Bank Innovation’s Picks for Top 5 Trends in Fintech in 2017
Bank Innovation
DECEMBER 19, 2017
EXCLUSIVE — The year of 2017 has been marked with more than a few good and not-so-good trends: but we’ll stick to fintech.
Four Fintechs Eyeing IPO in 2017
Bank Innovation
JANUARY 2, 2017
The fintech world has been going through a sort of an IPO freeze recently. The headwinds created by certain fintechs this year (looking at you, LendingClub) didn’t help much either. Venture capital funding continued to fall in the third quarter, according to data from KPMG Enterprise and CB Insights.
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Will Fintech Investment Funding Reach an All-Time High in 2017?
Bank Innovation
JULY 28, 2017
This year could be the year that VC- backed fintech investment deals and funding reach an all-time high. According to a report by CB Insights, released earlier this week, venture capital-backed fintech companies across the globe raised a total of $5.2 Billion across 251 deals in the second quarter of this year.
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The most significant fintech acquisitions of 2017 so far
Bobsguide
JULY 24, 2017
According to KPMG’s Pulse of Fintech report, fintech VC activity in Europe has hit a historically high level for successive quarters. In Q1 2017, global investment in fintech companies hit $3.2bn across 260 deals. Q1 2017’s total capital invested soared to $610m, which was noted as the.
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2017 Innovators to Watch: 44 Executives Shaping the Future of Banking
Bank Innovation
JUNE 12, 2017
2017 was a tumultuous year, but despite some stops and starts, innovation in finance is only gaining more momentum.
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Enterprise Cloud Platform Company Takes The B2B Venture Capital Lead
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 18, 2020
This week showed investor interest in B2B FinTech companies in international markets, as a trade finance platform in India and a human resources (HR)/payroll cloud software firm in the U.K. The fundraising was headed up by Advent International via Advent Tech and Sunley House Capital, an Advent affiliate. landed funding rounds.
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Fintech Is Back
Bank Innovation
MARCH 7, 2018
EXCLUSIVE (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Welcome back to the fintech boom. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck. But the fintech market has rebounded.
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Fewer Deals But More Dollars Flowed from VCs to Fintech Startups in 2018
Bank Innovation
JANUARY 11, 2019
Fewer but larger venture capital deals in 2018 translated into some big payoffs for fintechs. Fintech-related funding jumped 38% to nearly $11 billion in 2018, according to the 4Q18 MoneyTree Report from PwC and CB Insights. Deal activity in the space rose to 627 transactions, up from 571 in 2017.
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German FinTech N26 Eyes IPO With Hiring Of New CFO
PYMNTS
JANUARY 25, 2021
German neobank N26 hired Dr. Jan Kemper as its new chief financial officer (CFO) as the Berlin-headquartered FinTech looks toward a future initial public offering (IPO). In his eight years at the startup, he helped grow market capitalization to 11 billion euros from 2010 to 2017. Its most recent valuation was $3.5
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Germany’s Delivery Hero Introduces Its Own Venture Capital Fund
PYMNTS
JANUARY 12, 2021
German food delivery platform Delivery Hero is launching its own early-stage venture capital (VC) firm — DX Ventures — that will be managed independently to focus on advancing founder-led startups. The company went public in 2017 on the Frankfurt stock exchange, and in 2020 became part of the blue-chip index DAX (Deutscher Aktienindex).
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Capital Is the ‘Least Important’ Part of VC Rounds [Video]
Bank Innovation
APRIL 21, 2017
Raising capital is a crucial step for any startup trying to build its way up the fintech ladder. However, when it comes to VC funding, the actual capital is the “least important part of the transaction,” according to Bruce Wallace, chief digital officer at Silicon Valley Bank. “I
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230 FinTechs Raised A Record $39.57B In VC Funding Last Year
PYMNTS
JANUARY 29, 2019
billion in venture funding last year, marking a 120 percent increase from 2017. The number of deals is also up from the 1,480 in 2017. On Monday (January 28) Acorns , the FinTech that helps users invest spare change, announced a Series E found of funding that gives it a valuation of $860 million, pushing it nearer to unicorn status.
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3 Notable Fintech Funding Rounds in March
Bank Innovation
MARCH 11, 2019
Fintech funding is significantly on the rise. CB Insights' 2018 Q4 report showed a $21 billion, or 120% total increase in fintech funding from 2017 to 2018. And already this year, there have been several notable funding rounds.
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SXSW Accelerator Fintech Finalists for 2017 Announced
Bank Innovation
JANUARY 25, 2017
More fintech is coming to Austin. The massive South by Southwest conference and festival features startups in a number of categories — transportation, augmented/virtual reality, and of course fintech — plus several others. The event is the 9th annual pitch session for SXSW’s accelerator.
