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Mollie Is Latest Tech Startup To Attain Unicorn Status

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Dutch FinTech Mollie has just closed on $100 million in new financing, as the startup looks to expand internationally and pump additional money into product development and engineering. The $100 million in investment capital marks the second time Mollie has cut a major financing deal, following a $29.5

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Report: Alibaba’s Ant Group Plans Hong Kong IPO At $200B+

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Based in Hangzhou, China, the company operates Alipay, an online payment service that debuted in 2004 and has evolved into the world’s largest payment and lifestyle platform, the company said. At the time, Credit Suisse and China International Capital Corp. Ant Group was launched in 2014 to provide global financial services.

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FinTech Startups Take Advantage Of Talent Pool In Dublin

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Dublin, the capital of Ireland, is a burgeoning hub for startups in the technology sector. Trezeo , a FinTech startup that seeks to smooth out income for self-employed workers, is one of the innovators that call Dublin home. Charlon said that Dublin is an attractive place to FinTech firms for several reasons.

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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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Is Shopify a Fintech player now?

Lars Markull

You have probably read somewhere that Shopify is now becoming a FinTech company due to the launch of a couple of new products. A few years ago it was quite easy to identity Fintech players but the lines are getting blurry. And now coming to the most crucial Fintech announcement by Shopify: Shopify announced their own bank account.

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Is Shopify a Fintech player now?

Lars Markull

You have probably read somewhere that Shopify is now becoming a FinTech company due to the launch of a couple of new products. A few years ago it was quite easy to identity Fintech players but the lines are getting blurry. And now coming to the most crucial Fintech announcement by Shopify: Shopify announced their own bank account.

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Community Banks Embrace Faster Payments’ Competitive Edge

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Yet, the broader perception of smaller financial institutions (FIs) in the industry is that these banks lack the resources that larger banks offer, as well as the agility of emerging FinTech firms, to promote product and service innovation to their SMB clients. has dropped from 8,000 in 2004 to about 5,400 in 2018.