PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

The FinTech group is reportedly mulling setting aside a significant number of shares for users if it goes public, but it has yet to make any final decisions, according to Bloomberg, who cited unnamed sources. The FinTech was valued at around $11.7 The FinTech offers a brokerage app that is often favored by inexperienced investors.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2020

Branchless bank and FinTech Green Dot has reported that Dan Henry will step in as its new president and CEO, and will also join the board of directors. Dan is a highly regarded leader and accomplished executive with operational expertise and over two decades of deep experience in the FinTech space. million.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Financial institutions are in the midst of becoming more mobile, with many of those legacy operations opting to — or at least considering — working more closely with FinTech providers to upgrade services, retain customers and acquire new ones. The debut of 5G promises to add another tool that can aid such efforts. Digital Demand.

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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. The new platform provides dynamic marketing campaigns based on members’ transactional, lifestyle and behavioral data. percent in 2019, compared to 10.5

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

FinTech firms are taking on real-time payments for business-to-business (B2B) use cases – and teaming with banking partners to drive innovation. Beyond news of the solution itself, Leleux said an almost bigger story was that a bank had worked with a FinTech and they had won together. (As

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With more than $1 billion raised — and more to come — this week became the most lucrative for B2B FinTech venture capital funding. Digital Risks’ first Series A round closed in 2018.) B2B eCommerce startup Sokowatch scored a win for Kenya’s B2B FinTech community after raising $14 million in Series A funding, reports in TechCrunch said.

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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. Bank technology provider nCino has kept this challenge in mind throughout 2018. PYMNTS: Can you provide some insight into what technologies are affecting these markets? ?.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

When it comes to FinTech firms and lending, might it be that what we don’t know could hurt us? China was the largest market, yet volume has declined in recent periods. Against that backdrop, said Barron’s, “the perils of extremely risky peer-to-peer lending products being marketed as deposit-like securities became clear.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

When PYMNTS asked cross-border payments experts at the end of last year what they thought the driving trend would be for the industry in 2018, the consensus was all about collaboration , particularly between banks and FinTech firms. “The modern-day client expects a seamless transaction experience,” he said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

The Business Securitisation Fund was announced in late 2018 as a way to support small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The first chunk of funding is expected to be available immediately and the AOFM will see funds funneled in from Prospa, Zip and Flexigroup, among other FinTechs.

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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. and India drove a surge in FinTech venture capital funding in 2017, and Accenture Financial Services Senior Managing Director Julian Skan pointed to the B2B business model as a significant presence in this trend.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

The FinTech startup has already created several financial services products, including cryptocurrency and stock trading, savings wallets, junior accounts and rewards. Revolut was granted a European Union banking license in Lithuania in December 2018 and has begun operations in central Europe. billion valuation.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

They want it to be easy and intuitive, and to assume it will be safe and secure. Finding Friendly Ground With FinTech Firms. However, she added, for all the disruption that FinTech firms have brought to financial services in general, they aren’t an adversarial force in the market for credit unions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

The industry indeed proved to be lucrative for FinTechs, with alternative lending often landing at the top of venture capital investment reports with giants like Kabbage , OnDeck and LendingClub securing an early lead in the industry. Remarks made in 2017 from BlueVine CEO Eyal Lifshitz hinted at this emerging trend.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

s financial services market is expanding, with FinTechs — dubbed challenger banks — rivaling traditional financial institutions (FIs). The accounting functionality will be rolled out throughout 2018,” the executive added. We’re launching with banking. Countingup’s launch comes soon after the U.K.

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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. Phone number.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Fraudsters have been increasingly focused on mobile services, with one-third of all fraud attacks worldwide reportedly targeting mobile during the first half of 2018 — a 24 percent year-over-year increase. Financial services providers must run tight ships when offering mobile services, and various techniques can help keep them secure.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

More banks are therefore moving away from legacy core systems to embrace cloud-native architectures to power automation and meet the speed expected by consumers, securely. The partnerships are part of a larger plan by Lloyds Bank to enhance its online banking offerings, an initiative that began in 2018. The bank has designated $3.7

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Insights on Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

Given IBM’s experiences helping clients accelerate their digital transformation journey with Cloud and AI, we’re particularly excited that “Enabling the digital economy” is the Sibos 2018 conference theme. Jim Brill, IBM Financial Services Marketing. IBM at Sibos 2018. Stay tuned for more blogs on Sibos 2018!

