PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Singapore-based FinTech Grab is mulling a U.S. Sources told Reuters that Grab is looking to take advantage of the red-hot IPO market in the U.S. If the company chooses to proceed, the IPO could be the largest market debut ever made by a Southeast Asian company on a foreign exchange.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The year 2020 was going to be a wild ride for London’s financial services firms even without COVID-19. But the panelists agreed that, such challenges aside, London remains the world’s second-largest financial services market – and a place where every FinTech wants to be. “It When we were looking to expand outside of the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Singapore-based FinTech platform Nium is expanding into the Middle East, the company announced on Monday (Oct. FinTech across the Middle East is also set to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 30 percent, and expected to raise over $2 billion in venture capital funding by 2020.".

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Chris Skinner

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Building on my blog post last week, showing the views of 1997, it was clear years ago that banking was under siege. Tesco thought that most banks were “a bunch of clowns”, but never cracked the market and still have not. Sainsbury may have onboarded … The post How is 2020’s banking different to 1990’s banking?

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

have established an $800 million fund to boost trade finance in emerging markets. Across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting supply chains, decreasing demand, and causing overall market anxiety,” said Paulo de Bolle , global director of IFC’s Financial Institutions Group, in a statement. The International Finance Corp. (

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has removed the choice and forced FIs and customers to interact via digital platforms, though, and brick-and-mortar branches have become auxiliary services with limited use for more complicated financial tasks for those who remain branch-dependent. Confronting Digital Banking Reality.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2021

The adoption of fintech apps has skyrocketed throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, spurring further growth and investor interest in this category. Fintech had one of the most successful quarters in history in Q1’21 , with record deals, funding, exits, and mega-rounds. . Big tech investment in fintech companies reached $2.2B

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

In today’s top payments news, JPMorgan blocks FinTechs from accessing customers’ passwords, and Ant Financial and Razer throw their hats into the ring for one of Singapore’s five available digital banking licenses. Plus, Indonesia is planning to implement flat-rate fees for certain digital wallet transactions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

As evidence that sandboxes are ever-increasingly a global phenomenon, Kuwait’s central bank put forth guidelines this week that are geared toward companies seeking to meld financial technology (FinTech) and financial services (FinServ). As previously reported, Saudi Arabia has trained sights on FinTech as well, specifically in Riyadh.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 17, 2020

Well GonzoBankers, the gang is back to work and we are all headed face-first into 2020 – a year with more uncertainty than most about how things will turn out. So, to get your Gonzo executive brains warmed up for a new year, I offer you 20 important banking realities for 2020 to guide your strategic execution efforts: 1.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The market for wearables is expected to reach nearly $70 billion by 2025, according to research firm IDTechEX , with healthcare-related products seeing the most growth. CNBC noted that the smartwatch market alone has doubled in size to $13 billion over the past three years, with Apple , Google and Samsung all actively competing in the space.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2019

In an effort to expand access to financial institutions (FIs), the Central Bank of Nigeria is planning to license more payment providers, Bloomberg reported on Saturday (Nov. The goal is to improve Nigeria’s financial inclusion rate by 20 percent, bringing it to 80 percent by the end of 2020.

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BankInovation

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

CB Insights last week unveiled its Fintech 250 list, which compiles what it deems the 250 best private fintech companies of 2020. “The From capital markets to insurance and digital banking to […].

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

Brazil’s unicorn FinTech and payments startup EBANX is trialing a digital wallet, called Ebanx Go, with 10,000 consumers on a test basis, the company announced on Wednesday (Jan. The digital wallet offering is intended to solidify the FinTech’s reach in the Brazilian payments market.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2020

In the latest Merchants Guide To Navigating Global Payments Regulations , PYMNTS analyzes the international impact of the regulations, as well as how banks, merchants and regulators are adapting to Open Banking and security protection rules of their own as developments emerge in Europe. Open Banking And The Race To Enter Singapore.

