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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Bank Innovation

APRIL 24, 2018

EXCLUSIVE - Known as one of the first technology companies in Europe to procure a German banking license, solarisBank has lofty ambitions for 2018. That plan, according to Timo Weber, VP of strategy and internationalization, is to add 50 more partners over the course of the year. “A A big part of our effort this year […].

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Let's Talk Payments

JUNE 7, 2019

A growing number of new players in any industry is a sign of an expanding market and opportunities for innovators. FinTech is not an exception here. Increasing access to capital, consumer awareness, and acceptance to new ways of managing finances and other ecosystem drivers have been attractive for entrepreneurs in 2018 as well.

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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 replaced payments firm Wirecard, which in 2018 took Commerzbank’s spot on the index. 12) press release.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

Capital is the lifeblood of economies, and of the companies (and yes, of course, individuals) that collectively make things and provide services … and in the age of FinTech, the capital comes digitally and across innovative channels. Within the FinTech space, there may be a resurgence of sorts for one firm.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 3, 2019

Acquisitions, partnerships and the roll-out of various new products and services made 2018 a very active year in banking and fintech. Here are Bank Innovation's 5 companies to watch this year, selected by editors' choice, in no particular order: PayPal This payments […].

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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. Here are three noteworthy investments from the past week that caught Bank Innovation’s attention: 1: Chime Raises $200 […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

A FinTech group from Kazakhstan part-owned by Baring Vostok and Goldman Sachs is structuring a London IPO that is the largest listing by a central Asian company since the global financial crisis, the Financial Times reported Monday (Sept. is the first London IPO by a Kazakh company since uranium producer Kazatomprom listed in November 2018.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 23, 2018

CB Insights on Monday named its 2018 Fintech 250, a list of what the research firms considers the most promising fintech companies globally. Nearly half the companies are new to the Fintech 250 list, which was first published last year.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 29, 2018

In fact, all four panelists on “Where and How to Invest in Fintech Now,” at Bank Innovation 2018 in San Francisco, unanimously dismissed investing in ICOs. Like many others, venture capitalists are skeptical about investing in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). ICOs are rapidly falling in popularity.

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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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Kazakh FinTech group Kaspi.kz Net income for the company has increased 54 percent to $203 million in the first six months of 2019 compared with the same period in 2018. “We We are a big innovative company, and we are doing so much for the country, digitizing the country, so we see a lot of growth potential,” Lomtadze said last month.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

FinTechs and non-bank financial service providers are set to take over traditional banks as the preferred choice for small business (SMB) customers in Australia, a new report by Scottish Pacific found. FinTech offers include creating seamless online loan applications and software that analyzes financial data to deliver the best possible deal.

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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. In addition, we saw more and more B2B FinTech models proving out at the banks, coupled with larger and later-stage investments as the FinTech world scales up.”. For markets like the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The bank expects a return on invested capital higher than 25 percent in 2024. Ebury was the first FinTech to go live in 2018 with SWIFT’s global payments innovation. The deal is expected to value Ebury at around £700 million.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

One of the biggest shifts in banking that FinTech newcomers ushered into the market is the demand among customers for advisory services. What some financial institutions have come to realize is that collaborating with FinTechs can enable them to offer cutting-edge solutions while reserving resources to invest in meeting those advisory needs.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Unlike other FinTech startups, Kuda was granted a banking license from the Nigerian Central Bank. Ogundeyi, who previously held a financial advisory role with the Nigerian government, co-founded Kuda in 2018 with Musty Mustapha, a former Stanbic Bank software developer. “We

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 25, 2019

Looking at the top five blog entries of 2018, we see that using technology to meet the ever-increasing scale and rate of regulatory change is top of mind for financial service organizations. As Marc Andrew’s notes in his blog, Demystifying AI for risk and compliance , in 2018, we saw AI tackle exhausting regulatory requirements.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Credit unions (CUs) are performing well as the new decade dawns, with a recent study finding that CUs increased their loan originations by 29 percent from Q4 2018 to Q4 2019. Though still strong, this industry growth has slowed in recent years, with another survey finding that total loans only increased by 6.6 percent in 2019, compared to 10.5

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. The rise of FinTech offers a bit of a prism through which to view those events. The trigger for the look back has of course has been the Sept. Behind the Numbers .

