2B startups largely centered on tackling data silos and empowering the enterprise with the insights that data can provide. Existing partners of the FI including Coinbase and online lending platform Affirm.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Cortnie Abercrombie is a world recognized expert in AI and data analytics and has been named in media articles as one of “12 Brilliant Women in Artificial Intelligence & Ethics to Watch,” one of the “Top 100 Innovators in Data and Analytics,” and one of “10 Big Data Experts to Know.” Nikhil Behl.

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CFPB Monitor

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Treasury Department issued a report that recommended sweeping regulatory changes intended to promote innovation in the consumer financial services market, reduce regulatory burdens on consumer financial services providers, and update regulations applicable to various types of consumer lending and related consumer financial products and services.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

In the latest Data Drivers, PYMNTS’ Karen Webster spoke with CurrencyCloud CEO Mike Laven to get a sense of where innovation is headed. In FinTech – as all types of firms scramble to change the way payments have “always” been done – where innovation makes a mark, profits follow. Data Point Number Two: 64 Percent.

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FICO

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The launch of the Open Finance Framework by Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) in 2021 was a big step forward in driving financial inclusion for millions of Filipinos across the market who still do not have access to credit. However, financial data alone won’t build the full picture. Mark Roberts.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2017

In many ways, collaboration with FinTechs has become a key part of risk mitigation for banks, with researchers finding that only 1.4 percent of bank respondents said they consider FinTech’s competitive offerings as posing a threat to traditional banks’ position as trade finance providers.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Once run the OCR, it will clean up the minor issues and the data is very clean. SME Lending for the Indian marketplace. Some data gets categorized via the tool. Efficiency gains in getting and processing paper records that are used in the lending review process. ^DG. Trying to be a big-data source for the Muni market. ^DG.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

There is an understanding that technology and fintech are going to cause radical change, but the how, how big and when are still very unclear. The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion. GonzoBankers, 2019 was a year of extremes.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 24, 2016

It’s 2016, and the red hot fintech sector has evolved immensely since Finovate first launched 10 years ago. Financial services companies have to compete by offering more personalized services, real-time data and communication, and a user-friendly mobile features. Underwriting has advanced thanks to the availability of big data.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2015

As we head into the final four weeks of 2015, private investment into the fintech sector is just under $18 billion for the year (or $24 billion including the First Data, Worldpay and Square IPOs). ThetaRay : The Israeli company fintech security company raised $5 million from Alibaba. Small business lending technology.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 27, 2016

Fintech deals by size from May 21 to 27, 2016: Cotiviti. P2P lending platform. Tags: Consumer, B2B2C, payments, analytics, big data. Total dollars raised YTD is now $15.7 billion, more than twice the $7.2 billion raised during the same period a year ago. ——-. Healthcare payments analytics. Latest round: $238 million IPO.

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