PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

FinTechs continue to push the envelope to see how far open banking frameworks can go in improving the SMB banking experience, and increasingly, SMB lending is shifting to the center of these collaborative efforts. In the U.K., “Regulation around open banking has certainly been of great benefit to businesses in the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

Regulation has undoubtedly acted as a catalyst to major financial services trends in areas like small business (SMB) lending, faster payments and, most recently, open banking and collaboration with FinTechs. According to the results, banks argue that innovation, not just regulation, is behind the wheel of progress. Optimism Up.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

Innovation has always been important for community banks, but the driving force of digitization over the last decade has greatly sped up the pace, said Kevin Tweddle, chief innovation officer for the Independent Community Bankers of America ( ICBA ). This is why ICBA partnered last fall with The Venture Center in Little Rock, Ark.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

With more than $200 million in venture capital funding landing with B2B FinTechs this week, investors had their eyes set on a variety of pain points in corporate finance. Small business finserv was a popular target this week, with startups securing funding for their SMB banking, lending and accounting tools. Lendingkart.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

Bank-FinTech collaborations have emerged as a viable, lucrative growth path for both sides of these partnerships. For FinTechs, the deals mean access to a broader range of customers through well-established industry names. For FinTechs, the deals mean access to a broader range of customers through well-established industry names.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Luckily for the banks, there are many more of the latter than the former.” – Bank Innovation. Recent fintech deals across digital, lending, payments and infrastructure are telling a big story. So here’s the follow-the-money skinny on recent fintech deals—and what it says about what’s likely to come next. Money talks.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While AOBA 2022 had its share of execs wanting to “fake it until they make it” with future innovation, credit is due to the bankers who are pouring real financial investment into new fintech experiments. Many fintech venture funds are gaining steam in the industry, and AOBA was a fertile ground to attract new investor commitments.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2018

Between 2015 and 2017, the amount of lending to small businesses by the five leading online lending providers increased 50 percent, according to a new report from NDP Analytics, a Washington, D.C.-based The report, entitled “The Economic Benefits of Online Lending to Small Businesses and the U.S. billion in 2017 from $2.6

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

Those market conditions present interesting obstacles and opportunities for everyone in the banking FinTech space. Reports last week said the merger aims to create a FinTech “powerhouse” as both Misys and D+H evolve their services to meet the more sophisticated demands of the industry. The company will merge with DH Corp.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

As legal cannabis spreads, the industry is a big opportunity for FinTech, as industry players struggle to manage intense compliance requirements and limited access to traditional financial services. Cloud Elements.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2016

In small business lending, the rush of alternative players entering the market is beginning to give way to consolidation — or, at least, collaboration. Wright said the direction of the small business lending industry is about more sophisticated analytics capabilities to mitigate risk. Should they build capacity themselves?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

Bucking the coronavirus-driven economic downturn, Indian FinTech Aye Finance on Wednesday (June 24) said it had raised $27.5 The injection of capital comes as Aye Finance prepares to resume lending in July to small businesses. To date, the company has said it has helped 200,000 small businesses work through the lending pipeline.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

While non-bank financial institutions (FIs) and FinTechs may be keeping traditional banks on their toes, banks still have the largest piece of the corporate banking pie. Eighty percent of treasurers surveyed identified cash management surveys as the top area under review, followed by liquidity solutions, payables, FX and commercial lending.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The Australian market is quickly becoming a hotbed of alternative lending , and new analysis from KPMG suggests it has risen up in the ranks. A key driver of that growth is favorable government policies, researchers said, with regulators around the world exploring how to ensure borrower protections without stifling innovation.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

If Finovate Spring was dominated by companies in lending and underwriting, then Finovate Fall was all about startups and service providers equipping banks with tools to help them provide better customer service.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Lending Product — for the most impressive consumer or business lending or collections initiative. Product Innovation — for demonstrating the ability to launch multiple innovative products. Join us for the 10 th annual Innovation and Insight Day on April 4 th in Boston.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Lending Product — for the most impressive consumer or business lending or collections initiative. Product Innovation — for demonstrating the ability to launch multiple innovative products. Join us for the 10 th annual Innovation and Insight Day on April 4 th in Boston.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

This means CUs must be carefully attuned to member’s financial needs and the innovations they want most as CUs invest in new products and services aimed at improving the way members engage with their FIs. In many cases, it also requires partnering with emerging FinTechs that are able to quickly deliver the innovations members want most.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

The tallies are in: Innovate Finance has calculated the state of investment in FinTech for 2015, and we have the numbers. Innovate Finance released The 2015 FinTech Investment Landscape this month, a report that offers a snapshot at how investors are placing their money among financial innovators. Global Breakdown.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Traditional banks now realize the value in working with FinTech startups, augmenting their own service offerings by integrating the innovations of others. Data, Horrocks noted, is today an especially poignant point of friction for financial institutions in the lending process.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

In an environment in which connecting small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to vital financial services and products is more imperative than ever, the world of SMB banking and FinTech is fostering an ecosystem of collaboration to expand availability. Orange Bank Acquires Anytime. Financial terms of the takeover were not disclosed.

