PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

In today’s top payments news around the world, India’s central bank wants stricter regulations for big shadow lenders, while global foreign direct investment (FDI) dropped last year and the pandemic will continue to impact it this year. The central bank of India wants more stringent regulations for large shadow lenders.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), the supervisory arm of the Bank of England (BoE), has fined Citigroup a record-breaking $56.3 million for not completing accurate returns between 2014 and 2018, according to a report by Reuters.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

Based in Hangzhou, China, the company operates Alipay, an online payment service that debuted in 2004 and has evolved into the world’s largest payment and lifestyle platform, the company said. The Chinese financial services company was valued at $150 billion in a 2018 fundraising round.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

The increased regulatory and capital requirements for China’s P2P lenders should continue to put pressure on the sustainability of business models across the sector in 2020, leading to further industry contraction,” said Katie Chen, director for non bank financial institutions at Fitch Ratings, told the South China Morning Post Tuessday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Other than online search, talks between the two groups will likely also focus on whether the Android operating system is another example of potential monopolistic control by Google , as well as the ideal allocation of investigatory labor among federal and state regulators. Thus far, U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

South African regulators also approved Goldman Sachs for a bank operation license as the firm strives for growth in the most liquid and sophisticated economy on the continent. Africa’s working-age population is anticipated to go up to nearly one billion by 2030, up from 705 million in 2018, according to the African Development Bank.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2019

billion in a new funding round led by the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. . What they’ve accomplished in achieving both rapid growth and strong unit economics is rare for a company this complex and so early on,” Sequoia Capital partner Roelof Botha said in an email to reporters.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

The online retailer has already been looking to raise capital at a valuation of about $2 billion, and the acquisition of ShopClues could help its funding efforts. The company receives about 40,000 orders per day — a deal with Snapdeal could bolster its operations to fulfill those orders. As of 2018, Snapdeal had a market share of 1.9

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Treezor is an electronic money issuer and is tied to a regulatory landscape that spans the French regulators and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. Separately, B2B payments and international money transfer firm B2B Pay said this past week that it plans to become a regulated financial institution.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Locality Bank, a digital-first community bank serving south Florida that opened in January, is run by industry veterans with such successful track records that regulators signed off on their application for a charter in less than a year. from 2016 until its sale in 2018. Location: Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Built on a solid foundation.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

However, the bank put the credit business up for sale with a larger strategy to divest some of its operations. FinTech market had a strong showing last year, with venture capital and private equity investments hitting $3.3 billion in 2018, according to an industry trade group, while venture capital investments were $1.7

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

In the world of small business financial services, entrepreneurs’ frustrations with banking have been loudly vocalized : firms are often considered too small to be profitable for banks’ corporate services units and are therefore pushed into an FI’s consumer banking operations.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

As of now, the country’s insurance and banking regulator is beginning to draft new rules aiming to toughen up oversight in the pawn shop lending industry, according to sources cited by Bloomberg. There is also speculation that the new rules will increase capital requirements for pawn shops. Shares in Sunny Loan Top Co.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

This kind of small business is a dying breed: recent stats from the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis at the University of Iowa found more than 16 percent of independent pharmacies shuttered their doors between March 2003 and March 2018, according to Washington Post reports. But these business owners need capital to expand.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

According to an investigation by Sixgill, $250,000 of Fortnite items were sold on eBay in the last 60 days, with operations being conducted around the globe in Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic and English. Capital One’s Earnings Flub. Capital One ’s further reprots domestic card loans increased 8 percent or $5.8 Alphabet Inc.’s

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Today in PYMNTS’ data, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have won the alternative financial venture capital (VC) funding rounds, millions of SMBs are in operation in the U.S. — 30 million | Higher end estimation of the number of SMBs in operation in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

Dombert was openly critical of the People’s Bank of China’s “somewhat difficult to predict changes in regulation, and the perceived high degree in political interference in the Rmb price formation.” the next day, and operate Monday to Friday. As a result, he explained, foreign investors have a lack of trust in the system.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

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. The delicate balance between bank-FinTech competition and collaboration continues to teeter in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

