PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

The FinTech company SoFi is making its first leap to go global with a big move into Hong Kong. The opening of a Hong Kong outpost is part of SoFi’s bid to acquire online brokerage firm 8 Securities, while expanding its business and serving up commission-free trading there.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Mastercard is expanding its Accelerate financial technology (FinTech) portfolio and is adding 11 companies to its Start Path startup engagement program, according to a Wednesday (Aug. The company said its efforts recognize “the important role FinTechs play in the world’s rapid digital transformation.”. 12) announcement.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Digital payment solution provider Veem unveiled central improvements to its routing technology inside of the country and abroad, according to a Wednesday (Dec. Our multi-rail technology is a game changer, offering an unprecedented level of security, speed and service to small business owners,” Veem CEO Marwan Forzley said in the announcement.

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MAY 12, 2017

He is the Chair of the European networking forum: the Financial Services Club and sits on the advisory boards of numerous companies including Innovate Finance, Moven, and Meniga. Chris has been voted one of the most influential people in banking by The Financial Brand. BRR: How critical are the capital requirements?

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2020

Brex , the San Francisco financial technology startup, is offering FDIC insurance on its no-fee cash management account, the company announced Wednesday (July 22). Brex said the FDIC insurance on uninvested cash reserves up to $250,000 is the result of a partnership with UMB Financial Corp. ,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

While its market capitalization is more than 30 times smaller than bitcoin, Tether’s volume has consistently exceeded it since early August at about $21 billion per day. “If The company raised the equivalent of several billion dollars over approximately one year. Companies that offer or sell securities to U.S.

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Let's Talk Payments

JUNE 7, 2019

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. Figure is a financial technology company that offers consumer credit products by leveraging blockchain, AI, and.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2019

On Monday (May 20), the Czech Banking Association said it welcomed the proposal, and Babis said big banks in the country have agreed in principle on a starting capital of six billion Czech crowns ($259.92 Under the new deal, the two companies will extend their current project in the Czech Republic and will enter Slovakia.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

Reports have said the move by the payments messaging company positions the firm take on payments giants Visa and Mastercard. Below, PYMNTS looks at some of the other payments and financial technology companies that are either innovating on top of existing rails or looking to bypass those legacy networks altogether with entirely new solutions.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

challenger banking market saw a flurry of venture capital (VC) activity this week, as FinTech firms aim to disrupt small business (SMB) financial services (FinServ). Compliance startup Chainalysis works with law enforcement officials and financial institutions (FIs) to ensure that their cryptocurrency operations are within regulations.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

just secured more than $97 million through an initial public offering. The firm is the holding company for an array of FinTech companies operating in supply chain finance, invoice finance and the dynamic discounting market. Many borrowers are neglected by banks and still face expensive funding and capital. reports noted.

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Bobsguide

JULY 21, 2022

• The financial technology firm expands bookings by 300% in H1 2022 versus prior period. Company hires nearly 100 new staff globally in H1 2022, including senior appointments to support expansion. TS Imagine has hired 100 new staff globally in H1 2022, with the majority in development and data science roles. About TS Imagine.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Creation of the new unit would be part of a much larger overhaul of the financial technology company and subject to approval by Chinese authorities, who pulled the plug on the company’s massive initial public offering late last year, according to Bloomberg. China’s central bank told the media on Dec.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

What shall we make of private fundraising rounds that make valuation leaps, tacking on billions of dollars with each new capital raise? This week, Chime, focused on banking via mobile apps, held a $485 million series F funding round that valued the company at $14.5 billion, as CNBC reported. billion garnered only 18 months ago.

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PYMNTS

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. The news outlet quoted SEBI Chairman Ajay Tyagi late last month that blockchain may pose challenges for exchanges and financial firms.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Wirecard, the digital financial technology company, announced Tuesday (April 16) it is expanding its partnership with O2 Czech Republic, the largest telecommunications player in the Czech market. The two companies will extend their current project in the Czech Republic under the new deal as well as enter Slovakia.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

That product is Plaid — a tech platform that uses application program interfaces (APIs) to securely connect a consumer’s bank account to a third-party that wishes to use the account to enable a financial services transaction. On Tuesday (Dec. We are in inning one of a transformation. The Trust Business.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

Most fintech companies are fine, but they’ve stopped blowing off econ class for mimosa brunches. Engagement platform Personetics also secured $85M from Thoma Bravo Digital banking provider Apiture announced a fundraising round led by Live Oak Bank, Pinnacle Bank, and BHG Financial Digital banking provider Backbase raised $128.6M

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Bobsguide

MAY 25, 2022

London — May 16, 2022 — Mindtree , a global technology services and digital transformation company, and Finastra , a leading financial technology provider, today announced a partnership to bring Finastra’s Fusion Payments To Go payments technology to banks in the Nordics, the UK and Ireland, as a managed service.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

