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JUNE 22, 2020

Ant Financial Services Group has won a green light from Chinese regulators to drop the word “financial” from its name, so it’s goodbye to Ant Financial Services Group and hello to Ant Technology, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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JANUARY 18, 2018

Indian Bank of Baroda is working with a FinTech player to enhance its supply chain finance offerings. as it looks to strengthen its position in the market. technology vendors simply aren’t offering the necessary technologies or implementing these in a seamless, non-disruptive way,” the executive said at the time.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

British bank Standard Chartered and payments firm Assembly Payments have established a joint venture in Singapore to bring payment solutions to its $29 trillion global eCommerce market, the companies announced on Tuesday (Feb. Westpac-backed FinTech Assembly Payments was founded in 2013 in Melbourne, Australia. .

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AUGUST 12, 2020

Mastercard is expanding its Accelerate financial technology (FinTech) portfolio and is adding 11 companies to its Start Path startup engagement program, according to a Wednesday (Aug. The company said its efforts recognize “the important role FinTechs play in the world’s rapid digital transformation.”. 12) announcement.

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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. Our clients had no idea what content marketing or HubSpot encompassed. Content marketing has arrived!

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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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JUNE 15, 2016

One emerging player in the Australian FinTech market has just secured another round of capital. PromisePay is a FinTech startup that was founded in 2014 with the mission of delivering new digital commerce platforms to online marketplaces — a specific area of commerce that has higher risk than traditional online commerce.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

The drafting of rules comes at a time when data privacy is being discussed and artificial intelligence (AI) and online banking technologies have revamped China’s financial services terrain “from processing payments to selling investment products.”. Global financial institutions are not profitable in China, and many have yet to break even.

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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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JULY 24, 2020

Most recently, it resulted in a partnership with B2B cross-border payments solution provider Thunes , which enables UNFCU to implement the FinTech’s technology to streamline and accelerate cross-border payments by connecting FIs with mobile wallets. in markets like Kenya, mobile payments are the norm. . As the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

FinTech company Greenlight Financial Technology , which makes products to help parents raise financially literate children, said Thursday (Sept. Experts say the market for products to increase Americans’ financial literacy is a big one, given the extent of financial illiteracy in the country.

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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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DECEMBER 5, 2019

It is also contemplating the purchase of other FinTech firms, the source said. Chime’s rapid growth is happening as competition in the digital banking market widens. Numerous consumer FinTechs have started offering bank accounts in the past year. Chime’s account base is 6.5 million, up from 1 million last year.

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Alex Jimenez

AUGUST 28, 2018

What is Fintech? Fintech is a dynamic segment at the intersection of the financial services and technology sectors where technology-focused start-ups and new market entrants innovate the products and services currently provided by the traditional financial services industry." -PwC PwC Fintech Report.

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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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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. The collaboration will enable Afterpay to offer its 3.3

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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. Anil Gupta, associate director of MicroSave, said, “Over 80 percent of the addressable LMI market, or 470 million people, are not integrated into the economic mainstream.

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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 retailers online in markets across Africa, according to reports. Digital payments, FinTech and eCommerce are expanding slowly but surely in Africa.

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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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JULY 8, 2016

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 We want Paris to be the premier financial market of Europe.”. billion in total investment.

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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. reports noted.

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JULY 24, 2018

A revamped Bank of England (BoE) payments system is expected to connect with FinTech firms using distributed ledger technology (DLT). As Berlin, Paris and other EU cities are trying to attract FinTech companies away from Britain, the U.K. In addition, the U.K.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

By some accounts , more than 90 percent of existing data was created after 2014. financial services sector as consumers embrace digital technology for the banking and retail industry. Adoption of digital payment technologies is poised to grow significantly among U.K. billion per week in 2014. billion per week in 2014.

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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.

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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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AUGUST 7, 2019

Moka was founded in 2014 and was one of the first FinTechs in Indonesia. We do not comment on market speculation,” he said. 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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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. So FinTech (six) firms need capital and revenues to grab a foothold in the financial services market. Andera sold to Bottomline in 2014. That's all I'm hearing.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Alternative lending has been popular among venture capitalists, but France may not come to mind when one considers the top alt-fin markets of the world. It marks NewAlpha’s third FinTech investment from its fund launched in Nov. Unilend may help to change that. The French alternative lending startup announced a $2.8

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JUNE 16, 2018

The Russian Association of Corporate Treasurers is joining the government-led Masterchain blockchain initiative, a platform developed by the central bank to facilitate communication within Russia’s banking market. Russia is reportedly looking to use the platform to replace SWIFT’s inter-bank communications network.

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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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MAY 8, 2018

See how venture firms, corporates, regulators, and builders are shaping the future of blockchain technology. ICOs are expensive, and often incur legal, marketing, and advisory expenses. Both firms’ recent investments reflect a shift toward “crypto” as opposed to “blockchain technology.”

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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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Banking 2020

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Banking institutions must engage with emerging financial technology (FinTech) companies or risk being left behind by an industry that is currently undergoing one of the largest transformations ever seen. In the past five years, the number of FinTech companies and non-traditional payment providers looking to enter the sector has boomed.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

Digitization of B2B payments is on the rise, but the trend is challenged by discrepancies across geographic markets, according to the latest World Payments Report by Capgemini and BNP Paribas. percent between 2014 and 2014 representing the highest growth in a decade, researchers said. The 2017 report , released Monday (Oct.

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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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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). This increase in choice and quality of B2B FinTech solutions is also, undoubtedly, a good thing.

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APRIL 2, 2018

It’s not only for consumers, though: Alternative lending firm Kabbage recently found that mobile lending is on the rise among small businesses, with a more than 360 percent increase in the number of SMB loans accessed via mobile device between April 2014 and February 2018.

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