Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

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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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

FinTech software vendor IntegriDATA has announced a new integration between its CashWire system and Workday Financial Management, which the company says will help to speed up B2B payments by allowing the automatic generation of wire transfers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Gaming FinTech Mazooma has formed a partnership with FinTech data network Plaid to bring an instant transfer solution to the iGaming and sports betting industry, according to a Tuesday (Nov. bank connections are an ideal complement to Mazooma's ACH processing platform, risk management features and compliance protocols," he added.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2020

The California-based financial services company, founded in 2012, works to build products to power digital finance and FinTech issues through its own data transfer network. The payments giant also participated in a funding round in 2018 that helped value Plaid at $2.6 billion, PYMNTS reported.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Earlier this week, a FinTech took the leap into the full spectrum of financial services, perhaps paving the way for future mashups. FinTech has bought a bank, and it shows how digital-first firms can broaden their scale and reach with cross-pollination across financial offerings. To be the bank, buy the bank.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

based digital payments firm, has increased its valuation to $15 billion following the closing of a Tiger Global Management-led $450 million Series C funding round. Checkout.com, which was started in 2012, recently brought an office to New York City. Checkout.com, a U.K.-based

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

In this week’s Tech Center tracker, we take a look at how Dubai is giving FinTech hubs around the world a run for their money. As of 2012, Dubai was the 22nd most expensive city in the world and the most expensive city in the Middle East. FinTech Hive Generates Buzz. 2016, the inflation rate was 0.12

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

Vice President Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management and Fidelity Management & Research Company. Reeves said he plans to pursue new products beyond payroll and HR as the company grows, adding FinTech features like its Flexible Pay, which allows wage advances for employees. Gusto raised $140 million in a round led by T.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Launched in 2012, London-based Currencycloud is regulated in Europe, the U.S. The company works with banks and FinTechs including Starling Bank, Standard Bank South Africa, Travelex and Brookline Bank. and Canada, and has processed more than $50 billion to over 180 countries.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2015

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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

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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Chris Skinner

JULY 3, 2017

Here are the key highlights: Over the past five years customers’ activity on banking apps rocketed by 354%, with apps now an increasingly popular way to access current accounts rising from 21% of access in 2012 to 61% by the start of 2017. These changes have empowered customers in the way they choose to manage their finances.

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CB Insights

APRIL 12, 2018

To stay relevant with customers and ahead of regulations, major banks in Europe have been implementing a number of strategies, including investing in the fintech startups the regulations enable. FINTECH IN EUROPE RESEARCH BRIEFING. In this briefing, we’ll sail across the pond and dive into the booming European fintech space.

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Celent Banking

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Treasury management plays an important role in a corporation’s globalisation efforts especially in the areas of cash management, banking, foreign exchange risk, and investments. since 2012. Cloud-based treasury management systems (TMS) provide an opportunity to implement specific modules on a subscription pricing basis.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

German FinTech firm Wirecard is partnering with Southeast Asia’s “super app” Grab to facilitate payments and transfers, Wirecard announced on Wednesday (March 11). . It was founded in 2012. Wirecard was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

Her move to HSBC comes as the bank is struggling to put anti-money laundering controls into place, as required by a 2012 pact with the Justice Department. billion settlement HSBC was ordered into after it became quite clear in 2012 that the bank was a favored home for various drug cartels and their funds. That pact is part of a $1.9

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AUGUST 8, 2017

ID Finance Co-Founders Boris Batine and Alexander Dunaev were far from newcomers to the world of finance when they started up their business in 2012. And so, in 2012, with only a few hundred thousand of their own dollars to get up and running, ID Finance launched in one of those underserved markets — their home market of Russia.

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Lex Sokolin

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The average size is about $300 million, and quite a few are focusing on Fintech and financial services. Let’s narrow down the story to Fintech, using data from Spactrack. With a bit of Excel wizardry, we can see that the first quarter in 2021 has seen 12 Fintech vehicles, while the last quarter for 2020 was at about 8.

