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. To learn more about opportunities in small business lending, download the whitepaper Tapping Growth Opportunities in the Business Loan Portfolio.

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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? Interesting, particularly when you look at what’s been happening with Lending Club and others. Asia is big on FinTech.

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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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PYMNTS

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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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. USAA announced today that Citi Fintech CEO Heather Cox was joining the bank as chief technology and digital officer, a new Read More. Now Citigroup‘s innovation unit has lost its CEO.

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CFPB Monitor

JUNE 8, 2016

On June 9, 2016, the FTC will host a “ FinTech forum on marketplace lending ,” the first in a forum series described by the FTC as “exploring emerging financial technology and its implications for consumers.”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2018

Alternative lending platform BlueVine has announced its latest investment to the tune of $60 million. We’re building a cutting edge, technology-enabled platform that is helping thousands of [SMBs] get quick access to funds to address their everyday funding needs.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

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. such as Zopa and Lending Club, they saw an opportunity in emerging markets that had been ignored by the big banks, such as Russia, Georgia and Kazakhstan. “The

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Alternative lending was the golden child among investors around 2015, but lately, the industry seems to have fallen out of favor thanks to regulatory uncertainty and questions over the viability of some business models. Alternative Lending. This week alone saw two examples of those concerns in action: One U.S. lawmaker, Rep.

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Insights on Business

DECEMBER 27, 2017

As we wrap up an unpredictable and sometimes tumultuous year in both the fintech industry and the world, we’re looking back at the last 12 months of IBM FinTech blogs to pick out some of the more popular and insightful posts of 2017. Highlighted in the blog are the prominent benefits of blockchain technology, trust and security.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Citizens Bank is enhancing its small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending offering by digitizing the loan application process, according to a press release published by the financial institution (FI) on Thursday (Nov. In another statement issued Thursday, Graziano again emphasized the effectiveness of bank-FinTech collaborations. “We

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Plaid Technologies, a startup that helps FinTechs like Venmo and Lending Club access their customers’ bank accounts, has raised $44 million in a Series B round of venture capital funding. According to a report , the venture units of Citi and Amex took part in the latest round of fundraising.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Not one of the four alternative lending startups that secured investments this week were from the U.S. B2B FinTech space is silent. Alternative Lending. Late last week, South Africa’s LulaLend brought some rare attention to the nation’s alternative lending space. Well, in the U.S., that may be true.

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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. Company subcategories.

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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Marketplace lending. Marketplace Lending.

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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 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. Lighthouse.io.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

In today’s highly digitized and connected world, several lean and nimble organizations are making profound business impact challenging the traditional banking models in domains such as Payments, Lending and Wealth Management. What can banks learn from the FinTechs?

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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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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. Banks will need to adapt to new behavioral patterns and trends in technology. They need to start looking at Fintech startups as an opportunity, not a threat.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

FinTech Revolut is working with Decision Tech , a price-comparison technology company, to launch a new service to help users compare — and switch — providers of gas, electricity, broadband, mobile and TV. Davies is leaving to take over Allica Bank, which specializes in lending to businesses. according to an emailed release.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

The alternative lending market is showing signs of defeat against traditional bank loans, and SMEs are strengthening their demands for more than the typical solutions currently offered by traditional FIs. Explore how B2B FinTech is on the cusp of change as we break down all of the statistics and surveys below. 65% of U.K.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Its omnipresence is altering how members want to interact with their CUs, though regulatory and compliance issues often mean that members cannot reasonably expect the same lightning-fast interactions they might get from banks and FinTech firms. The CUs were able to eliminate more than $2.5

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

In today’s highly digitized and connected world, several lean and nimble organizations are making profound business impact challenging the traditional banking models in domains such as Payments, Lending and Wealth Management. What can banks learn from the FinTechs? The post What Can Banks Learn From The FinTechs?

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 22, 2015

Peer to Peer (P2P) lending is one of those situations and banks have started to experiment with it, taking P2P lending to main street. Banks are certainly not playing hide and seek with P2P lending. Regulation is an important issue for banks to get into P2P lending and depending the country, there may be restrictions.

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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. ” – Tom Armstrong. Bravo OZRK!

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Following our previous mapping of the most well funded startups in each state and most well funded food & beverage startups in each state , we used CB Insights database to identify the most well-funded private fintech startup in each state. FINTECH TRENDS Q3 2017 RESEARCH BRIEFING. D3 Technology. Total Equity Funding ($M).

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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. Lending Club.

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PYMNTS

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. and abroad.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

In today’s highly digitized and connected world, several lean and nimble organizations are making profound business impact challenging the traditional banking models in domains such as Payments, Lending and Wealth Management. What can banks learn from the FinTechs? The post What Can Banks Learn From The FinTechs?

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2021, there were more than 120 fintech IPOs in the U.S., 2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Acquisition of the Year: Bank Acquiring a Fintech. Acquisition of the Year: Fintech Acquiring a Bank. Oh, what a mere 12 months can do.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The collaboration — Beehive’s first partnership with a traditional financial institution (FI) — also marks Thanachart’s first FinTech tie-up that addresses business finance. Beehive first launched in 2015 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to link SMBs to its marketplace lending solution.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

What should be their strategy for Digital Banking transformation and what they can learn from FinTech innovation? In today’s highly digitized and connected world, several lean and nimble organizations are making profound business impact challenging the traditional banking models in domains such as Payments, Lending and Wealth Management.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

PYMNTS also explores the venture capital and lending spaces as professional investors make some changes and as businesses look to invest in themselves. billion was invested in FinTech startups in Q3 2016 , calculated KPMG and CB Insights in their most recent Pulse Of Fintech report. and Europe dominated in 2015.

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PYMNTS

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. The French alternative lending startup announced a $2.8 It marks NewAlpha’s third FinTech investment from its fund launched in Nov. Unilend may help to change that.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

“After $100M+ checks flowed freely to VC-backed companies through much of 2015, the mega-round trend has settled into a lower range through 2016,” concluded KPMG and CB Insights in their Q3 2016 venture capital report. B2B FinTech’s Time. Venture capital has hit a plateau, according to some analysts.

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