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Insights on Business

MARCH 19, 2018

– Saket Sinha, IBM Vice President & Partner, Banking & Financial Markets. To a maximum capacity audience and kicking off an exciting week of IBM Think 2018 in Las Vegas, IBM VP Saket Sinha led the “Intelligent Automation in Financial Services” breakout session. ” IBM leads the way in intelligent automation.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

The Securities & Exchange Commission ( SEC ) has moved to freeze the assets of a $12 million cryptocurrency mining and multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme, Coindesk reports. In Hong Kong, 39 percent of new FinTech firms launched in the last year are now operating via blockchain, Cointelgraph reported.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

You can also store your IDs and secure notes. They see themselves as a platform for managing digital identity, secure by biometrics. 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. This is not your parent’s Muni Market.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The November edition of the PYMNTS Digital Banking Tracker , a Feedzai collaboration, features an interview about how credit unions can attain AI, a scorecard of industry players and the latest headlines surrounding AIs, digital security and new digital banks. Around the Digital Banking World. percent cash back on debit card transactions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2018

The B2B payments market is already enjoying a solid year, thanks to some of the biggest names in payments and FinTech taking a solid stance in the space. You have to do so in a thoughtful way, one bit at a time, versus either assuming the answer is simple or assuming the market is complex and there is an easy answer.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2019

FinTech company Revolut wants to raise as much as $1.5 According to The Financial Times , a source familiar with the matter revealed that the company has hired JPMorgan to raise $500 million in new equity from investors, as well as secure a $1 billion convertible loan. bringing Revolut’s total global footprint to 56 markets.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

The subscription eCommerce market is a favorite among consumers and businesses, growing more than 100 percent annually for the past five years. Preventing fraud with seamless and secure onboarding solutions is key. million fraud reports in 2018, resulting in $1.48 The Budget-Busting Impact of Continuity Subscription Scams.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Just last week, Deloitte found that in 2016 alone, nearly 27,000 new blockchain projects surfaced on the market. HPE said its distributed ledger technology (DLT) solution is faster and more secure than bitcoin or Ethereum blockchains. Today, only 8 percent of them remain active. More Support for Blockchain in Trade. Scrutiny Heightens.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

According to a Crunchbase article published in February of 2018, investments in blockchain and blockchain-related startups (excluding initial coin offerings, or ICOs) were already 40 percent of what they were in 2017. billion in 2018 from $945 million in 2017 and will grow more than 80 percent year over year to reach $9.7 And to learn.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. Mexico has crafted its upcoming rules with similar developments in mind, especially as its 2018 law makes the market more attractive to FinTechs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2020

In other Indian business news , Tracxn data has indicated that B2B FinTech firms saw $14.5 billion in technology startup funding last year, a new record for the market, and almost $4 billion higher than it saw in 2018. B2B FinTech firms overall secured more than $33.5 million in new funding.

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Insights on Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

Given IBM’s experiences helping clients accelerate their digital transformation journey with Cloud and AI, we’re particularly excited that “Enabling the digital economy” is the Sibos 2018 conference theme. Jim Brill, IBM Financial Services Marketing. IBM at Sibos 2018. Stay tuned for more blogs on Sibos 2018!

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The China Securities Regulatory Commission , China’s security watchdog, is setting up a technology regulation bureau and will announce Yao Qian as its new department chief, the Chinese business publication Caijing said on Wednesday (Dec. 11), as reported by Coindesk.

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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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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

B2B payments hub Qolo has introduced a new all-in-one payment solution, aiming to address issues with speed, security and costs for B2B payments, a press release says. The service will also use secure fraud detection systems and keep data safe, the press release says. CEO Patricia Montesi said the structure is “holistic.”. “By

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Privitar , a UK-based startup focused on developing enterprise privacy software, announced a strategic minority investment from Citigroup on December 10, 2018. We previously highlighted Privitar as a startup to watch in the market map below. The Future of Data Security. Track the Future of Data Security.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

The State Bank of Vietnam granted FinTech startup GPay a 10-year license to provide intermediary payment services in the country — electronic payment portals, payment services, digital money transfer services and eWallet services. The technology holding company also has member businesses in gaming, security and financial services. .

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