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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. However recent analysis from Iron Pillar , as reported recently in the Times of India, suggests that such a slowdown may not be detrimental to the B2B FinTech startup arena.

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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’s still going under the stewardship of fintech famous Jim Marous, who modernized the name to Digital Banking Report (and recently opened the archives for free access).

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Billtrust Taps Green Dot For New CFO

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Accounts receivable (AR) automation firm Billtrust has appointed Mark Shifke as chief financial officer (CFO), bringing more than 35 years of financial and legal experience — including most recently as the CFO at fintech Green Dot — to guide the firm through its next phase of growth, the company announced in a recent blog. .

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Banco BASE Taps Volante For Payments; Azimo Receives Dutch Central Bank License

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Volante, which was founded in 2001, works with more than 90 financial institutions in 35 countries around the world. it’s the best place to grow a FinTech company in Europe.”. And it happened to be the case that eight in 10 — or 80 percent — of purchases in the store had been made by card. Outside the U.K.,

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Artificial Intelligence: FIs’ Friend Or Foe?

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It doesn’t mask murderous intentions with a calming voice like HAL of “2001: A Space Odyssey.” When customers apply for a credit card or loan, that application can take weeks to process, said Kaplan. There are non-banks rolling out their own payment cards with far more compelling incentives to adopt.

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No Pain, No Gain? GDPR, PSD2 And The New Payments Reality

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This year brings the Second Payment Services Directive ( PSD2 ) deadline, also in Europe, with its designs meant to encourage more security and innovation in the payments and FinTech spaces. Both solutions provide increased fraud protection for online transactions made via debit or credit cards. The market will target [3DS 2.0]

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

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At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). It is the 7th fintech unicorn based in India, and the 4th most valuable. The first, Divvy, is a corporate credit card and expense management firm in the same category with Brex, Expensify, and others. trillion up from $1.25