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JANUARY 3, 2020

In late June, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) sent a ripple through the global financial services ecosystem with the announcement of its intention to issue five digital bank licenses to eligible applicants. Only two of the licenses will full digital banking licenses, while the other three will be wholesale banking licenses.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

FinTech startup EasyEuro — based in both Paris, France and Shenzhen, China — has closed a $4 million pre-funding deal to launch a Neobank (a 100 percent digital bank) that will target Europe and China simultaneously, the company announced in a recent blog post.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

Paytm offers a wide array of digital products throughout India, including a merchant payment platform, money transfers, and bill payments. The company, which was valued at $16 billion during a 2019 funding round, is backed by Chinese FinTech titan Ant Financial and Japanese conglomerate Softbank, Reuters said.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 11, 2019

Distributed ledger technology will be crucial to innovation in digital banking this year, according to a poll conducted by Bank Innovation. For the December poll, Bank Innovation asked readers to name a technology, aside from the obvious - artificial intelligence, that would be most prominent in 2019.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

GonzoBankers, 2019 was a year of extremes. There is an understanding that technology and fintech are going to cause radical change, but the how, how big and when are still very unclear. Third, read and enjoy the 2019 edition of the GonzoBanker Awards, our 18 th. THE BANKING AWARDS. Bank Merger of the Year.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Kakao Bank Corp. , a South Korean digital bank, has chosen Credit Suisse and KB Investment & Securities as its advisors for its upcoming initial public offering (IPO), Reuters reported. The bank's most current valuation is estimated to be around 10 trillion won ($9.1 Kakao Pay , the FinTech arm of Kakao Corp.

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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. Latency Advantages.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Even in 2019, there persists this idea in the mainstream that invention stems from the epiphany and late-night toil of the solitary scientist. And that’s where we come to FinTech. As FinTech continues to grow, it becomes ever more clear that the endeavor, to put it one way, is a massive team sport. FinTech Partnerships.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 4, 2022

These fintech and banking trends should be on financial institutions’ radar in the year ahead. This list of top banking and fintech trends for 2022 won’t tell anyone anything they haven’t already heard about. Visa announced the launch of a crypto advisory service for its banking and merchant clients.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The panel included: Doug Bergeron , managing partner at Hudson Executive Capital ; Ian Drysdale , executive in residence at Great Hill Partners ; Amit Jhawar , venture partner at Accel and Rick Roberts , analyst and portfolio manager at Vulcan Capital. That dwarves the 2019 tally of 59 deals for gross proceeds of $13.6

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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.

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CB Insights

JUNE 10, 2021

Nubank , a fintech company, has raised $750M in an extended Series G round that drew participation from Berkshire Hathaway, Sands Capital, CPP Investments, and MSA Capital, among others. The company caters to more than 40M customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, making it the largest digital bank in the world.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

While deals and dollars slowed to Canadian startups in the first half of 2019, early-stage startup activity suggests that there’s more to the story. GET THE ENTIRE 41-PAGE CANADA VC REPORT H1 2019. Canadian VC-backed companies saw funding drop 13% in H1 2019 compared to H1 2018. The 2019 Canadian fintech market map.

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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. First name.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Nigeria-based Kuda , which operates its own mobile-first challenger bank, now has $10 million after a funding round in what TechCrunch reported is the biggest seed round ever raised in Africa. Kuda's bank works with customers and will soon add a capability for small businesses.

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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. percent in 2019, compared to 10.5 percent in 2016. Another perennial challenge the industry faces is the ever-looming threat of data breaches. million CU members.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. Paul Murphy, founder of Murphy & Co.

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Gonzobanker

JUNE 11, 2018

Attendance at American Banker’s Digital Banking conference has grown significantly since I was here in 2016, reflecting the obvious interest levels in digital, yet the vibe remained largely the same as two years ago…. See you can align your business and digital strategy. And yes, you can humanize digital banking.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Danske Bank , the Copenhagen-based retail bank, has partnered with FinTech firm Zenegy to roll out a new method for automating payments made with corporate cards, a report from Crowdfund Insider says. Mastercard also rolled out a service to help with working capital and automation.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

More than 40 percent of United States businesses received at least some of their invoices in 2019 via a form of communication that many younger generations may have trouble identifying, let alone using: fax. This statistic is emblematic of a larger problem in the world of B2B payments. Around The BaaS World. About The Playbook.

