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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.

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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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The 134 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Jan 2021 update)

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Ant Technology. Plaid Technologies. Personal Capital. Online Digital Banks for Small Businesses. Fintech Startup Debuts: Brave Credit & AWSM Bank Pitch @ 500Startups Demo Day (4 Feb 2021). The startups is expecting to go public in early 2021 via a SPAC with an estimated market cap of $1.3B. Value Date.

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Fintech’s Third Crisis is Tipping Point to a Digital-Only Future

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Dot-com crash (2000-2001). First, we are much, much further ahead technology-wise than during the last 2 crashes. And it took the rest of the decade for the capital to gravitate to all the good ideas. No one born after 2005 will ever picture a physical branch when they think of a “bank”. Related: Top U.S.

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What Every Banker Needs to Know Today About Artificial Intelligence

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In the last two years, almost every technology company has started using the terms artificial intelligence and, related to that, machine learning. If you just thought of HAL in 2001: Space Odyssey telling Dave he was getting pissed, you’re there! Hal9000 2001ASpace Odyssey GIF from Hal9000 GIFs. Oh, and you can’t just outsource this.

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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. Ant Technology. Plaid Technologies. Newborns in February: Blockchain.com : The crypto wallet and exchange was founded in 2011, and is now valued at $3B (or about 60,000 btc).

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

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Bunq , banking startup from The Netherlands. Scalable Capital , German investech. Ant Technology. Plaid Technologies. Digit Insurance. Starling Bank. Scalable Capital. -based wealth management platform. 102(t): $2.1B Mercado Bitcoin, Brazillian crypto exchange. 105(t): $2.0B 105(t): $2.0B 121(t): $1.8B