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PYMNTS
JANUARY 30, 2020
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has invested $200 million in the Swedish FinTech unicorn Klarna , the buy now, pay later service for shoppers, both companies announced on Thursday (Jan. CBA app users will be the first to try the online shopping service by connecting the Klarna app to a CBA account. billion in funding.
PYMNTS
MARCH 4, 2020
China’s Ant Financial has acquired a minority stake in the Swedish split payments FinTech Klarna for an undisclosed sum, Klarna announced on Wednesday (March 4). Klarna, Europe’s most valuable FinTech, was founded in 2005 and has financial backers that include the rapper Snoop Dogg, who is also part of the company’s marketing.
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PYMNTS
JUNE 24, 2019
Together, Visa and Razer FinTech have the opportunity to transform the payments experience for not only the gaming community, but many of Southeast Asia’s unbanked and underserved consumers as well,” said Chris Clark, Visa’s regional president for Asia Pacific. “We The region is also the home to more than 213 million millennials.
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. Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago.
PYMNTS
APRIL 29, 2019
Plastic cards and the card rails are reliable and certain, at the physical store as well as online. Speaking of online, uncertainty over shopping online is what gave birth to PayPal in 1998. Then, buying and selling online was a sea of uncertainty. Consumers stick to what they know will deliver a predictable outcome.
Fintech Labs Insights
MAY 12, 2021
Bank of Montreal online mortgage app circa Jan 1998 (via Internet archive). It’s telling that Apply by Phone/Fax were more prominent than Apply Online. files over the weekend, I ran across an Online Banking Report article I wrote in 1997 about Bank of Montreal’s pioneering online mortgage application. Camino Financial.
Fintech Labs Insights
MAY 16, 2017
The fifth annual list names private companies “whose innovations are changing the world” and meet additional criteria according to CNBC’s methodology. The 50 companies have an aggregate market valuation of $239 billion, and almost 20% of the list consists of fintech companies, six of which are Finovate and/or FinDEVr alums.
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