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4 winners and losers from the American Banker Digital Banking 2018 Conference

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Attendance at American Banker’s Digital Banking conference has grown significantly since I was here in 2016, reflecting the obvious interest levels in digital, yet the vibe remained largely the same as two years ago…. If 2016’s conference was the “mobile” conference, 2018 was most definitely the “voice” conference.

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The Fintech 250: The Top Fintech Startups Of 2018

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The 2018 Fintech 250 have raised approximately $53B in aggregate funding across 947 deals since 2013, and includes startups at different investment stages of development, from early-stage (seed/Series A) companies to well-funded unicorns. Outside the US: 44% of the 2018 Fintech 250 are based outside the US. Please click to enlarge.

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Report: JPMorgan Chase Plans UK Digital Lender Launch In Early 2021

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JPMorgan Chase plans to launch a digital bank in the United Kingdom early next year, Sky News reported Friday (Aug. The move “will enable it to capitalize on the accelerating transition of millions of bank customers from branch-based activity to digital services during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the news outlet said.

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Is Small Business Lending Facing a ‘Moment of Reckoning?’

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Financial institutions that want to play in the small business lending sandbox need to bring their digital toys. article , former Small Business Administration administrator Karen Mills said community banks with strong small business customer bases that don’t find new ways to serve them digitally are going to face a “reckoning.”

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Zopa P2P Lender To Land 12th-Hour Investment To Become Bank

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A source told the Financial Times that Zopa will receive the funds from an entity linked to IAG Capital Partners, a U.S.-based Launched in 2005, Zopa is considered one of the world’s first P2P lenders, lending almost £4 billion to consumers in the U.K. based fund, and its U.K. investment vehicle Silverstripe. since its inception.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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Marketplace lending. Digital banks. According to a Crunchbase article published in February of 2018, investments in blockchain and blockchain-related startups (excluding initial coin offerings, or ICOs) were already 40 percent of what they were in 2017. billion in 2018 growing to $1.1 billion in 2018 growing to $1.1

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UK FinTech B-Social Notches Extra £7.8M Before Rebranding

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million in seed funding as it prepares to rebrand as Kroo and become a full-fledged bank, reports said on Wednesday (Feb. The only investor revealed was Rudy Karsan from Karlani Capital; the others are undisclosed. million as the company continues the journey to becoming a fully-licensed bank. . “We

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