Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Kathy Strasser of IncredibleBank is evaluating marketing campaign management platforms. We asked several banking leaders how they’ve employed fintech to ramp up their marketing campaigns, hone their analytic strategies and gain new patrons in the process. Fintechs know how to reach and work with the community.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2017

Menlo Ventures , the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, closed a new $450 million venture capital fund aimed at investing in early stage companies focused in the consumer, enterprise and so-called frontier technologies markets. The expansion to San Francisco will strengthen our partnerships with the next generation of entrepreneurs.”.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The round drew participation from Founders Fund, Meritech Capital Partners, Coatue Management, Bond, and Index Ventures. San Francisco-based Persona helps businesses verify customer identities in order to help with age verification, fraud prevention, and account recovery. HOW’S THE COMPANY PERFORMING? Want the full post?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2020

San Francisco-based FinTech startup Brex has acquired Neji, Compose Labs and Landria to help it build out its product offerings for growing businesses. Prior to Neji, the team members worked together for over a decade across multiple technology companies.”. The startup streamlines SaaS solutions into one experience. “The

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 2, 2023

Below is our curated list of top fintech, banktech, payment tech, investech global conferences for 2023. These the biggest and best events in the financial services space geared towards technologists, product managers, developers, marketers and C-Suite execs at both financial institutions and rival fintech firms. 100+ speakers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

4) to buy its FinTech competitor, SIA , for about 4.6 This is not the first mega deal involving FinTech companies. billion) to acquire Ingenico Group , the Paris-based technology provider of secure electronic transactions to create a FinTech dynamo. the San Francisco-based financial services company.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The acquisition will see Kabbage take on 20 new team members in its San Francisco office, with Radius Intelligence CEO Joel Carusone also joining Kabbage to support the integration of the data analytics solution into its offering. In another statement, Carusone pointed to the role data plays in small business cash flow management.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

Uber reportedly will partner with FinTech Flutterwave to offer Uber Cash, a digital wallet feature, in Africa. Flutterwave, based in San Francisco and Nigeria, has been on a roll since it pulled in $35 million last year in venture funding, including from Worldpay.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

The Salt Lake City payment processing platform has joined with Plaid, a Visa subsidiary based in San Francisco, that builds financial technology platforms to connect bank accounts and initiate automated clearing house (ACH) transfers. Plaid is connected to more than 11,000 financial institutions.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The fintech space is gaining momentum. Last year saw a double record of $46B invested across over 2,800 deals to fintech startups — a 92% uptick in funding year-over-year. GET THE 83-PAGE q2 2019 FINTECH TRENDS REPORT. Q2’19 fintech funding topped $8.3B, boosted by a record quarter of $100M+ mega-rounds. KEY TAKEAWAYS.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

The CEO of SoFi, the digital personal finance company based in San Francisco, said its investor accounts have doubled this year, mostly due to fractional shares. CEO Anthony Noto told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” that the FinTech company’s investing platform has seen a significant uptick in user numbers since January.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

That’s why South African FinTech company Yoco has made it its mission to improve things for African businesses, large and small. Indeed, the FinTech’s mobile POS (mPOS) was inspired by Square, which Yoco founder Katlego Maphai first encountered while visiting San Francisco shortly before starting to work on the Yoco solution.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

The rise of FinTech, the increasing globalization of finance — and even ravages of the coronavirus, which is making us all bank and transact across phones — all have pointed to one simple, urgent question: Just what is a bank, anyway? We wouldn’t go so far as to say an existential crisis is in the works. Looking For The Continuum.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

This new valuation ranks Klarna as the biggest European private FinTech and one of the largest private FinTechs around the world, according to an announcement from the company. The funding round was led by San Francisco-based growth-oriented investor Dragoneer Investment Group. Other investors in the round include ?Commonwealth

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Meanwhile, technology changes continued at a breakneck pace, with generative AI the biggest topic around management tables. The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 3, 2016

Last week the San Francisco Business Times announced winners of its Tech and Innovation Awards honoring the Bay Area’s most innovative and enterprising technology companies. Finovate alum Credit Karma was one of 25 winners, named Best Financial Technology Company. billion valuation. . million in funding.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 6, 2024

Take a close look now at our curated list of top fintech, banktech, payment tech and investech global conferences for 2024. These are the biggest and best events in the financial services space for technologists, product managers, developers, marketers and C-Suite execs at both financial institutions and fintech firms.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 3, 2023

These are the largest events in the investment services industry geared towards technologists, program managers, marketers, developers and C-Suite execs at both legacy investment advisories and financial institutions along with upstart investech and fintech firms. If we are missing anything, please drop me a note.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 3, 2023

These are the largest events in the investment services industry geared towards technologists, program managers, marketers, developers and C-Suite execs at both legacy investment advisories and financial institutions along with upstart investech and fintech firms. If we are missing anything, please drop me a note.

