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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 was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago.

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Billtrust’s First Institutional Investor Sells Stake

PYMNTS

Edison Partners Managing Partner Chris Sugden said, “ Billtrust Founder and CEO Flint Lane was a visionary in 2001, continues to be the leading innovator in B2B billing payments, and pioneered payment cycle management today. Flint and the entire Billtrust team epitomize the founders, CEOs and growth-stage businesses we aim to serve.”.

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Why Data Centers Will Be FIs' Dodo Bird In Five Years’ Time

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The modernization roadmap for FIs has changed since 2001, the year of Volante’s genesis. The urgency for digital-first mindsets is there, as FIs bring more services online and faster transactions are desired by consumers and businesses alike, said Oddiraju. Looking Back Over Decades — And Forging The New Roadmap.

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

PYMNTS

Last year brought the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline, Europe’s attempt to boost online privacy and security for consumers — a law that just resulted in a $57 million fine against Google , which was accused of not doing enough to gain the consent of users when collecting data meant for targeted advertising. 52 percent.

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

Fintech Labs Insights

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. It’s currently tied for 96th most valuable across all fintech, and 36th most valuable payments company. Full Fintech Unicorn List. 2-feb-2021.

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Top 28 Digital Lenders to U.S. Small Businesses

Fintech Labs Insights

Bank of Montreal online mortgage app circa Jan 1998 (via Internet archive). It’s telling that Apply by Phone/Fax were more prominent than Apply Online. files over the weekend, I ran across an Online Banking Report article I wrote in 1997 about Bank of Montreal’s pioneering online mortgage application. Related: Top 12 U.S.

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Consumer Lending: Should Banks Do It?

Jeff For Banks

Ever since we formed our company in 2001, this has been the case. And there are FinTechs, loan brokers, insurance companies, and investment funds chipping away at them. And it wasn’t an anomaly. Sure, home equity lines of credit made 0.71% for the fourth quarter. But it was the only sub-product that showed a profit.

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