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Where In the World Is Fintech Innovation?

Bank Innovation

Even in fintech. It turns out nations beyond America today are increasingly generating more significant financial technology innovation, especially in artificial intelligence. Location matters. Canada is an example.

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SoftBank Earmarks $1B For eCommerce, Healthcare And FinTech In LatAm

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SoftBank will add $1 billion this year to its $5 billion Latin America Fund introduced in 2019, adding to last year’s $1.6 Its investment in Latin America this year will target eCommerce, healthcare, FinTech and other industries, as it looks at about 650 firms in the region. billion, Bloomberg reported on Friday (Feb.

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SoftBank To Lead $125M Round For LATAM FinTech AlphaCredit

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Latin America-based AlphaCredit has signed up for a funding round to raise $125 million, led by SoftBank’s Latin America fund. AlphaCredit is a FinTech platform with a focus on consumer lending and finance solutions. It provides credit lines to individuals and has usually worked in communities without much access to banks.

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Charles Potts: Opportunities in the fintech landscape

Independent Banker

The fintech landscape is shifting. Investments in new companies have slowed, valuations that some early-stage companies commanded last year are ratcheting back, and financial technology providers are tightening their proverbial belts. We see this same trend playing out in larger financial institutions as well.

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Middlegame Launches €150m FinTech Fund

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MiddleGame Ventures has launched a new €150MM fund targeting FinTech investments in Europe and North America. MGV’s Venture Fund I has already made three representative investments in financial technology startups in the UK: Nivaura, Railsbank and Gardenia Technologies.

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Quona Capital Raises $203M For FinTech-Boosting Fund

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The fund will set its sights on FinTechs and financial organizations in Africa, Latin America, India and Southeast Asia. We focus on scale-up stage financial technology companies that are expanding access to financial services for underserved consumers and small businesses,” said Rengaswamy.

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Talent Crunch Intensifies For Small Businesses, Bank Of America Finds

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driven by economic strength, government policy and continued efforts among the financial technology (FinTech) and financial services (FinServ) communities to introduce new tools for entrepreneurs — to make running their businesses easier, more efficient and more profitable. small businesses today.

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