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Financial Services Platform SoFi Plans IPO Via SPAC

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Silicon Valley startup Social Finance (SoFi) is closing a merger deal with blank-check firm Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. Social Capital Hedosophia is one of three special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) on the lookout for investment opportunities. V to file an initial public offering (IPO). . billion in cash proceeds.

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Mobile Payment Platform ShopKeep Closes $65 Million In Funding

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Tribeca Venture Partners , which led the company’s Series A round in 2011, led the financing. The debt financing piece of the round was provided by ORIX Growth Capital and Square 1 Bank, which is a division of Pacific Western Bank.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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IBM’s management team described its blockchain developer toolkit as another way to make it easier for innovators to “stand up” blockchain networks. In 2011, Buffett made a $10 billion investment in the company in support of then-new CEO Ginni Rometty’s turnaround plans. Take Goldman Sachs and Marcus.

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

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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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Sift Science Eyes Global Fraud Prevention With $53M In Funding

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According to Venture Beat , this latest round of funding was led by Manhattan-based VC firm Stripes Group, with participation from existing investors that include Union Square Ventures, Insight Venture Partners and Spark Capital.

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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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Open Banking Gains More Investment And Government Attention

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One of the latest signs of that comes this month from Germany, where Hamburg-based Deposit Solutions , a company that launched in 2011 and sells open banking technology, recently announced it had raised $100 million in capital in a round led by Vitruvian Partners, a Munich private equity firm. Equifax Move.