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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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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

PYMNTS

Before this year, the last time that happened was in 2006, when Walmart made a move on an ILC. And while much has been quiet on the ILC front ever since, as of 2017, two big FinTechs made them very visible again: Sofi in June and Square in mid-September. SoFi, due to other corporate issues , has already abandoned that effort.

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Goldman Sachs Provides $100M Loan To Konfio

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Goldman Sachs Group is giving a $100 million loan to Konfio, marking the first time the lender’s structured finance, investment and lending business has provided a credit facility to a Latin American FinTech. I lived through the subprime crisis,” said Arana, who worked at Deutsche Bank AG in New York from 2006 to 2013. “In

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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. Mashing up OnDeck’s quick credit-decisioning tech with Chase’s risk and underwriting models and capital pools gave Chase a way to expand its community of SMB borrowers without expanding its bad debt. Take Goldman Sachs and Marcus.

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Participation in Investor Communications Japan’s Proxy Platform Surpasses 1,700 Listed Companies

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NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader, and the Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. As of June 2022, over 1,600 companies listed on the Prime Market of the TSE participate in the Platform, representing 87% of the companies in that market or 98% by market capitalization. ” Digitizing and Streamlining. Increased Interest.

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Timeline: The First Decade Of Alternative Lending

CB Insights

UK-based lender Zopa pioneered peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in 2005, quickly followed by US contenders Prosper Marketplace and LendingClub in 2006. By December 2014, venture-backed alternative lenders OnDeck Capital and Lending Club had gone public on the NYSE. FINTECH TRENDS Q3 2017 RESEARCH BRIEFING. from investors.

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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. It’s currently tied for 96th most valuable across all fintech, and 36th most valuable payments company. Full Fintech Unicorn List. Value Date.