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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

PYMNTS

It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Digital banks. Digital Banks.

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Brick-And-Mortar Banks Stay Put Amid FinTech Burst

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According to reports, the workload at bank branches has declined by about 10 times the speed at which locations are closing, the publication noted, citing statistics from consultancy firm Bancography. The drop in business for physical bank locations will come as no surprise, especially for FinTech players.

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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 was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players.

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Is Banking Having Its AWS Moment?

CB Insights

After Amazon Web Services launched in 2006, the ability to launch a software company became dramatically easier as costs declined. In a similar vein, APIs including data aggregation and banking-as-a-service are making it significantly easier for companies to add banking services into existing apps and products.

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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 ). 7 born this month (Digit Insurance, Divvy, Mambu, Melio Payments, MX, PPro, Sunlight Financial). + It is the 7th fintech unicorn based in India, and the 4th most valuable. Full Fintech Unicorn List. Value Date.

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Top 9 Online Digital Payment Processors for Small Businesses (SMB): June 2023

Fintech Labs Insights

This can improve visibility on our website, but does not impact the company’s FAB score. ** The FAB score, Fintech Attention Barometer, is a proxy for the overall size of a private company since they typically do not release traditional metrics (# customers, deposits, AUM, etc). 2,830 reviews per FeaturedCustomers ) 4.

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The 27 Fintech startups from YC’s Summer 2020 batch

Fintech Labs Insights

27 of the total were fintech companies, a fairly typical 14% of the YC batch. Though back when YC was just starting, only a handful were fintech. In the first 9 years of YC (2005 thru 2013), only 24 YC companies were in the fintech space though two of those early participants are now decacorns ($10B+). Year Fintech.

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