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Cabot Square Capital Sells 321 Crédito

PYMNTS

Cabot Square Capital, a U.K. With a specialty in car loans, 321 Crédit has been a Cabot Square Capital company since 2014. With a specialty in car loans, 321 Crédit has been a Cabot Square Capital company since 2014. The move on the part of Cabot Square Capital comes at a time when big banks have been pulling back from the $1.2

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Are de novos making a comback?

Abrigo

The FDIC paper The Entry, Performance, and Risk Profile of De Novo Banks published in April 2016 reports that the number of de novo bank failures and acquisitions annually has drastically declined since 2010, primarily due to the fact that new bank formations have become nearly inexistent. A low interest rate environment 2.

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Facebook, Celebrities Join $50 Million Series B For FinTech Startup Step

PYMNTS

Stripe invested in this round as well, as did returning investors Crosslink Capital, Collaborative Fund and Will Smith’s Dreamers VC. Step customers get a bank account that is insured by the FDIC, as well as a secured spending card backed by Visa and the P2P payments platform. million in a June Series A funding round led by Stripe.

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First New Community Bank In Decades Headed To US Market

PYMNTS

is set to see its first new community bank in decades, as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) lent its approval for MOXY Bank to launch in Washington, D.C. The FDIC’s announcement said a private placement offering will raise at least $25 million for the bank ahead of its launch. Bloomberg listed Casey G.

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Robinhood Nets $280 Million On A $8.3B Valuation

PYMNTS

Robinhood Markets, coming off a new $280 million funding round backed by Sequoia Capital, has seen its value and services expand during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Reuters report. Last year, the company announced it had over 10 million users , up from 1 million in 2016.

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Here Are The Most Active Fintech Investors Since 2019

CB Insights

across 404 deals, marking the worst Q1 since 2016 for fintech deals and the worst Q1 for funding since 2017. Mercury , which provides startups with FDIC-insured bank accounts. Rounding out the top 5 are Accel , Ribbit Capital , Insight Partners , and GFC. . The quarter saw fintech activity fall to $6.1B

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A digital-first bank for south Florida

Independent Banker

from 2016 until its sale in 2018. The next month, Locality Bank received final approval for a state charter and FDIC-secured deposit insurance. In December, the founders completed a capital raise, netting a total of $38 million after increasing the maximum amount from $23 million in subscriptions for stock.

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