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AUGUST 19, 2019

Launched in 2014 by Harshvardhan Lunia and Mukul Sachan, Lendingkart offers loans to micro, small and medium-sized businesses, issuing more than 60,000 loans to more than 55,000 SMBs in 1,300 cities across India so far. The total funds raised by LendkingKart is now at $146 million.

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Bobsguide

APRIL 7, 2022

London (5 April 2022): TS Imagine , the leader in trading, portfolio and risk management solutions for capital markets, today announces that it has successfully integrated with crypto platform Gemini. Gemini’s simple, reliable, and secure products are built to unlock the next era of financial, creative & personal freedom.

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JULY 6, 2020

Indonesian payment processor Payfazz has secured $53 million in Series B funding, numerous media outlets reported Monday (July 6). According to that report , 49 percent of Indonesia residents ages 15 or older had bank accounts in 2017, up from 36 percent in 2014. About 93 percent of U.S.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Swedish peer-to-peer (P2P) lending startup Lendify has secured $115 million in funding from Insight Investment, according to a Bloomberg report on Wednesday (Oct. Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Nicholas Sunden-Cullberg said the funding will also help the 2014 startup take control of the consumer loan market. .

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Overstock shares jumped as much as 21 percent after the retailer announced that Hong Kong private equity firm GSR Capital is investing up to $270 million into Overstock’s blockchain subsidiary tZERO. As part of the deal, GSR Capital will also purchase $30 million in tZERO Security Tokens. “We billion (post-money).

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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. I''m sure that strategy works well.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

For the first time since East & Partners began surveying Australian small businesses about their future growth plans, researchers have found that entrepreneurs are more likely to turn to an alternative lender than a traditional bank for capital. percent, reports said.

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Jack Henry

APRIL 30, 2014

The following steps are expected of FIs: Maintain an information security program and risk assessment, Monitor Internet traffic to your website in order to detect an attack (establish a baseline so you can easily discern an increase in activity). It ends with encouragement to utilize cyber-security resources like the ones I mentioned earlier.

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MARCH 22, 2019

If data makes the world go ’round, so, too, does it garner investor interest, as evidenced by venture capital and other investors’ funds coming into the coffers of corporates that scrape the web for information. USD in series A funding from a consortium of investors, including Green Visor Capital. An Acquisition in Africa.

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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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JANUARY 28, 2020

About €125 million ($139 million USD) was secured for the company’s eCommerce platform of home improvement products and services. Temasek led the funding round, with Bpifrance, Eurazeo, General Atlantic, Piton Capital and Kismet Holdings also participating in this latest funding cycle.

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PYMNTS

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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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Our multi-rail technology is a game changer, offering an unprecedented level of security, speed and service to small business owners,” Veem CEO Marwan Forzley said in the announcement. Veem noted in the announcement that its blockchain usage has been consistently on the uptick as of the company’s 2014 founding.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

For example, when directors of Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital were looking for someone to fill the role, they were more worried about hiring someone who had experience with raising debt and equity, and they didn’t care if the person was a former accountant. But that freed us up to get a capital-markets-focused CFO.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Since 2014, Mastercard’s Start Path “has invited more than 230 later-stage startups worldwide to participate in its six-month virtual program, providing technical guidance, operational support and commercial engagements within the Mastercard ecosystem,” the company said. Startups in this growing network have gone on to raise $2.7

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and China International Capital Corp led the Hong Kong share sale. CICC and China Securities Co. Before that, Alibaba held the record for the biggest IPO at $25 billion in 2014. Citigroup, J.P. are leading the Shanghai listing. . billion shares were listed on each exchange.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Coverage includes Amazon opening up voice applications for iOS users, Overstock’s blockchain unit nabbing a huge investment, Intuit securing a bitcoin processing patent, Facebook and L’Oréal using augmented reality for makeup tests and Dish accepting Bitcoin Cash as payment. Intuit Secures Patent for Bitcoin Payment Processing.

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APRIL 7, 2020

Other investors included Sapphire Ventures, Alkeon Capital, Recruit Co., million across four funding rounds since it was founded in 2014 by Dennis Steele and Eric Rea. ” Contactless payments started gaining traction in the mid-2000s, but there were rampant fears about security. IVP, Accel, Summit Partners and GV.

