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DECEMBER 27, 2020

firms alone raised more than $435 billion, far outpacing the $279 billion raised in 2014, the previous annual record. As 2020 sunsets, we’ve seen all manner of listings, including previously less-prevalent ones that, in a year like no other, outperformed traditional initial public offerings in terms of dollars raised.

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MARCH 17, 2017

But on the second day of Innovation Project 2017, eyes were beyond Beantown and cast toward the world at large. The movement toward financial inclusion, and toward a consumer experience that is seamless and intuitive and secure, is one that brings companies to share process and perhaps even prosperity. Connectivity and Collaboration.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 18, 2014

capital appreciation and dividends. The lion''s share of their growth, profitability, and capital have come since their re-branding to Open Bank in 2010. Please do not claim to invest in any security based on what you read here. Not so over the three years I have been keeping track. BofI Holding, Inc.

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MARCH 20, 2018

The “Scottish Pacific SME Growth Index,” released twice a year, found the portion of small businesses that said they would use banks for funding declined from 38 percent in 2014 to 24 percent in 2018. At the same time, interest in alternative lenders increased. Nearly half (47.6 Nearly half (47.6

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Javelin Strategy & Research

MAY 2, 2014

Stocks, IPOs, and large real estate investments are all mainstream in 2014, as startups empower a new wave of everyday consumers with investment tools. It’s no longer about having the most features; it’s about delighting consumers into enjoying a task that they used to dread. The intersection of Wall Street and Main Street is digital.

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JUNE 10, 2019

The company was founded in 2014, and grew in Alibaba’s backyard – the city of Hangzhou. We are actively following the country’s Belt and Road Initiative to empower Chinese businesses through innovation in the cross-border ecosystem,” said Luo in a statement. Luo Yonglong, a partner at PingPong, said the company plans to surpass a $7.21

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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. Corporate Venture Capital.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

In fact, the venture and entrepreneurial ecosystem grew by 20 percent from 2014 to 2015 alone. In general, venture capitalists are boosting their investments in Latin America, with funding reaching $594 million in 2015, a stark increase from $387 million in 2012, the Latin America Venture Capital Association confirmed.

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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 16, 2015

I was pleased to be invited to speak to CSI’s clients about innovation in banking (more about that later.). Surely Capital One is no nimble start-up — with more than 70 million cards and $80 billion in card balances, Capital One is a top-four credit card issuer. What’s The Hurry? .

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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

JANUARY 6, 2020

The 2020s will experience a dramatic and rapid shift from the app economy the smartphone ignited in the decade we just left behind to one that connects people and businesses with commerce wherever they happen to be, and via any device they happen to be using, in real time – safely, securely and privately. The Connected Economy’s Potential.

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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. Get all the latest data on innovation, startups, & disruption.

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Abrigo

APRIL 28, 2016

To be American is to have the freedom to innovate, take risks, create, transform and put in the hard work that has led to the successes – and failures – that define human progress. Many innovators with great ideas and great potential do not begin with great wealth, so they need a great government partner to support their success.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Hacker Arrested in Capital One Breach Affecting 100M+. Thompson formerly worked for Amazon Web Services, which hosted the Capital One database that was breached. Payment Tech Tops FIs’ Innovation Agendas. However, financial institutions (FIs) are getting better at separating vital areas of innovation from the hype.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2017

One of the biggest hurdles to starting a new business, in addition to developing an innovative out-of-the-box idea, can be where and how to obtain funding. census data, 2014 saw 452,853 new businesses, whereas each of the past forty years saw anywhere between 500K to 600K entrepreneurs move on their initiatives.

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MARCH 31, 2017

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has denied the second bitcoin-based ETF bid up for consideration in the month of March — the Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.’s million Series A venture funding round led by Berlin-based Earlybird Venture Capital. This past week proved once again that it’s tough to be a bitcoin fan.

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MARCH 23, 2016

What once may not have been taken seriously — cryptocurrencies and futuristic payments — is today exploding as the innovation financial institutions are targeting for investments, largely hoping to get a jump on the blockchain before disruption takes a bite out of their traditional business. For some, it may echo the rise of the Internet.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Since 2014, Seacoast has been on a buying spree acquiring 14 banks. Let’s see how this new scale allows for big investments in future innovation. with Coinbase alone attracting $86 billion.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Innovate Finance broadcast the finals of its Pitch360 competition over Zoom in July. Founded: 2014. Builds business applications using cryptography for superior data security and data privacy. Capital Markets & WealthTech. Digital Assets. Finalists: Lacero ( pitch ), SupraFin ( pitch ), Wirex (see pitch below).

