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Should Congress Increase FDIC Insurance Limits?

South State Correspondent

private and public lending markets are the world’s envy, with a wide availability of financing options for many capital seekers across the entire capital stack. However, the ordinary course of acquisitions and mergers provides a safe and orderly redistribution of capital from underperforming to outperforming managers.

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

Fintech Labs Insights

Innovations from 1995 to 2014 (with launch dates) Note: Ranking as of Jan 2014 Wells Fargo is first in the world to offer Web-statement access (launched May 1995) Security First Network Bank launches first full-service Internet bank brand (Oct 1995, disbanded 2002) PayPal launches first online optimized payment system (Nov 1999, bought by eBay in 2003) (..)

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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

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004.

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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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120 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century: November 2020 Update

Fintech Labs Insights

Personal Capital. To qualify, a company must have been founded in 2000 or later (OK, we have a couple of 1999s too, just so we can keep PayPal on the list) and have its primary business related to financial services including banking, savings, lending, investing, insurance, wealth management, SMB accounting and payroll. *To

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

Fintech Labs Insights

But given it’s position as powering alternative energy lending at the POS, it seemed to be more the former. Personal Capital. PPRO helps global merchants accept payments locally to save on FX costs. Sunlight Financial : We debated whether NYC-based Sunlight is more fintech or financial institution. Full Fintech Unicorn List.

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

Fintech Labs Insights

But given it’s position as powering alternative energy lending at the POS, it seemed to be more the former. Personal Capital. PPRO helps global merchants accept payments locally to save on FX costs. Sunlight Financial : We debated whether NYC-based Sunlight is more fintech or financial institution. Full Fintech Unicorn List.