Chris Skinner

JULY 26, 2017

Innovate Finance has just published their report on the first half of 2017, and the investments made in FinTech. Global VC FinTech investment attracts $6.5 Billion in H1 2017 –with UK investment up 37% reveals Innovate Finance H1 2017 saw 787 deals globally, attracting $6.5 Global VC FinTech investment attracts $6.5

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BankBazaar

JULY 31, 2023

Blast from the Past: The Birth of BankBazaar Back in 2008, the fintech revolution in India was truly revolutionised with the founding of BankBazaar by Adhil Shetty, Arjun Shetty, and Rati Shetty in the vibrant city of Chennai. So, we had a show of hands, and voilà! We settled on the much easier-to-spell and catchier name, BankBazaar.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 12, 2016

Citi Fintech launched in the fall of 2015 to build the bank of the future, but it has yet to release a product. Now Citigroup‘s innovation unit has lost its CEO. USAA announced today that Citi Fintech CEO Heather Cox was joining the bank as chief technology and digital officer, a new Read More.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Venture capital-backed fintech companies in the U.S. Fintechs raised $5.5 billion (and 459 deals) in 2015 – a 29% drop, according to the Global Fintech Read More. Venture capitalists were not buying it last year. saw a drop in both deals and funding volume last year. billion across 422 deals, compared to $7.7

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 1, 2017

I was reflecting on a friend of mine who runs a FinTech start-up. But it gives you an insight into how hard starting a new firm is, FinTech or Tech or any really. How many of those are there in FinTech? America is still big on FinTech. Asia is big on FinTech. billion in 2015 to $783 million last year.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2018

Between 2015 and 2017, the amount of lending to small businesses by the five leading online lending providers increased 50 percent, according to a new report from NDP Analytics, a Washington, D.C.-based billion in 2015. based economic research firm. Collectively, the amount of those loans reached $3.9 billion in 2017 from $2.6

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

The fintech last raised funds in a Series B round in 2015. BB&T’s $5 million dollar investment represents the first time that the bank has invested in a fintech company. Data analytics company Enigma celebrated a $95 million dollar Series C raise earlier this week. The […].

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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. “Our members tell us Brexit has had a chilling effect on investment,” Innovate Finance chief executive Lawrence Wintermeyer told the BBC. . Flight to safety?

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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Another facet of technology change is the need for banks to partner with FinTech innovators. Sibos’ ambivalence about innovation manifested itself physically with Innotribe. Innovation clearly needs to be given even more attention despite the threats it presents to the existing structure. On to Geneva next year!

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

South Korean FinTech startup Viva Republica , creator of the financial services platform Toss, was granted preliminary approval for a digital banking license from the Financial Services Commission of Korea , a Monday (Dec. Since its launch in 2015, Toss has become the only FinTech unicorn in Korea. 16) press release indicated.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

Credit unions (CUs) face stiff competition from banks, FinTech firms and other players in the financial industry, but they have several intrinsic advantages. The total number of CUs in operation declined from 6,743 in 2015 to 5,390 as of 2019, but the total number of CU members increased over the course of the decade from 89.3

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2017

Canadian financial technology companies backed by venture capitalists reached a level not seen in nearly two decades, despite a slowdown of investment dollars flowing into FinTechs in the U.S. According to a report by Reuters , while FinTechs may not be red hot in the U.S., Reuters reported investments in FinTech in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

s exit from the bloc next year, the EU’s executive is set to propose a draft law aimed at boosting the FinTech market throughout the region. According to news from Reuters , a document by the European Commission revealed that the law would enable the FinTech sector to grow through crowdfunding and common blockchain technology standards. “An

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PYMNTS

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.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

It doesn’t look like global banking regulators will be rushing to change their rules for FinTechs anytime soon. According to Reuters , traditional banks will feel the impact if FinTechs start offering services such as payments, crowdfunding, mobile banks and online trading. In fact, Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority and the U.S.

