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 Global VC FinTech investment attracts $6.5 Global VC FinTech investment attracts $6.5 Global VC FinTech investment attracts $6.5 decrease in deal volume.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

She was promoted numerous times, and from 2015 to 2017 she was the first female technical adviser to Jeff Bezos , Amazon’s founder, chairman and CEO. Her first job at the company was as the product manager in marketing. Renz started working for the eCommerce giant in 1999 when Amazon was just five years in the making.

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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. billion into the sector, Bruce Taragin, managing partner, Blumberg Capital, said at a recent gathering at Columbia Law School in Read More. Last year, VCs poured $11.9

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TheGuardian

JULY 15, 2021

It comes after banking app raised $800m from new investors Tiger Global Management and SoftBank The banking and payments app Revolut has become the most valuable British fintech firm on record after a fresh funding round pushed its valuation to $33bn. Continue reading.

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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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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. But globally, investment rose 10.9%.

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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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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

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. In the employee expense management field as well, France’s Mooncard revealed a $5.7

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PYMNTS

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. Morgan Stanley’s move comes at a time when the Brazil FinTech market is exploding. Fortress Investment Group also took part in that deal.

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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 5, 2018

When the data of 15 million T-Mobile customers was stolen in 2015, the mobile firm’s CEO immediately went into damage control mode. “I would characterize it as a Big Data issue — it’s very intimidating to get started in third-party risk management,” Simkins said.

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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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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

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 Late last year, GreenSky raised $200 million from Pacific Investment Management Co., Earlier investors include Fifth Third, asset managers TPG and Wellington Management Co.

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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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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. Global Breakdown.

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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

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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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Recent acquisitions illustrate how data is driving fintech valuations. Fintech deals continue to dominate the financial service headlines, and a growing number of these transactions are in analytics. quietly acquired the remainder of lending analytics provider Intuvo , where it had a controlling interest since 2015.

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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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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

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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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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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

Let’s talk about money management. This week’s B2B Data Digest focuses on the flux and flow of managing cash. Examine the latest research to grasp just how cumbersome modern cash management can be. $3 is a FinTech hub. For businesses, it can be difficult to obtain a clear vision of finances and cash positions.

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CB Insights

MARCH 14, 2016

Download the free 85-page Pulse of FinTech Report: 2015 Year In Review. Spanning wealth management, savings, lending, payments, remittances and more, fintech funding and deals hit a new record high in 2015, according to the inaugural KPMG and CB Insights Pulse of … Continued.

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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

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

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In a post back in May 2015, Daily Fintech explored the SaaS disruption occurring in the corporate sector in relation to the delivery of Treasury Management services.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The business travel and expense (T&E) management space is one of the most active when it comes to new market entrants and innovations for businesses. In part, that’s because young FinTechs are developing sophisticated tools to help companies track spend on business travel. trillion in 2015). trillion in 2015).

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The FinTech companies are disrupting the industry and are a thorn in the side of the traditional players — banks and credit card companies. Many FinTech startups, like Ripple, are using blockchain to provide cheaper and faster services to consumers. But some banks are competing with the FinTechs. trillion in 2014 to $2.3

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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

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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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

Explore how B2B FinTech is on the cusp of change as we break down all of the statistics and surveys below. fleet managers consider fuel card fraud a major issue , found oil giant Shell in its first Fraud Matters report on the fleet card industry. 65% of U.K.

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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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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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