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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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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

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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The 134 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Feb 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. Value Date.

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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. Value Date.

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

Fintech Labs Insights

At FintechLIVE , we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). Full Fintech Unicorn list (values as of 2 Dec 2020). Related: The Best Fintech Conferences this Week (7 Dec 2020). In November, we added just 3 new unicorns compared to 6 last month. Unicorn count: Beginning = 118. +