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APRIL 30, 2018

It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Marketplace lending. Marketplace Lending.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2018

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

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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.” Lending & Credit Risk.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

But overall, Goldman’s recent fintech M&A binge appears to be an industry outlier, not the norm. Since 2013, 80% of the top 50 banks by total assets operating in the US have not acquired a fintech startup. Fintech: 2017 Year-in-Review & 2018 Trends. Fintech: 2017 Year-in-Review & 2018 Trends.

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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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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

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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PYMNTS

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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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Following our previous mapping of the most well funded startups in each state and most well funded food & beverage startups in each state , we used CB Insights database to identify the most well-funded private fintech startup in each state. FINTECH TRENDS Q3 2017 RESEARCH BRIEFING. since 2013 and has been valued at $2.7B

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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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NCR

MARCH 23, 2017

Countries like the UK, China and the US are traditionally seen as the powerhouses of the fintech world, but it’s testament to the expanding global presence of this market that the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region could be its next big growth engine. The post MENA: The next fintech hotspot?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Developing a quick, seamless and secure onboarding process for financial institutions (FIs), lending startups and other financial services providers has long posed its trials. billion in funding as of April, although the virus’s spread was greatly impacting India’s FinTech space. Such entities in India were granted relief on Jan.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

As the wave of FinTech lenders who stepped into the markets after the financial crisis pushed much of their mainstream banking competition out of the game are coming into a new era with rising interest rates and falling investor demand, their strategic approach to that market is changing.

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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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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Much as Ally does with its car lending, Nubank optimizes a single use case to acquire customers – and then cross sells. The largest fintech bank in Latin America, this master of digital marketing – known for creating cool products with strong organic growth – continues its massive expansion in Mexico and Colombia. Olé Olé Olé.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

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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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

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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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

Unfortunately, “60 Minutes,” famous for investigative journalism, missed the really big story in FinTech. A few days later, one of the founding fathers of FinTech, Renaud Laplanche , was forced out of Lending Club, the peer-to-peer lender he founded in 2006, following scandals over loan disclosures and conflicts of interest.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Just six weeks into the new year, and another monster deal is positioned to shake up the industry, this time in lending. The company, according to Forbes , has won major market share – quadrupling revenues since 2013, with recurring revenues growing at a 40% annualized rate. And Thoma isn’t alone in the lending space.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 29, 2016

Square Cash was launched by Square in 2013 for P2P payments. Is Citigroup going to partner with Square to offer the startup’s peer-to-peer payments service to Citi customers? That’s the implication from a recently published article in Fortune. The service is available in the U.S., and for both personal or Read More.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 8, 2019

The results showed that Upstart’s model using alternative data and machine learning approved 27% more applications than a traditional lending model and yielded 16% lower average APRs. The CFPB, in its July 2019 fair lending report, discussed supervisory reviews of alternative credit scoring models.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

San Francisco-based Chime launched in 2013, offering debit cards, savings accounts and checking accounts to consumers without any fees. “Our payment processor has been experiencing issues today, resulting in our app + website being down,” Chime said in a tweet on Thursday (Oct. Earlier this year, it reached a valuation of $1.5

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CB Insights

JANUARY 29, 2018

Global fintech investment has been on a tear over the past several years and 2017 was no exception. across 1,128 deals to VC-backed fintech companies. Despite hitting new annual highs, global VC-backed fintech deal activity ended on a downward trend, falling for the second straight quarter in Q4’17.

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CFPB Monitor

APRIL 26, 2022

First, they are consistent with the agency’s stated intent to increase scrutiny of fintech firms, as it could allow the CFPB to conduct in-depth examinations of fintech firms over which it presently has no clear supervisory jurisdiction. Although the CFPB adopted a final rule in July 2013 (12 C.F.R.

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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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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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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

. “We need to be open to discussing it and working through it,” said Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry, referring generally to bank charters for FinTech companies. And I think that’s the sea change in attitude here at the OCC.”. The OCC would not comment on Circle or any other firm’s charter acquisition efforts.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The UK-based independent fintech industry group attracted 100 entries resulting in 22 finalists across 8 categories, 8 category winners and one overall champion. Founded: 2013. Fintech Startup of the Week: Challenger Jiko Buys a $100M U.S. Innovate Finance broadcast the finals of its Pitch360 competition over Zoom in July.

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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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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Leading Digital Consumer Banks (United States)* ranked by our FAB score (Fintech Attention Barometer**) Company FAB Score** Founded HQ Web Visits (Oct ’23) TrustPilot Score TrustPilot Reviews Funding ($M) 1 Wise (Transferwise) 10581 2011 London 38,100,000 4.2 124 $66 27 Axos 220 2013 1,110,000 $0 28 Majority 126 2019 Stockholm 168,000 4.6

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2017

The decline in debt between 2008 and 2013 was an aberration from what had been a 63-year upward trend reflecting the depth, duration and aftermath of the Great Recession. And the shift in mortgage lending mirrors a shift in the lending picture in general when it comes to who holds the majority of U.S. household debt.

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Let's Talk Payments

MAY 31, 2016

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote some of the very early pieces on how APIs are being used to. I am back to writing about one of my favorite topics—APIs.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

One of the first neobanks in the region, Nubank , traces its genesis back to 2013, having raised hundreds of millions of dollars to expand across several financing rounds. As reported in this space earlier this year, as much as 70 percent of the population lacks bank accounts.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

What happens when you give fintech nerds a healthy dose of wine and cocktails over the course of 4 hours? You get honest opinions about what is new and next in fintech. At the fintech cocktail club, we played a scientific game of Hot or Not (if you’re younger than 30, think of it as Fintech Tinder ). P2P lending.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

As credit unions (CUs) face increased competition from traditional banks and new players from the FinTech crowd, many institutions ponder the same question: What can we do to keep our doors open? Mary’s has since occupied the same site, constructing a new building in 1970 and replacing that structure with its current headquarters in 2013.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 13, 2015

CUneXus showed off cplXpress : “Our cplXpress platform allows lending institutions to empower their customers with perpetual loan approval across multiple product lines. Product Launch: December 2013. The post CUneXus Demos Comprehensive PreScreened Lending Platform appeared first on Finovate. HQ: Santa Rosa, CA.

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