PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The IPO is being led by tech teams at most of Ant's underwriter banks, rather than by finance teams, Reuters writes, meaning that the classification as a tech company has merit. Ant, formed in 2004 as Alibaba's payments processor, also works to connect China's borrowers and lenders and can secure short-term loans in minutes.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

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.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

Back in 2004, fraud was on the rise globally. Digital fraud was a new beast, and people didn’t know any better than to be tricked by phishing emails that today would raise red flags for even the most technologically illiterate consumers — sketchy email addresses, poor grammar and those classic sob stories from Nigerian princes, to name a few.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Value ($B). Value Date. Sub-Category. 5 Nov 2021. 5 Nov 2021. Ant Technology. 2018 round. 5 Nov 2021. Nov 2018 transaction. 5 Nov 2021. 5 Nov 2021. 5 Nov 2021. Secondary market May 21. Credit Karma. Sep 2021 round. June 2021 round. Netherlands. Nov 2021 round. Estimate based on 2021 IPO value. Mar 2021 round. Zepz ( WorldRemit ). Q2 Holdings.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 7, 2021

based wealth management platform. Bunq , banking startup from The Netherlands. Trulioo , Canadian fintech security company. New in June: #95(t): $2.2B Swedish neobank Tink acquired by Visa. #95(t): Addepar , U.S.-based 102(t): $2.1B Mercado Bitcoin, Brazillian crypto exchange. 105(t): $2.0B Clip , Mexican payments startup.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 3, 2021

US-based challenger bank. US-based bank tech provider. US-based payments security provider. To qualify, a company must have been founded in 1999 or later and have its primary business related to financial services including banking, savings, lending, investing, insurance, wealth management, SMB accounting and payroll.

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