The news comes after hemp-derived CBD was legalized in 2018, noted CNBC. The popularity of CBD products is growing among consumers, and drug store operators want to capitalize on that. In March, Walgreens and CVS said they would start selling CBD-infused products such as creams in its stores.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The implementation occurred in partnership with CME Group and, according to Citi, the software “could materially reduce the cost of back-office operations and speed up margin funding times.”. Currently,” Citi explained in its announcement, “banks have to set aside capital as they wait for collateral to be settled.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

billion in the quarter that closed out 2018. Chief Financial Officer John Shrewsberry was optimistic during his report to analysts on the bank’s performance, highlighting its strong capital position as it returned $6.1 Whomever is chosen, Wells Fargo’s regulators will need to sign off on the pick. billion, up $1.6

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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. Today, 22 of those companies have become unicorns, 17 have exited, and none have shuttered operations. Highlights from the fintech 250 Class of 2018.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

Alternative lenders position themselves as faster, technologically-savvy options for small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) that seek capital, while many of the FinServ providers in the running for RBS funds operate as digital-first companies ready to meet small firms’ need for automation, online platforms and cutting-edge banking services.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

Amid a slew of busted initial public offerings in the tech realm, with Uber and Lyft among them, and the specter of regulators looking into platform firms like Facebook and Google, a recent addition to the pantheon bears watching. The economic potential is also considerable, as in 2018 it is estimated that gig workers earned $1.7

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Tech and Finance

MARCH 8, 2019

From the esteemed Julia Streets: SETL announces start of corporate reorganisation further to successful completion and approval of the regulated CSD development . Of particular note, SETL made significant capital contributions to ID2S, the regulated CSD. Roadmap to position business for strong financial future.

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BankUnderground

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In our paper , we use balance sheet data for 118 UK banks to empirically investigate whether the asset compositions of banks involved in the UK QE operations reacted differently in comparison to banks not involved in the initial rounds of QE between March 2009 and July 2012. QE and central bank reserves. Source: Bank of England. What we do.

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BankBazaar

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

IPO involves complex regulatory filings and months of negotiations with underwriters and regulators. With SPAC, there are no operations, debt, liabilities, and assets, including very few regulatory steps compared to an IPO process. It is comparatively inexpensive and easy to take a SPAC public – not so much the case with IPOs.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Regulators implement ICBA-supported three-year transition. The standard allowance for loan and lease losses (ALLL) used to account for those losses didn’t offer a timely way to adjust regulatory capital. When they do adopt, it will require a bigger reserve and immediately deplete regulatory capital on day one. February 2016.

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CB Insights

APRIL 18, 2019

Earlier this month, news broke that Chinese regulators were considering a ban on cryptocurrency mining (China is currently the world’s largest region for bitcoin mining). However, nothing has been formalized yet, and major mining companies Bitmain and Canaan have said the proposed ban won’t even affect operations.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

The firm’s CEO, Rajeev Suri, predicts that increased operator spending on 5G will start offering significant financial benefits during the later parts of 2018. The deal also helps Nokia calm the nerves of investors concerned about the company’s recent results. Tencent, which has 1.04

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FICO

MAY 18, 2020

Just as organisations were getting to grips with IFRS 9 and its implications, the impact of COVID-19 has created the “perfect storm” for collections as regulators, organisations and customers scramble to understand the economic and financial impact of this pandemic. This is a unique time. Before the Storm Broke…. What has Changed in Practice?

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. Silvergate Capital Corporation (NYSE: SI) #2. The bank consists of two segments: 1) the traditional community bank, and 2) CCBX, which is its Banking as a Service (BaaS) division started in 2018. and Puerto Rico banking laws and regulations.

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CFPB Monitor

JUNE 11, 2019

This bill created the nation’s third regulatory sandbox program for fintechs, after Arizona , which enacted sandbox legislation in March 2018, and Wyoming , which enacted sandbox legislation in February of this year. The size of transactions involving money transmission are similarly regulated on a case-by-case basis.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Sigma aims to streamline business operations. Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community.

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BankUnderground

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Positive liquidity shocks – that is, a loosening of global funding market conditions – have led to exchange rate appreciations, reductions in long-term bond yields, stock market booms, and increased gross capital flows to EMs ( Bhattarai et al (2018) ).

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Despite charging lower fees, the company failed to gain enough traction with merchants who feared giving Amazon detailed data on their overall business operations. An RBC Capital Markets report put the average annual sales of an Amazon Go location at about $1.5M. But in October 2015, the company announced it would be shut down.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

Apple got pushed out of the number-two spot in terms of smartphone shipments for the Q2 of 2018, according to market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). The company handled more payments than Mastercard in 2017, operated the biggest money market fund in the world and served tens of millions of customers.

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