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B2B FinTechs Diversify Funding Strategies With M&A, IPOs

PYMNTS

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. Funding Xchange secured $10.3

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” The dot-com bubble recession began in March 2001 and lasted only 8 months. percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3 To you, manage your interest rate risk.

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A Decline in Personal Savings

TrustBank

By the 1990’s, improvements in technology and further changes to securities regulations made it easier for corporate customers to access financial markets directly. This forced banks to renew their focus on middle market commercial banking and consumers. Recall the NINJA loans (No Income, No Job, Apply).

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Artificial Intelligence: FIs’ Friend Or Foe?

PYMNTS

It doesn’t mask murderous intentions with a calming voice like HAL of “2001: A Space Odyssey.” What will banks do with all that liberated capital? Artificial intelligence (AI) doesn’t walk and talk like C3P0 of “Star Wars” (many would say: “Thank God”). It’s not a beautiful but cunning killer like Ava of “Ex Machina.”.

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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

CB Insights

For the third consecutive year, we worked with The New York Times to identify and rank the top 100 venture capital professionals from around the globe. Below are the detailed profiles of the Top 20 Venture Capital Partners. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. Current Firm: First Round Capital (Founding Partner).

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

CB Insights

In parallel, Amazon has made several fintech investments, mostly focused on international markets (India and Mexico, among others) where partners can help serve Amazon’s core strategic goal. Market strategy outside the US. The patent expired in 2017 and opened up the market for competitors to launch off-marketplace payment solutions.

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First New Community Bank In Decades Headed To US Market

PYMNTS

DLA Piper , which advised MOXY on its FDIC application, said in a statement this week that the bank is still awaiting clearance from Washington’s Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking. The FDIC’s announcement said a private placement offering will raise at least $25 million for the bank ahead of its launch.