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. What some financial institutions have come to realize is that collaborating with FinTechs can enable them to offer cutting-edge solutions while reserving resources to invest in meeting those advisory needs.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Brexit may dominate the headlines when it comes to the United Kingdom, but FinTech funding proceeds apace, and financial backers show a continued sanguine attitude about the space. based FinTechs said they have garnered more than 200 million pounds. Tim Levene, the CEO of Augmentum Capital, told Yahoo Finance that the U.K.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Small Business Loans | 5 minute read Key Takeaways Credit unions' small business loans hit a record low, while small business lending continues to remain strong at big banks and community banks. Going digital can help reduce the cost of small business lending and capture more member business loans. Talk to an expert.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

With social distancing and an economic downturn the new reality for many markets around the world, venture capital is expected to slow significantly. Yet demand for contactless payments and digital, automated financial solutions means FinTech funding may not take as hard of a hit as other startup segments. In the U.S., KarbonCard.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Online FinTech startup SoFi announced Thursday (Jan. 7) that it was merging with publicly-traded Social Capital in an $8.6 The FinTech IPO Market. billion deal that brings it instant liquidity and avoids the uncertainty of the initial public offering (IPO) process, while leaving it better positioned to take on legacy banks.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

One area of impact is small business finance and lending, with small businesses and lenders seeing a slowdown in demand. Small business lending platform Funding Circle commented on this effect in its latest earnings data, noting that there has been “some deterioration” in its higher-risk small business loan bands in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

Florida FinTech Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) is partnering with London FinTech Liberis , to offer small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) an alternative funding source, FIS announced in a press release Wednesday (Jan. With the introduction of Working Capital, U.S. The round was led by investment firm FTV Capital.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

New York City-based FinTech startup Clair has raised $4.5 million in seed funding to disrupt payday lending schemes and help gig workers and freelancers get paid instantly. A 2019 PYMNTS report indicated that the majority of gig workers would jump platforms and work more in exchange for faster payments. . “We

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Abrigo

JUNE 3, 2019

SBA Lending Can Be a Hidden Gem for Some Institutions. With proper planning and the utilization of technology, SBA lending can boost customer acquisitions and deposits. Many argue that SBA lending is complicated, and while that’s true, it’s actually a good thing. SBA lending rewards financial institutions that are prudent.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

FinTech firm MatchMove has struck a deal to acquire a “strategic stake” in eCommerce solutions company Shopmatic, according to reports. MatchMove’s LightSpeed solution won top honors in the category “Best Payments Innovation of the Year” in the 4th Payments and Cards Awards 2019 held in Mumbai, India.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In terms of the total amount invested to date in FinTechs, as tracked by PYMNTS via the India FinTech Tracker, the year to date tally stands at just under $3.7 Taking the pulse of where we stand coming into the last few months of 2019, deal activity has seemingly been concentrated within the alternative finance and investment arenas.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

This week saw B2B FinTechs targeting a range of pain points for business customers around the world, as investors put nearly $462 million in combined funding into the space. At the same time, Finexio pointed to recent growth with a nearly 300 percent year-over-year growth rate for its 2019 gross dollar volume.

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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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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 26, 2018

This year the financial services industry saw a lot of fintech M&A activity. Here are five deals, in no particular order, that Bank Innovation's editors think will most significantly impact the landscape in 2019. iZettle is […].

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2019

It's the beginning of a new year, and naturally new trends will take shape. The seed for some trends like voice banking and contactless payments were already planted last year, while others such like core overhauls went relatively untouched last year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

A multitude of SMB investors are looking to help, but lending to digitally focused SMBs comes with its own hurdles, including fraud risks and inefficient lending procedures driven by stiff regulatory measures. SMB Lending Risks. Many FinTechs are using these ML applications to accelerate their financing approval processes.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

CircleUp entered the market in 2012 as a data driven variation on venture capital (VC) funding to solve for part of that problem in retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) firms. CircleUp’s lending platform was founded in 2017 to fill that hole and has underwritten about $300 million in loans since then. The first is focus.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

That means that on the brink of 2019, it remains uncertain whether the next year will look more like the best of times or the worst of times when it comes to providing consumers and small businesses (SMBs) with access to financial services — both in and outside the traditional bank-backed channels. The Two Faces Of Consumer Credit.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

With first-quarter earnings reports rolling out, it’s time to take a look at the state of small businesses and how they fared for the first three months of 2019. middle-market in the recently released Golub Capital Altman Index. With Standish Mellon Chief Economist Vincent Reinhart expecting the U.S.’ Beyond the U.S. ,

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Time is running out to apply for Bank Innovation’s DEMOvation Challenge, in which fintech startups demo before a crowd of conference attendees in hopes of earning their vote and walking away with prizes. The application deadline is Friday, February 8. Apply here.

