Bank Innovation

MARCH 9, 2016

Asian fintech deal sizes dwarfed U.S. Global fintech funding skyrocketed in 2014 and 2015, but tapered off in the fourth quarter of 2015, with the implication that 2016 won’t be so sweet, according to the report. deal sizes in 2015, a new report from KPMG and CB Insights shows. But yesterday’s Ant Read More.

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PYMNTS

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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CB Insights

JANUARY 4, 2018

UK-based lender Zopa pioneered peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in 2005, quickly followed by US contenders Prosper Marketplace and LendingClub in 2006. By December 2014, venture-backed alternative lenders OnDeck Capital and Lending Club had gone public on the NYSE. FINTECH TRENDS Q3 2017 RESEARCH BRIEFING.

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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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CB Insights

DECEMBER 12, 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. in late 2014.

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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. By 2014 it ballooned to more than $12 billion globally, with 750 deals. They need to start looking at Fintech startups as an opportunity, not a threat.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The agency first proposed a special banking charter for FinTechs in 2014 that would limit pushback from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The industry claims that means payments banks wouldn’t be subject to the same capital liquidity requirements that regular banks are. FDIC), the states and the courts.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2020

million in a Seed funding round for its neo-bank epiFi, led by Sequoia India and Ribbit Capital, TechCrunch reported on Sunday (Jan. Also participating in the funding rounds were David Velez, Kunal Shah and VC fund Hillhouse Capital. FinTech startups have been aggressive at filling the banking void.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Alternative lending has been popular among venture capitalists, but France may not come to mind when one considers the top alt-fin markets of the world. The French alternative lending startup announced a $2.8 It marks NewAlpha’s third FinTech investment from its fund launched in Nov. Unilend may help to change that.

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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. Launched in 2014, Konfio raised $43 million in equity and $260 million in debt. So I saw an opportunity.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2017

Alternative lending has shifted from a competitor of traditional FIs to a collaborator, often lending a digital hand to banks in need of upgrading their systems to provide faster, more agile financing to SMEs. s Big Four banks, with alt lending firms and P2P lenders acting as key vessels for BBB funding. As the U.K.

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Celent Banking

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The lack of “just right” solutions for many small business financial problems has been a golden opportunity for FinTech firms. In the FinTech space, much of the focus is on consumer-oriented solutions like Mint for financial management, Venmo for P2P payments, and Prosper for social lending.

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Fintech is expensive. Fintech is everywhere. Fintech is the global competition for regulation, talent, and macroeconomic supremacy. Fintech is the trade war between the US and China. Fintech is the trade war between the US and China. Fintech is Facebook and Amazon. Fintech is the next bubble to burst.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

In lending, in determining whether credit is likely to be repaid by a borrower, the devil is in the details. This translates into recurring net savings, which translates into an accumulation of capital, which can be used for repayment. What if the details are the wrong ones? The Two C’s .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

The roundup of this week’s venture capital investments in B2B startups offers some insight into the geographical differences in how this space is developing. Meanwhile, Australia and Ireland revealed their continuing support of the alternative SME lending space, even as the U.S. Alt-Lending. But the U.S. Capitalflow.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Investors have cooled off to alternative lending in the U.S. Just look at the near-immediate struggle faced by Lending Club and OnDeck after their IPOs in 2014, or more recently, the knock-on effect Lending Club’s less-than-noble lending practices have had on investor confidence in other marketplace lenders.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 11, 2014

FinDEVr San Francisco 2014 -- the first event focused on fintech developers -- is less than two months away, and we''re excited to announce our presenters! These leading companies came from a competitive application process designed to find the best ideas and innovations for fintech developers. 30 & Oct.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

FinDEVr San Francisco 2014 -- our first event focused on fintech developers -- is less than three weeks away and we are getting very excited! The show is going to be an incredible showcase of the tools, platforms and APIs that are being used to build the next generation of fintech innovation. We''ll see you there!

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

This strategic transaction, which brings together two FinTech leaders, is a great opportunity for customers, employees and shareholders of both companies,” Enova CEO David Fisher said in announcing the deal. Voce’s move came amid a big first-quarter loss and a 96 percent drop in the stock’s value since 2014.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

In a sign that small business lending may be well on its way to moving beyond the traditional conduits of big banks and other larger financial players, online platform Lendio, which helps smaller companies find access to capital, reported heady growth for 2015. The company said Wednesday (Feb. million in funding.

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2016

As has been seen previously, FinTech dominated, marking a rebound from the end of last month when traditional banking had held sway. The biggest deal in FinTech came with Wimdu, at $90 million, as the German vacation company was sold to Wyndham’s Danish arm, Novasol. million) in a Series A. That’s the goal.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

“Many groups that were granted licenses in the first application round in Massachusetts in 2014 are still not open today, largely due to the inability to find the $4 million to $6 million minimum needed for a large-scale, vertically integrated cannabis operation,” the publication wrote.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

The pullback of banks from the small business lending space left a gap filled by alternative lenders who are exploring new ways to connect entrepreneurs with capital, a journey that includes innovation and a bit of experimentation. An IBISWorld report published in 2014 found that 98 percent of U.S.

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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: 2014. Capital Markets & WealthTech. Fintech Startup of the Week: Challenger Jiko Buys a $100M U.S. Digital Assets. HQ: London. Funding: $3.2M.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Business lending and corporate cards. Most recently, Stripe has launched a Corporate Card and a Lending product geared towards small businesses.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. First Capital, Inc. Silvergate Capital Corporation (NYSE: SI) Here we are. leverage ratio combined with their internal profit generation tells me they will be extending the proverbial hat to investors for more capital to support their growth.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2016

It has been a truism on The Street that smaller companies and their smaller stocks (measured in terms of market capitalization) have commanded a premium against other, relatively larger brethren, with the caveat that, sometimes, the smallest stocks are the ones that climb to the most dizzying heights. In the investment world, size matters.

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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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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In parallel, Amazon has made several fintech investments, mostly focused on international markets (India and Mexico, among others) where partners can help serve Amazon’s core strategic goal. This report is a collection of everything we know about Amazon’s foray into banking, financial services, and fintech. Amazon Payments.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 27, 2016

This week, small business lender Mayava Capital honored the most influential people in small business lending in its Marketplace Lending Power 20 awards. The recipients in order of rank: Lending Club CEO & Founder, Renaud Laplanche. Took the company public in 2014. OnDeck Capital CEO, Noah Breslow.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Debt repayment app PaySwag will integrate its mobile technology with Cloud Lending’s lending platform courtesy of a partnership announced today. The white-label solution enables Cloud Lending customers to view, pay, and refinance their loans by mobile device. The relationship between the companies goes back to 2014.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 22, 2015

.” Pictured (left to right): Miranda Lanzillotti, Marketing Communications Manager, and Pamela Rice, Senior Vice President of Technology, for OnDeck, discussing lending APIs at FinDEVr 2014. And last month, the company teamed up with Intuit to launch a $100 million lending fund for small businesses.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Combined, these 31 European startups have raised more than $21B in total funding, and operate across industries including fintech, e-commerce, healthcare, and more. Earlier this year, it launched a fintech subsidiary, Auto1 Fintech, with Deutsche Bank and Allianz. Select Investors: DST Global, DN Capital, SoftBank Group.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 8, 2015

It’s been a year since we published the first fintech unicorn list. But mostly it’s a dramatic increase in private company valuations, especially in the lending sector. We are using a broad definition of fintech including real estate. The Fintech Unicorn List. Oct 2014 round. Dec 2014 round.

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