Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This Year was brought to you by the number 2020 and the letters W, T and F” – Big Bird (more or less). Sit back and enjoy our take on the best and worst of banking in 2020 as you celebrate the holidays. Most Oft-Heard Statements of 2020. Kudos to blazing new trails that many institutions are taking on in 2020.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs. Until March of 2020.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

German food delivery platform Delivery Hero is launching its own early-stage venture capital (VC) firm — DX Ventures — that will be managed independently to focus on advancing founder-led startups. The company went public in 2017 on the Frankfurt stock exchange, and in 2020 became part of the blue-chip index DAX (Deutscher Aktienindex).

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Bobsguide

JULY 28, 2020

New data from Innovate Finance found that UK fintechs pulled over $1.84bn (£1.4bn) in venture capital investments during the first half of 2020. The findings show that the UK fintech market is still growing despite coronavirus, with investments up 22 percent in the first half of the year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

While businesses have more sources of capital than ever before, from bank loans to initial coin offerings to alternative online investments, experts are urging small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to take a strategic approach to their fundraising efforts — often by combining a variety of funding sources to mitigate risk. Flutterwave.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

They have helped smooth COVID-19 pandemic-induced economic shocks, increased the resilience of developing nations throughout 2020, and they present a potential lifeline for recovery in 2021 and beyond. “Person-to-person international transfers form by far the largest foreign economic support for developing economies.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Despite the pandemic, venture capital dollars are flowing freely to nascent firms in Asia that are tackling the need for contactless interactions and platforms that match supply and demand — setting the stage for innovation on the other side of the public health crisis.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

In today’s top news, China is facing a “capital winter” of venture funding slowdown, the U.S. Chinese Tech Sector Faces Capital Crunch. China is facing a “capital winter” — a significant funding slowdown and drop in fundraising activities — after a venture capital boom and fall. billion ($2.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Capital One ’s domestic card business provided strong results and continued to pick up momentum, the bank said on Thursday (October 24). In terms of innovation, Fairbank said, “We remain all-in on our technology transformation and our progress continues to accelerate.” billion, an increase of $1.7 billion, an increase of $1.5

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Perficient

MAY 26, 2021

In the session “Differentiating Your Brand for the Digital Era,” Scott will discuss how financial services companies can leverage digital technologies in new and innovative ways to create new value for consumers and businesses. The presentation will occur on June 10 at 4:00 p.m.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

There seem to be countless sources of collateral damage associated with the unexpected appearance of COVID-19 in early 2020 – the shutdown of production in China, the ripples through the global supply chain, the virtual zeroing out of the travel and events vertical and the carnage on Wall Street. An Opportunity for Innovation .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2020

The first half of 2020 was a tough time to run a small business on Main Street as stay-at-home orders closed down restaurants and retailers for much or all of the past five months. That left small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) scrambling to rapidly switch to digital to keep at least some revenue coming in.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Much of what commercial card innovators seek to address is a massive pain point for adoption: supplier acceptance. However, in this week’s Commercial Card Innovation roundup, it wasn’t the point of friction that technology firms were addressing. Check out the latest in corporate card innovation below.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Not just any decade, but one that has seen unprecedented levels of innovation touch nearly every industry segment and almost every corner of the world. Only then, he said, can one get clarity about how those dots can guide innovators about the future. 2020 Trendline One: Rapid Acceleration Of Cash To Digital Payments.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist hedge fund controlled by activist investor William Ackman, now has about a 1.1 The program lasts through 2020 and marks a $10 billion increase from what it said back in November. percent stake in Starbucks. The comments coming out of the June conference drove the stock lower.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In this episode, editors discuss the following news developments: Gulf Capital Bank raised $93 million to expand; Business and financial software company Intuit plans to buy personal finance platform Credit Karma for $7.1 Welcome to the latest episode of our Weekly Wrap series, for the week ending Friday, Feb.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The world is quite a different place than it was six months ago, and with the 2020 holiday season fast approaching, the pressure is on to meet revenue goals in what’s been an uncertain year. And we saw this—a lot of creativity, a lot of innovation, and again, resolving a lot of uncertainty pretty quickly. ?.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

Hong Kong’s travel and leisure booking platform Klook has closed a $200 million Series E funding round led by Aspex Management , with participation by Sequoia Capital China , SoftBank Vision Fund, Matrix Partners China and Boyu Capital , according to a press release.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 30, 2024

