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

MARCH 13, 2019

Naspers, Africa’s largest company based on market value, is gearing up to spend $1 billion in India in the form of investments focused on the financial technology market. At the time Naspers said proceeds would go toward growth opportunities in global classified, online food delivery and FinTech.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

Financial technology services company WEX is going to acquire Discovery Benefits (DBI) , an employee benefits administrator, the company announced on Thursday (Jan. It will also expand diverse market channels, including consulting firms and brokers. In 2018 alone, the company generated $100 million in revenue.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

In today’s top news, China’s economy grew by its slowest rate since 1990, Alphabet reached $1 trillion market value, and attempted check fraud spiked 43 percent. Alphabet Market Cap Hits $1T. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, reached $1 trillion market value, joining Apple, Amazon and Microsoft in hitting the milestone.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Welcome to FinovateFall 2018. and I are looking forward to watching the future of fintech unfold live on stage. There are a number of great events in FinTech but this one I do my best to attend each year. William Mills III, Chief Executive Officer of William Mills Agency is live blogging today at FinovateSpring 2018.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2018

Coming up on the half mark in 2018, total fundraising on the continent has hit $168.6 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. million — already ahead of 2017’s full-year take of $167.7 So why the boom?

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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 terms of the deal weren’t released.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

And of course, SMB lending has been a huge focus for fintech. While this is true everywhere, this is a particular challenge in a market like India. MuniRisk solves information fragmentation for municipal market participants. The municipal bond market has always been pretty low on the radar for most firms. Unsung heroes?

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

At the top of the list, according to reports, is incoming FinTech disruption, legislation like PSD2, market shifts stemming from Brexit and more. Corporate treasurers gathered for the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) annual conference last week, and there, treasury professionals made clear where their priorities stand today.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

The startup said this was the largest funding round ever for a French FinTech. Qonto intends to squeeze more out of its existing markets, improve and upgrade the offerings on its platform, and focus more on local needs. In 2018, Qonto was awarded a payment institution license, developing its own banking apparatus from there.

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William Mills

JANUARY 25, 2018

–Research and perspective provided by 45 sources in free report for the financial industry–. William Mills Agency, the largest independent public relations and content marketing firm specializing in the financial industry, released its 15th annual financial services industry report, Bankers As Buyers 2018 today.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The year 2018 was a record year for small business (SMB) optimism in the U.S., The Bank of America Business Advantage “ Fall 2018 Small Business Owner Report ” found continued positivity among the nation’s small businesses, and in their outlook for the months ahead. are at the highest they have been in three years.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Last year, East & Partners released a report , “Financial Technology and the Corporate,” that revealed 13 percent of corporate treasurers and CFOs had already entirely switched their banking provider. Their key motivation, the report found, was to access enhanced FinTech.

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Insights on Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The IBM team will present on a variety of topics ranging from AI to the future of payments to the current trends in financial services. Monday, October 22, 2018. For those in marketing, data and analytics roles who have business operations responsibility. Building blocks for a fintech world: Hands-on workshop.

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NCR

MAY 25, 2016

The disruption caused recently by the emergence of a wide range of new financial technology (Fintech) players has been a huge jolt for the banking sector, and reminded traditional players that they cannot afford to be complacent in the face of these competitors. An opportunity for collaboration.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

To that end, Far Point Acquisition – which operates as a “blank check” company that focuses on financial technology deals – said on Thursday (Jan. The announcement comes on the heels of Visa’s announcement that it would buy FinTech firm Plaid for $5.3 raised $550 million in its initial public offering (IPO) in June of 2018.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The Asia-Pacific region is a rising star in FinTech innovation, but this week, the blockchain spotlight landed on Singapore as more distributed ledger initiatives from the private and public sectors took major steps forward. The nation’s excitement over distributed ledger technology (DLT) cannot be ignored. Visa Tests B2B Connect.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

While financial services (FinServ) innovations often emerge with built-in security measures, new market trends — including faster payments and open banking — are introducing new security threats to corporate treasury departments, according to cybersecurity company BioCatch. The tactic is relatively simple.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

At best—its originator and Visa’s SVP and global head of innovation and go-to-market, Shiv Singh, told Karen Webster—back in 2015, it was a mini project, a toe in the water to engage an entirely new audience for Visa: the developer. In 2018, participating U.S. An Ends-Oriented Approach. The Upcoming Season. A World of Challenges.

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Insights on Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Every year, Money20/20 is one of my favorite conferences because I get to hear firsthand how leaders are reinventing financial services and are making fundamental shifts in technology, processes, people–and ultimately their own markets–to deliver better customer experiences, build skilled workforces, and solve industry-wide challenges.

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CB Insights

JULY 16, 2017

Attune currently provides a tech analytics platform for brokers to streamline the Business Owner’s Policy quoting and binding process using data from public and private sources and has plans to add Excess and Worker’s Comp to its platform by 2018. Allianz Ventures. Number of investments: 7.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

The goal is to become one of the most valuable financial technology startups in the world as it eyes a region-wide expansion and seeks a valuation between $8 billion and $10 billion, according to reports in Recode. The goal, according to Ripple, is to add an average of two or three new financial institutions per week to RippleNet.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

Goldman Sachs as FinTech player? Call it FinTech for the masses, done with higher rates on savings than might be seen elsewhere, and where those rates are going higher by several basis points, starting, well … now. The digital age is upon us, though, and the bank is proving nimbler than perhaps some might think. and the U.K.,

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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. Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms. Fiserv is one of the top two US FinTech companies focusing mainly on core systems.

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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. million people.

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2018

Live briefing: BLOCKCHAIN TRENDS IN 2018. Join us for a deep dive into blockchain in 2018. While the blockchain-related announcements range from the credible to the laughable to the possibly criminal, the analysis overall demonstrates the market’s bullish attitude toward blockchain and crypto. Industry: Fintech.

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CB Insights

JULY 1, 2018

2018 VC Report: AI FUNDING LEPT 29% IN US. AR/VR : Augmented/Virtual reality companies include AdHawk Microsystems , which creates eye-tracking technology to solve problems faced by AR/VR manufacturers. Fintech: The financial technology category has the greatest number of startups in our table.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Today, the bots are still being used across industries like fintech, healthcare, sales and CRM, retail, and even law — and they’re having important, though quiet, effects. Fintech: Contract review & bill negotiation. By 2018, news coverage of chatbots was in decline. In January 2018, Facebook closed down M.

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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. Visa — One Market Center. As of 2018, Digit has raised over $36M through subsequent rounds of funding.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Comments on the proposal must be received by October 10, 2018. The revised TDP Policy would provide that the Bureau “is interested in entering into agreements with State authorities designed to improve upon existing disclosure requirements by allowing covered persons to test disclosures within the state sandbox.”

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