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MARCH 13, 2019

At the time Naspers said proceeds would go toward growth opportunities in global classified, online food delivery and FinTech. The FinTech market is attractive to investors because the financial industry has long been in need of disruptions. The startups raised the capital in 924 rounds. That reduced its stake to 31.2

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

After a difficult deliberation, 10 early-stage fintech companies were selected by a team of judges to compete in this year’s DEMOvation Challenge, to take place in Seattle on March 1. Many applied, few were chosen.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, Vilash Poovala , founder and CEO of FinTech Oyster , said online financial platforms, powered by open banking, can serve as alternatives for business banking in a country where business banking seems an afterthought. The world needs a FinTech operating system.”.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 24, 2016

Y Combinator President Sam Altman knows fintech — he helped Green Dot build GoBank, after all. So when only two fintech startups made it to the stage yesterday at Day 1 of its Summer Demo Day(s) 2016, we took notice. But today 10 of the 48 demoing companies are fintech-focused, Read More.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Investors appear to be racing to disperse funds before 2016 comes to an end — and fintechs are benefiting. In the past week, alt-payment companies have led the pack with eight-figure fund raises from high profile investors. Also filling their piggy banks were security and wealth management startups.

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

For startups, 2016 wasn’t the best year in venture capital. VCs used 2016 to manage costs, set priorities and valuations,” explained Rahul Khanna, managing partner at Trifecta Capital, in an interview with Business Standard published Wednesday (Dec. and the U.S. round out the rest of the investment activity.

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

an online lender, is reportedly in late-stage talks to land a new round of financing that would propel it to unicorn startup status. billion – which would be around double its valuation in April of 2016, when it had its latest round of fundraising. Affirm Inc., With the added investment, the lending company would be valued at $1.5

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JUNE 15, 2018

In addition, corporate clients will be able to apply for working capital loans and make vendor and salary payments. In Africa, the biggest private bank in Kenya, CBA, has cemented a partnership with a FinTech there, Ennovative Capital, a Kenyan firm that licenses software to boost payments speeds. The tech is licensed by a U.S.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 9, 2016

Asian fintech deal sizes dwarfed U.S. Global fintech funding skyrocketed in 2014 and 2015, but tapered off in the fourth quarter of 2015, with the implication that 2016 won’t be so sweet, according to the report. deal sizes in 2015, a new report from KPMG and CB Insights shows. But yesterday’s Ant Read More.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 24, 2016

Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 Demo Days just wrapped up, with 159 startups taking the stage and making their play for funding. 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.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The year 2016 may go down as the year of debt for startups, a new report suggests. billion for fintech startups. But founders — especially for fintechs — still needed access to capital. Venture capitalist plunged to its lowest levels in two years in the last quarter to $2.4 Bloomberg Read More.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Every year, Bank Innovation chooses the bank and fintech videos that made us laugh, the ones that made us cry, the ones that made us want to go out and buy baby animals, and of course, the ones that made us go out and better manage our finances (well, we tried.) Read More.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

Plus, London’s FinTech space has been going strong in 2020 despite the pandemic. The Indian payments upstart was founded in 2016 to serve the financial needs of the millennial and Gen Z generations. Stripe is buying Paystack, a firm that says it processes over half the online payments in Nigeria.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We are proud fintech nerds, and for five years we have marked the Coolest Brands in Banking on Bank Innovation based not on the type of sunglasses worn by a CEO, but on the Read More. When we think of cool, James Dean doesn’t immediately come to mind. The app Songsterr does.

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JULY 19, 2016

Lending Club, which has been struggling to recover from loan errors and the departure of its Chief Executive (among other issues), has named Patrick Dunne, a veteran of BlackRock, as its new chief capital officer. billion it had in the first quarter of 2016. Dunne most recently was in charge of BlackRock’s San Francisco office.

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AUGUST 18, 2017

John Crompton, HSBC ’s former global head of corporate finance, has been named chairman of the advisory board at FinTech Issufy , which sells an electronic data management tool so banks can collect investor feedback online, as well as handle tasks such as the allocation of shares.

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William Mills

JANUARY 5, 2016

In a recent analysis of all technology investments announced on a single day on CrunchBase, there was more than $250 million in venture capital spending. Smart venture capital and private equity firms have long recognized that all parts of the traditional financial industry is burdened with legacy business practices and systems.

