South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Last week, the American Banking Association (ABA) held its annual Bank Marketing Conference in Denver, receiving rave reviews. The theme was – developing your marketing superpowers. Amid the brewery networking, superhero costumes, and fun, some fantastic bank marketing lessons were had, and not just for bank marketers.

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MARCH 20, 2020

FinTechs continue to push the envelope to see how far open banking frameworks can go in improving the SMB banking experience, and increasingly, SMB lending is shifting to the center of these collaborative efforts. ’s experience is quickly influencing the way SMB lenders approach open banking in other markets like the U.S.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

Cryptocurrency-backed lending platform Cred is opening up its technology to third-party developers, the company has announced. The Crypto-Lending-as-a-Service (CLaaS) solution enables other crypto companies — including exchanges, crypto wallets or mining services — to integrate Cred’s lending functionality into their own solutions.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

Plus, Contour completes blockchain trade finance transaction, Liberis raises funding for SME financing, Pakistan eyes digitizing supply chains, and Ripple faces SEC charges. Contour Completes Blockchain Transaction Between Two Cos. Today in B2B payments, lenders land SMB relief support in U.S. pandemic aid package.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that financial regulators should look more closely at the role of non-bank tech companies in the small business (SMB) lending and consumer lending markets. Such alternative data, said the GAO, could pose risk to such lending decisions.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 19, 2016

Sizing the UK robo-advisory market, which seems on the way to triple its size. An in… Read more Wrap of Week #24: Robo-advisors, Blockchain; Insurtech and Small Business; in-store mobile payments; Marketplace lending. We gave it first position this week but we also traveled from Australia to the US.

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MARCH 31, 2020

For farmers in both developed and developing markets, this financial friction can threaten the survival of their businesses. ” With banks pulling back from the sector, farmers cooperatives have turned to operating as banks to lend money to farmers, a process resulting in high interest rates to cover overhead costs.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

The Chinese state media advised people to stay levelheaded following a price escalation of bitcoin and blockchain stocks triggered by Chinese President Xi Jinping’s support, Reuters reported on Tuesday (Oct. Blockchain’s future is here, but we must remain rational,” he said, according to state-run news outlet the People’s Daily.

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has a call out for tech companies that can help it develop a blockchain-based know-your-customer (KYC) platform. 29, requesting tech companies who can build a “proof of concept” shared KYC system that would allow commercial banks and the central government to share and update customer data on a blockchain.

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MARCH 22, 2019

USD equivalent to help fund its efforts to help companies secure loans against invoices (through linkups with investors) using blockchain and artificial intelligence. Many companies, he told PYMNTS, rely on private lending. Blockchain applications like smart contracts can help transactions to be completed faster and more efficiently.

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JULY 29, 2020

He added that while cryptocurrency is important, the blockchain technology behind it is equally so. “Cryptocurrency for us has always been beyond the asset itself but more on the blockchain technology that underpins it,” he said, according to Bloomberg. Several other countries are considering CDBCs, including the U.K.

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Gonzobanker

MARCH 23, 2022

Upon entering the lounge—which was established by Onyx, the bank’s blockchain unit—visitors are greeted by a digital portrait of Jamie Dimon (which morphs into the image of the bank’s head of crypto) and a roaming tiger. Commercial real estate lending is the better analogy. Many of the same principles apply to both types of assets.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

As the peaks and valleys of blockchain hype continue to rise and fall, more doubt has surfaced over the future of distributed ledger technology, particularly in the area of B2B payments. Analysts point to the challenges associated with adoption and implementation of blockchain-powered B2B payment solutions as a key hurdle for the technology.

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MAY 2, 2018

Blockchain applications may still be a ways away from real-world proliferation, but the technology is certainly beginning to take steps from proof-of-concept phase into beta and pilot testing. This week’s Blockchain Tracker takes a look at some of the latest initiatives to make progress and inch closer to a real-world launch.

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JULY 5, 2018

It seems that blockchain may never leave the lab and enter the real world. And, indeed, this week’s Blockchain Tracker continues its coverage of ongoing tests and trails of blockchain solutions. Over four days of testing, the group was able to complete more than 300 transactions across 19 markets. Testing Continues.

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MAY 5, 2017

The world of blockchain technology has certainly seen some major changes over the course of the past decade. While traditionally, blockchain has been instrumental in the financial arena, 2016 and early 2017 saw other industries dipping their toes into the technology’s shallow end. Bottom line: the good has overwhelmed the bad.

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JUNE 8, 2018

While the alternative lending hype has dulled a bit, it’s been replaced by a far greater hype-machine: blockchain. This week’s venture capital (VC) investment tracker finds that both blockchain and alternative finance are leading markets.