IT is spending as a percentage of revenue compared to years past, like 2019, when banks did not invest enough in IT, and 2020, when banks had to spend more than revenue growth allowed because of the pandemic. Benchmarking can help banks better optimize capital as it gives bank management a sense of what the average is for the industry.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Investors in the latest financing included Prospect Avenue Capital, Guiotai Junan International, and Nan Fung Group. Lighthouse Capital served as the exclusive financial adviser. A Series B round conducted in October 2020 raised $100 million.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Today in the payments news roundup, Stripe launched Stripe Capital to simplify the way internet companies can access funds. Stripe unveiled the rollout of Stripe Capital to simplify the way internet companies can access funds. It will reportedly be available in Europe by early 2020. generated $6.13 Stripe Gets Into Lending.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

While P2P platforms were touted as an innovative way to match savers with small borrowers, the marketplace has had troubles globally. Earlier this year, PYMNTS reported China’s P2P lending market was headed for more turbulence in 2020 as more of its popular platforms face potentially being shut down as the government tightens regulations.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Consumers, businesses and financial institutions (FIs) cannot wait to bid adieu to 2020, which has been one of the most trying years in recent memory. Many CUs have since leaned into these efforts with digital innovations aimed at a range of issues, such as tackling fraud or enhancing members’ remote banking access. About The Tracker.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Female FinTech entrepreneurs are getting left out of funding even as record venture capital money is being pumped into startups. billion in the first three quarters of 2020, which is 20 percent more than the same period in 2019. Companies that did get funding received only 0.9 percent of total monies raised. .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Belgium’s capital city is becoming known for more than just housing major international institutions like EU Parliament, EU Commission and NATO. The city was ranked as a strong innovator by the latest edition of the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS 2016). The region is also home to an active and fast-growing startup scene.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In this episode, editors discuss the following news developments: Gulf Capital Bank raised $93 million to expand; Business and financial software company Intuit plans to buy personal finance platform Credit Karma for $7.1 Welcome to the latest episode of our Weekly Wrap series, for the week ending Friday, Feb.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Consumers waited on financial institutions (FIs) to innovate in an odd relationship that put business needs before customers’ needs. A separate study found that 88 percent of credit unions surveyed in early 2020 planned to invest more in such technologies than they had over the previous year. It was all on their timetable. Not anymore.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

In today’s top digital-first banking news, Goldman Sachs has selected FinTech startup Marqeta to power digital checking accounts for Marcus, while California credit card startup X1 notched $12 million in a funding round headed up by Spark Capital. economy had moderate gains in the pandemic year of 2020.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Scan recent headlines and you’ll see that Equifax bought Ansonia Credit Data; Corsair Capital bought B2B payments solution provider MSTS, and OnDeck was bought out. Against such resistance, good, innovative ideas died and continue to die quickly, he said. Western Union has been public about its desire for acquisitions.

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Bobsguide

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

BDB offers conventional and Islamic business finance services, venture capital and investment advisory to small and medium enterprises across multiple industries in the Kingdom of Bahrain. TCS BaNCS will enable BDB to launch new innovative products faster.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Our new financing will allow us to further distinguish our offerings and customer experience as an industry innovator," said Modal CEO and Founder Aaron Krane. Honda Xcelerator, is an innovation program that facilitates partnerships between startups and Honda business units globally.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

The bond, which is due August 2020, is the first bond created, allocated, transferred and managed through its life-cycle using distributed ledger (blockchain) technology. It’s managed by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia ( CBA ), RBC Capital Markets ( RBC ) and TD Securities ( TD ).

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Throughout 2019, banks continued to partner with startups in their efforts to build multi-service platform offerings. These relationships have been necessary to help institutions evolve their distribution models and enable startups to develop product offerings that meet customer expectations. digital partnerships team in Chicago, is […].

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2016

Online Shoppers Are Reshaping The Retail Experience,” attempts to forecast just exactly what retail might look like come 2020. First and foremost, think that, by 2020, retailers (at least the successful ones) will have “fully embraced” the use of digital technology.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It is estimated that the worldwide pandemic will propel 88 million to 115 million people into extreme poverty in 2020, a number that could hit 150 million by 2021. percent in 2020 if the pandemic had not happened. “In Extreme poverty — living on less than $1.90 per day — affects an estimated 9.1

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While this partnership model remains popular, market volatility has once again created a need to connect more SMBs to capital as quickly and efficiently as possible. In Canada, one of those alternative players is Thinking Capital. This is a market that's going to be digital-first in the future," he said. The Digital-First Approach.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

Globe Fintech Innovations of the Philippines, the FinTech arm of Globe Telecom , landed $175 million in additional venture funding this month. The company “made significant gains in 2020 that further cemented our status as the leading finance app in the country,” Ernest L. Nikkei Asia reported on Wednesday (Jan.

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