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Unifiedpost Unveils Acquisitions To Build European B2B Platform

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European FinTech company Unifiedpost Group has unveiled the acquisitions of BanqUP, AKTI and 21 Grams. In addition, Unifiedpost Group has consented to buy Belgian company AKTI, which is a cloud company that offers commerce and eCommerce offerings to SMBs such as bill processing and order management. 23) announcement.

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Searching for the Priceline of Fintech after Lending Market Meltdown Week

Bank Innovation

You could have bought Priceline stock below $10 in 2001. For many years you had little to show for it. From then until 2008, you had some appreciation, but not much. Then the stock shot up above $1,000 (as of writing it is $1,261). Yes that is 100x return from Read More.

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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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Cloud Payment Processor Volante Teams With Goldman Sachs On Digital Transaction Banking

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the FinTech software company, announced Wednesday (Sept. In addition to payments, the application programming interface (API)-enabled platform includes analytics, liquidity management, virtual accounts and payments. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2001, Volante serves more than 90 financial institutions in 35 countries.

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Elavon Spends $300M For Sage Pay

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Elavon was acquired by US Bancorp in 2001 for $2.1 We are a customer-focused company that is helping businesses succeed in a global marketplace that is changing rapidly,” said Hannah Fitzsimons, president and general manager of Elavon Merchant Services in Europe. billion and is active in 10 countries.

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

Fintech Labs Insights

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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