Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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. The digital world has opened vastly broader avenues for community banks to attract new customers—especially if they partner with fintechs in their endeavors.

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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 cost of each deal was not disclosed.

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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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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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APRIL 30, 2020

The FinTech company, based in both San Francisco and Nigeria, secured the venture capital (VC) investment from Worldpay , which has also struck a strategic partnership with the firm. At the time, Flutterwave said it would use the funding to further build out its technology and continue expanding throughout Africa.

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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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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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JUNE 20, 2016

The week is getting off on just the right foot for the folks over at Plaid Technologies, who are announcing $44 million in new funding. Or, said more simply, Plaid provides an API layer that sits between banks and FinTech innovators who want to access bank account information for what they are doing and makes the connection possible.

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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. Drift said it will use its funding to hire more employees this year, open a new office in San Francisco and continue to develop and expand its automated B2B services for its sales and marketing teams.

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

I thought one panel participant explained eloquently where the financial services industry is in the digital transformation journey when he put it in terms of the incumbent bank’s relationship with fintechs. He observed: We’re in what was described as “Phase 3” with fintechs.

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MAY 6, 2016

The company announced on Wednesday (May 4) that it secured $11 million for its freight procurement solution, which allows commodity traders across the globe to book freight and logistics services via an online portal. Freight is the largest variable cost for many shippers, and technology has the power to smooth volatility. Accounting.

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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. Optimizing risk, compliance and security.

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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. Alternative small business lender Lendingkart secured new funding this week to the tune of $11.5 Lendingkart. million from Alteria Capital. Growth Street.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2016

Asia scored big this week with investments in Singapore, India and China across industries like enterprise security and eInvoicing, while European startups made their mark, too. 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.

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 31, 2019

One of the first steps that payments business executives can take is the recognition that they will not be serving an army of smartphone-wielding and hard-to-please class of consumers, but rather addressing a mindset that places immediacy and enterprising innovation foremost, underpinned by security and privacy, over feature and functionality.

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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. The funding will be used to enhance technology investments and customer service, TripActions said.

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JUNE 28, 2019

It wasn’t the only corporate T&E firm that secured new funding, though, nor was it the only B2B FinTech that raised venture capital. Reports in KFGO did not disclose the nature or value of the investment, though noted it is part of HSBC’s broader effort to invest in FinTech.

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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. Panel – Deep Dive into UltraFICO (April 9 at 11:15 a.m.

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Insights on Business

MARCH 6, 2019

If you’re a parent, you have most likely discovered the benefit of technology to help keep your children safe. It would be safe to say that thanks to modern technology, you’re able to ensure the safety of your family and stay connected more than ever before. The role current technology plays in surveillance.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

At Think 2019 in San Francisco, attendees will hear firsthand some of the ways that clients are using blockchain to digitize the flow of goods, information, and money across the world. Michael Warner, Federal Reserve Bank (San Francisco). With the IBM Blockchain Platform, transactions become scalable and secure.

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MARCH 30, 2018

Boston-based PreVeil did not disclose how much it raised in its Series A funding round, but it did note that Spark Capital provided the funding to support the company’s email and file security solution. Kenna Security. Its platform provides proprietary cyber-risk analysis technology to corporate customers. Back-Office.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Meanwhile, according to SoftBank’s annual Form D disclosure that it is required to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), it raised about $98.58 venture fund based in San Francisco.”. Last year, nearly 100 technology startup companies in China garnered a valuation of more than $1 billion. China Growth.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

In those early years, the company’s safes were some of the only ones to withstand the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and the company was commissioned to build the world’s largest safe for Wells Fargo’s San Francisco branch in 1874. That’s largely thanks to the trend of nimble FinTech startups edging out traditional FIs.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Meanwhile, according to SoftBank’s annual Form D disclosure that it is required to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, it raised about $98.58 venture fund based in San Francisco.”. Last year, nearly 100 technology startup companies there garnered a valuation of more than $1 billion. China Growth.

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APRIL 20, 2016

Case in point is Rinse, which this week announced it has secured $6 million in Series A funding for its laundry pick-up and drop-off service — a service that its CEO Ajay Prakash is pretty adamant is not the Uber of laundry. in San Francisco is already a competitor. and San Francisco. Europe barely budged.

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JULY 24, 2020

has secured $80 million in new funding at a $5.5 The latest infusion of cash comes from TSG Consumer Partners , a San Francisco-based private equity company, TechCrunch reported. Revolut is also backed by Index Ventures, the global venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, and a half dozen others.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The firm, founded in New York in 2015 and now located in Hangzhou, with offices in San Francisco, Shenzhen and Luxembourg, has operated since February 2016 with Amazon as its anchor client. PingPong Global’s niche is not only being the first, and only, FinTech company created solely to focus on sellers and merchants based in China.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Since Brex exploded in value in 2018/2019, a number of fintech startups are following its playbook in the SMB space: Attract VC-fueled startups as your beachhead and then expand from there. The main advantage of premium is that it sweeps balances into money market and government-backed securities. Company vitals: Mercury Technologies.

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JULY 1, 2016

The technology creates an end-to-end, out-of-band channel between the users’ mobile device and the financial institution’s back-end systems to enable transmission of digital signature certificates and other communication between FIs and their customers. CREALOGIX raised $25.4

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 19, 2016

Fintech deals by size from 23 April to 29 April 2016: Mosaic. HQ: San Francisco, California. Payment security technology. HQ: San Francisco, California. HQ: San Francisco, California. HQ: San Francisco, California. Pariti Technologies. ——-. million ($5.82

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

“We are opening sales and tech support offices in Berlin and San Francisco. The company’s innovative technology optimizes and simplifies the payments process, meeting a crucial industry need that will only increase.” FinTech all the way in an admittedly weak week. ” Investments For 4.29.2016.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Save your spot and join us in San Francisco October 6 and 7 for the premier event for fintech developers, engineers, and CTOs. FinDEVr returns to the Mission Bay Conference Center at the University of California San Francisco for two days of fast-paced, TED-style presentations.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The $208 million this week brings total 2015 YTD fintech fundings to $12.4 HQ: San Francisco, California. Enterprise blockchain technology. HQ: San Francisco, California. HQ: San Francisco, California. HQ: San Francisco, California. Latest round: $50 million Series C. KYC systems.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In a new report , the CFPB discusses its approach to FinTech and financial innovation, its Project Catalyst initiative, and marketplace developments the CFPB views as potentially beneficial for consumers. ” The report also reviews the CFPB’s trial disclosure waiver policy and its no-action letter policy.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The fintech sector attracted $266 million in new capital the second week of August. 17 million to Upguard for its cybersecurity technology. Fintech deals by size from 6 Aug to 12 August 2016: Interactions. BPS Technology. HQ: San Francisco, California. HQ: San Francisco, California.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The money flow into fintech continued unabated this week with more than a half-billion ($557 million) raised by 24 companies. Year-to-date fintech firms have raised $13 billion. The total included one new alum, Praesidio , which will be presenting its security and fraud control integrations at next month’s FinDEVr.

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MAY 2, 2016

billion funding at Alipay’s Ant Financial , we just set the one-week record for fintech venture funding with $4.79 Here are the fintech deals by size from 16 April to 22 April 2016: Ant Financial. Ecommerce payments fraud technology. HQ: San Francisco, California. HQ: San Francisco, California.

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