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 1, 2019

Strategic participation in fintech climbed in 2018, with 41% of all fintech financings containing either a corporate VC or strategic investor. This is up from 35% in 2017, and way up from 18% in 2013, according to Financial Technology Partners’ 2018 Annual Fintech Almanac.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. billion in 2018 growing to $1.1

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In 2018, companies from 31 countries and 19 categories — spanning payments, digital banking, insurance, and more — made it onto the CB Insights 2018 Fintech 250 list. The selection was based on several factors, including company-submitted data, business model, tech innovation, marketplace momentum, team strength, and more.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2019

Chinese social eCommerce platform Wanwu Xinxuan has raised $20 million in a Series B round of financing led by Fresh Capital, with participation from Redpoint China Ventures, according to Deal Street Asia. Launched in August 2018, Wanwu Xinxuan is an online retail platform selling children’s apparel, shoes and accessories.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Plus, London’s FinTech space has been going strong in 2020 despite the pandemic. The FinTech reportedly invested in Paystack’s Series A round back in 2018. Data: London FinTechs Netted $3.6B London’s FinTech space has been going strong in 2020 despite COVID-19, with $3.6 In VC Investments So Far In 2020.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 8, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – In honor of International Women’s Day, it’s important to appreciate the progress women have made in the fintech world. But, it’s equally necessary to acknowledge that there’s a long way to go. Female-led startups still have a harder time getting investment, perhaps because most investment firms are led my men.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

The FinTech firm will also serve as the consumer credit card issuer for the AA and the bank’s U.K. CEO Des Crowley said in a statement, per reports, “Jaja is an innovative company which shares our commitment to delivering outstanding customer service. FinTech startups increased 57 percent to $1.6 consumers, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Don’t let the lack of news about mega-grossing venture capital (VC) rounds fool you. This week’s B2B venture capital activity led to an impressive $141.2 and Asia, and PYMNTS lined up all the B2B FinTechs that recently scored fresh funding. VC activity was especially high across the U.S. TravelBank.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2016

But across the Pond – regardless of the initial claims last week that Britain had occasioned its own Independence Day via the Brexit vote — for FinTech, freedom is just another word for lots and lots left to lose. payments firms can innovate and tailor their technologies to a large stage, the continent. and the rest of Europe.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2020

Philippines payments startup Voyager Innovations has closed a funding deal worth up to $120 million from existing backers, according to a Monday (April 6) statement from Voyager. The new funding follows a $215 million investment in 2018. The new funding follows a $215 million investment in 2018.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

percent of domestic and cross-border payments in December 2017, SWIFT found, with the company’s Head of Payments Markets, Asia-Pacific, Michael Moon noting, “Experts suggest that capital controls and uncertainties over future regulations mean that a significant reversal of the decline in RMB usage for trade and payments is unlikely in 2018.”.

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BankInovation

JUNE 1, 2020

Santander Group’s venture capital fund, Santander InnoVentures, has deepened its presence in Latin America with its fourth investment in the region, this time funneling $5 million in a Series A funding round into a55, a niche alternative SME lender, the VC firm announced in a release last week.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

Open banking is often associated with the European Union (EU) almost by default as the region pushes the envelope further on regulation than anywhere, partly to encourage — but also to keep up with — imaginative FinTech innovators going to market throughout the Eurozone. FinTechs Flourishing. Similarities To The EU.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2019

From payments to insurtech to lending, fintech companies are attracting investor attention. In 2018, startups in the space raised more than $45B, a record amount, while Q3’19 fintech funding recently clocked in with a quarterly record of nearly $9B. GET THE 88-PAGE q3 2019 FINTECH TRENDS REPORT. Data is as of 12/19/2019.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 13, 2018

Berlin-based challenger bank N26 will be opening its services to users in the United States and the United Kingdom by the end of this year, founder and chief executive officer Valentin Stalf told Reuters today. The bank, which was officially launched in 2015, currently has a German banking license, allowing it to operate in other […].

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Insights on Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

In order to remain relevant to digitally astute and socially active customers, core banking processes, must be more reliable, scalable and secure requiring banks to constantly innovate. Without optimizing existing processes and platforms, it is a drag on creating anything new and innovative.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The small business loan market is oversaturated, she argued, creating a “FinTech credit bubble” that first showed signs of deflating as investors pulled out of some players like CAN Capital and LendingClub in 2016. Indeed, the remainder of 2017 and 2018 will see more partnerships between the banks and FinTechs.”.

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