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Chime, Challenger Banks And The Challenges Of (Lofty) Valuations

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And within FinTech, that most incandescent of sectors, things might look a bit, well, frothy. Regional players like BankUnited have even smaller market caps (at about $2 billion). Perhaps “overly optimistic” might be the mindset that marks private markets. With the $14.5

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Chime, Challenger Banks And The Challenges Of (Lofty) Valuations

PYMNTS

And within FinTech, that most incandescent of sectors, things might look a bit, well, frothy. Regional players like BankUnited have even smaller market caps (at about $2 billion). Perhaps “overly optimistic” might be the mindset that marks private markets. With the $14.5

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It’s Dreadful Being a Buyer of Bank Technology

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For regional and community banks there has never been a more frustrating time to be a buyer versus a builder of financial technology. team focused on UX, data, integration, and risk. Community banks, regional players, and credit unions are all in the fight of their lifetime with the need to transform their business.

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

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In 2021, there were more than 120 fintech IPOs in the U.S., 2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Acquisition of the Year: Bank Acquiring a Fintech. Acquisition of the Year: Fintech Acquiring a Bank. Oh, what a mere 12 months can do.

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What’s Fueling Poland’s Tech Growth Engine?

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Warsaw itself has quickly become the country’s entrepreneurial hotspot, attracting younger people from surrounding regions to a growing number of creative and productive hubs, accelerators and workshops. The Polish-based FinTech is a decentralized global market for computing power that’s often considered to be the “Airbnb for computers.”

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Temenos to Acquire Kony: So What?

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After lining up a series of regional bank and mid-large credit union signings over the past few years, Kony more recently acquired Umpqua Bank’s Pivotus Ventures to bring on Engage (in Umpqua parlance, formerly known as “BFF” and now “Go To Banking”), another non-transactional means of engagement that channels the mashup of service and sales.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

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There is an understanding that technology and fintech are going to cause radical change, but the how, how big and when are still very unclear. Even with worries around an allegedly discriminatory algorithm, Silicon Valley UX met big bank Wall Street money in slick onboarding that has our attention.

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