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2017

Innovative ideas are inspired by smart people who see problems and have the conviction, capital and courage to come up with new ways to solve for them. One such innovator recognized the vast commerce potential that could be unlocked if new technologies were used to move money and messaging between people in near real-time.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

It feels like 2014 again with the ongoing popularity of alternative lending startups. million in B2B venture capital was divided among alt-finance, supplier payments and Big Data services startups this past week. MCI Capital, based in Poland, led the financing via its MCI.TechVentures Fund, according to reports. MarketInvoice.

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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. These APIs handle everything from acceptance and processing to settlement and reconciliation, while ensuring compliance and security. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

trillion market capitalization — almost double where it was just two years ago. Wedbush Securities Analyst Daniel Ives offered a resounding yes in a research note on Sunday (Aug. For all of Apple’s brilliant innovations over the past 25 years, the company has also managed to enjoy some very good timing.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

More recently and by comparison, the mortgage meltdown and subsequent global financial crisis took down more than 500 banks between 2007 and 2014, with total assets of nearly $959 billion. And quite frankly, I did not know there were so many tranches to mortgage-backed securities. trillion failed. credit default swaps anyone?).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

million as of 2014. In fact, the venture and entrepreneurial ecosystem grew by 20 percent from 2014 to 2015 alone. The study, from security ratings company BitSight, found that Brazil had disappointing results on indicators such as email security, filesharing policies and the rate of machines compromised.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

A need for larger working capital and a slower supply chain for both exporters and importers. If you have got the money and it’s being transferred, then we want to shorten the wait time for the accounts receivable side and reduce the amount of working capital that businesses have because they are waiting on payments from other companies.”.

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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. Blockchain. Marketplace lending. Digital banks.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

I want to create something new and innovative.” Even Jamie Dimon wrote in a 2014 letter to investors of the danger online lenders posed, a new class of innovator that was coming to “eat our lunch.”. Lending Club was the poster child of that alt lending movement. He was far from alone. Party hats? stock price category.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

Restaurants — the epicenter of payments innovation, it seems — were on the receiving end of a couple of new opportunities this week that could drive even more feet into them and help them grow. 2014, and we just found out about it. But is FireEye’s fizzle this week a security sizzle? Here ya go… SIZZLE. Restaurants.

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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. The rise of security tokens as a distinct asset class. Venture activity. Corporate activity. End of story.”

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

Gupta later called Shah in 2014 to introduce him to the CARMERA concept. Select Investors: Data Collective, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, Tencent Holdings. Bilal Zuberi, Lux Capital. Select Investors: Bezos Expeditions, Lux Capital, Shasta Ventures. Element AI. Data Collective. Total Funding: $102M. Deep Sentinel.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

PayPal created certainty by getting sellers paid while making sure buyers got their stuff, while keeping buyers’ bank accounts and payment credentials secure and private. It would take until 2014 – nine years after the Prime membership debut – for Amazon to confirm that it had more than 20 million Prime members. Slowly, to start.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have officially ended a two-year investigation of LendingClub, its subsidiary LC Advisors (LCA), its founder and former CEO Renaud Laplanche and its former CFO Carrie Dolan. “So, On Friday (Sept. In 2010, LendingClub added to its war chest with a $24.5

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NCR

AUGUST 5, 2016

The ability to pay for goods and services with a simple swipe of a card, smartphone or other contactless device is making transactions faster, more convenient and secure for both customers and merchants. billion on their contactless cards last year, up more than 234 per cent from 2014. Consumers spent £7.75 Engaging with consumers.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 5, 2017

From new booking engines to events/activities to person-to-person platforms like Airbnb, there is innovation all over in travel. With 244 deals so far, 2017 has already seen more travel tech funding rounds than both 2013 and 2014, and is on track to exceed the record 316 deals observed in 2016. And no one is safe. First Name.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

By creating secure and productive remote work environments for employees and helping their teams deal with the stress of working at home (with kids learning from the same house, spouses working in the next room, and myriad other pressure points). You know that dog either has Capital One or Delta Amex.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Cyber Innovation: for example, behavioural analytics; the rise of private cyber cash, new payment platforms, mobile banking, privacy and consent, economics of cyber security. Threats to national economic security from cyber crime and attack, and to the City of London from new financial capitals such as Shanghai and Dubai.

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