Bank Innovation

JUNE 23, 2016

Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world. Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2016

PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of …” eBook. Payments 2016: The Year of Payment Innovation Via Predictive Analytics. This was the year for payment innovation through predictive analytics.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 15, 2016

Today Breaking Banks hails the world from the Innovate Finance Global Summit in London, where Liz Lumley hosts. Thus it’s no surprise that Innovate Finance, a phenomenon at the very heart of the UK fintech scene, gathered the most exquisite luminaries from Read More. FinTech is changing the nature of finance and money.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Lending Club may be back on track with banks, but not soon enough to help its fourth quarter results. 2016 was a tumultuous year for the online lender. The company set high goals for the fourth quarter, including its determination to generate $2 billion in loans. The lender’s very narrow miss of Read More.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

TEL AVIV — PayKey, an intriguing Israeli startup that lets banks offer payments on any social media platform — and we mean any — won the demo contest at Bank Innovation Israel 2016 here this week. PayKey beat out 12 other finalists at the DEMOvation Challenge at Bank Innovation Israel, Read More.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Cryptocurrency-backed lending platform Cred is opening up its technology to third-party developers, the company has announced. The Crypto-Lending-as-a-Service (CLaaS) solution enables other crypto companies — including exchanges, crypto wallets or mining services — to integrate Cred’s lending functionality into their own solutions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

How PSD2 is Changing Lending in the U.K. For third-party providers, such as P2P lending and investment provider Zopa , PSD2’s data transparency rules provide an opportunity to “level the playing field” when it comes to gaining that consumer trust. GDPR was officially signed into law in 2016.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 11, 2016

Investors see a sunny future for marketplace lending, according to a survey released today by Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP (RKO) and Wharton Fintech. The results of the survey, titled 2016 Survey of U.S. Marketplace Lending, show that half of investors surveyed have capital allocated for marketplace lending.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

In their Spring 2016 Semiannual Risk Perspective , regulators have publicly acknowledged increasing risk in commercial real estate lending, so small business lending seems like it may be an alternative path. Many community banks and credit unions are turning to small business loans as a source of loan growth.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 10, 2017

Avin Arumugam, senior vice president of the Internet of Things at Visa, has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation 2017, which takes place March 6-7 in San Jose. Arumugam was at JPMorgan Chase for four years prior to his starting at Visa in May 2016. Recent video footage also Read More.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2018

75 percent | Portion of payments budgets that top-performing businesses allocate toward innovation projects, according to the most recent PYMNTS Innovation Readiness Playbook , an i2C collaboration. 25 | Number of hours it can take for SMBs to manually prepare and submit paperwork for the business lending process.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

That happened long ago — just ask Silicon Valley Bank, a financial institution built to serve the world’s center of innovation. Silicon Valley is coming to banking? Few bankers can claim better knowledge of what the tech giants are up to. Startups, you say? SVB claims it banks a staggering two-thirds Read More.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The latest report from Finastra , the FinTech conglomerate recently formed through the merger of Misys and D+H, and financial research firm Celent finds that banks are poised to see a 4 percent growth rate in corporate banking revenue through 2020, double the growth rate seen between 2010 and 2016.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Roady, who has been on MoneyLion’s board of directors since 2016, was previously a founding partner at GAIN Capital and president of its global retail brokerage business. She told Bank Innovation that her […].

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Small business finance is one of the most competitive, innovative and challenging markets in which to operate. That dedication and focus is what led Fundbox to secure gold in the PYMNTS.com Innovation Project 2016 Awards category of Best Small Business Innovation. We think of ourselves as providing innovative solutions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

The financial services market has progressed by leaps and bounds in terms of innovation, from the rise of alternative finance to the development of technologies like blockchain and open banking initiatives. author of the report and Florida Atlantic University’s Kaye Family Endowed Professor in Finance.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The personal lending space in the United States, conservatively estimated to be around $3 trillion in 2016, is seeing continued disruption. One of the latest innovative offerings in the lending space comes from a traditional investment bank: Goldman Sachs has looked to expand its presence in the retail banking space Read More.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

He also offers advice for how to innovate in the field. Here is an excerpt of the conversation: PYMNTS: How would you define your company’s approach to innovation? PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why? PYMNTS: What is the most innovative thing you’ve ever done? JB: Innovation often means taking a risk.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

It was the (initially) small FinTech startups that delivered a collective shakeup to the small business (SMB) lending industry. Their next target could be small business lending, and according to some experts, it’s fast approaching the market. New reports in Bloomberg on Wednesday (Oct. We’re starting to see that.”.