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MARCH 9, 2018

Even as a telecommunications conglomerate, it’s hardly surprising that Comcast is jumping into the world of blockchain. million funding round for blockchain startup Blockdaemon , solidifying Comcast’s presence in the distributed ledger scene. So what must happen to get blockchain out of the gate? “We

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JANUARY 5, 2018

Blockchain-based challenger bank BABB — which stands for Bank Account-Based Blockchain — has hired a new CIO. I can only see blockchain technology as the next step in this evolution of payments and asset transfer in the future,” he said in a statement announcing his position at BABB. The company said Thursday (Jan.

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Bussman Advisory

DECEMBER 3, 2022

IBM, Maersk shutter shipping blockchain TradeLens. Do you want your board, executives or staff to better understand the impact of FinTech, Blockchain or Digital Assets on the future of finance? Porsche unveils plans for 911 NFT collection in web3 push. More information on www.bussmannadvisory.com.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

Investors provided $1 million for OweMe, which developed a platform using blockchain to link bank lenders and corporate buyers for access to trade finance. “Today, technology, regulation and market readiness can drive significant transformation in the way companies think about finance in their supply chains.

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Celent Banking

MAY 24, 2016

At Celent, we just published a new research report with the same title as this blog – Blockchain: Beware the Hype. Isn't blockchain the coolest technology out there at the moment? Blockchain hype is particularly acute, given the complexities of the underlying technologies. Why such a title?

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blockchain and a bank charter might do much to boost financial inclusion. While many digital-first companies springboard from payments into lending, Figure Technologies , a FinTech focused on home improvement, debt consolidation and retirement products that leverage blockchain protocols, is branching out from lending into payments.

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MARCH 30, 2016

The march toward bringing blockchain to new applications and services continues. DTCC), which WSJ said is “at the center of Wall Street’s trading infrastructure” and which settles trades in various financial markets, is looking to see if blockchain can be used in conjunction with the repo market, which is worth about $2.6

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FEBRUARY 20, 2018

As with other forms of financing, alternative lenders have stepped into this space to fill that gap left by traditional banks – and yet, the gap remains, highlighting the limitations of alternative lending’s proliferation in recent years. and Europe is quite small and unable to meet the needs of SMBs in developing markets.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty. Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Blockchain startup Digital Asse t has brought in another $40 million in funding, bringing its total amount raised to $100 million. Founded in 2014, New York-based Digital Asset has been funded by some of the world’s largest banks, making it one of the most high-profile startups in the blockchain industry.

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JULY 23, 2018

billion blockchain fund, and the U.A.E’s Network International has launched a Shopmatic-powered eCommerce platform called Go-Online. We are targeting SMEs between these two market segments, where there are opportunities for businesses to contribute to U.K. billion fund focused on the blockchain, ZDNet reported.

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JANUARY 29, 2018

The financial services market has progressed by leaps and bounds in terms of innovation, from the rise of alternative finance to the development of technologies like blockchain and open banking initiatives. author of the report and Florida Atlantic University’s Kaye Family Endowed Professor in Finance.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

HSBC is looking toward the alternative finance sector to strengthen its position in the middle market, the financial institution said. Through the link-up, middle-market firms that use NepFin to access financing will be able to connect to HSBC commercial banking services. Announced Tuesday (Feb. 26), HSBC U.S. employing 20.7

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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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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

JPMorgan Chase , aiming to get a bigger piece of the point of sale financing market, announced Wednesday (Feb. It is used mainly for international and securities transactions related to blockchain, but could be used by consumers in the future, as CEO Jamie Dimon told CNBC during the investor meeting.

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APRIL 13, 2018

Funding targets this time around included blockchain, logistics, alternative finance, artificial intelligence and T&E — with a few startups taking a stab at some of the biggest problems in the cannabis industry, procurement and microfinance. Blockchain. Blockchain Capital. Blockchain Capital. Tienda Pago.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

and there is another sea of FinTechs exploring how to take blockchain from a hypothetical disruptor to a real-world one. He added that not only is Populous looking to introduce a real-world use case for blockchain-based smart contracts but that the firm will also aim to play a role in the financial services market.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 26, 2023

The fintech industry took a hard hit in 2022 as investors scaled back their investments amid market turmoil. In recent years, the firm has not only shored up its presence in more familiar sectors like banking, but also reached deeper into newer territory like blockchain. Fintech is central to a16z’s investment strategy.

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APRIL 2, 2018

It’s not only for consumers, though: Alternative lending firm Kabbage recently found that mobile lending is on the rise among small businesses, with a more than 360 percent increase in the number of SMB loans accessed via mobile device between April 2014 and February 2018.

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AUGUST 28, 2018

With only days to go before its official launch, Debitum Network is demonstrating its blockchain-powered small business financing solution. 27), revealing tests completed in front of members of the crypto community at the Blockchain Centre Vilnius. The company issued a press release Monday (Aug. last year.

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