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JANUARY 13, 2021

Business-to-Business FinTech-as-a-Service (FaaS) startup Rapyd has notched $300 million in a Series D funding round led by Coatue and including both new and existing investors. The London-headquartered FinTech is striving to enable businesses across the globe to quickly onboard and start tapping the platform’s full capabilities.

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OCTOBER 13, 2019

The largest FinTech startup in Latin America — Brazil’s Nubank — is reporting a 25 percent increase in the number of clients since August, Reuters reported on Friday (Oct. The FinTech has expanded beyond fee-free credit cards and now offers bank accounts and associated services for both businesses and individuals.

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Payments Dive

APRIL 20, 2022

Miami-based NovoPayment, the banking-as-a-service provider of digital payments and other services, is collecting capital for an expansion move in the U.S., just as its key business territory in Latin America is heating up as a destination for international fintech expansion.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Santander InnoVentures, Santander Group’s global corporate venture capital fund, announced Tuesday (March 19) its appointment of Chris Gottschalk as a senior adviser to lead the $200M fund’s strategic direction in the U.S. portfolio companies a stronger entrance into North America. It also gives the fund’s non-U.S.

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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. Delivery Hero operates in 50 countries in over 700 cities across Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa.

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American Banker

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Brazil's PIX network has sparked a venture-capital boom in an otherwise down economy, including interest from U.S. investors.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

London-based FinTech startup Curve has raised $95 million in Series C funding led by IDC Ventures, Fuel Venture Capital, and the investment division of Vulcan Capital, launched from the estate of Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. is being managed by Amanda Orson , vice president and head of North America.

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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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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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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

MiddleGame Ventures has launched a new €150MM fund targeting FinTech investments in Europe and North America. We are pleased to have new capital from substantial investors to support great, transformational businesses across Europe and the US with our highly focused fund.

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JULY 12, 2018

and Tata Capital has rolled out a new lending platform in India. In other news, India’s Tata Capital has rolled out an online working capital platform for its customers, the company said. Tata Capital’s platform is developed in partnership with U.S. FinTech company Biz2Credit. Coverage includes U.K.-based

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Celent Banking

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

It is amazing how the ecosystem continues to grow and how fintech start-ups are booming. In Europa the winners were Everledger , specialized in anti-fraud technology for financial services and insurance; and Origin an electronic platform that facilitates bond issuing in the capital markets. Discover the finalists of all regions here.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 7, 2017

EXCLUSIVE – Bank of America seeks electronification of cash not only as way to better serve its banking customers but also as an excellent way to reduce costs: according to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, this digitization of cash can save the bank billions of dollars.

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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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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The stakes are high for businesses of all sizes, and the latest data on corporates in America makes that abundantly clear. Small business employment, cash reserves and FinTech investment plans are all being shaped by this year’s presidential election. That amounts to $28.9 26% of U.S. Even more U.K. treasurers said the same.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

China’s Tencent Holdings paid $180 million for an undisclosed minority stake in Brazilian FinTech Nu Pagamentos SA (known as Nubank). As a result of the investment, Nubank is now worth $4 billion, making it one of the most highly valued, privately held startups in Latin America.

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MARCH 19, 2019

InstaReM, the Singapore FinTech startup that enables banks and consumers to send money across borders , raised $41 million in venture funding. In November it raised $20 million in capital from investors. Proceeds from the funding round are slated for expansion into Latin America, where the firm plans to open an office.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Bank of America today announced new features to the billpay functionality of its mobile app, including allowing users to search payment history from up to two years ago. In an email this morning to its customers prompting them to download the mobile app (which the bank does on a regular basis), BofA also revealed a set […].

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JANUARY 26, 2020

SoftBank has been looking at European FinTech startups, the source told The Telegraph. SoftBank’s future FinTech funding will likely come by way of its second Vision Fund, which started making investments last year. No deal was struck yet, and the talks are still in the beginning phase, sources said. staff total to 20.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

are leading a $27 million round of investment in KLYM, a data-driven fintech that focuses on providing working capital to small and midsize companies in Latin America. KLYM will use the capital to expand, with Brazil as the main priority in 2023, Diego Caicedo, co-founder and chief […] JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

London-based FinTech startup Rapyd has secured an additional $20 million in funding, bringing its valuation to $1.2 This latest round of funding comes from new investment firm Durable Capital Partners. Other investors included Tiger Global, Coatue, General Catalyst, Target Global and Entrée Capital.