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MAY 30, 2016

And to make sure that everyone starts off 2016, Part II on the same footing, we thought we would bring you a few of the top trending stories, as well as hot data/research topics, that will give you a head start on that all-important planning for 2016 and beyond. Online Checkout Conversion. Get all of the details here.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 28, 2016

Bank Innovation INV, this blog’s fintech accelerator, is pleased to today to announce the six extraordinary startups that have been admitted to its inaugural class.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 8, 2018

Investors in the new round for the fintech, which was one of the first to gain a full banking license after its launch in 2016, include payments processor Visa.Read More. Berlin-based solarisBank has raised about $70 million (€56.6

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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JUNE 17, 2019

The dispute over the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ‘s (OCC’s) national bank charter, which became available to FinTech firms last year, has reportedly caused technology conglomerates to shy away from a tool that aims to provide nonbank firms with a more streamlined way to operate on a national level.

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MAY 11, 2017

Kreditech, the online lender in Germany, has reportedly landed a €110 million investment from online payment processor PayU. In the past 12 months, we have become the leading corporate venture capital investor in FinTech, investing more than €245 million around the world.

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MARCH 7, 2018

-based B2B FinTech, has raised $40 million in venture capital, according to TechCrunch reports on Tuesday (March 6). FirstMark Capital led the investment, reports said, while existing backers Redpoint Ventures, Index Ventures, Bain Capital and Thrive Capital also participated.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

FinTech payments firm WEX is closing a deal to acquire business-to-business (B2B) travel payments startup eNett and B2B optimization company Optal , WEX announced on Friday (Jan. Since 2016, eNett and Optal have combined growth of 36 percent. headquartered Optal’s acquisition by WEX is from private shareholders.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

Gaming company Razer is going after a Singapore digital banking license, along with China’s largest online monetary platform Ant Financial , according to reports on Wednesday (Jan. Razer FinTech will own a 60 percent majority stake Razer Youth Bank, which will be headquartered in Singapore. .

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JANUARY 9, 2018

INTRUST Bank recently announced it is also taking part in the trend of collaborating with FinTechs. The FI said earlier this month it would be working with Funding Circle and providing funds to be lent to SMBs through the online platform. This is not a Wall Street issue; it’s a Main Street issue.”.

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Lars Markull

MAY 30, 2020

You have probably read somewhere that Shopify is now becoming a FinTech company due to the launch of a couple of new products. A few years ago it was quite easy to identity Fintech players but the lines are getting blurry. And now coming to the most crucial Fintech announcement by Shopify: Shopify announced their own bank account.

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APRIL 9, 2020

ITOCHU previously participated in Paidy’s Series B round in 2016 and its Series C round in July 2018, bringing its total investment in the startup to $91 million. So far, Paidy has notched a total of $281 million in equity and debt, one of the largest amounts raised in Japan’s FinTech sector. million across seven funding rounds.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

In this week’s Tech Center tracker, we take a look at how Dubai is giving FinTech hubs around the world a run for their money. 2016, the inflation rate was 0.12 FinTech Hive Generates Buzz. DIFC is uniquely positioned to become the regional hub for FinTech.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 9, 2022

The 2016 to 2019 hiking cycle is unusual in a number of ways: it is slow-paced, relatively shallow, and was conducted after massive quantitative easing without commensurate quantitative tightening (more on this below). First, we point out the difference between online banks with consumer relationships today versus the previous cycles.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

Latin America’s fintech scene is gaining momentum, with 80+ fintech deals closing for around $300M in 2016, and over 100 deals already closed in 2017. Track the LatAm fintech companies in this brief and many more on our platform. Track LatAm fintech companies. LatAm Fintech. 630+ items. Real Estate.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

On the second day of FinovateFall 2016, fintechs continued to wow attendees with bright, dazzling new finovations. Attendees from banks, credit unions, and other fintech companies saw 31 demos of technology that has applications across the financial sphere, from financial data analysis to mobile payments to trading.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Among the most disruptive changes introduced in 2016 by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act is the opportunity for small, private businesses to raise capital via crowdfunding, adding yet another avenue to capital to the long list of traditional and alternative finance options available to small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) today.

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JUNE 24, 2016

Online to offline coming to Walmart near you, and we mean that sincerely. Online lending . The venture capital backers are no doubt smiling. . But this is only the third tech IPO debut of 2016, and the first unicorn, and we’re halfway through the year, quite nearly. A pretty clear-cut sizzle. A few things stand out. .

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JANUARY 18, 2018

The FinTech startup iKaaz, which was founded in 2012, has a cloud-based platform for online merchants, point-of-sale hardware for retailers and a mobile wallet for customers who want to make digital payments. Specific terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 12, 2017

Everything that happened in fintech this week in the U.K. Funding Circle raised $100 million for its peer-to-peer lending platform AND notched record lending activity in the final quarter of 2016 — AND pushed its U.K. is just plain wrong. operation into profitability. Oh, the indignity of it. Read More.

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