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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

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

It’s not easy being small — especially in business, and often when it comes to banking and payments. The bigger players take up more space at the table, and, for various reasons, often face fewer barriers to market entry and expansion than small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). However, that’s changing. New Venture.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

number of big crypto custodians like Anchorage, Coinbase, and a number of others, have been contacted by banks about whether they’d be willing to be like the third-party custody providers for national banks whose customers want to invest in bitcoin,” he said, according to CoinDesk. “Well, what I have heard.a UNICAS is a project of U.K.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 5, 2021

In the past few years, the burgeoning popularity of digital banks has only underscored the severity of these problems, with upstarts like Chime and SoFi offering cheaper, faster, and more convenient banking experiences. . get the state of challenger banks report. The future for digital banking. First name.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2018

Coverage includes Oracle ’s decision to bring its FinTech Innovation Program to Brussels. The blockchain is gaining traction in India , where the market for such technology is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 58 percent during 2018 to 2024, according to a report from 6Wresearch.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

The Vietnamese eCommerce market is getting crowded with numerous different companies to choose from, a Financial Times (FT) report says, leading to a clash between Shopee and Alibaba. Sea recently purchased Indonesia's Bank BKE, PYMNTS writes, which lines up with the company's goal to boost its stature as a FinTech trailblazer.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

DST Global led the Chime’s previous funding round that closed in March, which valued the digital bank startup at about $1.5 A second office is slated for Chicago and by the end of 2020, the company expects to more than double its staff. It is also contemplating the purchase of other FinTech firms, the source said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

All of these new FinTechs and digital innovators are changing the landscape as the role of payments rapidly shifts in the broader financial services arena. These aren't small companies or digital innovators,” he noted. These are $100 billion market cap companies that are sitting in the middle of the payments supply chain.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

A tech upstart – a FinTech, no less – breaking even in 2020? We’re being a bit tongue in cheek, but the fact remains that digital-only banking is getting a wider embrace – especially in Europe, as the pandemic surges yet again. Could happen. For more than one company. Revolut, the U.K.-based

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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. But the defendants allegedly ceased paying out investors in November 2019 while still raising funds well into 2020.

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Gonzobanker

JUNE 7, 2023

The launch of Charlie points to an underserved niche in banking: older adults. In mid-May, a digital bank account for the 62+ crowd debuted in the United States. Older adults have long been ignored in all kinds of markets, but evidence of bold change is even emerging in entertainment. Well, it happened. The need is there.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2020

In the July Digital-First Banking Tracker® , PYMNTS explores the latest in the world of digital-first banking, including the long-lasting effects brought on by the pandemic, the shifting attitudes surrounding ATM use, and how the digital banking development field is reaping dividends from the financial industry’s sea change.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Banking is no longer just for traditional FIs, thanks to open banking’s spread. Digital banking development is poised to explode in Singapore, where legacy institutions have traditionally dominated. Competition to be one of the lucky five increased at the start of 2020.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

After getting the banking license, Revolut said it would develop a “financial super app.” The FinTech startup has already created several financial services products, including cryptocurrency and stock trading, savings wallets, junior accounts and rewards. He will be tasked with developing the board and leadership team.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

Open banking is often associated with the European Union (EU) almost by default as the region pushes the envelope further on regulation than anywhere, partly to encourage — but also to keep up with — imaginative FinTech innovators going to market throughout the Eurozone. FinTechs Flourishing. Similarities To The EU.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In this article, we detail our thoughts and the trends we saw last week in Las Vegas from a banking perspective in hopes of giving you the flavor and insight from the conference without you having to walk 10 miles per day and listen to endless vendor pitches. Below is a breakdown of all 300 sessions, less the demos and sales pitches.

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American Banker

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Speculation is part of the reason for the growing differential in market capitalization between legacy financial institutions and upstarts. But one venture capitalist says it's "a call to action" for traditional banks to match fintechs' all-digital, customer-friendly services.

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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

Gaming company Razer is going after a Singapore digital banking license, along with China’s largest online monetary platform Ant Financial , according to reports on Wednesday (Jan. Razer FinTech will own a 60 percent majority stake Razer Youth Bank, which will be headquartered in Singapore. .

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) are still struggling to respond to the rise in digital banking adoption spurred by the pandemic. The increase in digital banking use has also breathed new life into the discussions surrounding the technology FIs are employing to make sure they can offer this level of support. banking industry.

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FICO

AUGUST 19, 2022

Tackling the Fintech Threat: A Guide for Banks and Credit Unions. What financial institutions need to compete with fintech threat disrupters. As FinTech funding rises to new record levels – $131.5 Taking the FinTech Threat Seriously: What Should Banks Be Doing to Compete? banks collected $15.47

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