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ICOs Are Already Revolutionizing Fintech, Moeda CEO Says
Bank Innovation
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
EXCLUSIVE—Investors don’t need to wait for Initial Coin Offerings to reach their full potential: this way of raising capital is already redefining how businesses in certain markets can operate, Taynaah Reis, CEO for cooperative banking system company Moeda told Bank Innovation.
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Treasurers Watching FinTech Innovation To Get An Upgrade
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 27, 2016
Capital One’s Treasury Management Group is already looking ahead to how corporate treasurers will face the most modern of challenges in 2017. For Capital One, approaching the future of treasury management means collaboration. “We’re
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The Finanser’s Week: 8th May – 14th May 2017
Chris Skinner
MAY 14, 2017
This week’s main blog headlines are … The legacy clock is ticking Further to my recent trip to Pakistan Business Recorder (their version of The Financial Times) interviewed me in depth about what is happening in FinTech. I’m very sceptical about competition in banking because I’ve been waiting for it to happen for too long. Zero affect.
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171 Payment predictions for 2017
Accenture
FEBRUARY 28, 2017
Despite this, I can see clear trends through our work with clients and observation of industry developments, and based on these, I have developed a set of predictions for 2017. The Paym mobile real-time payment service will continue to grow at 200% – 300% per year and will see around 10m payments in 2017. External/Open APIs.
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Payment predictions for 2017
Accenture
FEBRUARY 28, 2017
Despite this, I can see clear trends through our work with clients and observation of industry developments, and based on these, I have developed a set of predictions for 2017. The Paym mobile real-time payment service will continue to grow at 200% – 300% per year and will see around 10m payments in 2017. External/Open APIs.
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150 GPS Capital Markets For Sale, Sources Say
PYMNTS
AUGUST 9, 2019
Corporate foreign exchange brokerage GPS Capital Markets is reportedly up for sale, unnamed sources told PE Hub. GPS Capital Markets, founded by Al Manbeian and Ryan Gibbon, posts between $20 million and $30 million earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), one source told the publication.
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B2B Startups Lead FinTech Investment Rebound
PYMNTS
AUGUST 2, 2017
Good news for FinTech startups: in the U.S., venture capitalists have been boosting their activity in the market, with Q2 FinTech investments regaining its strength, according to analysts at KPMG. The firm’s Pulse of FinTech report for Q2 2017, released this week , found overall FinTech funding in the U.S.
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Silicon Valley FinTech Brex Scores $200M Credit Line
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 12, 2019
San Francisco FinTech Brex announced a $200 million debt capital raise from Credit Suisse that will be used to expand its eCommerce business and credit offerings to new companies, Brex announced in a press release on Thursday (Dec. Brex deals in business-to-business (B2B) payments with corporate cards tailored to specific industries.
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French FinTech Closes $4M For New Neobank
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
FinTech startup EasyEuro — based in both Paris, France and Shenzhen, China — has closed a $4 million pre-funding deal to launch a Neobank (a 100 percent digital bank) that will target Europe and China simultaneously, the company announced in a recent blog post.
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176 Top Banks Keep Ahead Of FinTechs’ Competitive Threat
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
The delicate balance between bank-FinTech competition and collaboration continues to teeter in the U.S. In a market without Open Banking regulations, FinTechs continue to enter in to the market, collaborating with bank partners to offer their own financial services — which often compete directly with other financial institutions.
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Let's Talk Payments
OCTOBER 25, 2017
The India FinTech Awards is a unique initiative by India FinTech Forum to recognize the best emerging FinTech innovations in the thriving Indian ecosystem. The award, in its second edition,
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AltFin Shines As Investor Interest In B2B FinTech Continues
PYMNTS
MARCH 2, 2018
Toward the start of 2018, analysts began to highlight the potential for venture capital (VC) to embrace the B2B business model. and India drove a surge in FinTech venture capital funding in 2017, and Accenture Financial Services Senior Managing Director Julian Skan pointed to the B2B business model as a significant presence in this trend.
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Funding for Startups in FIS-Backed Fintech Accelerator Reaches $38 Million
Bank Innovation
JANUARY 30, 2018
EXCLUSIVE – If the future of banking is partnering with fintech startups, then finding the most innovative and efficient fintechs becomes crucial for banks’ success. based The Venture Center’s FinTech Accelerator program, which is backed by financial […]. One such program is Little Rock, Ark.-based
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VC Funding, IPOs Expected to Pick Up in 2017 — Will Fintechs Benefit?
Bank Innovation
OCTOBER 24, 2016
Third quarter venture capital fundings continued to fall in the third quarter, but there’s a hint of optimism as the year comes to an end and the market for initial public offerings thaws. According to data from KPMG Enterprise and CB Insights, global financings fell 14% in the third quarter from Read More.
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150 What’s the State of Banking Innovation in 2017?
