Gonzobanker

JANUARY 4, 2022

These fintech and banking trends should be on financial institutions’ radar in the year ahead. This list of top banking and fintech trends for 2022 won’t tell anyone anything they haven’t already heard about. For banks, crypto will be to 2022 what social media was to 2015. Trend #1: The Great Overdraft Overhaul.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Innovate Finance, which represents 300 UK fintech companies, says venture capital investment fell from $1.2bn (£970m) in 2015, to $783m last year. There were 1,436 fintech deals globally, attracting $17.4bn in investment, Innovate Finance says, with China outpacing the US for the first time. Flight to safety?

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MARCH 4, 2020

TerraPay, a Dutch FinTech, has been acquired by a number of investors, including Prime Ventures, Partech Africa and management for an undisclosed amount. TerraPay was launched in 2015. Along with IFC, those same entities have invested $9.6 million into the company to aid with expansion, according to a release.

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JULY 15, 2019

Avidia Bank is embracing real-time payments as part of its push to promote collaboration with FinTechs, the financial institution announced Friday (July 12). Offering real-time payments as well as a range of APIs will enable Avidia to expand its offering to FinTechs that want to integrate faster payment capabilities into their own solutions.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

Bangalore-based FinTech ZestMoney has raised $15 million in a Series B funding round led by Goldman Sachs and existing investors Naspers, Quona Capital, and Omidyar Network, TechCrunch reported on Thursday (Dec. ZestMoney was founded in 2015 by Chapman, Priya Sharma and Ashish Anantharaman in 2015.

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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. Global Breakdown.

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APRIL 3, 2018

Lending FinTech GreenSky has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO). In fact, since 2015, just six U.S.-listed In addition, shares in online lenders LendingClub and OnDeck Capital were recently down 86 percent and 77 percent, respectively, from their IPO prices. which valued the company at nearly $4.5

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

CB Insights has unveiled the third annual Fintech 250 — a list of 250 of the top private fintech companies using technology to transform financial services. The 2020 Fintech 250 cohort has raised approximately $49.2B 25+ winners will be presenting at our upcoming fully virtual Future of Fintech Conference (Nov.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

China is an emerging FinTech hotbed thanks to its expanding middle class, rapid digitization and electronic payments adoption. But a new report from Citi found that, while China may be the market to watch for FinTech investments, the U.S. continues to thrive at the top of the B2B FinTech mountain.

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MAY 14, 2018

Taking a page from Goldman Sachs’ book, Morgan Stanley is beginning to lend to FinTech startups in Brazil as it seeks more of a return on its investments. The company is also reportedly in talks with international investors about raising $50 million via an equity round that QMS Capital is handling.

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APRIL 19, 2016

Capital One, Wells Fargo, Fifth Third, PNC and TD, along with Safeguard Scientifics, each contributed equally to the $30 million investment round, announced on Sunday (April 17), bringing Transactis’ total funding up to $70 million. PNC Executive Vice President for Treasury Management James G. are electronic.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

KPMG had some bad news for the FinTech world this week. Along with CB Insights, KPMG researchers found in their latest quarterly analysis that FinTech investment by venture capitalists declined across the globe in Q3 of this year. Their “ Pulse of Fintech “ report found $2.4 Alternative Lending. P2Bi nvestor.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

It appears Manchester may be giving London a run for its money as the next great FinTech sector in the U.K. The city’s FinTech reputation and tech sector are on the rise. Manchester has a proven track record of supporting FinTech investments complemented by a high-caliber of talent,” he continued.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

It’s all their fault that funding for fintechs continued to fall in the third quarter. (We’d We’d also add that the exuberance in the first part of 2015 was making some investors nervous.) Exhibits No. 1 and 2: Brexit. Presidential election. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the Read More.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Finally, looking at Canadian “fintech” (financial technology) specifically, funding was up substantially in the first half of the year. Canadian fintech companies raised $251M through the end of H1’19, nearly double the $133M raised in H1’18. The 2019 Canadian fintech market map. Navigating the Canadian fintech market map.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 24, 2016

Just under 10% of the companies — 15 to be exact — were fintech-related. This is about average for a YC incubator class, with the 26% from Summer 2015 being an Read More. Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 Demo Days just wrapped up, with 159 startups taking the stage and making their play for funding.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

is no longer the world’s largest market for FinTech investment, according to the latest report from Citigroup, released this week. Analysts found that, in the first nine months of 2016, China held the top spot for FinTech investment, with funding raised for that period doubling compared to the same period in 2015. TripActions.

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JANUARY 17, 2019

Goldman Sachs Private Capital provided the credit facility that will be used to promote Capify ‘s growth across Australia and the U.K., ” In another statement, Goldman Sachs Private Capital Executive Director Pankaj Soni described Capify as “one of the leading small business finance providers in the U.K.

