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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. raised $10 million from SEB Bank and Seed Capital for its commercial card technology. Cardlay, based in the U.K., leading the investment.

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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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At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). 7 born this month (Digit Insurance, Divvy, Mambu, Melio Payments, MX, PPro, Sunlight Financial). + It is the 7th fintech unicorn based in India, and the 4th most valuable. Full Fintech Unicorn List. 2-feb-2021.

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i2c, CashFlows Partner To Assist European Payment Card Issuers

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Payments processing and digital banking tech firm i2c has partnered with business payment services provider CashFlows to benefit payment card issuers across Europe, i2c announced on Tuesday (Jan. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, i2c supports millions of users in over 200 countries and territories.

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i2c, CashFlows Partner To Assist European Payment Card Issuers

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Payments processing and digital banking tech firm i2c has partnered with business payment services provider CashFlows to benefit payment card issuers across Europe, i2c announced on Wednesday (Jan. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, i2c supports millions of users in over 200 countries and territories.

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

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Umpqua Bank’s Homepage During Middle of Coronavirus Crisis (15 Apr 2020). In my 25 years in the fintech space, I’ve had the misfortune to experience three massive ecosystem shocks. To help gauge where fintech is now and how and when it will get back on its feet, let’s compare and contrast the three downturns and their recoveries.

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Top 33 Digital Lenders to U.S. Small Businesses (SMB) in Nov 2021

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Unfortunately, we didn’t track when the first business loan application went online, but it was likely a few years later, let’s call it 2000/2001. We are calling it the FAB score, standing for Fintech Attention Barometer. Related: Top 17 Online Digital Corporate Credit Cards for Small Businesses (Dec 2021). Twitter: NA.

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