PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

FinTech funding had already seen a dip in Q1 this year, but the pandemic may be further suppressing investor appetite. A new report provided by Buy Shares found global FinTech funding was less than $4 billion during Q2, compared to about $5.8 billion raised in the Q1, according to Forrester. Privacy.com.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

As bank-FinTech collaborations evolve, more traditional financial institutions (FIs) are not only implementing services and technologies developed by FinTech partners, but they’re also lending their own expertise to augment FinTech solutions. In another bank-FinTech tie-up, J.P. Tyfone Connects FIs To Payrailz.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 19, 2019

Fintech in Southeast Asia is reaching new records for both deals and funding. The region, which includes countries like Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines, among others, is a widely under-banked market. One of the reasons for this rise may be, perhaps surprisingly, the ride-hailing business.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Apparently, people like it and here I’m going to expand upon the basic theme to give a detailed analysis of how FinTech wings are spreading. There’s been a lot of talk about fintech lately. In fact, saying ‘fintech’ is like saying ‘retailer.’ So, here is the FinTech Wave, Part One.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

African FinTech Chipper Cash has landed a whale of an investor. Chipper CEO Ham Serunjogi confirmed on Twitter the startup, which got its initial foothold in the market as a peer-to-peer (P2P) payments service, has just wrapped up a $30 million Series B round of venture capital. And the investments have kept coming in 2020.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 7, 2018

EXCLUSIVE (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Welcome back to the fintech boom. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck. But the fintech market has rebounded.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Luge Capital, a fintech venture capital firm based in Toronto and Montreal, serves a growing ecosystem of startups north of the border. This week, it closed a C$85 milion ($65 million) fund for fintech and AI solutions.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

When Home Depot announced last month its plans to acquire HD Supply Holdings , it wasn’t just a sign of expansion for the home improvement retailer. It was also indicative of a growing trend of B2C merchants expanding into the B2B realm in an effort to take advantage of a surging market. The Outsourced FinTech Opportunity.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

Jan Kemper as its new chief financial officer (CFO) as the Berlin-headquartered FinTech looks toward a future initial public offering (IPO). The former CFO of Zalando SE, one of Europe’s most successful eCommerce retailers, Kemper was instrumental in leading the company’s IPO in 2014 on the Frankfurt stock exchange.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Most fintech companies are fine, but they’ve stopped blowing off econ class for mimosa brunches. Especially in fintech, which had the roughest semester last spring. Fintech is still alive and well, Gonzobankers, and fintech deals are still happening. Banks Bought More Fintechs (Until Sum mer Break Started!).

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Bank Innovation

MAY 22, 2019

Partnering with small and medium-sized institutions, the Berlin-based fintech acts like […]. Raisin, which bills itself as a one-stop shop for online savings and investments, is planning to launch in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Red Dot Capital Partners has landed $200 million to invest in tech firms, Walmart announced it would sell its retail operations in Argentina to Grupo de Narváez. UK FinTech Startups Scrambling As No-Deal Brexit Looks Probable. 31 deadline is approaching as the European Union and U.K.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Bank-FinTech collaboration continues to thrive as more financial service providers place small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) front-and-center of product development. In a statement , HSBC Bank USA Head of Retail Business Banking Shaun McDougall said fueling the SMB community is important to support the broader U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

At a time when surging coronavirus counts are once again muddying the outlook for consumers and business owners, MerchantE Chief Financial Officer Shim Steinmetz says the crisis has also provided a silver lining of sorts to nimble FinTechs that can solve merchants’ cash crunch problems. We’ve heard that a hundred times.”. Or consider Sears.

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CB Insights

MAY 16, 2023

The post What Robinhood’s performance could signal for rival retail investment apps and their valuations appeared first on CB Insights Research. Want the full post? Become a CB Insights customer. If you’re already a customer, log in here.

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BankUnderground

JANUARY 18, 2024

What could the first ‘quantum markets’ look like? And where might the differences from classical markets lie? Nascent quantum networks also exist and are key to the quantum markets I will discuss below. More complete markets should be more efficient. What algorithms and infrastructure might they leverage?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

For Walmart, FinTechs are in sight — but where to from here? As reported , Walmart is working with Ribbit Capital to create an as-yet unnamed FinTech that would, the companies said on Monday (Jan. The notion of scaling into the markets may indeed be gaining traction.

