PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Delivery Hero acquired a majority stake in Yogiyo in 2014. The (food) delivery market has been flooded with gigantic Japan-backed capital and influential online platforms, leading Woowa to factor in partnership as a survival strategy,” a spokesman at Woowa Brothers told Reuters. “The The market in South Korea is $5.9

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Mastercard is expanding its Accelerate financial technology (FinTech) portfolio and is adding 11 companies to its Start Path startup engagement program, according to a Wednesday (Aug. The company said its efforts recognize “the important role FinTechs play in the world’s rapid digital transformation.”. 12) announcement.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

The tallies are in: Innovate Finance has calculated the state of investment in FinTech for 2015, and we have the numbers. Innovate Finance released The 2015 FinTech Investment Landscape this month, a report that offers a snapshot at how investors are placing their money among financial innovators. It amounted to about $12.5

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

One emerging player in the Australian FinTech market has just secured another round of capital. According to TechCrunch , this round had participation from Australian VC funds Rampersand and Reinventure, along with existing investors Cultivation Capital, along with Mark Harbottle, cofounder of logo marketplace 99Designs.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

FinTech company Greenlight Financial Technology , which makes products to help parents raise financially literate children, said Thursday (Sept. The round also included new investors BOND, DST Global, Goodwater Capital and Fin VC and Greenlight’s first institutional investor, Relay Ventures. billion, according to a company blog post.

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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. WBS Training Ltd organizes workshops and conferences for the capital markets and treasury divisions of investment companies worldwide, centering its efforts on education.

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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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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Cloud-native London FinTech startup Thought Machine has raised $83 million in a Series B funding round led by Draper Esprit, with participation from existing investors Lloyds Banking Group, IQ Capital, Backed and Playfair, Thought Machine announced on Monday (March 2).

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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

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. reports noted.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2018

According to FinTech Futures , the $9.5 million initiative will assist FinTech startups focused on helping lower and middle income people throughout India. Anil Gupta, associate director of MicroSave, said, “Over 80 percent of the addressable LMI market, or 470 million people, are not integrated into the economic mainstream.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2018

Sources say Robinhood Markets is in talks with regulators about offering banking services to its more than 4 million users. If Robinhood were to start offering more traditional banking services, it would follow in the footsteps of FinTech startups like Social Finance and Stash Financial , which have launched similar products in recent months.

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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 has been tackling this problem since launching in 2014,” wrote Amadon in the blog post.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

But we are heading to France, where the country’s capital city is making a name for itself as a booming tech center. The city’s GDP per capita was $70,760 in 2014, making it one of the top 10 riches cities in the world and one of the most economically powerful cities in Europe. The Next Startup Capital.

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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. banks by market value.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The supplier payment solution by FinTech firm Tipalti has attracted venture capitalists. “We look forward to Dovi Frances joining our board of directors and contributing with his extensive experience in the FinTech world.” Tipalti’s sales and marketing efforts will also get a boost from the funding, the firm added.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

It is also contemplating the purchase of other FinTech firms, the source said. Chime’s rapid growth is happening as competition in the digital banking market widens. Numerous consumer FinTechs have started offering bank accounts in the past year. Chime’s account base is 6.5 million, up from 1 million last year.

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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

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. It marks NewAlpha’s third FinTech investment from its fund launched in Nov. Unilend may help to change that. The French alternative lending startup announced a $2.8

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Additionally, LendingClub’s stock has lost 88 percent of its value since its 2014 IPO. Mashing up OnDeck’s quick credit-decisioning tech with Chase’s risk and underwriting models and capital pools gave Chase a way to expand its community of SMB borrowers without expanding its bad debt. Take Goldman Sachs and Marcus.

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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. Firms started in the dorm room that have no employees, just an eager volunteer, no revenue, and no capital need not apply. That's all I'm hearing. It's like global warming.

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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. We do not comment on market speculation,” he said. Moka has terminals peppered all over the country. .

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Lex Sokolin

MAY 25, 2020

That feels like a venture bet coming to fruition, or founders looking at the likely market environment for the next 10 years, and saying?—?no We have the world’s best investment bank and institutional capital markets business, but something doesn’t feel right. But there is one layer of observation deeper here. 1–5mm per client).

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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

JULY 19, 2017

According to reports, in 2014 the percentage of BBB funds that went through a P2P platform was 79 percent; in 2015, it was 90 percent. The BBB, which was established by the government for the purpose of facilitating access to capital for SMEs, has worked with alternative lending firms to meet its goals. businesses.”. As the U.K.

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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

JUNE 14, 2018

Tight regulations around the legal marijuana industry are barring non-wealthy entrepreneurs from entering the market, according to reports from Forbes on Wednesday (June 13). Wall Street executives are behind Columbia Care, for instance, while Captor Capital and resource entrepreneur John Zorbas have backed MedMen.

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Jessica Ellerm

MAY 20, 2017

To give you some idea of what these issues are, here are just a few startling superannuation stats for the uninitiated, that are well worth putting your fintech opportunity hat on and considering. According to the Productivity Commission , in 2014-15, Australians paid about $12 billion in fees to APRA-regulated funds.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2016

In 2014, ID Experts reported $22.8 The new owners of ID Experts are Peloton Equity and Trident Capital. The private equity funding, which, according to Oregon Live , will “cash out some of its current owners while injecting more capital into the business,” came at the same time as a new spinoff from ID Experts emerged called Radar.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Digitization of B2B payments is on the rise, but the trend is challenged by discrepancies across geographic markets, according to the latest World Payments Report by Capgemini and BNP Paribas. percent between 2014 and 2014 representing the highest growth in a decade, researchers said. The 2017 report , released Monday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2017

PYMNTS breaks down the investments for B2B FinTechs below. A $10 million Series B funding round for India-based corporate expense management company Happay was announced this week, reports in VCCircle said, with backers from Sequoia Capital leading the investment. Expense Management.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments. Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. Live Oak Bancshares, Inc.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

“We are growing our core payments business in three ways,” Kelly said on the call: Through large clients and markets, with additional progress in emerging markets (with partnerships in wallets and FinTechs) and by reducing friction in payments. Now that the holiday season is over, the firm completed the migration of 5,500 U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2016

FinTech is changing the FS industry from the outside,” stated PwC EMEA FinTech Leader Steve Davies in an announcement revealing the research earlier this month. Researchers at PwC found that, for the banks surveyed, they believe that 23 percent of their operations could take a hit as a result of FinTech innovation like blockchain.

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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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