PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2018

A lack of access to capital. But the most recent research suggests entrepreneurs are also clear about what is helping them grow, and what they are looking for in terms of technology, professional support and beyond. The red tape of regulation. The burden of administrative tasks. Even more – 97.5 69 percent of U.K. 20 percent of U.K.

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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 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.

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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. Banks will need to adapt to new behavioral patterns and trends in technology.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Visa, the payments company, announced Tuesday (October 23) a strategic minority investment in Conductor, a digital payments processing technology platform in Brazil. In a press release , Visa said the investment will go to help Conductor expand its products and to accelerate innovation in payments.

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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

JULY 19, 2019

The Seoul venture capital division of Japanese multinational holding company SoftBank has raised $270 million, or 317 billion won. self-driving company Cruise , $20 million in Mexico’s FinTech startup Clip and $1.1 SoftBank was originally founded in 1981 to publish computer and technology magazines , among other endeavors.

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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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Banking 4 Tomorrow

DECEMBER 24, 2014

2014 was the biggest year in FinTech by far with billions being invested globally, which is to be expected in a global growth sector. But how much was invested globally in FinTech this year? It depends on how you classify FinTech.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Co-signed by the American Bankers Association, Bank Policy Institute, Independent Community Bankers of America and The Clearing House, the letter argues that banks and non-bank technology firms are both already embracing innovation in customer service offerings. FDIC), the states and the courts.

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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

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. Early-stage [FinTech firms], when provided with the right mentoring, insights and capital support, can have a huge and positive impact on the lives of many people.”.

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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 digital technology sector accounts for roughly 5.5

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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

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 12, 2016

In this week’s edition of PYMNTS’ Weekly Tech Center Roundup , we check out a small country with a huge potential to emerge as one of Europe’s premier FinTech spaces. The country’s GDP was approximately $880 billion in 2014. Before we jump into the post, here are a few quick facts about the Netherlands and its tech scene: .

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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

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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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

According to a report , the Chinese startup PingPong, a FinTech company, will invest €100 million ($113 million) in Luxembourg. The company was founded in 2014, and grew in Alibaba’s backyard – the city of Hangzhou. This will help companies complete their digital transformation and be more competitive abroad.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

We want to make sure that everybody has an ability to participate in the modern economy and that everybody has an ability to leverage the technology that's available, the services that are available and have a better life,” Jess Turner , executive vice president for North America Products and Innovation, told PYMNTS in an interview Thursday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

It is also contemplating the purchase of other FinTech firms, the source said. Numerous consumer FinTechs have started offering bank accounts in the past year. Britt co-founded Chime in 2014 with Ryan King, who serves as chief technology officer. Chime’s account base is 6.5 million, up from 1 million last year.

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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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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. Take Goldman Sachs and Marcus.

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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. Moka Chief Technology Officer Grady Laksmono recently said the company has about 18,000 merchants in 200 cities in Indonesia, and that it has expanded beyond simply being a POS company.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2017

Blockchain FinTech Wyre is the latest firm to deploy chatbot technology to facilitate B2B transactions. involve either a Chinese sender or recipient, totaling $59 billion in value in 2014. But chatbot technology, the company explained, can reduce friction when facilitating payments outside China. Wyre raised $5.8

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

And, although Google searches for “bitcoin” and “blockchain” have slid, companies are still flush with cash from 2017’s ICO boom, cryptocurrency price run-up, and venture capital investment — and are spending it. See how venture firms, corporates, regulators, and builders are shaping the future of blockchain technology.

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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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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

Singapore is on a mission to build up a Smart Nation by utilizing innovation and technology to create opportunities and strengthen communities. As of 2014, the mobile phone penetration rate in Singapore was 148 percent. Singapore’s GDP was roughly $407 billion in 2015. With an estimated population of just 5.47 A Knack For Mobile.

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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. The $30 million funding will follow another $30 million funding round completed in 2014. Expense Management.

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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

MARCH 23, 2016

The whispers have grown to loud chatter when it comes to blockchain technology and the impact it might have on the financial services sector. At first, banks may have scoffed at the thought of an intangible technology overhauling the way the world works, and yet, here we are. FS must leverage the FinTech ecosystem.”.

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Fintech is expensive. Fintech is everywhere. If you are a thinking about starting a financial services company, and it does not have technology at its core?—?don’t. Fintech is the global competition for regulation, talent, and macroeconomic supremacy. Fintech is the trade war between the US and China.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

It marks NewAlpha’s third FinTech investment from its fund launched in Nov. “Welcoming a major investor such as NewAlpha to our capital is an acknowledgement of our commercial and technological success and a proof of the strength of our credit analysis model,” said Unilend CEO and Founder Nicolas Lesur.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 14, 2014

FinovateFall 2014 is just six weeks away and the buzz is building. If you''re interested in attending to see the future of fintech debut live on stage, the last chance to get your ticket at the early-bird price expires this Friday. Last year, we sold out so please don''t delay if you want to guarantee your ability to attend the event.

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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

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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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

FinovateFall 2014 is next week and it''s official that the event will be the largest Finovate to date! If you''re interested in attending to see the future of fintech debut live on stage via our fast-paced demo-only format, please get your ticket as soon as possible to lock in your seat.

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