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NCR

MAY 9, 2017

The expansion of new fintech apps started a trend of eroding revenue and profits from banks and credit unions, generating a sense of competition with app developers. But technology innovators and financial institutions have worked together for generations. Technology has been changing the world since we invented agriculture.

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Celent Banking

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

For those who’ve never been, Finovate hosts three main events (New York, San Francisco, and London) where more than 70 fintech companies are able to present new concepts, services, or products in a rapid 7-minute format. A few weeks ago I attended Finovate Fall 2016 with a few different colleagues of mine in New York.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2016

Fleet Management. Freight is the largest variable cost for many shippers, and technology has the power to smooth volatility. Canada-based Bench stands as this week’s sole B2B FinTech company that secured venture capital this week. “The Turns out, it wasn’t a total bust. Haven, which operates in Singapore, Europe and the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

In India, where investors have shied away from alternative nonbank financial companies as of late, one small business (SMB) lender managed to secure an impressive funding round. Other investment targets included a Chinese B2B eCommerce platform with a niche focus, an InsurTech startup targeting gig workers and corporate spend management firm.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In fact, if the California-based FinTech Car IQ has its way, it will happen soon. The collaboration with Discover was enabled when Car IQ incorporated its payment technology into the Discover payments platform. The idea was to make payment management of fleet vehicles simpler,” said Pratz. It could happen.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Investment in B2B FinTech startups came through a variety of channels this week, from venture capital to growth equity. In total, backers placed $273 million across companies operating in alternative finance, treasury management, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and B2B sales tech. Supply Chain Management. trillion market.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 15, 2021

Early on, fintech startups were a small part of its class, although Stripe (S09) and Coinbase (S12) were notable (and extremely profitable) exceptions. When I looked at YCvalums in mid-2014 , there had been just 40 fintech grads in its first 10 years. San Francisco, CA. San Francisco, CA. San Francisco, CA.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

Corporate travel and expense (T&E) management solutions provider TripActions led this week’s B2B venture capital roundup with its announcement of new funding that propelled its valuation to $4 billion. million in funding for its technology, reports said this week. Prime Venture Partners provided the investment, reports said.

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 17, 2019

IBM will be hosting IBM Think 2019 from February 12-15 this year at a new location in San Francisco, CA. Digitally transforming operations, operating models and technologies to compete in a changing industry structure.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This year’s Future of Fintech (June 14-16, SF) will have a stage dedicated solely to the future of wealth tech. Our speakers will dive into the trends and technologies revolutionizing the wealth tech industry, ranging from fractional stock trading, robo-advising, social trading platforms, and more. See you in San Francisco !

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

It was another busy week for B2B FinTech startups, with globally and vertically diverse companies securing new funding for their enterprise-targeting tools. PYMNTS takes a look at the latest in B2B FinTech funding below. Working in the business management market is Scoro , an Estonia-based startup that just announced $5.2

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 31, 2019

Seeing other customers in the store raising their eyebrows, the store manager, a very amicable person in her 50s, walked up to the group and read the house rules from a placard. The teens scoffed at the manager’s dictation of how they’re supposed to behave, and amusingly grew annoyed for being deprived of some social media mobile device time.

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Gonzobanker

MARCH 25, 2020

I was comparing today’s situation with a previous disaster – the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco, where I was in charge of a bank’s disaster recovery plan. There are some technology and training issues to overcome, but the industry is going to make it work. Distributed Call Centers. Why go back if it does?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2016

But a seed-stage startup fund in San Francisco announced its own new $50 million investment pool, so funding for B2B FinTech startups in the U.S. The biggest splash in the B2B payments startup space came from Zervant , an electronic invoicing company providing invoice management and generation services to SMEs.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

For those not in the know, Marketo is a system vendor that automates lead management including email, mobile, social, digital ads, web management and analytics. The Marketo system has also quickly run the table in fintech firms and bank tech vendors. Adobe requires similar care and feeding, so no change there.

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FICO

APRIL 2, 2019

This April, the world’s leading event in financial services innovation kicks off – LendIt Fintech USA 2019 in San Francisco on April 8 and 9th. Sign up to attend LendIt Fintech USA 2019 , and connect with the FICO team in person at Booth #1315.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Three ways millennials could accelerate FinTech trends in 2016. Thus, it’s not shocking that millennials are a driving factor in the growing financial technology, or FinTech, movement. The FinTech industry is continuing to grow and millennials are serving as a key driver, but what can we expect to see in 2016?

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

HQ: San Francisco, CA. Descriptio: White-labeled digital credit card management. HQ: San Francisco, CA. Traction: – Purchased technology asset that had been in market for a few years – Soft launch in June 2020 – Completed a Seed round ($ undisclosed). Business model: Enterprise sales. Founded: 2019.

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