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CB Insights

JULY 25, 2019

Fintech is often associated with digital tools targeted at tech-savvy millennials. But there is a growing market of fintech companies serving the unique financial needs of Baby Boomers and older retirees — and for good reason. Fintech services for seniors are targeting a range of sub-categories. Source: Capital One.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 26, 2021

In 2019, the firm launched a $5B Latin American Fund, as well as a second Vision Fund, which has since grown in size to roughly $30B. SoftBank’s capital firepower has helped it become the #2 unicorn investor in the world. It’s on track to reach 197 deals by year-end — nearly 3x its previous record in 2019. Digital banking.

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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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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Gartner focused on technology infrastructure, while Money 20/20 was around fintech and payments. While no presenter touched on it, it was all digital bankers could talk about. To the many community banks and fintechs that have tried creating a digital bank (or are thinking about this), the strategy is misaligned to its core.

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CB Insights

JULY 11, 2019

get the building the bank of the future report. Download the free report to find out about the rise of digital banking, challenger bank strategies and how incumbents are fighting back. oVER 20 Fintech startups with 1m+ customer accounts. fintech startups are Changing the consumer experience.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

For weeks the FinTech industry has been managing fears and anxieties over the future of the novel alternative finance space. Find out which alt lenders secured $77 million in venture capital, as well as the other startups across the U.S., Commercial Banking. D3 Banking. Alternative Lending.

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

An obvious reason is the inroads they’re making into the market, both domestically and globally: recent Accenture research finds that digital-only banks operating in the UK could amass a total of 35 million customers globally within the next 12 months, up from 13 million today. in the year to February 2019. Profitability.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

For financial services, and specifically for FinTech , the ripple effects may keep rippling. But then again, capital is being deployed into the sector, with more than $3 billion coming to FinTechs through the first few months of 2019, up 18 percent from last year, as Innovate Finance estimated.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

For financial services, and specifically for FinTech the ripple effects may keep rippling. But then again, capital is being deployed into the sector, with more than $3 billion coming to FinTechs through the first few months of 2019, up 18 percent from last year, as Innovate Finance estimated.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 13, 2020

The fintech industry is continuing to mature, with Q2’20 setting a new quarterly record for $100M+ mega-rounds and seeing a host of exit activity, including filings to go public from Lemonade , nCino , and Rocket Companies. Free Download: State of Fintech q2’20. Embedded fintech gains traction across applications.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 7, 2021

Launched in a midtown (NYC) basement venue in 2007, Finovate* now organizes 4+ shows annually where fintech startups (as well as a few bigger companies) show their technology in no-Powerpoint 7-min live(ish) demos. The 2019 and 2020 winners are here, 2021 is below. Funding : Unknown (currently seeking capital). HQ: London, UK.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 7, 2021

Launched in a midtown (NYC) basement venue in 2007, Finovate* now organizes 4+ shows annually where fintech startups (as well as a few bigger companies) show their technology in no-Powerpoint 7-min live(ish) demos. The 2019 and 2020 winners are here, 2021 is below. Funding : Unknown (currently seeking capital). HQ: London, UK.

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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. Nov 2019 round.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The wholesale bank will be divided into a separate investment bank that has a capital markets focus and a commercial bank providing back-end services for companies. The consumer bank will be divided into one section focused on consumer lending, and the other on branches and small businesses. As of Friday (Feb.

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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. In August 2019, the company closed out its Series F funding round from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, and General Catalyst at a $35B valuation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

The Financial Times reported since the start of 2019 Revolut has had problems with the Financial Conduct Authority in the U.K., It raised $250 million led by DST Globa a year ago, marking the longest period Revolut has gone through without raising capital. the Advertising Standards Authority and the parliament in Lithuania.

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