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FICO

APRIL 2, 2019

This April, the world’s leading event in financial services innovation kicks off – LendIt Fintech USA 2019 in San Francisco on April 8 and 9th. Thousands of thought leaders across industries like financial inclusion, digital banking, and lending will share insights on the latest fintech industry market trends and future challenges.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The favored narrative about banks and FinTech startups is generally not a love story. Of course, banks have to be run with safety and soundness to protect those deposits, but they also have myriad public mandates, like fair lending, anti-money laundering and customer privacy. Usually, it is more of an all-out war story.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Last week was a good week for fintech funding (particularly blockchain companies).This This week we’re looking at other areas of fintech: payments, point-of-sale providers, and data analytics.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2019

And Experian Australia & New Zealand announced that it has acquired FinTech Look Who’s Charging. Launched in August 2018, Wanwu Xinxuan is an online retail platform selling children’s apparel, shoes and accessories.

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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

JUNE 7, 2019

With a total of $388 million raised this week, newly funded startups are deploying an array of data analytics technologies to address B2B finance friction. FinTech startup TrueLayer has developed software with third parties to integrate their own apps with banking platforms via APIs. Catch up on the latest investment rounds below.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2018

“Innovation will be the key to sustaining and growing our businesses.”. Here at ICBA, we’re in full innovation mode, so it’s only appropriate that this issue be dedicated to technology. This year, you’ve probably heard me say that ICBA is focused on three pillars: community bank advocacy, education and innovation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2016

The alternative lending boom of yesteryear secured impressive amounts of attention, and dollars, from venture capitalists towards the FinTech startup industry. Today, however, investors are increasingly showing a more conservative approach to the FinTech space. Alternative Lending. We break down the investments below.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

1 – Mortgage Enterprise Solutions – this includes offering lending operating system (LOS) providers, marketing/lead gen/application/underwriting/fulfillment/closing platforms, servicing Read More. Kevin Simback and Josie Lee seeded the list of US companies using technology in the broad Digital Mortgage Market – MortgageTech.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) got their clocks cleaned by the pandemic, and turning to their traditional lending sources, they’ve encountered sclerotic systems and outdated policies not conceived for the needs of the recovering Main Street merchants of 2021. We no longer go to the bank,” Potter told PYMNTS. We're not connected.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2020

“Increasingly, many lenders have been starting to focus on [SMBs] and lending to [SMBs],” said Gabriele Sabato, who holds a doctorate in finance and is CEO and co-founder of SMB loan underwriting firm Wiserfunding , in a recent interview with PYMNTS. SMBs are notoriously difficult to underwrite. Expanding The Data Scope.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

The report included several recommendations for banks, FinTechs and other financial services players — guidelines to establish an industry-driven framework for governing the system and encourage further research and investment in emerging financial technologies. The lending environment is changing so rapidly,” Giorgio said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

and Asia, and PYMNTS lined up all the B2B FinTechs that recently scored fresh funding. The executive said BitPesa plans to use the funding to continue to disrupt the industry, expand and add new products like trade finance and other corporate lending solutions. This week’s B2B venture capital activity led to an impressive $141.2

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

What should be their strategy for Digital Banking transformation and what they can learn from FinTech innovation? These firms collectively known as FinTechs or Financial Technology firms are disrupting the banking industry by dis-intermediating across a banking customer’s financial value chain.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

The small business credit gap is a global issue, a problem that banks and FinTechs continue to hack away at, yet one that remains stubbornly persistent. Improving The SMB Lending Experience. At the root of the matter is often a lack of predictive data to ascertain the creditworthiness of these small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 12, 2019

From payments to insurtech to lending, fintech companies are attracting investor attention. In 2018, startups in the space raised more than $45B , a record amount, while Q3’19 fintech funding recently clocked in with a quarterly record of nearly $9B. GET THE 88-PAGE q3 2019 FINTECH TRENDS REPORT. Lending Club.

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