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JUNE 15, 2020

Everyone in a modern society needs to know how to read, so America spends an awful lot of time, treasure and talent developing literacy curricula for kids. Lusardi said the problem is especially acute here in America. FinTech Is A Tool, Not A Replacement For Knowledge. Clearing The Hurdles.

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BankInovation

JULY 22, 2022

billion for its Motive Capital 2 fund last week. Motive Capital 2 invests in software and information services businesses in North America and Europe, according to a release. Private equity firm Motive Partners raised $2.5 The fund closed above its original hard cap of $1.5

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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. First name.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Pomelo , a fintech-as-a-service platform provider, has raised $35M in a Series A. The round drew participation from Tiger Global Management, Greyhound Capital, QED Investors, Index Ventures, and Insight Partners, among others. Pomelo’s customer base includes 3 fintech companies and 1 embedded finance firm.

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BankInovation

JUNE 24, 2021

Digital card payment platform provider Moca announced Tuesday a $3 million series B funding round that will allow the platform to expand its foothold in Latin America and the Caribbean. The end-to-end solution is both a gateway to Visa and the card management system — functions that are typically handled by different vendors.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

The company is reportedly in talks with online used car site Kavak and FinTech Konfio, which aids small businesses in getting loans. . SoftBank recently announced a $5 billion Innovation Fund solely focused on Latin America , and it has been researching startups in Mexico especially. SoftBank is working to change that. .

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CB Insights

MARCH 28, 2023

Founded in 1857, Spain-based Santander is one of Europe’s largest multinational banks, with a market capitalization of around $60B, and a long history in retail, business, and commercial banking. Santander currently has 102M customers and over 14,000 branches worldwide, including the US, Europe, and Latin America.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

Banks and FinTechs continue to discover new opportunities in unlocking corporate clients’ financial data, with banks embracing data integration for their own product development initiatives, and FinTechs finding new ways to collaborate with each other. Mastercard Taps FinTech for Biz Card Boost.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Bank of America and the traditional banking system is being disrupted across a wide variety of core revenue streams. . Bank of America, for one, saw profits drop 16% year-over-year (YoY) in Q3’20 to $4.9B. Consumer deposits and savings are the bread and butter of any traditional bank, and Bank of America is no exception.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 5, 2018

Bank of America has Erica, Capital One has Eno, Bank of Montreal has Bolt. Safe to say that most major banks are at least exploring the possibility of a virtual assistant, if they don’t already have one. And there is more to this virtual assistant than just the cool factor, for banks these chatbots improve […].

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Santander InnoVentures, the venture capital arm of Santander Bank, has invested $6 million in Mexican fintech ePesos. This investment marks the first Santander’s venture fund has ever made in Latin America. InnoVentures was the leader in the round, though VilCap Investments, Finlab, and Pomona Impact also invested.

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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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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Talk of a decelerating FinTech venture capital market continued to mount this week with reports that digital banking startup Aspiration is struggling to raise money. Venture Capital Funding. raised $10 million from SEB Bank and Seed Capital for its commercial card technology. Cardlay, based in the U.K.,

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Ebury operates in 19 countries and will expand in Latin America and Asia with Santander’s investment. The bank expects a return on invested capital higher than 25 percent in 2024. Ebury was the first FinTech to go live in 2018 with SWIFT’s global payments innovation. The deal is expected to value Ebury at around £700 million.

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JUNE 28, 2018

Evidence of that comes from Swift’s Latin America Regional Conference , held earlier this month in Miami. Mexico suffers the most cyberattacks in Latin America, followed by Brazil, according to the latest analysis from the Wilson Center. Fraud is a Top Worry. The Wider Costs of Cyberattacks.

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MARCH 3, 2020

To continue supporting technology in regions all over the world from North America to Southeast Asia, Leonid Boguslavsky-founded RTP Global unveiled a new $650 million fund to keep investing in early-stage tech companies. The venture capital firm’s last fund totaled $200 million and was rolled out in 2017, according to reports.

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