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Bobsguide

APRIL 12, 2019

A fintech agreement between Cambodia and Singapore authorities provides an opportunity for the former’s underbanked and underbanked population, according to lawyers, while the vice president of both Cambodia and Singapore’s fintech associations says lessons can be learned from both.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Vista Equity Partners is reportedly thinking about selling a stake in London-based FinTech Finastra. FinTechs in Europe have been experiencing a rise in value as many investors look for alternatives to run-of-the-mill, brick-and-mortar banks. based community market customers and Malauzai’s non-core U.S.-based based customers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

29) that retail investors in mainland China made over $2.8 More than five million people made orders in Shanghai for stock – reportedly a new high for IPO subscriptions on STAR Market, which rolled out in 2019. Ant Group indicated on Thursday (Oct. Some of the leading investors put half a billion each into Ant Group.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 11, 2020

OnDeck’s fire sale aside, recent deals at nCino, Black Knight and Ellie Mae are a shot in the arm to a market in need of some good news. 2020 is the wildest downward ride in the market since 1929, which, one would think, is taking its toll on the fintech ecosystem serving banks and credit unions. and Thomas H.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 27, 2020

In a week that saw the coronavirus pandemic amplify in the United States, the fintech sector continued to weather economic dislocation and uncertainty. But even amid this uncertainty, fintech companies began formulating strategies to help banking and consumers emerge from the crisis with better tools and solutions.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Savings fintech Raisin has made its first move into the United Kingdom savings market, acquiring customer acquisition and onboarding company PBF Solutions. The […].

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2022

CB Insights has unveiled the winners of the fifth annual Fintech 250 — a list of the 250 most promising private fintech companies worldwide. . GET the list of 2022 fintech 250 companies. Get an Excel file with the entire Fintech 250, CB Insights’ annual ranking of the 250 most promising fintech startups in the world.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 27, 2019

SigFig, a San Francisco fintech specializing in robo advice, today unveiled SigFig Atlas, an interactive platform for financial advice and software-guided sales that faces both retail banks and their customers.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 19, 2020

How will banking and fintech business models be impacted by this unprecedented coronavirus pandemic? For insights into these questions, Bank Innovation and INV Fintech, its sister banking innovation services platform, will present a special Zoom meeting on […]. How will banks and startups work together?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

FinTech venture capital fund Broadhaven Ventures; U.S. The FinTech has raised $73 million to date to expand its digital banking offerings. Founded in 2015, the FinTech is one of many digital financial institutions — like challenger banks or neo banks — hoping to entice legacy banking customers with higher interest rates or lower fees.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Lenders are hoping to stave off mobile competition by expanding retail banking. FinTech is helping to transform daily consumer life in Nigeria and other developing markets. Africa’s most populous country — roughly 200 million people — is behind in offering mobile banking compared to the rest of Africa.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 7, 2019

As fintech moves beyond digitizing legacy systems to a focus on intuitive, customer-driven experiences, the field of startups competing for market share is getting crowded. According to CB Insights, venture-backed fintech companies raised $6.3 billion across 445 deals globally in the first three months of this year.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2019

s robust marketing strategy for its retail bank has paid off, as the bank today reported that half of its new retail customers were millennials. Of Ally Financial’s 230,000 new retail deposit customers via its retail side, Ally Bank, 126,500 were millennials, according to bank’s earnings report released today.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Ukrainian bank UKRSIBBANK, part of BNP Paribas Group, is teaming up with Dreams , a financial wellness FinTech startup based in Sweden. The collaboration will also help UKRSIBBANK stay ahead of the competition and “futureproof its digital banking offering” as challenger banks and FinTechs crowd the personal finance landscape.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 5, 2019

Growth is the name of the game for this month's notable hires in digital banking and fintech. On one hand, a major FI like Spanish bank Santander hired a former Google executive to create new products, while smaller fintechs are opening up shop in new markets to drive growth. Nordea Bank CEO Casper von Koskull […].

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Walmart and Green Dot have announced that they are going to develop a FinTech accelerator together and call it “TailFin Labs, LLC,” the companies said in a release. The accelerator will create new products, technologies and services that exist in the meeting place of retail shopping and consumer financial services. 1 of next year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Singapore-based FinTech Grab is mulling a U.S. Sources told Reuters that Grab is looking to take advantage of the red-hot IPO market in the U.S. If the company chooses to proceed, the IPO could be the largest market debut ever made by a Southeast Asian company on a foreign exchange.

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BankInovation

JULY 25, 2022

Varo Bank is joining other fintechs struggling in a worsening economic environment. The cuts are the result of increased inflation and market volatility, Varo Chief Executive Colin Walsh said in a July 19 staff message. “As The charter bank announced last week that it recently laid off 75 employees, or about 10% of its workforce.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

The FinTech group is reportedly mulling setting aside a significant number of shares for users if it goes public, but it has yet to make any final decisions, according to Bloomberg, who cited unnamed sources. Robinhood ’s platform is popular with amateur retail investors, particularly millennials and Gen-Zers.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 18, 2018

billion acquisition of Swedish small business commerce platform iZettle will boost its presence in 12 markets across European and Latin America, particularly in the physical retail space. PayPal’s $2.2 The move highlights the increasingly overlapping businesses of PayPal and Square, of which iZettle is a competitor.

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