Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In a sign of the times in consumer lending, Auto Finance News today announced the launch of Auto Finance Innovation 2016, a new industry forum to explore the fintech revolution and how it is reshaping automotive lending and leasing.

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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., million in 2016. million in 2016. and the U.K.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 11, 2020

OnDeck’s fire sale aside, recent deals at nCino, Black Knight and Ellie Mae are a shot in the arm to a market in need of some good news. 2020 is the wildest downward ride in the market since 1929, which, one would think, is taking its toll on the fintech ecosystem serving banks and credit unions. and Thomas H.

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William Mills

JANUARY 14, 2016

Content marketing has rapidly emerged as a key marketing strategy within the fintech industry in a relatively short time. I vividly remember my content marketing conversations with clients in early 2014. Our clients had no idea what content marketing or HubSpot encompassed. 2015 was a content marketing tsunami.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Ukrainian bank UKRSIBBANK, part of BNP Paribas Group, is teaming up with Dreams , a financial wellness FinTech startup based in Sweden. The collaboration will also help UKRSIBBANK stay ahead of the competition and “futureproof its digital banking offering” as challenger banks and FinTechs crowd the personal finance landscape.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2021

The adoption of fintech apps has skyrocketed throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, spurring further growth and investor interest in this category. Fintech had one of the most successful quarters in history in Q1’21 , with record deals, funding, exits, and mega-rounds. . Big tech investment in fintech companies reached $2.2B

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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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Bank Innovation

MARCH 15, 2019

For most of the past decade, the fintech sector seemed to have nothing but blue skies ahead. But over the last 12 months, warnings that first signaled in 2016 have been flashing brighter. CEO scandals, pulled IPOs and sinking stock prices, have taken the luster off previously high-flying brands.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

percent stake in the German-based FinTech Deposit Solutions, according to a Deutsche Bank press release on Thursday (Sept. Deposit Solutions expanded into Switzerland earlier this year, its first market outside of Europe. Deutsche Bank has acquired a 4.9 It is also planning a launch in the U.S. in the coming months.

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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. Their company was on a funding round, and struggling.

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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

venture capital sphere this week: VC funding for FinTech startups in Q1 alone hit $1.2 Analysts said the industry has seen its highest venture capital activity since Q1 of 2016, fueled by focus on late-stage investment rounds. Financial Services FinTech Practice Co-Leader Anthony Rjeily in a statement. According to KPMG’s U.S.

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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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

When it comes to FinTech firms and lending, might it be that what we don’t know could hurt us? Beyond that, volume has exploded, with $284 billion extended in 2016 compared to $11 billion in 2013. China was the largest market, yet volume has declined in recent periods.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

As noted by VentureBeat , the five-year-old firm has been profitable since 2016. The money raised will help Thinknum expand its business, said the publication, and to “help educate the market on the power and uses of alternative data.”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Emerging markets have their own challenges when it comes to banking, where big, traditional financial institutions (FIs) are anything but efficient. The world needs a FinTech operating system.”. The world doesn’t need another bank,” Poovala told Webster. Fixing — And Verifying Business Ownership.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

Naspers, Africa’s largest company based on market value, is gearing up to spend $1 billion in India in the form of investments focused on the financial technology market. At the time Naspers said proceeds would go toward growth opportunities in global classified, online food delivery and FinTech. percent from 33.2

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The ongoing struggle, supposedly existential in nature, that pits upstart, relatively young FinTech firms against arrogantly complacent banks for supremacy in this new and growing world of digital payments and commerce. Instead, as PYMNTS has regularly reported, the situation is much less black-and-white than the article suggests.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

When PYMNTS asked cross-border payments experts at the end of last year what they thought the driving trend would be for the industry in 2018, the consensus was all about collaboration , particularly between banks and FinTech firms. “The modern-day client expects a seamless transaction experience,” he said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

FinTech is no stranger to this pattern, and while venture capital levels have seemed to dwindled in certain markets (analysts found VC funding down by 29 percent in 2016 compared to last year), B2B startups remain the apple of many investors’ eyes. India saw a particularly lucrative year.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The FinTech space is hoping to address these challenges head-on, targeting the paper and manual-based processes of trade finance transactions though innovations like blockchain. The survey polled more than 515 banks and 1,336 companies across 103 countries, finding that FinTech innovators can, indeed, help address the $1.5