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Lex Sokolin

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The average size is about $300 million, and quite a few are focusing on Fintech and financial services. Let’s narrow down the story to Fintech, using data from Spactrack. With a bit of Excel wizardry, we can see that the first quarter in 2021 has seen 12 Fintech vehicles, while the last quarter for 2020 was at about 8.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Small businesses are anxious, and there is evidence that large corporates’ cash management and investment strategies are also being shaped by political uncertainty. Small business employment, cash reserves and FinTech investment plans are all being shaped by this year’s presidential election. We share all the details below.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

While there is huge demand for consumer lending in Brazil, the market is inefficient,” said Akshay Naheta, managing partner of SoftBank Investment Advisers, adviser to the Vision Fund. . Creditas was started in 2012 by Sergio Furio, a Spanish former consultant and now the company’s chief executive. Creditas is aiming to change that.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Founded in 2012, Jumia became the first African unicorn startup in 2016 after a $326 million funding round that included Goldman Sachs, AXA and MTN. The platform is in markets such as Kenya, South Africa and Malawi, while local FinTech options like M-Pesa and Paga will be included in the service’s payment methods.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2019

FinTech competition quickly ended banks’ practice of turning a blind eye to a lack of digital offerings. While partnering with and acquiring FinTechs has emerged as a key strategy for traditional financial institutions to ramp up their digital offerings, they cannot rely on M&A alone to complete their digital transformations.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2017

Microsoft Accelerator, which launched in 2012, has so far accelerated 129 startups across 10 cohorts. With continued efforts to increase collaboration between startups and corporates, the program will help these startups scale up with partnerships,” said Microsoft Accelerator Managing Director Bala Girisaballa in a statement.

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Celent Banking

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In the US, small business customers get bounced around like Goldilocks—they are too small to be of interest to commercial relationship managers and too complex to be easily understood by retail branch staff. The lack of “just right” solutions for many small business financial problems has been a golden opportunity for FinTech firms.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

As far as we can tell, the origin of the quote is from a 2012 Fortune article, with the author writing: “ A favorite Bezos aphorism is “Your margin is my opportunity.” . Big Tech, FinTech and neo-banks are increasingly there to lap up the opportunities innovation is presenting to offer an alternative path to financial services.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). It is the 7th fintech unicorn based in India, and the 4th most valuable. The first, Divvy, is a corporate credit card and expense management firm in the same category with Brex, Expensify, and others. trillion up from $1.25

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2020

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). _.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). It is the 7th fintech unicorn based in India, and the 4th most valuable. The first, Divvy, is a corporate credit card and expense management firm in the same category with Brex, Expensify, and others. trillion up from $1.25

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

BECU and other credit unions have also had to address the emergence of new FinTech companies, firms which are disrupting financial services by offering consumers innovative new options for managing their money. FinTechs: ‘A wonderful threat and opportunity’.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Companies in the asset management arena are assisting with or replacing traditional asset management divisions by providing software and services for businesses, institutional investors, and more. . Companies like Fount and Liqid are digital asset managers with robo-advising capabilities. First name. Company Name.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

But even more notably, 84 percent fail due to poor cash flow management that kicks off the series of events leading to their doors closing. Managing cash flow can be tricky work when one is new to the market or looking to expand because cash is in short supply.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 11, 2018

in funding since 2012. in deals since 2012 — nearly seven times as much as either Mexico or Argentina. Brazilian companies represented eight of the 10 largest rounds in Latin America since 2012. 99 is a ride-hailing company that has also raised funding from Qualcomm Ventures and Tiger Global Management. at the time.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In the past 5 years, FIS’s accelerator has helped 57 startups find product/market fit in the difficult-to-get-started fintech world. Cirrus Secure 7-minute demo @FIS Fintech Accelerator Demo Day. Award: MVP of the FIS 2020 Fintech Accelerator. LeapXL 6-minute demo @FIS Fintech Accelerator Demo Day. Founded: 2012.

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 31, 2017

Clearly he is not attending FinTech conferences. I sometimes quip that FinTech prognosticators are like futurists. In Brett King's 2012 book, Branch Today, Gone Tomorrow , he called for a 50% reduction in branches while asking what would banking look like in 2015. Between 2012 and 2015, there was a 4% branch reduction.

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CB Insights

JULY 18, 2018

in funding since 2012. Since 2012, investments into the region have nearly tripled. in deals since 2012 — nearly seven times as much as either Mexico or Argentina. Brazil took up eight of the 10 largest rounds in Latin America since 2012. Largest Tech Rounds in Latin America (2012 – 2018 YTD 7/1/2018).

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 26, 2020

27 of the total were fintech companies, a fairly typical 14% of the YC batch. Though back when YC was just starting, only a handful were fintech. In the first 9 years of YC (2005 thru 2013), only 24 YC companies were in the fintech space though two of those early participants are now decacorns ($10B+). Year Fintech.

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