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Avant Brings SaaS Lending Tech To Banks

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Avant is best known among its financial services peers as a FinTech firm, founded to throw automation and an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced underwriting process at the problem of creating accessible, affordable personal loans for consumers. This is the bank’s product backed up by our brand.

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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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SoftBank Leads Funding For Brazilian Lender Creditas

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Japanese company SoftBank is leading a $231 million funding round for a Brazilian lending startup called Creditas, in a bid to shake up competition in the traditional financial market, according to a report by Reuters. . Creditas was started in 2012 by Sergio Furio, a Spanish former consultant and now the company’s chief executive.

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39 Crypto Fintech Unicorns

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Since cryptocurrency is such a hot sector, we created a separate offshoot of our Fintech Unicorn list tracking crypto/blockchain startups involved in financial services ( see definitions below ). Related: 281 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Feb 2022). crypto exchange, lender, accounting, blockchain infrastructure, and so on ).

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39 Crypto Fintech Unicorns

Fintech Labs Insights

Since cryptocurrency is such a hot sector, we created a separate offshoot of our Fintech Unicorn list tracking crypto/blockchain startups involved in financial services ( see definitions below ). Related: 281 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Feb 2022). crypto exchange, lender, accounting, blockchain infrastructure, and so on ).

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Big Banks Steal The B2B VC Show

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Case in point: Soundtrack Your Brand, which raised $11 million last week to provide retail stores with a music soundtrack service — not exactly the showcase for investor support of business FinTech. Since its launch in 2012, the firm said it has facilitated $178 million worth of invoice financing to local SMEs. Enterprise Security.

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120 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century: November 2020 Update

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At FintechLIVE , we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). Full Fintech Unicorn list (values as of 2 Dec 2020). In November, we added just 3 new unicorns compared to 6 last month. Unicorn count: Beginning = 118. + 3 born this month. – 1 whose valuation dropped below $1B (Qiwi). _.