CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

CB Insights has unveiled the third annual Fintech 250 — a list of 250 of the top private fintech companies using technology to transform financial services. The 2020 Fintech 250 cohort has raised approximately $49.2B 25+ winners will be presenting at our upcoming fully virtual Future of Fintech Conference (Nov.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The London-based FinTech B-Social raised £7.8 million in seed funding as it prepares to rebrand as Kroo and become a full-fledged bank, reports said on Wednesday (Feb. million as the company continues the journey to becoming a fully-licensed bank. . “We He expects to submit the full banking application in Q2 2020.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 31, 2019

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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Gonzobanker

MAY 4, 2020

All the capital flowing into the digital fintech space is helping to solve banking industry challenges. As the industry’s appetite for digital technology grows, the capital that’s been flowing into mostly digital-focused fintech is solving real industry challenges right now. SoFi/Galileo: This $1.2

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Insights on Business

DECEMBER 27, 2017

As we wrap up an unpredictable and sometimes tumultuous year in both the fintech industry and the world, we’re looking back at the last 12 months of IBM FinTech blogs to pick out some of the more popular and insightful posts of 2017. Some even say that blockchain will be the most influential FinTech technology of 2018.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

The debit card was introduced early in 2018 in Europe. Glint Pay users use a bank account to purchase actual gold held in a vault in Switzerland, and the company charges a 0.5 Banks aren’t necessarily a secure place for your money,” he said. They lend out more than they have.”. percent transaction fee.

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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. Below, we dive into where the Fintech 250 Class of 2018 startups are now. GET THE 102-PAGE q4 2019 FINTECH TRENDS REPORT.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2019

Launched in August 2018, Wanwu Xinxuan is an online retail platform selling children’s apparel, shoes and accessories. And Experian Australia & New Zealand announced that it has acquired FinTech Look Who’s Charging. The deal combines Experian’s global open data solutions with Look Who’s Charging’s advanced enrichment capabilities.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 25, 2019

Fiserv acquiring First Data Corporation is a huge deal in the fintech world. Twenty-two billion dollars is a monster-size deal, but at 2X First Data’s annual revenue, the price is a way lower revenue multiple than the growth-oriented digital mashups lining up in the market. Diversification versus Concentration.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

SME Lending for the Indian marketplace. Uses video to capture a bank statement via AI processing to improve results. Efficiency gains in getting and processing paper records that are used in the lending review process. ^DG. And of course, SMB lending has been a huge focus for fintech. 09:15 am MuniRisk.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Canadian VC-backed companies saw funding drop 13% in H1 2019 compared to H1 2018. Finally, looking at Canadian “fintech” (financial technology) specifically, funding was up substantially in the first half of the year. Canadian fintech companies raised $251M through the end of H1’19, nearly double the $133M raised in H1’18.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

GonzoBanker mothership Cornerstone Advisors’ recent What’s Going On In Banking 2021 research points to digital account opening being the top bank tech replacement priority in mid-size banks for the third year in a row. Digital banking providers answered the demand with digital account opening solutions.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Consumers have been banking online for 28 years. And from the very beginning, there have been pure-play digital banking startups. The first, online bank Security First Network Bank (SFNB) launched in 1995, just a year after Amazon.com. But unlike ecommerce, digital-only banking was slow to catch on.

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CB Insights

MARCH 8, 2018

Digital banking startups — or challenger banks — have gained traction over the past few years by bringing retail banking services mobile. Banks in Fintech: what’s ahead in 2018. Join us for data-driven look at how major banks are approaching fintech investments and taking on insurgents.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2020

Sujith Narayanan and Sumit Gwalani, both co-founders of Google Pay India — formerly called Google Tez — said the seed funding brings the neo-bank startup epiFi to a valuation of roughly $50 million. When we were building Google Tez, we realized that a consumer’s financial journey extends beyond digital payments.

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Fintech is expensive. Fintech is everywhere. Fintech is the global competition for regulation, talent, and macroeconomic supremacy. Fintech is the trade war between the US and China. Fintech is the trade war between the US and China. Fintech is Facebook and Amazon. Fintech is the next bubble to burst.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

There are just two China-based fintech businesses valued at over $100B in the world. The second, conceivably, is Tencent’s fintech business. In May 2019, Barclays released a note estimating the value of Tencent’s fintech business at $123B, or close to a third of the company’s total market cap.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

Consumers demand easy, digital banking, but this pressure for banks to deliver is also coming from corporate clients. Take mobile banking, which has propelled the introduction of mobile-only banks to meet demand for better services on smaller screens.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

Digital banking is not the main element that drives consumers toward using a credit union. However, as Lumin Digital President Jeff Chambers told Karen Webster in a recent conversation, that doesn’t mean the digital banking experience isn’t critical to credit unions’ relationships with their members.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 2, 2018

