PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Assembly Payments shares our vision, and we are pleased to partner them based on the strength of their core technology and talented team,” said Alex Manson, head of SC Ventures — the innovation, FinTech investment and ventures arm of Standard Chartered. We identified payments as an area where we wanted to make a strategic investment.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

Visa has signed a deal to purchase FinTech firm Plaid for $5.3 Plaid, which was launched in 2013, is attractive to Visa because it has the technology to get access to a customer’s bank account data, collect it and aggregate it for financial services providers to use. billion, according to a report.

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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.

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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. Banks will need to adapt to new behavioral patterns and trends in technology. They need to start looking at Fintech startups as an opportunity, not a threat.

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PYMNTS

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. There is a number of cloud-operated FinTechs offering the same services as Northmill. N26, which started in 2013, has a valuation of €2.38 and Monzo in London.

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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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NCR

MAY 9, 2017

The expansion of new fintech apps started a trend of eroding revenue and profits from banks and credit unions, generating a sense of competition with app developers. But technology innovators and financial institutions have worked together for generations. Technology has been changing the world since we invented agriculture.

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Alex Jimenez

AUGUST 28, 2018

What is Fintech? Fintech is a dynamic segment at the intersection of the financial services and technology sectors where technology-focused start-ups and new market entrants innovate the products and services currently provided by the traditional financial services industry." -PwC PwC Fintech Report. Source: UBS.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2020

The FinTech firm is taking meetings with new strategic and financial partners. This is also a recognition of the significant role that the Philippines financial technology industry can play in providing meaningful digital solutions to many of the crucial and very human challenges that the Philippines community faces today.”.

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Let's Talk Payments

AUGUST 8, 2017

They met in 2013 while devising and developing blockchain applications. SettleMint is a Belgian startup and was incorporated in August 2016 by Matthew Van Niekerk and Roderik van der Veer.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This marks the Japanese conglomerate’s third investment in the country since it announced the launch of a $2 billion fund to target Latin American technology companies. We grant quick loans based on technology, alternative data sources, artificial intelligence and data science.”.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2017

That’s according to Hamed Abbasi, CEO of payments technology firm Plooto. The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) released its 2016 Electronic Payments Survey earlier this year and found that use of paper checks in B2B payments actually rose 1 percent compared to 2013 levels.

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PYMNTS

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. According to a report , the funding came from multiple institutional investors in support of FinTech startups that focus on those who are shutout of traditional banking systems around the globe.

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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. Jianpu Technology.

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CB Insights

JUNE 22, 2018

“For new countries, you have to find local partners, get familiar with local regulators, and wait 2 to 3 years to get a new license,” Wayne explained at CB Insights’ annual Future of Fintech conference. FUTURE OF FINTECH 2018. Instead, Zhong An’s strategy is to focus on an offering that’s easier to scale — technology. “We

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question. In some cases, the technological changes inspired by Covid-19 will come in the form of an acceleration of existing trends — for example, industrial automation and contactless payments. Teletherapy.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Banking Transformed Banking Transformed by the Financial Brand’s Jim Marous has new episodes several times a month and features executives from financial institutions, financial technology firms, authors, consultants, and other experts in the banking industry.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2020

Checkout.com faces competition from Stripe, a San Francisco technology company that allows businesses to make and receive payments over the internet, and Adyen, a Dutch payment company that provides businesses a way to accept eCommerce, mobile and point-of-sale payments.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Now, it’s true that some companies — including some very big names across many important sectors of the economy — are taking measured steps and experimenting with blockchain tech — aka distributed ledger technology (DLT) — in the support of use cases that address tough problems.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Last week, Vietnamese group Vingroup announced a plan to shut down its eCommerce site Adayroi.com, which it formed in 2013, and merge its ePayment business side with its FinTech arm, VinID. Vingroup justified the decision by saying it would be able to better predict company needs that way.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

PayPal, the digital payments company, is rolling out two new technology Innovation Labs based in India, where FinTech startups are currently flourishing. According to the report, the two labs are the first in India for PayPal, which already has locations in the U.S. and Singapore.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

At FintechLab s we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated constantly ( current list here ). Fintech Unicorn count: Beginning (Jan 1, 2022) = 271 Plus: 9 born this month (see Table 2, below) 1 previous unicorn added this month (Citadel Securities) _ Total (Jan 31) = 281. Full Fintech Unicorn List.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

At FintechLab s we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated constantly ( current list here ). Full Fintech Unicorn List. Ant Technology. Plaid Technologies. In December, we added 7 new unicorns for a month-end total of 273. Their total market value is now $2.1 trillion, down $110B from last month.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 15, 2021

The Federal Reserve, FDIC, and OCC have released proposed guidance for banking organizations on managing risks associated with third-party relationships, including relationships with financial technology-focused entities such as bank/fintech sponsorship arrangements. partnerships, joint ventures), including technology companies.

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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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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 12, 2022

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. So what can we learn from our friends to the south as they continue to flip LATAM upside down? Olé Olé Olé. That’s Great, But the U.S.

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Disruptive Finance

JULY 23, 2017

My thesis has long been that technology would have a huge impact in finance, but that it wouldn’t be a linear process. Let’s summarise where we are in this transformation of finance: 2013 onwards: huge enthusiasm in Fintech and the vision that tech would transform finance with disruptors challenging traditional companies.

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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. Konfio’s technology is also able to keep non-performing loans under control, with the company’s delinquency rate at 4.8

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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 ). Phantom Technologies. Related: 281 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Feb 2022). Dec 2019 round. July 2021 SPAC (proposed).

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Republican Congressman Patrick McHenry, Vice Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, has introduced the “ Financial Services Innovation Act of 2016 ,” which is intended to provide a streamlined regulatory process for innovative fintech products and greater certainty about compliance requirements.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 21, 2022

At FintechLab s we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated constantly ( current list here ). Full Fintech Unicorn List. Ant Technology. Plaid Technologies. In December, we added 7 new unicorns for a month-end total of 273. Their total market value is now $2.1 trillion, down $110B from last month.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

SWIFT India , a joint venture between SWIFT SCRL and several banks, plans to test distributed ledger technology (DLT) in partnership with blockchain startup MonetaGo , Cointelegraph reported. The FinTech firm’s technology will reportedly work with SWIFT’s standardized financial messages, which serve the market in India.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2020

This authorization came just in the nick of time, too, as such technology would soon be an effective tool to safely verify users from their homes while the pandemic made it riskier for consumers to venture out in public. billion in funding as of April, although the virus’s spread was greatly impacting India’s FinTech space.

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