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

In today’s top payments news, JPMorgan blocks FinTechs from accessing customers’ passwords, and Ant Financial and Razer throw their hats into the ring for one of Singapore’s five available digital banking licenses. JPMorgan Ups Security By Blocking FinTechs From Passwords. Ant, Razer Join Rally For Singapore eBank Licenses.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Digital payments FinTech startup Sezzle announced on Monday (Feb. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform is in the U.S. BNPL providers are seeing market growth and new funding opportunities. 10) that it topped 1 million active customers. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The cloud storage subscription market is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.8 percent from 2016 to 2022, and uptake is rising even faster in the Asia-Pacific, which is expected to see a CAGR of 27.2 percent from 2016 to 2022. I think credit cards will be on the market for a long time.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

2016 started off with a bang in the retail world when MPD and PYMNTS uncovered a few discrepancies in the retail data that many major retailers and reporting institutions were using to underestimate the impact of digital sales on brick-and-mortar sales. “In A Retail Data Reporting Error Was Uncovered.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

The whirlwind of FinTech investment shows no signs of slowing. In fact, new data from venture capital (VC) analysis firm CB Insights, analyzed by global management consulting and professional services firm Accenture Financial Services, suggests FinTech startups’ VC funding hit a new high last year, with major deals in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

FinTech Continues Its Disruption. In a recent interview with PYMNTS, Mike Galarza, founder and CEO of AP automation firm Entryless, touted 2016 as the year that corporates stopped relying on banks. “As The list of cyberattacks on banks from 2016 is long. So, what can corporates expect from their banks in 2017?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

In today’s top news, China’s economy grew by its slowest rate since 1990, Alphabet reached $1 trillion market value, and attempted check fraud spiked 43 percent. Alphabet Market Cap Hits $1T. Alphabet Market Cap Hits $1T. billion in 2016 to $15.1 China Posts Worst Slowdown In Nearly Three Decades. In Two Years.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2018

and Australia are strengthening an existing collaborative agreement to promote FinTech innovation, according to reports in Mondo Visione. The expanded agreement is part of what’s called the FinTech Bridge , signed by the U.K. The expanded agreement is part of what’s called the FinTech Bridge , signed by the U.K.

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CB Insights

MAY 11, 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has rattled both public and private markets globally. VC-backed fintech startups are no exception. Across the board, fintech funding activity stalled in Q1’20 as the coronavirus outbreaks forced investors to pull back investments. Report Highlights: In Q1’20, VC-backed fintech funding dropped to $6.1B

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

The publication held its 2016 CFO Network conference last week, during which executives were placed into five groups to discuss current market trends and their priorities under those developments. One group, The Fintech Revolution, identified several areas in which CFOs can better perform amid this era.

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William Mills

AUGUST 23, 2016

William Mills Agency, the nation’s largest independent public relations and content marketing firm to the financial industry, has been named agency of record for FinTech Forward 2016, a program offered by American Banker and BAI Beacon. We are proud to be associated with this effort.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2018

Coverage includes Oracle ’s decision to bring its FinTech Innovation Program to Brussels. The blockchain is gaining traction in India , where the market for such technology is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 58 percent during 2018 to 2024, according to a report from 6Wresearch.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

Visa and the Dutch FinTech TerraPay said they plan to develop and deliver “payment solutions to drive financial inclusion and cashless transactions for domestic payments and global remittances.”. Global m/eCommerce continues to evolve and is expected to reach $4,574 billion by 2023,” according to Allied Market Research.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

In looking ahead at the near-term emergence of FinTech markets, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration said in its “ 2016 Top Markets Report Financial Technology ” that Asia will hold sway over other regions. Payment services, with … 17.6 percent, insurance services at 7.7

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2016

After decades of oppression, the economy of Myanmar opened to foreign investment, and many companies are jumping at the chance to help establish tech advancement and FinTech services for the unbanked. Even so, Myanmar was ranked as the fourth fastest-growing mobile market in the world last year as well as the fastest-growing economy in 2016.

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Payments Source

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

The fintech boom attracted a lot of new investors and in turn, billions of dollars into the market. But some of that money went to projects that haven’t lived up to the hype and in 2016, we’re starting to see a pullback.

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