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Making A Sizzling Leap Into Digital Banking

PYMNTS

To be the bank, buy the bank. Earlier this week, a FinTech took the leap into the full spectrum of financial services, perhaps paving the way for future mashups. The $185 cash and stock deal would bring an online bank with $1.4 The $185 cash and stock deal would bring an online bank with $1.4

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Singapore FinTech Grab Mulling US IPO Of Up To $2 Billion

PYMNTS

Singapore-based FinTech Grab is mulling a U.S. Founded in Malaysia in 2012, Grab is also known for its popular ridesharing and delivery services. Last month, Grab and Singtel announced they had received a license to set up a digital bank in Singapore. The bank is expected to launch in early 2022.

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Brazil’s Unicorn FinTech EBANX Pilots Digital Wallet

PYMNTS

Brazil’s unicorn FinTech and payments startup EBANX is trialing a digital wallet, called Ebanx Go, with 10,000 consumers on a test basis, the company announced on Wednesday (Jan. The digital wallet offering is intended to solidify the FinTech’s reach in the Brazilian payments market.

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Silicon Valley’s Plaid Heads to the U.K., Undeterred by Brexit

Bank Innovation

Fintech startup Plaid Inc. Founded in 2012, San Francisco-based Plaid helps customers and banks transmit data back and forth. is expanding its footprint into the U.K., a region it believes could eventually match the U.S. in terms of revenue, despite political uncertainty.

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Clash of clans … or new bank versus old bank (Fidor, BPCE) 

Chris Skinner

I was talking with some friends at the most innovative bank in Europe that has stopped getting on my radar for the past few years. I first blogged about them back in 2012, when I met the founder at an event. That bank is called Fidor.

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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 was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players.

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Mastercard: The Role Of ‘Instant’ In Improving Consumer Financial Health

PYMNTS

To improve the financial lives of millions of Americans, speed matters — especially for FinTechs seeking to bring new products to market digitally and to target consumers underserved by traditional banking models. As Choubey told Webster, the FinTech traces its roots to providing financial access to 90 million Americans.

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