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PYMNTS

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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Bank Innovation

JULY 21, 2016

When Lending Club did its IPO in December 2014 I declared it as the Netscape moment for Fintech (when it became conventional wisdom that this was going to change the world). I could be accused of contributing to the Fintech hype, which became intense in 2015 with investors flooding into Read More.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

FinTechs and non-bank financial service providers are set to take over traditional banks as the preferred choice for small business (SMB) customers in Australia, a new report by Scottish Pacific found. FinTech offers include creating seamless online loan applications and software that analyzes financial data to deliver the best possible deal.

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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

The FinTech startup has already created several financial services products, including cryptocurrency and stock trading, savings wallets, junior accounts and rewards. Storonsky said Revolut wants to develop “many more innovative products” that will advance “innovation and competition” across the financial services sector.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 18, 2016

We have been trashing the Fintech hype all through 2015, so we are clearly Read More. During a few days in London last week, there was a disconnect between public bullishness and private bearishness. The hype talk on stage contrasted with behind the scenes talk about bubbles and down rounds and layoffs.

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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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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

Banks and FinTech companies have a complicated history. While traditional banks offer a more established and tested set of products, the offerings of newer FinTech companies — such as real-time data, streamlined payments and quick notifications — are helping these new players encroach on banks’ territories. Why the tension?

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Fintech is on pace to best venture capital 2015 fundraising by 36% this year as startups focus on transparency and ease-of-use to disrupt the incumbents. Last year, VCs poured $11.9 billion into the sector, Bruce Taragin, managing partner, Blumberg Capital, said at a recent gathering at Columbia Law School in Read More.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Image source # 6 on our Fintech Predictions for 2016: The strange inversion we saw in 2015, when private companies were valued higher (on paper at least) than public companies, will end in 2016. The headlines will refer to Unicorpses. This is happening now. It is happening in private unless Read More.

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PYMNTS

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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Insights on Business

JUNE 23, 2017

In the banking world, that means the “FinTechs,” companies that exist at the intersection between technology providers and financial service providers. FinTechs appeared on the scene about a decade ago and started cherry picking a number of financial services that had historically been provided by banks.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2016

With FinTech startups exploding on the scene, U.K. and Korea want to make it easier for both companies to invest in the financial technology sector, creating a so-called “FinTech bridge.” based FinTech companies and investors access to the Korean market and Asian investors and Korean FinTech companies access to the U.K.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Image source The Daily Fintech founders are at SIBOS in Geneva; reporting every day, snippets of insights on the Fintech Genome. We held our breath for nearly 9 months after the $13m Sequoia Capital Seed round for Lemonade was announced at the end of 2015. Stay tuned on all SIBOS Insights conversations. Release Read More.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2017

With the financial services space shifting from a competitive nature to a collaborative spirit between traditional banks and emerging FinTechs, one major stakeholder in the payments industry has quietly been an integral part of this co-op: the Federal Reserve. Louis, as its new payments strategy director.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 14, 2017

According to the investment bank Berkery Noyes, there were 870 financial technology and information industry M&A transactions from the beginning of 2015 through to the end of 2016. The value of those deals, however, has shrunk significantly. The […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

JPMorgan just launched its own version of a FinTech accelerator, but with a twist. That’s all part of JPMorgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank’s new strategy for a program called In-Residence , a FinTech startup-like lab designed to help young companies overcome industry challenges. trillion of securities.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

-based Apruve landed funding for their solutions, signaling continued interest by venture capitalists (VCs) in not only alternative finance, but in FinTech firms looking to address B2B companies’ pain points of delayed and unpaid invoices. The company recently announced $3.2

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Celent Banking

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Fintech is booming. In 2013, according to a report by Accenture and CB Insights , total investment into Fintech was just less than $4 billion. They need to start looking at Fintech startups as an opportunity, not a threat. Look for the report series Innovation Quarterly: The Latest in Fintech Innovation to kick off in Q4 2015.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

is already a hotbed of FinTech startups, but the government is getting behind it in a bigger way, committing to invest £500,000 a year into financial technology companies. government is also gearing up to launch a network of regional FinTech envoys as an effort to enhance the country’s status as a leader in FinTech.

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