The company previously raised $111 million in venture funding from Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, Square Peg Capital, Qumra Capital and others. The company recently filed paperwork with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) to go public on the New York Stock Exchange.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

What shall we make of private fundraising rounds that make valuation leaps, tacking on billions of dollars with each new capital raise? This week, Chime, focused on banking via mobile apps, held a $485 million series F funding round that valued the company at $14.5 billion, as CNBC reported. billion garnered only 18 months ago.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

It seems governments are a bit more open to distributed ledger technology (DLT), though that doesn’t mean blockchain companies get a free pass with regulators. 22) and warned that greater scrutiny will be placed on companies that change their name or business model to focus on blockchain for the mere benefit of a shares bump.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

Unlike the broader VC market, early-stage FinTech companies have continued to attract a solid flow of capital in the U.S., with the several top deals in Q2 going to seed or early stage companies,” stated a KPMG executive, Brian Hughes, U.S. national co-lead partner, venture capital practice. “At

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

It’s all hands on deck as companies across industries take measures to aid the national and global response to the coronavirus pandemic. For Bottomline Technologies , the opportunity emerged with Friday’s launch of the $350 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) under the CARES Act. Easing The PPP Loan Burden.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Despite the country’s rich history of innovation — inventing the first satellite ( Sputnik 1 ) and even sending the first human into space — finding a place in today’s market and fostering globally successful companies has not been a strong point. Companies are afraid to lose control under the current situation.”. With the U.K.’s

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Canadian VC-backed companies saw funding drop 13% in H1 2019 compared to H1 2018. And, at later stages, Lightspeed POS went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange in March, raising $240M and seeing its shares jump 26% on the company’s first day of trading. All companies on this market map are fintech companies.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

Plaid Technologies announced Monday (June 20) that it had secured $44 million in funding courtesy of a round led by Goldman Sachs Investment Partners. In a short amount of time the company has reached millions of end users across a variety of applications, which exemplifies the power of data network effects and scale advantages.

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MAY 5, 2022

Banking Transformed Banking Transformed by the Financial Brand’s Jim Marous has new episodes several times a month and features executives from financial institutions, financial technology firms, authors, consultants, and other experts in the banking industry. keep me informed. Whitepaper. Asset Liability Modeling.

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MARCH 27, 2018

When it comes to blockchain technology, there’s a lot of hype. Now some public companies are pivoting away from their core products — be that cameras, diagnostic machinery, or even iced tea — to adopt new blockchain strategies. Companies are arranged in descending order of market cap (as of 03/16/18). .

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

She is a top advisor to Fortune 500 companies on responsible artificial intelligence strategy and data innovation practices and serves on several boards advising startups, universities, and other non-profits. Neeti Aggarwal manages the financial technology and innovation research at The Asian Banker. Nikhil Behl.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 21, 2022

CA), inserting into the NDAA a version of the “Establishing New Authorities for Business Laundering and Enabling Risks to Security Act,” otherwise more commonly known as the ENABLERS Act. financial system adopt anti-money laundering procedures that can help detect and prevent the laundering of corrupt funds.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have officially ended a two-year investigation of LendingClub, its subsidiary LC Advisors (LCA), its founder and former CEO Renaud Laplanche and its former CFO Carrie Dolan. On Friday (Sept. The SEC Finding. Attorney Alex Tse. “We

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 15, 2015

In one of the largest Series B rounds to date for a Singapore-based financial technology company, social payments specialist, Fastacash raised $15 million in new funding. The post Fastacash Secures $15 Million in Series B Investment appeared first on Finovate.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2017

In the latest PYMNTS Commanders in Chief series, Bruce Lowthers, executive vice president of FIS Global, a financial technology solutions provider , and president of the company’s Payments Division , didn’t set out to be an innovator. Similar to what keeps me up at night — it is security and risk.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

In a newly-announced partnership, B2B payments solution provider Billtrust is working with integrated payment solution technology firm REPAY Holdings to streamline supplier payment workflows with a particular focus on expanding virtual card adoption. Tat Capital Debuts Value-Add For Corporate Cards.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Other than Blackstone’s $820 million bet on what is likely the oldest financial technology company on the planet, NCR founded in 1884 as National Cash Register, just $82 million flowed to the under-100-year-old crowd. Excluding NCR, 13 companies raise $82.2 ATMs, POS & financial technology.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 6, 2016

Total fundings in second quarter hit $8 billion as 30 more companies raised $390 million the second week of May. Capital Float. Working capital financing. Bridge Financial Technology. Back-office platform for financial advisors . Online debit card security. Total raised: $35 million. million Series C.

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