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SoFi To Buy Galileo Financial Technologies In $1.2B Deal

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In a deal valued at over a $1 billion, SoFi said it has inked a definitive deal to buy Galileo Financial Technologies. Galileo CEO Clay Wilkes said in the announcement, “SoFi has built a very strong diversified financial services company focusing on a full suite of financial services. I think it’s very powerful.”.

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OCC’s New Office of Financial Technology Portends Increased Supervisory Activity

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The OCC’s announcement that it will establish an Office of Financial Technology to “bolster the agency’s expertise and ability to adapt to a rapidly changing banking landscape” should come as no surprise to those who have been following recent pronouncements of Acting Comptroller Michael J.

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US Justice Department Sues Visa To Block Its Planned $5.3B Plaid Acquisition

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billion acquisition of Plaid, arguing that the deal would allow Visa to extend what the DOJ alleges is the company's control of the online debt market. The company has already integrated with about 15,000 banks in Canada and the United States. As we explained to the DOJ, Plaid is not a payments company.

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Equifax Buys Commercial Credit Data Company Ansonia

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Equifax , the Atlanta-based financial technology company, has purchased Ansonia Credit Data , a commercial credit data firm. Equifax said the addition of Ansonia’s data will complement its commercial databases of SMB loans, leases and credit lines including the Equifax Commercial Financial Network (CFN) and PayNet database.

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Digital mortgage application company Blend raises $130m to expand bank partnerships

Bank Innovation

As banks continue to partner with financial technology companies, digital mortgage application company Blend is hoping a major fundraising round will help create new partnerships.

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Fostering the Financial Technology Infrastructure of Tomorrow

Insights on Business

To solve this, consider IBM Cloud for Financial Services which provides all the essential building blocks for the development of financial services applications, combining technologies such as cloud, blockchain, cognitive computing, sophisticated analytics, and new ways of thinking about and storing data.

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It’s Dreadful Being a Buyer of Bank Technology

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As technology buyers, banking executives need to up their game on tech purchases and technology performance management. For regional and community banks there has never been a more frustrating time to be a buyer versus a builder of financial technology. Tech companies trying to support a bank stack have no easy task.