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SoFi-Social Capital Merger Will Fuel Growth Of One-Stop-Shop Financial Supermarket

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Online FinTech startup SoFi announced Thursday (Jan. 7) that it was merging with publicly-traded Social Capital in an $8.6 The FinTech IPO Market. Although the $5 billion SoFi Stadium complex was officially opened last September by billionaire Stan Kroenke, it has been left “ fan-free ” due to the coronavirus.

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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 was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago.

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

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As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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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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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.

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MarketInvoice Raises Funding To Deepen Partnerships

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MarketInvoice, the FinTech, announced on Monday (Jan. In a press release , MarketInvoice said the Series-B funding round was led by Barclays and FinTech fund Santander InnoVentures. According to MarketInvoice , since launching in 2011, the FinTech has funded invoices and business loans to U.K.

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Dr. Strangelove or: How Fintechs Will Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Regulation

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The guiding ethos of fintech (and really any industry portmanteau ending in ‘tech’) is move fast and break things. The most prominent villain for fintech companies is regulation. And when fintechs and challenger banks aren’t constrained by regulation (as they mostly are in the U.S. Generally this ethos is presented as a virtue.