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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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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

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Before this year, the last time that happened was in 2006, when Walmart made a move on an ILC. Walmart claimed it wanted to leverage the proposed bank mainly for the purpose of lowering costs of its backroom processing of check and credit card transactions and to offer high-interest certificates of deposits.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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Investors have remained skeptical that the marketplace business model touted in 2006 is sustainable. LendingClub makes unsecured personal loans to consumers, mostly to consolidate and pay off credit card debt and more recently to refinance auto loans. Take Goldman Sachs and Marcus.

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The 134 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Feb 2021 update)

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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. The first, Divvy, is a corporate credit card and expense management firm in the same category with Brex, Expensify, and others. trillion up from $1.25

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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. The first, Divvy, is a corporate credit card and expense management firm in the same category with Brex, Expensify, and others. trillion up from $1.25

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

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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. The European Union is also gearing up to promote new, continent-wide mandates that would promote FinTech growth and investments, especially post-Brexit.

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Fintech’s Third Crisis is Tipping Point to a Digital-Only Future

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In my 25 years in the fintech space, I’ve had the misfortune to experience three massive ecosystem shocks. To help gauge where fintech is now and how and when it will get back on its feet, let’s compare and contrast the three downturns and their recoveries. movement in 2005/2006, the financial crisis hit. Financial crisis.

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