PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

Nium , a financial technology platform, has become a Visa issuer in Australia as part of its membership in Visa’s FinTech Fast Track program. The company said in a prepared statement : “Currently, business owners rely on outdated card management systems as part of their corporate bank accounts.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The fintech space is gaining momentum. Last year saw a double record of $46B invested across over 2,800 deals to fintech startups — a 92% uptick in funding year-over-year. GET THE 83-PAGE q2 2019 FINTECH TRENDS REPORT. Q2’19 fintech funding topped $8.3B, boosted by a record quarter of $100M+ mega-rounds. KEY TAKEAWAYS.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

One emerging player in the Australian FinTech market has just secured another round of capital. PromisePay , a fully managed payments platform for online marketplaces, has raised $10 million in order to fuel its continued growth. There’s a fundamental shift in payments.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The platform leverages 10x Future Technologies to give Westpac’s partners the ability to offer banking products and services. . As a disruptor of traditional credit, Afterpay was founded in 2014 to offer its customers interest-free installment plans for online purchases.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The newspaper cited Ripple’s use of blockchain technology and the ability of two small banks, one in Canada and one in Germany, to complete cross-border online transactions in record time as an example of the latest banking innovations. trillion in 2014 to $2.3 But some banks are competing with the FinTechs. trillion in 2019.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

That’s why South African FinTech company Yoco has made it its mission to improve things for African businesses, large and small. Yoco has launched two levels of payments solutions since its inception and beta phase in 2014 and subsequent launch in 2015, starting with a Square-like card reader.

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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. 24) it raised $215 million in Series C venture funding. The investment and its associated valuation put the company's total value in excess of $1.2 billion, according to a company blog post.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

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. It’s projected that Mexico will represent the world’s fifth-largest economy by 2050.

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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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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2018

JPMorgan is setting up a financial inclusion lab in India through a partnership with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad’s (IIMA) Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE). According to FinTech Futures , the $9.5

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

IBM’s management team described its blockchain developer toolkit as another way to make it easier for innovators to “stand up” blockchain networks. Additionally, LendingClub’s stock has lost 88 percent of its value since its 2014 IPO. A month later, a new management team was put in place to rebuild the business.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Moka was founded in 2014 and was one of the first FinTechs in Indonesia. 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. It’s raised about $40 million from investors like Sequoia Capital.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

It was a good day for Jumia Technologies on Friday (April 12) — and that’s a good signal about the future prospects of eCommerce in Africa, home to some 1.3 The platform is in markets such as Kenya, South Africa and Malawi, while local FinTech options like M-Pesa and Paga will be included in the service’s payment methods.

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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. Aside from interest rate risk, vendor management is high on the list. So FinTech (six) firms need capital and revenues to grab a foothold in the financial services market.

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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

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. The companies were grouped together between 2014 and 2017 after investments and acquisitions by Arrowgrass Master Fund Ltd., reports noted.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2020

Co-founder Gwalani, chief product and technology officer, said the startup has about 24 employees, some coming from Netflix, Flipkart and PayPal. India started building a national digital financial infrastructure when the number of Indians with bank accounts reached 53 percent in 2014, up from 35 percent in 2000.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2018

Amadon said that’s because traditional banks rely on old technology to enable cross-border payments, which requires involving a number of banks across multiple countries in the transaction flow, making it difficult to administer changes. Veem has been tackling this problem since launching in 2014,” wrote Amadon in the blog post.

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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

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

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Without a doubt, small businesses (SMBs) have more choice than ever before when adopting new technologies, and many of those new tools, from accounting to customer relationship management (CRM), are streaming in as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The company dubbed this trend “SaaS Chaos,” but FinTech innovation slows down for no one.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

FinTechs are developing ways to automate accounting tasks, forcing human accountants to provide more strategic, value-added services. At the same time, an influx in the variety of financial management solutions for large and small businesses has some companies looking beyond the corporate accountant. Embracing The Cloud.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

million investment round secured from NewAlpha Asset Management, reports said on Friday (Sept. It marks NewAlpha’s third FinTech investment from its fund launched in Nov. Last year, analysts found the EU’s alternative lending market to have doubled its valuation compared to 2014 levels. million) raised.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

See how venture firms, corporates, regulators, and builders are shaping the future of blockchain technology. How 2017’s winners are turning into money managers, venture investors, and acquirers. Both firms’ recent investments reflect a shift toward “crypto” as opposed to “blockchain technology.”

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William Mills

JANUARY 14, 2016

Content marketing has rapidly emerged as a key marketing strategy within the fintech industry in a relatively short time. I vividly remember my content marketing conversations with clients in early 2014. We would like to share some of the latest content marketing trends and our fintech- related experience over the past year.

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FICO

MARCH 28, 2023

I founded a FICO Women Leaders initiative that uses networking and the power of community to help women succeed as leaders in a highly complex technology firm. FICO has customers worldwide, and I am intent on increasing opportunities for women in technology and financial services.

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Celent Banking

MAY 19, 2017

Celent's Insurance practice has been at the forefront of IoT research since 2014 and has published many insightful reports. For Banking more broadly, IOT can also help achieve better customer engagement and improve cross-selling as well risk and collateral management. At first glance, IoT’s impact on banking is less obvious.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Banks and credit unions had to fundamentally change their delivery, support and relationship management models at scopes and speeds that were unheard of. During a busy year we saw Jill supporting her local community, blogging with Mark Cuban, spinning up new PPP technology and innovating with things like curbside banking. Everything.

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Celent Banking

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In the US, small business customers get bounced around like Goldilocks—they are too small to be of interest to commercial relationship managers and too complex to be easily understood by retail branch staff. The lack of “just right” solutions for many small business financial problems has been a golden opportunity for FinTech firms.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

It feels like 2014 again with the ongoing popularity of alternative lending startups. Investors seem confident in the industry’s startups and their ability to provide adequate risk management and underwriting for their loans; VCs provided more than $11.5 Accounts Receivable Management. million for alt-lenders this week.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

I’m having fun at Finovate Fall 2014. If you want to see the future of #fintech, pay attention to Dr. Who. The illuminated amongst us have long known that Dr. Who sends us secret coded messages that tell us about the future and so it is the most important television programme in the world for fintech folks. Nothing at all.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

From chatbots that answer questions about personal accounts and bill payments to dashboards that display individualized account information and advice on how to better manage money, personalized offerings have become the norm in the financial services space. Mahna has seen the transformation firsthand during his seven years at the company.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

It is not the technology itself that is important, however, but the strategy behind it. Customers want to digitally manage multiple accounts without having to wade through time-consuming login screens or authentication processes each time. This is similar to the card aggregation solutions that fellow FinTech Curve offers.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2020

At FintechLIVE , we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). But we achieved a new milestone surpassing the $1 TRILLION-mark in total valuation among the 120 public and private financial technology companies. Full Fintech Unicorn list (values as of 2 Dec 2020). Ant Technology.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). It is the 7th fintech unicorn based in India, and the 4th most valuable. The first, Divvy, is a corporate credit card and expense management firm in the same category with Brex, Expensify, and others. Ant Technology.

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