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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. Soon after Lending Club revealed its ex-CEO may have artificially inflated the company’s lending volumes, the U.S. Alternative Lending. alternative lending space this week, too.

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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 customer impact.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Kakao Bank is one of only two digital banks in the country and became profitable in 2019, according to Reuters, after less than two years of operation. Kakao Pay , the FinTech arm of Kakao Corp. Once that goes through, it will be the first South Korean FinTech working in mobile payments to make a public debut.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Avant is best known among its financial services peers as a FinTech firm, founded to throw automation and an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced underwriting process at the problem of creating accessible, affordable personal loans for consumers. This is the bank’s product backed up by our brand.

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

London-based FinTech Revolut is introducing a new feature in the U.K. Adobe adjusted its online sales forecast to $184 billion for the entire holiday season (down from $189 billion), a 30 percent hike over 2019. Stripe Capital Extends Business Lending To Online Platforms.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

To provide a digital lending offering for small business clients, Metro Bank has collaborated with banking software provider ezbob. And, in 2019, Metro Bank received £120 million from the bail-out fund of RBS to bring additional competition into the small business banking market.

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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. All told, they raised over $15B in 2019, in addition to forging new high-profile partnerships, spinning off new ventures, and evolving their products and strategies.

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CB Insights

APRIL 22, 2020

Unlike larger, more established firms, they have small cash buffers and depend on external capital to sustain growth. GET THE 102-PAGE State of fintech REPORT. Nearly 50% of 2019 funding was concentrated in 83 mega-rounds ($100M+) totaling $17.2B. What a cash flow crisis means for fintech companies.

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Abrigo

APRIL 22, 2024

Recent dynamics of the small business lending market A deep understanding of the small business lending landscape and potential efficiencies can help banks and credit unions grow their portfolios. You might also like this guide for smarter, faster small business lending. Record new business formation and a wider gap between U.S.

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CB Insights

APRIL 16, 2019

READ THE 2019 FINTECH TRENDS REPORT. Southeast Asia’s nascent fintech sector is seeing increasing growth. See the data behind this trend and more in our Fintech Trends Report. In 2018, funding to fintech startups across Southeast Asia grew 143% year over year, hitting a record of $485M invested across 68 deals.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2020

Hong Kong-based FinTech Oriente has raised $50 million in its ongoing Series B round, according to finews.asia. Oriente has been seeing gains recently, with 700 percent year-over-year growth in transactions and over 4 million new users in 2019. Its sales volume increased 20 percent for merchant partners last year.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Community Capital Technologies, Denizen Financial, Diro Inc., Six of the startups come from INV Fintech, this website’s sister […]. The 12 startups demoing to try to win the “best in show” award at Bank Innovation Ignite have been unveiled. The startups are:[link] Avocado Payments, Budgit Inc., Exagens Corp.,

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 9, 2019

Welcome to the latest episode of our weekly wrap video series, for the week ending August 9, 2019.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In 6 years, Latin America (LatAm) fintech funding has grown from less than $50M to top $2.1B This has caused some investors to pull back in the region and challenged startups to raise funding from new investors, as illustrated further below by the number of unique investors and startups in the LatAm fintech market. LatAm Fintech.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Credify, which was founded in 2019, said it plans to use the money to expand further into Southeast Asia , to continue with product development and to push forward with live client engagements. South Asia is the fastest-growing market in FinTech and eCommerce, according to Credify. An average of 1.6

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

“I was surprised by the opportunity of monetization in 2020 during the pandemic, not just by our wealth accounts but also by lending.”. It also provides lending services such as merchant cash loans, personal loans, and credit cards.

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