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JUNE 15, 2018

In addition, corporate clients will be able to apply for working capital loans and make vendor and salary payments. In Africa, the biggest private bank in Kenya, CBA, has cemented a partnership with a FinTech there, Ennovative Capital, a Kenyan firm that licenses software to boost payments speeds.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 21, 2018

CB Insights unveiled the second annual Fintech 250 — a list of 250 of the most promising private companies applying a mix of software and technology to transform the financial services industry. THE FINTECH 250 STORY. CB Insights clients can view the full Fintech 250 story by clicking the button below. Please click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

FinTech, digital banking, saving, N26, banking, news, what's hotGerman FinTech N26 is launching a subscription-based digital banking suite to help individuals and businesses better manage their savings and spending. It has so far received $800 million in venture capital. Value d at $3.5

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

N26 , a German FinTech, is looking to do at least one more funding round before going public in 2023 at the earliest, and eyeing breaking even on an operating level in 2021, Reuters reported. N26 was valued at $3.6

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CB Insights

AUGUST 8, 2019

In 2013, less than $100M was invested in venture capital-backed fintech companies in India. The post Market Map: The Evolution of India’s Growing Fintech Landscape appeared first on CB Insights Research. A lot has changed in 6 years. Want the full post? Become a CB Insights customer.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2018

Australia’s adoption of alternative finance and FinTech is outpacing that of the U.S., according to OnDeck Capital Chief Executive Noah Breslow. These numbers are from KPMG in 2013, and in 2016 that had grown to $220 million.”. We are looking at an industry that did $10 million of annual volume,” he said.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2020

Robinhood Markets, coming off a new $280 million funding round backed by Sequoia Capital, has seen its value and services expand during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Reuters report. The company, launched in 2013, is now valued at $8.3 FinTech startups like Robinhood have been popular lately, attracting numerous new backers.

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Celent Banking

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Fintech is booming. In 2013, according to a report by Accenture and CB Insights , total investment into Fintech was just less than $4 billion. They need to start looking at Fintech startups as an opportunity, not a threat. By 2014 it ballooned to more than $12 billion globally, with 750 deals.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2019

The Brazil-based FinTech Nubank raised $400 million in a Series F round of funding led by TCV , making it the first major Latin American investment by the Menlo Park, California fund. . Nubank was founded in 2013 as a small startup aimed at giving people control over their financial lives.

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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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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The FinTech Northmill, which offers cloud-based financial services, was awarded a banking license from the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (SFSA) on Friday (Sept. As part of the deal, Northmill must maintain a capital minimum of €5 million. There is a number of cloud-operated FinTechs offering the same services as Northmill.

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MARCH 7, 2017

Aiming to back and support FinTech startups focused on the underserved, Accion International and VC Quona Capital raised $141 million in funding. The Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund is setting its sights on emerging markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Asia that have shown the most potential for inclusive FinTech.

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Founded in 2013, Mexico’s Konfio will use the funds to expand working-capital loans to SMBs, and introduce new products, according to Director of Corporate Strategy & Investor Relations Gregorio Tomassi. Konfio previously raised around $300 million in capital and credit lines.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2017

Their integration comes at a time when the world of FinTech is pleading for B2B payments to ditch paper (that includes checks) and get on board with, at the very least, cards and ACH. In fact, he said, many FinTech innovators often push for solutions in B2B payments that might ignore the paper check altogether.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

The FinTech has raised $820 million through seven investment rounds and has almost 22 million Brazilian customers. The company’s CEO, David Vélez, started the bank in 2013, having previously worked at Sequoia Capital as a partner in charge of the company’s investments in Latin America. .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

In an interview in 2013 , Founder and then-CEO Renaud Laplanche boasted that incumbent banks like Chase were “like Blockbuster Video” in a world in which tech and new lending models like LendingClub’s would bury them. Take Goldman Sachs and Marcus. Marcus is a digital consumer platform that includes lending and deposit-taking.

