PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The capital city is Mexico City, which alone is home to almost 9 million. Nearly $120 million has been invested in approximately 300 startups based in Guadalajara since 2014. Mexico’s longstanding business culture resulted in the government investing $658 million to an estimated 620,000 entrepreneurs back in 2014. percent to 59.8

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Bobsguide

MAY 18, 2022

Financial institutions, central banks, and fintech start-ups alike have been exploring the potential of machine learning in the past few years. The workshop is open to software engineers, data scientists, quantitative risk managers, and anyone who is interested in learning more about machine learning models and their applications in finance.

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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

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

APRIL 30, 2018

IBM’s management team described its blockchain developer toolkit as another way to make it easier for innovators to “stand up” blockchain networks. Additionally, LendingClub’s stock has lost 88 percent of its value since its 2014 IPO. A month later, a new management team was put in place to rebuild the business.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2018

JPMorgan is setting up a financial inclusion lab in India through a partnership with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad’s (IIMA) Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE). According to FinTech Futures , the $9.5

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2018

BlueVine , the provider of working capital to small business (SMB) owners, announced news on Thursday (March 8) that it has inked a deal with Veem , the cross-border payments company. Veem changes all that, making it easy for small business owners to send and manage cross-border payments using blockchain technology.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Moka was founded in 2014 and was one of the first FinTechs in Indonesia. It’s raised about $40 million from investors like Sequoia Capital. Now, Laksmono said, the company has a client relationship management program, management software for human resources and a way to navigate loans to its merchant partners.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The firm is the holding company for an array of FinTech companies operating in supply chain finance, invoice finance and the dynamic discounting market. Its units include Distribution Finance Capital, Satago and Oxygen Finance, while it also owns a minority stake in peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Zopa. reports noted.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Stride platform includes a benefits marketplace where customers can access insurance, discounted telemedicine and prescriptions, income and expense-management tools and more. Mastercard will initially make the Stride platform available through two partners, Jobble and Mobility Capital Finance (or “MoCaFi”).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It was a mixed bag of funding, with a few startups working in more traditional B2B technology, including expense management and SaaS. PYMNTS breaks down the investments for B2B FinTechs below. Expense Management. The $30 million funding will follow another $30 million funding round completed in 2014.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The supplier payment solution by FinTech firm Tipalti has attracted venture capitalists. SGVC Managing Partner Dovi Frances has also been announced as the latest addition to Tipalti’s board of directors, the company added. The company announced on Wednesday (Sept. 14) that it closed a $14 million funding round led by SGVC.

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Jessica Ellerm

MAY 20, 2017

Since it’s inception in 1992, the industry has amassed a phenomenal $2 trillion under management. A more recent blow to active managers across the broader funds management industry was an announcement in May this year by the Future Fund , Australia’s biggest investor, that it too would rejig its portfolio towards passive vehicles.

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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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Lex Sokolin

MAY 25, 2020

We have the world’s best investment bank and institutional capital markets business, but something doesn’t feel right. 1) The Digital Investing Game Goldman has a plugged in venture capital arm, and was an investor in Motif, Kensho, Circle, among many others. Capital markets and private wealth bets come naturally to the company.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2021, there were more than 120 fintech IPOs in the U.S., 2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Acquisition of the Year: Bank Acquiring a Fintech. Acquisition of the Year: Fintech Acquiring a Bank. merges with Lakeland Bancorp.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

million investment round secured from NewAlpha Asset Management, reports said on Friday (Sept. It marks NewAlpha’s third FinTech investment from its fund launched in Nov. Last year, analysts found the EU’s alternative lending market to have doubled its valuation compared to 2014 levels. million) raised.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

It feels like 2014 again with the ongoing popularity of alternative lending startups. Investors seem confident in the industry’s startups and their ability to provide adequate risk management and underwriting for their loans; VCs provided more than $11.5 Accounts Receivable Management. million for alt-lenders this week.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 18, 2016

What does the world need with another robo-advisor, the founders of Scalable Capital , a Munich-based automated investment platform, asked from the Finovate stage in London earlier this year? Give average investors the same level of risk management as wealthier investors and watch the investment returns for individual investors improve.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. Silvergate Capital Corporation (NYSE: SI) #2. Silvergate Capital Corporation (NYSE: SI) Here we are again. Silvergate had $150 million in total revenue over the past twelve months, and has a market capitalization of $4.7 Live Oak Bancshares, Inc.

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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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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The corporate venture capital ecosystem is expanding far beyond the likes of Google Ventures and Intel Capital. According to our 2017 CB Insights Corporate Venture Capital Report , the number of new corporate venture capital firms making first-time investments reached record levels in 2017. Intel Capital.

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Accenture

MAY 22, 2019

I am excited to have Tim O’Donnell join our Payments team as a managing director and draw on his insights in developing this blog. percent between 2014 and 2016. Companies are moving cash off the balance sheet and investing in areas like wages, capital expansion and innovation. 2 Accenture Research on S&P Capital IQ data.

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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. With new funding, ProcMart said it will continue to collaborate with FinTech and logistics companies as it looks to add financing and other services for its business customers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Small business lenders touted their high-volume milestones, and researchers pointed to a massive spike in FinTech investments. But even as companies witness more accessible working capital and financing solutions, that doesn’t guarantee success. Data from the world of B2B finance flowed in from across the globe this week.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

As of 2014, the mobile phone penetration rate in Singapore was 148 percent. But outside of a drive to take the smarty city concept to a nationwide level, Singapore has also gained recognition for its advancement in innovation-driven entrepreneurship and becoming a startup capital of the world. With an estimated population of just 5.47

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The expansion of traditionally consumer-focused FinTechs widening their solution scope to include B2B payments tools exemplifies just how massive the opportunity is for service providers to tackle friction. SatoshiPay , a FinTech based in London and Berlin, launched in 2014 with the intention of solving micro consumer payments friction.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

However, management noted on the conference call following results that volumes were up 10 percent, excluding the impacts of China and the U.K. Net revenues of $6.05 billion were up 10 percent year on year and were also lower than consensus, which was $6.08 The company said that payments volume was up 8 percent year over year to $2.3

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 12, 2016

Wealth management platform Personal Capital is partnering with BancAlliance. This gives California-based Personal Capital access to BancAlliance’s network of 200 community banks. The member banks can now offer co-branded personal finance and wealth management tools powered by Personal Capital.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 12, 2016

Wealth management platform Personal Capital is partnering with BancAlliance. This gives California-based Personal Capital access to BancAlliance’s network of 200 community banks. The member banks can now offer co-branded personal finance and wealth management tools powered by Personal Capital.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2017

percent between 2014 and 2014 representing the highest growth in a decade, researchers said. For instance, in mature APAC markets, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are driving digitization of B2B payments through increased use of digital invoices, virtual cards and cloud-based financial management and accounting solutions.

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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. Personal Financial Management & Wellness. Capital Markets & WealthTech. Fintech Startup of the Week: Challenger Jiko Buys a $100M U.S.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Investors from around the globe are flocking to Latin America — within the first half of 2018, deep-pocketed investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global have backed startups in the region. Nubank’s other investors include Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, and Goldman Sachs. 11/29/2014.

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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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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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