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

Bank Innovation

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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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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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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Wave Lands $24M To Focus On AI For SMB Finance

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The company revealed the funding from an array of backers including National Australia Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Portag3, and Exhibition Capital. Existing investors CRV, Social Capital, BDC IT Venture Fund and BDC Capital, OMERS Ventures, HarbourVest and OurCrowd also participated, Wave said.

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Where are The FinTech Darlings Now?

Jeff For Banks

FinTech, FinTech, FinTech! A banker told me yesterday that if I wanted headlines in American Banker , put FinTech in my copy. Aside from interest rate risk, vendor management is high on the list. So FinTech (six) firms need capital and revenues to grab a foothold in the financial services market.

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