Bank Innovation
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Fintech funding has grown tougher for startups, but banks’ balance sheets are looking stronger– what does it mean for innovation? What is the state of banking innovation today? Each year, we poll the industry to find out.
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Fintechs Are Going After Borrowers With Poor Credit
PYMNTS
AUGUST 14, 2018
FinTechs are going after another financial market void, this time providing loans to customers with low credit scores. Meanwhile, CreditShop, which investment firm Varde Partners acquired in 2017, launched a credit card earlier this year while Elevate Credit, which focuses on installment loans, came out in July.
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Top 4 Fintech Funding Rounds: Tiger Brokers, Rockets of Awesome, Monese, Ripio
Bank Innovation
JANUARY 4, 2017
Another day, another dollar—only this is fintech, so it would be more accurate to say another day, another multi-million investment in blockchain, virtual currency, mobile banking, e-commerce, and/or all of the other technologies on the playground. So far, 2017 fintech funding hasn’t veered far from the areas of interest in Read More.
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Americans Feel Positive About Fintechs, But Still Won’t Leave Their Banks
Bank Innovation
OCTOBER 11, 2017
But, that majority still won’t leave their bank for a younger fintech model, according to the 2017 Annual […].
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On-Demand Payment FinTech Hastee Helps Cos Pay Workers On Demand
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 3, 2019
A FinTech payday startup called Hastee has received a $270 million investment from Umbra Capital Partners, with participation from IDC Ventures and others, according to reports. The startup was founded in 2017 by Simon Draper and James Herbert.
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130 Bitcoin Daily: FinTech Outpaces Blockchain In 2018 VC Funds; Chainalysis Raises $30M For Expansion
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
In other news, Chainalysis , a crypto transaction analysis startup, announced that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding, led by venture capital (VC) firm Accel. According to Innovate Finance ’s “ 2018 FinTech VC Investment Landscape ” report, “2018 was a record year in FinTech, with $36.6
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128 Morgan Stanley Goes After Brazilian FinTech Market
PYMNTS
MAY 14, 2018
Taking a page from Goldman Sachs’ book, Morgan Stanley is beginning to lend to FinTech startups in Brazil as it seeks more of a return on its investments. The Geru bonds, which the company issued in December of 2017, have a four-year maturity and pay about 11.2 percent each year, noted the report.
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116 What is the State of Banking Innovation in 2017?
Bank Innovation
JUNE 8, 2018
Bitcoin mania has died down in the fintech world, and the conversation has shifted to technologies like voice banking, payments, and alternative credit scoring. What is the state of banking innovation today? Each year, we poll the industry to find out. This year, the pressure for banks to innovate is high, as banks no longer […].
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A Steady Third Quarter for Fintech Globally
Bank Innovation
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
With one new unicorn and steady VC- backed deals amounting to $4 billion globally, Q3 2017 has been another positive quarter for the fintech industry. According to a CBInsights Report released earlier this month, Q3 saw 278 VC-backed deals equaling $4 billion globally, compared to $2.6 billion in the same quarter last year.
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Finastra named a top global provider in IDC FinTech Rankings
Bobsguide
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Finastra named a top global provider in IDC FinTech Rankings. London, UK – September 21, 2022 – Finastra is proud to be ranked one of the top providers in the 2022 IDC FinTech Rankings. This year marks Finastra’s entry into the top five and as a Fast Track FinTech, having risen significantly in the rankings from last year.
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What Industry Players Really Expect From 2017
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 30, 2016
Analysts continue to flesh out their predictions for payments and FinTech in 2017, but one can never truly know the exact direction an industry will take. Executives from Payoneer, NCR, FTV Capital and Ingo Money touch upon all of these trends as they tell PYMNTS their own visions for B2B payments next year.
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125 What’s Driving VCs’ Attention To B2B FinTech
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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131 Naspers Earmarks $1B For Indian FinTech Investments
PYMNTS
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. In 2017 Indian startups raised $10.4
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123 GAO: FinTech Firms, FIs Seek Alternative Data Clarity In Lending
PYMNTS
JANUARY 7, 2019
The GAO said it had seen — through interviews with 11 FinTech firms — loan volume grow by sevenfold, while collaborative efforts with banks continued to grow from 2013 to 2017. According to the banks that have linked with FinTech firms, such guidelines would help relationships between the parties. Sandboxes, Gathering Steam.
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Online Lending To Small Business Increases 50 Percent Between 2015 And 2017
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 2017 from $2.6 But digital channels will help more small business gain capital, according to the statement.
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Why P2P Could Soon Play A Leading Role In Middle East FinTech
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 11, 2019
10), Craig Moore, CEO of business financing platform Beehive , not only made the case for more P2P lending in the Middle East (the company is based in the United Arab Emirates), but also gave a larger view of the FinTech situation in that region as a new decade dawns. But in a new PYMNTS interview on Tuesday (Dec. But that’s not all. “We
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