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B2B FinTechs Diversify Funding Strategies With M&A, IPOs

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Talk of a decelerating FinTech venture capital market continued to mount this week with reports that digital banking startup Aspiration is struggling to raise money. Venture Capital Funding. raised $10 million from SEB Bank and Seed Capital for its commercial card technology. Cardlay, based in the U.K.,

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

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Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players.

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Fintech Labs Launches Space for Small Businesses to Connect with Digital Financial Services (Banks, Lenders, Insurers, Payment Processors, Accounting)

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Payment Processing : We are following payment specialists divided into 3 categories: – 21 billpay/invoicing specialists. – 7 card payment processors. – 7 subscription payment & management providers. Accounting/Bookkeeping : Our newest category tracks 21 digital accounting/bookkeeping service providers.

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Green Dot CEO: 20 Years Of Innovating ‘Banking For The Masses’

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Then again, Streit wasn’t a payments or finance person — he worked in radio. His main exposure to the payments industry was using his Bank of America debit card to pay for things at the store. By 2001, sales were good enough that Streit was able to persuade CVS and Walgreens to get in on the action. What’s Next.

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The 140 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Feb 2021 changes)

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Earnix : The financial services analytics provider, founded in 2001 and is second only to Finicity for longest time to get to the $1B valuation. Public.com : NYC-based free trading app which is forgoing “payment for order flow.” Stash : Another NYC-based trading app that also integrates banking services. Melio Payments.

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The 198 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (June 2021 update)

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Clip , Mexican payments startup. Bunq , banking startup from The Netherlands. Scalable Capital , German investech. Digit Insurance. Starling Bank. Mercury Payments. Scalable Capital. Melio Payments. Personal Capital. Online Digital Banks for Small Businesses (SMB) June 2021.

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The 187 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (May 2021 update)

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US payments company that went public 25 May 2021. #61 US payments company. US payments company. India-based banking technology startup. US Payments company. African payments provider. . US Payments company. African payments provider. Melio Payments. . #60 Paymentus : $3.8B Value Date.