PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Investment bank Financial Technology Partners is advising AvidXchange on this fundraising round, according to sources. The firm has 1,300 employees across offices in seven states and is distinguished as a global FinTech unicorn. This latest fundraising could top $300 million. The company announced on Thursday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

The startup said this was the largest funding round ever for a French FinTech. Qonto is operational in Spain, France, Italy and Germany, and handled €10 billion ($11.08 In 2018, Qonto was awarded a payment institution license, developing its own banking apparatus from there. billion USD) in transaction volume last year. .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

billion in 2018 and makes up 60 percent of all attempted fraud against U.S. Far Point Acquisition — which focuses on financial technology deals —said it would buy Global Blue, a payments company based in Switzerland, for $2.6 Check fraud has spiked from $8.5 billion in 2016 to $15.1

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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 billion euros. The IPO – and Other Attractions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Increasingly, treasurers want to streamline operations by consolidating their financial services under fewer providers, the report noted. Their key motivation, the report found, was to access enhanced FinTech. Artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive technologies are also growing on banks’ radars, the report said.

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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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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. Presenter Profile: How they describe themselves: AI Foundry uses AI and user-guided machine learning to transform enterprise operations by integrating information, people and processes.

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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.

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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. Number of investments: 7.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella referred to chat as the “third run-time” — an indispensable piece of operating a platform, second only to the operating system and the web browser. Mentions of chatbots in earnings calls and press releases skyrocketed, and for many, it seemed that chatbots might be the next big disruptive technology.

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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

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. As of 2018, Digit has raised over $36M through subsequent rounds of funding. Get the entire 43-page PDF.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In the years since the Great Recession, financial institution executives became increasingly optimistic. In Cornerstone Advisors’ annual What’s Going On In Banking study, CEO optimism hit a five-year high in 2017 and, for the most part, stayed that way for 2018. Stay on track with the tech refresh cycle.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 8, 2019

In December 2018, the CFPB issued proposed revisions to its 2016 final policy on issuing no-action letters, together with a proposal to create a new “product sandbox.”. Earlier this year, the House Financial Services Committee established two task forces , one on financial technology and the other on artificial intelligence.

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