PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

Rocket Internet , the Germany eCommerce company, is aiming to invest in financial technology and artificial intelligence startups with the $3 billion in cash it has, reports Reuters. Rocket Internet owns majority stakes in HelloFresh and Global Fashion Group. Sales were up 18 percent after excluding the impact of currency changes.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

million for the company, marking one of the biggest investment rounds for a FinTech company in Northern England. Based in Manchester, AccessPay provides a digital platform for payments, cash management and treasury operations by integrating businesses’ back-end operations with their banks. In 2017, it co-led a $15.2

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William Mills

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Investment in fintech remains strong year over year. Innovation in all things having to do with money is helping to improve both front and back office operations; remodeling the customer experience (CX); and generally making things faster (such as payments).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

AvidXchange previously raised $300 million in 2017 at a $1.4 Investment bank Financial Technology Partners is advising AvidXchange on this fundraising round, according to sources. The firm has 1,300 employees across offices in seven states and is distinguished as a global FinTech unicorn. 9), citing sources.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2017

Strategic Treasurer and Bottomline Technologies recently published a joint report on the B2B payments landscape: B2B payments + WCM Strategies. Nearly a quarter of survey respondents said they were doing business in each of the 10 key markets identified by the survey, with the vast majority operating in North America. Payments Rails.

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PYMNTS

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. The city is able to attract investors due to its low logistical and operational costs and excellent infrastructure, international outlook and liberal government policies. FinTech Hive Generates Buzz.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

The startup said this was the largest funding round ever for a French FinTech. Qonto is operational in Spain, France, Italy and Germany, and handled €10 billion ($11.08 Qonto launched its corporate digital banking solution in 2017. Qonto focuses on a subset of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across Europe. million.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

Still, according to the latest Mercator Advisory Group report on FinTech disruption, B2B payments will have to wait a bit longer to see true change from these innovations. The firm released its 2017 Payments Outlook report last week and made some conclusions that B2B FinTech players may find disappointing. B2B Payments Outlook.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The firm is the holding company for an array of FinTech companies operating in supply chain finance, invoice finance and the dynamic discounting market. The companies were grouped together between 2014 and 2017 after investments and acquisitions by Arrowgrass Master Fund Ltd., reports noted.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 2, 2017

The background to this was announced in a press release on 1st February 2017: Ripple’s Distributed Financial Technology fits within NBAD’s existing infrastructure and offers a secure end-to-end payment flow providing transaction immutability and payment integrity. Forget hours or days.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2018

million — already ahead of 2017’s full-year take of $167.7 million and four times the amount raised in the first six months of 2017. Financial technology seems to be leading the startup charge, representing 40 percent of the largest 10 deals of the year so far, collectively worth $100 million. So why the boom?

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Insights on Business

JUNE 14, 2018

A Turkey-based DenizBank is linking together its digital payment subsidiary fastPay with fintech start-up Qapel to launch an interactive TV quiz show. Learn more about how IBM solutions help banks digitally transform their organizations so they can innovate, operate and engage to generate value across the ecosystem here. The Banker.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2016

In a $460 million deal, Texas-based ATM operator Cardtronics has acquired Canada-based DirectCash Payments. Once the deal closes in Q1 of 2017, it will boost Cardtronics’ network to 225,000 ATMs across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Phase two of NACHA’s Same Day ACH initiative will take effect 15 Sept 2017.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

Alipay’s latest expansion — this time, to Luxembourg — shows not only the increasing reach of the China-based mobile payments ecosystem, but also stands as the latest example of companies in payments and FinTech gaining licenses to operate in Europe. There, PSD2 was designed to encourage FinTech and payments innovation.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 13, 2017

In what might be the freshest start to a new year for any fintech in 2017, banking software innovator CR2 has announced two major changes at the top. Paul Geraghty, previously CFO at Curam Software for IBM , joins CR2 as Chief Financial Officer.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

William Mills Agency will be live blogging at FinovateFall 2017. I checked out their web site and they are promoting their IOS/Google Play mobile apps (no surprise) and I found this: This website is operated and maintained by Collective Returns, Inc. Brett King is a real FinTech “rock star” and they have a good reputation.

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CB Insights

JULY 16, 2017

And most recently, Allianz made a strategic investment in US online homeowners and renters insurance carrier Lemonade , which currently operates in New York, Illinois, and California. Stated investment focus: Underserved risk markets, innovative approaches to risk underwriting, financial technology with application to risk underwriting.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

By the end of 2017, these five trends will be realized — one way or the other. They know this which is why they’ve spent $20 billion on financial technology solutions in 2015 alone, up 66 percent from the year before. Politics may make strange bedfellow, but do, to many banks and FinTech. Bottlenecks.

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CB Insights

JULY 1, 2018

On an annual basis, 2017 saw overall funding to VC-backed Canadian companies increase to $2.7B, even as deal activity dropped 13% YoY, according to the Full-Year 2017 Money Tree Canada Report from PwC Canada and CB Insights. Fintech: The financial technology category has the greatest number of startups in our table.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella referred to chat as the “third run-time” — an indispensable piece of operating a platform, second only to the operating system and the web browser. Mentions of chatbots in earnings calls and press releases skyrocketed, and for many, it seemed that chatbots might be the next big disruptive technology.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

There are a number of great events in FinTech but this one I do my best to attend each year. Founded: August 2017. Presenter Profile: How they describe themselves: AI Foundry uses AI and user-guided machine learning to transform enterprise operations by integrating information, people and processes. Founded: January 2017.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2018

Loosening federal regulations, enacting national data breach protections and drafting “model laws” at the state level to reduce overlapping red tape, could help promote FinTech in the United States, according to report released Tuesday (July 31) by the U.S. financial technology efforts. FinTech Growth.

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

As fintech plays a larger role in the financial ecosystem, companies are looking for ways to use tech to solve problems and find new opportunities in the space. One popular approach: in-house financial innovation labs. Partnership Fund for New York City and Accenture — FinTech Innovation Lab. Get the entire 43-page PDF.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 6, 2017

FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY. Fintech 250: The Tech Startups Redefining The Financial Services Industry. Disrupting Banking: The Fintech Startups That Are Unbundling Wells Fargo, Citi and Bank of America. Disrupting European Banking: The FinTech Startups That Are Unbundling HSBC, Santander, and BNP. INDIA TECH.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In the years since the Great Recession, financial institution executives became increasingly optimistic. In Cornerstone Advisors’ annual What’s Going On In Banking study, CEO optimism hit a five-year high in 2017 and, for the most part, stayed that way for 2018. Stay on track with the tech refresh cycle.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The SEC, OCC and CFTC have been generally more cautious not to step on financial technology innovation. To what type of organism is a permissionless, open source, programmable financial ecosystem most uncomfortable? To what type of technologist is decentralized technology a risk? Some norm or law must be breached.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The SEC, OCC and CFTC have been generally more cautious not to step on financial technology innovation. To what type of organism is a permissionless, open source, programmable financial ecosystem most uncomfortable? To what type of technologist is decentralized technology a risk? Some norm or law must be breached.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 8, 2019

The Bureau issued its first (and so far only) no-action letter in September 2017 to Upstart Network Inc. Earlier this year, the House Financial Services Committee established two task forces , one on financial technology and the other on artificial intelligence. Both task forces held their first meetings in June.

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