William Mills

JANUARY 14, 2016

I vividly remember my content marketing conversations with clients in early 2014. Our agency had spent the better part of two years developing our content marketing service offering and formally launched it in March of 2014, after testing out our processes with a client in the previous year.

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NCR

APRIL 26, 2016

The financial technology media is continually full of facts and figures on how many consumer transactions these days are completed in a cashless manner – with a swipe of a card, by using contactless or online. Over $14 trillion was withdrawn from ATMs in 2014 – up four per cent from the previous year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

As technology continues to provide more creative means for financial transactions, so, too, must financial technology companies be careful to abide by the rules that ensure stability and fairness in these emerging markets.” LendingClub has agreed to pay a $2 million civil penalty to settle the matter. “As

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 4, 2017

The company’s Japanese arm landed a major partnership today with China-based Tencent Financial Technology, the parent company of WeChat Pay services. The new brand is the consolidation of Cashtie and Vanilla Reload products and helps consumers use GPR cards to make everyday payments and pay bills online.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 13, 2016

Ask alternative online broker Motif Investing. And among some of the easy-to-call favorites like Uber and SpaceX to Snapchat, there are a few familiar faces – especially to fans of Finovate and financial technology. Both projects are geared toward improving transparency between online lenders and borrowers.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Thanks to all 36 companies that demonstrated their latest technologies live on stage in Hong Kong this week, and a hearty congratulations to the four companies selected by our attendees as “Best of Show.” ” The winners of Best of Show at FinovateAsia 2016 are as diverse as the financial technologies they represent.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 8, 2016

The California-based company plans to use the funding to support a number of initiatives, including a product launch with newly-signed partner , Edmunds.com, an online resource for car buyers and sellers. CplXpress integrates with a number of financial technologies, including those offered by FIS , Digital Insight, D+H, MeridianLink and more.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 18, 2016

Hideki Kiwaki, Corporate Executive Officer, EVP, Vice Head of Global Services Integration Business, called the partnership an “important strategic initiative” for Fujitsu that “will enable rapid and flexible delivery of financial technology solutions that will eliminate the departmental silos slowing lenders down.”

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Meanwhile, a number of other financial technology firms received major funding and rolled out new alliances and products. But, overwhelmingly, consumers who pay for goods and services online, including over mobile channels, do so with a credit card.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The same group completed fewer than 25 investments in aggregate between 2012 and 2014. In addition, Allianz-backed Simplesurance , which offers point-of-sale insurance policies via online retailers’ websites, partnered with Munich Re Digital Partners in October 2016 to jointly develop new insurance products. Allianz Ventures.

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CB Insights

JULY 16, 2017

The same group completed 20 investments in aggregate between 2012 and 2014. Allianz-backed Simplesurance , which offers point-of-sale insurance policies via online retailers’ websites, partnered with Munich Re Digital Partners in October 2016 to jointly develop new insurance products. Number of investments: 3.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

“Insurtech” isn’t about providing financial assistance to distracted gamers who injure themselves playing Pokemon Go (though there is that ). ” The new report just released from FT Partners helps financial services execs better understand the rise of insurance technology. .” employ more than 2.5

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 22, 2015

We published our first fintech unicorn list in April 2014 with a mere 11 companies. Time will tell whether these valuation bets are temporary insanity from private investors or the beginning of a long cycle of re-imagining financial services. Zhong An Online*. Dec 2014 round. Powa Technologies. Nov 2014 round.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

SaleMove for its Engagement Platform that enables FIs and other companies to communicate with online visitors via chat and dual-cursor guided cobrowsing, as well as video and voice. Go here for a list of previous Best of Show winners through 2014. We’ll see you next year! Notes on methodology: 1. Finovate employees did not vote.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 18, 2015

Founded in 2009, WePay offers online marketplaces, crowdfunding platforms, and small businesses two main products: 1) A white-labeled payments processing platform, Clear. Finovate: WePay’s payment APIs are built for online marketplaces, ecommerce sites, and crowdfunding platforms. Are you building new financial technology?

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Tomorrow's Transactions

MARCH 26, 2015

This will enable FinTech firms to make use of bank data on behalf of customers in a variety of helpful and creative ways, and ensure the UK remains at the forefront of developments in financial technology and innovation. These were also around 40% of the APIs studied. These may, however, be constrained.

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2018

Online retailer Overstock.com, which traditionally sells home goods, clothing, and beauty products, announced December 14 that it would look to sell or reorganize its retail business in order to focus on blockchain. In the past couple weeks, the volatile stock has spiked once more, closing at more than $70 on 3/23. Overstock.com.

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CB Insights

JULY 1, 2018

The startups selected for inclusion in the table below all have at least $1M in funding, and have obtained equity funding since 2014. AR/VR : Augmented/Virtual reality companies include AdHawk Microsystems , which creates eye-tracking technology to solve problems faced by AR/VR manufacturers.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Customer journey: Using chat to get people from online to brick-and-mortar. Given the number of angel and seed rounds that took place between 2014 and 2017, this lack of later-stage fundraising rounds suggests that few of those early chatbot investments were successes. Retail & e-commerce: Convenient shopping & scheduling.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

in 3 Rounds from 4 Investors, Most Recent Funding, M Series C on December 8, 2014. Their technology is basically a card with a built in computer that lets the holder to change a credit card to a different type of credit card, or perhaps even a debit card. Reston, VA-based software company that builds trust online. Biometrics?

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

Notable projects: Pymetrics, a 2014 graduate, is a SaaS tool that taps into neuroscience and AI to evaluate job applicants across a variety of social, emotional, and cognitive traits. Founded: 2014. Founded: 2014. Founded: 2014. Since the lab’s founding, additional labs have been opened in London and Hong Kong.

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