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Innovative Ecosystem Draws FinTech Firms To Toronto

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Toronto is a powerhouse for financial innovation in Canada: The city has the most sizable ecosystem for FinTech in the country, with 185 startups per one count. NorthOne , a FinTech firm that focuses on small business owners, is one of the companies that call the city home. Funding rounds and exits have followed suit.”

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Bankable Partners With Visa For Global Expansion

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The London headquartered FinTech is launching a New York office, Bankable’s fourth location. Our strategic partnership with Visa represents a great opportunity to further accelerate digital payments innovation in the region. hub, where it is planning strategic initiatives across corporations, banks and FinTechs.

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37 Corporate Innovation Labs In Finance

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As fintech plays a larger role in the financial ecosystem, companies are looking for ways to use tech to solve problems and find new opportunities in the space. One popular approach: in-house financial innovation labs. We’ve written about corporate innovation theater before — and how sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong.

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Big Plays Push Investments & RedKix Grabs $17 Million In Seed Funds

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Might there still be ways to innovate with email? And while chat apps were a somewhat livelier field even as recently as 2010, as of the end of 2015 most were saying the market was for the most part shut down. If it does, RedKix might just win the title for the surprise innovation no one knew they needed.

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OrderGroove Funds Frictionless Commerce With $20M Series C

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The majority, at 72 percent, came from FinTech. Within FinTech, banking held sway. Looking at the geographic concentration of activity, the US was the most active region, with 47 percent of activity, followed by China at 41 percent. A bit more than $783 million in investment activity marked last week’s fund flow.

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Reverse Logistics: Optoro Clinches $30M Series D

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This past week, the tally stood at $349 million, with FinTech at almost $238 million of that. That capital announcement comes despite fears over what Brexit might mean for the FinTech sector across the pond in general, and the peer-to-peer lending sector continues to grow — by some estimates, at about 50 percent annually.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010 in an attempt to gain share in online payments, a then-nascent market with seemingly boundless growth opportunity. As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation.

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