CB Insights

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Fintech Smart Money VCs are showing a strong interest in the digital ID space — a narrow area at the intersection of cybersecurity, regulatory technology (regtech), and fintech. Of the 25 CB Insights Fintech Smart Money VCs , 15 have placed bets in the digital ID tech space since 2015.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

As part of its international growth plans, British business FinTech company Tide unveiled intentions for an experimental rollout in India in the first quarter of this year with a broader launch to come, Business Standard reported. Tide provides corporate accounts and adjacent banking offerings.

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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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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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MARCH 31, 2020

FinTech venture capital fund Broadhaven Ventures; U.S. The FinTech has raised $73 million to date to expand its digital banking offerings. Greenspring Associates is a global venture capital investment platform managing assets in excess of $10 billion. Other investors include U.K. growth equity investment firm Greyhound Capital; U.S.

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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

MAY 5, 2020

London-based FinTech Revolut is planning to tap the $500 million it got from investors to acquire competing technology firms suffering from the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic. Founded in 2015, Revolut began with a prepaid debit card that enables people to sidestep foreign exchange fees while traveling abroad.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 14, 2017

Over the past two years, the transaction volume in the financial technology and information technology sectors remained relatively flat. 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.

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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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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

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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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Here are mine: Banks are fully aware of the threat of posed by technology and are beginning to act on it. Two technology vendors I spoke to said that every single bank they met with asked about blockchain, an extraordinary change from six months ago when it was only beginning to be seriously discussed. On to Geneva next year!

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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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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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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

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. Manchester is known for its world class universities, leaders in technology and science. The city’s FinTech reputation and tech sector are on the rise. It’s also the region’s thriving tech environment. billion each year.

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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

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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Chris Skinner

MARCH 22, 2017

I blogged a year ago about TechFin, the incumbents’ view of applying technology to existing banking services, versus FinTech which seeks to transform the financial system. TechFin is to rebuild the system with technology. What we want to do is to solve the problem of a lack of inclusiveness.”

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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

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 7, 2017

Today, APIs have become a popular way for banks to share this financial data with other services and have given rise to more possibilities for FinTechs in how they meet their customers’ needs — and more debate about the security of such facilitated information-sharing.

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BankNXT

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Devie Mohan returned to Sibos this year to ask technology and banking leaders what they thought about the progress of fintech since 2015. The future of fintech, from technology to use cases on BankNXT.

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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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Let's Talk Payments

JUNE 4, 2019

Business impacts, new frameworks, and managerial implications The rise of the ever-growing relationship between technology and financial services is bringing significant changes to the banking industry, which is becoming a battleground where competition is developing to be increasingly multifaceted.

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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 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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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

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

With a strong penetration of smartphones and mobile commerce, Spain is quickly gaining visibility in the FinTech world, and its capital city is leading the charge. Considered a “dark horse” in FinTech, Madrid is making strides to improve conditions for startups to flourish and boosting record venture rounds for its homegrown companies.

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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.” The FinTech bridge is another piece of deepening a relationship between the two. More FinTech employees reside in the U.K.

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ABA Community Banking

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Predictably, mobile, big data, and security stand out Technology Payments Blogs Making Sense of it All CSuite. 1Making Sense of it All'

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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 listed technology companies have raised that much or more. Sources also said that GreenSky could attempt to raise $1 billion, which would be a rare feat.

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Celent Banking

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

With that in mind, I’ll describe my very-high level takeaways of Finovate Fall 2015, held earlier this week at the New York Hilton. The biggest surprise: only two companies addressed Blockchain technology – perhaps that will change at FinovateSpring. Being a consultant, I had to create a 2×2, below.

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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

In today’s top digital-first banking news, German neobank N26 has hired a new chief financial officer (CFO) as it eyes a future initial public offering (IPO), while FinTech app Goalsetter has raised $3.9 German FinTech N26 Eyes IPO With Hiring Of New CFO. Goalsetter, the financial technology upstart, has landed $3.9

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