One of the biggest trends in fintech today is the rise of digital banking products like mobile checking accounts and new debit cards. From Square to Paypal, a host of fintechs are creating products that let consumers spend money directly out of digital accounts using a physical card. get the 86-page fintech report.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Credit unions (CUs) have followed banks’ digital banking lead, churning out platforms, services and mobile apps for consumers to use speedy, convenient online services. Only 15 percent of surveyed CU executives expected the same. Half of U.S.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 26, 2021

Many of these edtech companies digitize traditionally in-person services like tutoring or test prep — a use case that accelerated tremendously during the pandemic. . The fintech sector represents the second-most frequent investment target for SoftBank in 2021, with 26 fintech companies garnering deals. . Digital banking.

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Insights on Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

This movement — core to cloud — is essential for banks seeking to modernize their legacy systems and become agile and flexible. This is especially true if they’re going to compete with new digital banks and platform companies that are unhindered by the legacy applications and infrastructure. IBM at Sibos 2018.

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Accenture

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Some themes endure year-after-year, as shown in the table below—real-time payments, cybersecurity, fintechs, blockchain and open APIs. Perhaps they are unsurprising, but individually each shows it is a driver of enduring change, and together they show how the industry is transforming and rotating to the new digital era.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 7, 2018

Tuesday, July 31, 2018, may go down in history as Fintech Day in the United States. Treasury Department released a 222-page report titled A Financial System That Creates Economic Opportunities: Nonbank Financials, Fintech, and Innovation , and the OCC announced it would consider charter applications from fintech companies.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

And how did community banks and credit unions respond to the COVID craziness? Financial institutions went from having no PPP lending program at all to funding their first loan in 90 days – and this with literally last-minute regulatory guidance. There have been many come-and-go digital banks. THE VENDOR AWARDS.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Their were 9 fintech companies and one healthtech. Description: Alternative credit scoring and lending in emerging markets. Founded: Aug 2018. Description: Digital banking and spend management platform for global NGOs. Founded: 2018. Envel is the New Simple Bank (Fintech Startup of the Week).

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). 7 born this month (Digit Insurance, Divvy, Mambu, Melio Payments, MX, PPro, Sunlight Financial). + It is the 7th fintech unicorn based in India, and the 4th most valuable. Full Fintech Unicorn List. 2018 round.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 26, 2020

27 of the total were fintech companies, a fairly typical 14% of the YC batch. Though back when YC was just starting, only a handful were fintech. In the first 9 years of YC (2005 thru 2013), only 24 YC companies were in the fintech space though two of those early participants are now decacorns ($10B+). Year Fintech.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This deal looks good for Temenos, Kony and the banking industry clients of both firms. The digital banking market continues a long burn—this time like the smoke of a Texas summer barbecue. Geneva-based Temenos’ announced the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based digital application provider Kony in a deal totaling $580 million.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Fifty-four percent of small business owners say they are optimistic about the national economy , found Bank of America’s 2018 Business Advantage Small Business Owner Report. and global stock markets are also top concerns among entrepreneurs surveyed by the bank. dollar, commodities pricing and the U.S.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

What these startups share is the goal of creating customer-centric banking products that target underserved individuals and businesses. DOWNLOAD THE 61-PAGE consumer banking REPORT. See which startups are helping JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Citi build the digital banking platforms of the future.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In an interview at CB Insights’ 2019 Future of Fintech conference, CFO and CPO William Gaybrick indicated that businesses are more constrained by developer resources than by capital. Business lending and corporate cards. Most recently, Stripe has launched a Corporate Card and a Lending product geared towards small businesses.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

One word can summarize this action-packed banking year, GonzoBankers – tiring. FinTech threats and distractions. While the darling of FinTech conferences, this divestiture seems primarily driven as a means of Customers delaying the $10 billion Durbin hit and maintaining quarterly EPS expectations from the Street. Payments chaos.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 12, 2021

Digital Lenders: Year Founded. 2015 to 2018 >>> 7. Digital Lenders (ranked by our FAB score*). 25. *(As nerds do) We are developing a proprietary score measuring adoption of private digital financial services companies that do not release traditional metrics (# customers, loans, orginations, etc). Funding $M.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 23, 2018

Learn about the playbooks of today’s top banks as they digitally re-position their consumer products. Today, JPMorgan (JPM) is using its capital and scale to build an entirely digital bank. JPM’s digital push, a theme it refers to as “Mobile First, Digital Everything,” is showing positive early results.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

Welcome to FinovateSpring 2018. There are a number of great events in FinTech but this one I do my best to attend each year. A TON of really old technology is being used in mortgage lending. Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms. Good job AI Foundry!

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