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Anthemis’ Williams: Fintechs in a race to become customers’ primary financial provider

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The road to growth for consumer fintech companies is taking a platform-based route, with single-offering companies increasingly taking on a family of additional services to lock in customers. Founded in 2010, London- and New York-based venture firm Anthemis Group focuses on early-stage and Series A fintech investments.

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German FinTech N26 Eyes IPO With Hiring Of New CFO

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German neobank N26 hired Dr. Jan Kemper as its new chief financial officer (CFO) as the Berlin-headquartered FinTech looks toward a future initial public offering (IPO). In his eight years at the startup, he helped grow market capitalization to 11 billion euros from 2010 to 2017. Its most recent valuation was $3.5

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FinTech Stripe Eyes Funding Round That Could Put Valuation At $100B

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FinTech Stripe is considering a funding round to value it higher than the $36 billion it got on its last round, Bloomberg reports. The company has also been fundraising this year, including a $600 million round from April, from investors Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, which afforded the company's current $36 billion value.

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FSB Says Higher Bank Capital Requirements Will Remain

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Europe’s Financial Stability Board ( FSB ) said on Friday (June 7) that higher bank capital requirements, which were put on the books during the financial crisis, will remain. When the banks were required to increase their capital in 2010, they argued it would hurt their ability to keep up their lending pace.

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FSB Says Higher Bank Capital Requirements Will Remain

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Europe’s Financial Stability Board said Friday (June 7) that higher bank capital requirements put on the books during the financial crisis will remain. When the banks were required to increase their capital back in 2010 they argued it would hurt their ability to keep up their lending pace. In January the U.K.

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AltFin Shines As Investor Interest In B2B FinTech Continues

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Toward the start of 2018, analysts began to highlight the potential for venture capital (VC) to embrace the B2B business model. and India drove a surge in FinTech venture capital funding in 2017, and Accenture Financial Services Senior Managing Director Julian Skan pointed to the B2B business model as a significant presence in this trend.

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Today In Data: Kiosks, Equifax And FinTech VC All See Growth

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individuals than previously reported, corporate disbursements are still made through paper checks, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have expressed optimism about accessing loans from the financial services sector and FinTech sees a rise in venture capital (VC)’s expected compound annual growth rate (CAGR).

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