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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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PayPal Sells Consumer Loans to Long-Time Partner Synchrony Financial

Bank Innovation

Synchrony Bank has been PayPal’s banking partner since 2004. Yesterday, the San Jose, Calif-based PayPal said it agreed to sell $5.8 billion in consumer credit receivables to Stamford, Conn-based Synchrony Bank, a unit of Synchrony Financial. In addition to selling its credit […].

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Community Banks Embrace Faster Payments’ Competitive Edge

PYMNTS

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.

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Sizzle/Fizzle: AI Soars, Toys R Us Sinks And Start-Ups Struggle

PYMNTS

B2B: The trillion dollar industry that gets overshadowed in innovation by consumer gee-wizardry tech, B2B is gaining more attention by the day. Across the pond, estimates Innovate Finance and Pitchbook, the B2B FinTech market has gotten nearly half of all FinTech funding in the European Union through the past year.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

CB Insights

Download the free report to find out how fintech is shaping the future of wealth management and investing. This openness to banking alternatives presents opportunities for fintech startups looking to innovate in financial services from the outside. get the REPORT on next generation investors. From big banks to big tech.

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Mortgage Tech 101: What It Is & Why It’s Taking Off Now

CB Insights

FINTECH TRENDS Q3 2017 RESEARCH BRIEFING. Fintech deals and funding are on track to reach record highs in 2017. In this analysis, we examine what mortgage tech is, what its impact will be on incumbent players and fintechs, and the key drivers creating a big opportunity in mortgages now. What is mortgage tech?

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The 157 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (March 2021 update)

Fintech Labs Insights

At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). 1 back on the list after previoulsy falling below $1B (Lending Club). _. Full Fintech Unicorn List. In March, we added 17 new unicorns for a month-end total of 157. The total value is now $1.62 Total (Mar 31) = 157. .