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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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NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Before joining Sterling, Hoesley was at CIBC Bank USA with Josh Roberts, where the two established the Innovation Banking group in 2014. Hoesley also previously led the midwest region for Silicon Valley Bank, and was a partner at Prism Capital, a middle-market provider of venture capital and mezzanine debt.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

just secured more than $97 million through an initial public offering. Its units include Distribution Finance Capital, Satago and Oxygen Finance, while it also owns a minority stake in peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Zopa. Many borrowers are neglected by banks and still face expensive funding and capital. reports noted.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

Three big Silicon Valley venture capital firms want to invest in Telegram ’s initial coin offering (ICO), The Financial Times reported. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Benchmark and Sequoia Capital have each told the messaging startup that they want to invest $20 million, according to three individuals familiar with the deal.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 23, 2016

Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More. Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

12), Lily Robotics sent an email to its customers saying it was shutting down after failing to secure the necessary funding to manufacture and ship its product. In late 2015, Lily closed $14 million in funding from a number of investors including Spark Capital and Winklevoss Capital. Yesterday (Jan.

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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. CB Insights Note. Investment syndicates. BEST OF DISRUPTION REPORT.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

22) it closed a round of venture capital funding. The Series A round of funding, which netted the startup $29 million, was led by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) and also included New Enterprise Associates, Soros Fund Management, Haystack Partners, Quadrant Capital Advisors and Blue Delta Capital.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

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. secured $40 million in Series C funding, reports this week said. Artificial Intelligence. California-based H2O.ai

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JUNE 10, 2019

The company was founded in 2014, and grew in Alibaba’s backyard – the city of Hangzhou. Earlier this year , Luxembourg passed a bill to amend an existing securities law so that it includes blockchain. According to a report , the Chinese startup PingPong, a FinTech company, will invest €100 million ($113 million) in Luxembourg.

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MARCH 28, 2018

During Begor’s 35 years at General Electric, Equifax said he was in charge of multibillion-dollar business units as president and CEO of GE Energy Management from 2014 to 2016, president and CEO of GE Capital Real Estate from 2011 to 2014 and president and CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance (Synchrony Financial) from 2002 to 2011. “I

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MARCH 21, 2019

Direct Lending Investments ’ founder and CEO Brendan Ross has resigned while his company is the focus of an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In a separate letter, the company also shared that another borrower had defaulted on a loan that accounted for about a quarter of its capital.

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APRIL 2, 2018

Citing Securities and Exchange Commission documents, Cheddar reported it raised the $850 million in February, in what was its second round of fundraising. He was ousted from that company in 2014 and has since worked on developing Telegram, which has 100 million monthly users and 350,000 new users joining per day.

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APRIL 22, 2020

The startup, founded in 2014, merged in March with VectoIQ Acquisition Corp. , Thanks to the merger, Nikola will receive more than $500 million from investors including Fidelity and ValueAct Capital, the report said. Securities and Exchange Commission filings showed Nikola received the PPP funds from JPMorgan Chase. million.

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MAY 29, 2018

Whenever it happens, it’s safe to say that a $150 billion valuation would make Ant’s IPO one of the biggest ever, putting it ahead of Facebook ’s $104 billion IPO in 2012 and behind Alibaba’s $168 billion IPO in 2014. The deal was established in the lead-up to Alibaba’s 2014 IPO. Reasons To Invest.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

A 2014 breach at Marriott, for example, cost the chain over $100 million before fines were levied under EU rules. The global market in annual premiums is forecasted to soar to $15 billion by 2022 from its current $6 billion, according to RBC Capital Markets. The company’s insurance policies have paid out $102 million.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The groups argue that such efforts are secured under the current regulatory regime, and that allowing innovation at the expense of the financial system’s stability isn’t beneficial. The agency first proposed a special banking charter for FinTechs in 2014 that would limit pushback from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 16, 2015

While undoubtedly there were a few bankers wandering the halls of AWS re:Invent, one grabbed my attention: that was Rob Alexander, CIO of Capital One, who shared the stage with AWS CIO Andy Jassy during the Day One Keynote address. It didn’t take long to see what Capital One was up to. What’s The Hurry? .

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below). I will update with milestones from 2014 to today and publish next month. Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago. I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

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