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FinTech Veteran Dan Henry Tapped To Lead Green Dot

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Branchless bank and FinTech Green Dot has reported that Dan Henry will step in as its new president and CEO, and will also join the board of directors. Dan is a highly regarded leader and accomplished executive with operational expertise and over two decades of deep experience in the FinTech space. billion all-cash sale to TSYS. “I

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How Thinking Smaller Helps FinTechs Scale

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In fact, when it comes to FinTech companies, thinking “small” by focusing and serving a relatively small number of huge markets may provide the best opportunity to drive more impactful revenue with sustainable and profitable growth. This allows the company to offer integrated, end-to-end payments solutions for specific markets.

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Slice Integrates No-Fee Visa For Millennial Shoppers In India

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India’s pay-later app Slice is introducing a no-fee Visa card that offers its Gen Z and millennial customers cash back and no-cost EMIs during festive sales. “We We believe cutting-edge new solutions like these will help us become the go-to fintech destination for Young India.”. Spending peaked in 2006 at $3,023 on average.

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Mastercard’s Incoming CEO’s Take On The Future Of Payments

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Haythornthwaite has served as chairman since May 2006 and Banga has served as CEO since 2008 — when he took over the helm shortly after the onset of the financial crisis. The goal for Mastercard going forward is figuring out how to expand its reach worldwide and into places that card products haven’t been — and may never go.

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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. They have a big incentive on their books to make sure that happens.

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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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Renaud Laplanche Wants To Reinvent Consumer Credit: Here’s How

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When Renaud Laplanche founded LendingClub 12 years ago in 2006, the lending landscape was a very different place. Upgrade has come to market in a different time, and has had a much different experience. It’s a vision that has, as of today, closed of a round of Series C funding led by CreditEase FinTech Investment Fund.

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