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JUNE 18, 2019

In a Series C round led by Sequoia India and Ribbit Capital, online payments firm Razorpay has notched $75 million in funding. Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund and Tiger Global Management, who are existing investors, also joined the round in the Bengaluru-based firm, DealStreetAsia reported.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Lunar Way , the Nordic banking app, has raised €13 million in venture funding led by SEED Capital. According to a report , Greyhound Capital, Social Capital and individual investors also participated in the round of funding. You can pay bills, transfer money, set a budget, do saving goals, manage your card, etc.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Well, what do we say about 2015? And, give or take a stumble or two, we snuck through it and did a reasonable job on 2015 objectives, in our humble opinion. So, it seems we’re good with only one outstanding item—digest the 2015 GonzoBanker Awards! 2015 Executive Call-out. Bank project management offices.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

million for the company, marking one of the biggest investment rounds for a FinTech company in Northern England. Based in Manchester, AccessPay provides a digital platform for payments, cash management and treasury operations by integrating businesses’ back-end operations with their banks. ” Beringea, based in both the U.K.

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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. A month later, a new management team was put in place to rebuild the business. Some 750 such networks , they said, were provisioned in the first two weeks of that launch.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

The round was led by American VC firms Kleiner Perkins and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Altos Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Goodwater Capital, KTB Network, Novel, PayPal and Qualcomm Ventures. Launched in 2015 by former dentist SG Lee, Toss has over 10 million registered users and carries out over US$1.5

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MAY 14, 2019

Danish FinTech company Pleo, which touts a “business spending platform” that simplifies the expense management process for employees, has raised $56 million in a series B funding round, according to a report by TechCrunch. The company was founded in 2015 by former employees of Tradeshift, Jeppe Rindom and Niccolo Perra.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The capital city is Mexico City, which alone is home to almost 9 million. The nation’s capital is also one of the world’s largest cities. Everyone is talking about FinTech,” René Lomelî, operations director for 500 Startups , told Mexico IT. Companies are teaming up to bring Internet of Things coverage to the capital city.

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CB Insights

JULY 25, 2019

Fintech is often associated with digital tools targeted at tech-savvy millennials. But there is a growing market of fintech companies serving the unique financial needs of Baby Boomers and older retirees — and for good reason. Download the free report to find out how fintech is shaping the future of wealth management and investing.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

Jim Toffey, CEO of LiquidX, said SCF adds to the company’s “growing suite of trade finance, working capital and insurance solutions. The SCF platform operates on a cloud-based web portal and is a multi-funder working capital solution. It is the largest electronic marketplace for the exchange of trade finance assets.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

educated entrepreneurs met while working abroad at Renaissance Capital and Deutsche Bank. As the financial crisis unfolded in 2008, they met to discuss what they saw as the rise of FinTech and the increasing availability of financial software and data. Observing the rise of disruptive companies in Europe and the U.S.,

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In the 2015 Growth Strategy Survey by Bank Director , the most commonly cited areas for growth were Commercial Real Estate Lending, C&I loans, SBA loans, and Construction loans. which means their capital needs fluctuate. businesses are sole proprietorships or small businesses. Small businesses in the U.S.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

6) a new round of equity financing led by new investors, including Pritzker family business interests advised by The Pritzker Organization and DNS Capital. The capital raise, which follows the close of a minority equity financing round led by Goldman Sachs in Oct. The round also included existing investors.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

There are some contradicting reports forecasting the strength of FinTech investment this year. The latest report from KPMG’s Pulse of Fintech , released quarterly, found a substantial decline in FinTech investments by venture capitalists in Q2 2016, causing some concern that the space has lost its luster.

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MAY 4, 2017

Small business lending platform Nav has topped up its latest equity capital funding. Reports said CreditEase FinTech Investment Fund, Point72 Ventures and Clocktower Technology Ventures also participated. Reports said CreditEase FinTech Investment Fund, Point72 Ventures and Clocktower Technology Ventures also participated.

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MAY 11, 2017

As part of the deal, Kreditech will provide its AI and machine learning credit underwriting and loan management technology to PayU’s 300,000 network of merchants. “In In the past 12 months, we have become the leading corporate venture capital investor in FinTech, investing more than €245 million around the world.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

B2B2C FinTech company Even Financial announced that it has raised a $25 million strategic round of investment led by Citi Ventures. Existing investors American Express Ventures, Canaan Partners, F-Prime Capital, GreatPoint Ventures, and Goldman Sachs also participated.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Banks and FinTechs have been both competitors and collaborators in the financial services space. In recent years, banks have even seen greater competition in the lending market from new FinTech players that can quickly approve loan applications and distribute funds to lenders. New tools for new FinTechs.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Small businesses are anxious, and there is evidence that large corporates’ cash management and investment strategies are also being shaped by political uncertainty. Small business employment, cash reserves and FinTech investment plans are all being shaped by this year’s presidential election. We share all the details below.

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