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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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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2018

Small businesses (SMBs) prefer not to seek funding to finance their innovative endeavors, according to new research from BMO Wealth Management , which suggests SMBs are missing out on opportunities to drive growth. 1 necessity for an entrepreneur’s innovative initiatives. A survey of more than 1,021 small businesses in the U.S.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 26, 2017

Innovate Finance has just published their report on the first half of 2017, and the investments made in FinTech. Billion in H1 2017 –with UK investment up 37% reveals Innovate Finance H1 2017 saw 787 deals globally, attracting $6.5 increase on H1 2016 deal value, but an 18.5% Global VC FinTech investment attracts $6.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. When most people asked “what’s next?”

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 9, 2016

While the CFPB has indicated it will be monitoring FinTech innovations, it has not yet held a public event devoted to FinTech or financial innovation. on December 2, 2016. on December 2, 2016. ” Attendance at the conference is by invitation only. .”

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ZootBlog

JANUARY 25, 2017

The year 2016 has come and gone but I wanted to provide a recap of the most read Zoot blog posts from last year just as a reminder that although industry news is ever changing, some topics seem to resurface year after year. Here’s a recap of the top five most read blog posts in 2016.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 18, 2016

In his April 2016 appearance before the Senate Banking Committee, Director Cordray made clear that FinTech companies are on the CFPB’s radar screen. On June 23, 2016, the OCC will hold a forum in Washington, D.C. on “Supporting Responsible Innovation in the Federal Banking System.” Registration is free.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

such as Zopa and Lending Club, they saw an opportunity in emerging markets that had been ignored by the big banks, such as Russia, Georgia and Kazakhstan. Our expertise in FinTech and alternative lending at an international level will also help to reduce credit risks,” added Oleg Jelezko, managing partner at Da Vinci Capital.

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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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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

It feels like 2014 again with the ongoing popularity of alternative lending startups. It’s even more surprising given that 2016 could be the year that regulation begins to really kick in for these lenders — in the U.S., Alternative Lending. Find out how the more than $26.5 MarketInvoice. Redis Labs.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

The partnership is a result of the launch of the FinTech task force Innovate Finance , which took place in March, the report said. s SMEs if they combine the various innovations from the FinTech space, insurance and risk management sectors.”. Founded in 2016 by Bengtsen, Nimbla is “dedicated to providing small and medium-sized U.K.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2016

And while we expect 2016 will mark the 24oth July 4th in a row that the British have not celebrated, one can not help but admire the impressive degree to which they’ve upped the level of the fireworks game. Marketplace lending, in short, did not need more fireworks. The market for marketplace lending in the U.K,

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

on November 14, 2016 to discuss financial technology innovation in the financial services industry. The panels will discuss issues such as blockchain technology, automated investment advice or robo-advisors, online marketplace lending and crowdfunding, and how they may impact investors.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 8, 2017

Fintech venture capitals cooled on lending startups in 2016, and turned their attention to two new budding areas — insurtech and regtech, which even made it into the budget speech of UK chancellor George Osborne last year.

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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. Broken down a bit, business lending was most prevalent in countries such as Singapore, the Netherlands and Japan.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 12, 2017

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. Everything that happened in fintech this week in the U.K. is just plain wrong. operation into profitability. Oh, the indignity of it. Read More.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2020

The bank focuses on small- and medium-sized business (SMB) lending. “We In January, Judo Bank added a partnership with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider InfraRisk in order to speed up lending to SMBs. Together, we will apply cutting-edge technologies to provide superior lending services for [SMBs].”.

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