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2019

cash deposit platform developer Flagstone notched £11m in funding from investors such as VentureFounders and Kindred Capital, according to reports. The company, which was started in 2013, offers individuals, along with their wealth managers, charities and SME corporates, access to deposit accounts. In other news, U.K. Flagstone Co?Founder

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2018

BlueVine, the FinTech startup that recently announced a $60 million round of financing, has added $12 million to its Series E round of funding from M12, Microsoft’s venture capital fund. Founded in 2013, BlueVine is one of the leading FinTech players in online small business lending.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2019

From payments to insurtech to lending, fintech companies are attracting investor attention. In 2018, startups in the space raised more than $45B, a record amount, while Q3’19 fintech funding recently clocked in with a quarterly record of nearly $9B. GET THE 88-PAGE q3 2019 FINTECH TRENDS REPORT. Data is as of 12/19/2019.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Goldman Sachs Group is giving a $100 million loan to Konfio, marking the first time the lender’s structured finance, investment and lending business has provided a credit facility to a Latin American FinTech. I lived through the subprime crisis,” said Arana, who worked at Deutsche Bank AG in New York from 2006 to 2013. “In

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2020

The FinTech firm is taking meetings with new strategic and financial partners. Voyager Innovations, which was founded in 2013, provides mobile money and payments under the PayMaya brand, as well as mobile-based remittances under its Smart Padala brand. “In The money will be used to help Voyager’s expansion efforts in the Philippines.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

Asian FinTech firm CompareAsiaGroup has raised $20 million in a B1 funding round, it was reported on Tuesday (Aug. Experian has been investing in Asian FinTech startups, including $28 million in a Series C investment to Lender C88, which operates Indonesia’s CekAja.com and Philippines’s eCompareMo.com. million that year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2018

Well, for starters, as bankingtech.com reported this week, the bank was bought by Latvian FinTech entrepreneurs Marks Moskvins and Maksims Jarosevskis. The site Baltic-course.com noted that the two new co-owners put two million Euros in the bank to boost its capital position. Who were the buyers? And how come so … cheap?

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CB Insights

AUGUST 1, 2017

This teardown features annotations & commentary by four Social Capital partners. Thanks to the Social Capital team for updating/confirming their portfolio data on the CB Insights Editor. Social Capital is a VC fund with a focus on healthcare and education. As in all teardowns, the data analyzed comes from CB Insights.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Breaking Banks Breaking Banks , billed as the #1 global fintech podcast and radio show, began in 2013 and is hosted by media firm Provoke.fm. Some recent episode titles: “Secret Sauce for Deeper Relationships & What’s So Nifty About NFTs” and “Fintech Investment and Growth Opportunities.” keep me informed. Whitepaper.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2016

That couldn’t ring truer for the state’s capital, which many consider to have a tech scene bursting with potential and growth. Last year, 147 companies in Austin’s digital tech ecosystem raised more than $966 million in new capital, with more than $3.9 You know what they say, everything is bigger in Texas. billion in exits.

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JUNE 10, 2019

According to a report , the Chinese startup PingPong, a FinTech company, will invest €100 million ($113 million) in Luxembourg. PingPong and Luxembourg’s relationship goes back to 2017, when the FinTech startup got a payments license in the region, which allowed it to operate between Chinese outfits and customers in Europe.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

WeLab was founded in 2013, and now has over […]. The round included big names like Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, Credit Suisse and World Bank’s International Finance Corporation. This latest round of funding brings WeLab’s total to $425 million.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

For small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in need of capital, bank loans are undoubtedly the first place they look. For smaller companies that have traditionally relied on bank loans, private equity and venture capital funding, it links them to another source of capital.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2018

Worse, soon after, the ADP released a report that found FinTech – and that expansive market of alternative trade finance players – has yet to make a meaningful impact on the lack of capital available to global traders. Late last year, the Asia Development Bank calculated a $1.5 trillion trade finance gap in existence today.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Traditional financial institutions have been forced to look inward as they continue to face competition from alternative lenders and FinTech providers. According to BCG, about 70 percent of the units surveyed in Western Europe reported improvements during the 2013–2015 period, despite economic challenges.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

FinTech startup Fidel has raised $18 million in Series A funding co-led by U.S.-based Founded in 2013 in London, this first round of funding will support Fidel’s ambitions to grow internationally and hire more talent. based Nyca Partners and QED Investors, as reported on Wednesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2017

“It’s the golden age to be in the bitcoin market, because it’s imperfect,” said Zhou Shuoji , a former IBM technology consultant whose firm, Fintech Blockchain Group, runs a bitcoin hedge fund and venture capital fund. Chinese banks officially said no to bitcoin in 2013, and various capital control rules keep foreign presence small.

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CB Insights

JULY 21, 2017

Earlier this week, Bank Indonesia, the central bank of Indonesia, nominated three companies for its award for the fintech company most supportive of the “non-cash national movement of inclusion.” Round investors included Autotech Ventures, Insight Venture Partners, and Founders Capital.

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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. It’s currently tied for 96th most valuable across all fintech, and 36th most valuable payments company. Full Fintech Unicorn List. 2-feb-2021.

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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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