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AUGUST 6, 2018

Apple Vs. Huawei. Apple , by all accounts, had a very good week last week. This might have made it pretty easy to overlook the tiny grey rain cloud the floated by: The Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei sold more phones than Apple did in the last quarter. Meanwhile, Apple shipped 41.3 Party hats all around.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

South African regulators also approved Goldman Sachs for a bank operation license as the firm strives for growth in the most liquid and sophisticated economy on the continent. Africa’s eCommerce volume is expected to reach $75 billion by 2025, and economic output in FinTech is anticipated to add $150 billion by 2022 to its GDP.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2016

Stockholm is one of my favorite cities in the world and has become a real FinTech innovation hub. There’s a capital gains tax of 30 percent, too, and a sales tax of 25 percent. Ever wonder why you’ve never met a Swede named River, Apple or North in Sweden? I promise it will be worth it. times the average Swedish income.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Plus, Epic Games has again asked a California judge to reinstate Fortnite to Apple’s devices. Thunes, the FinTech startup that operates a global cross-border payments network for emerging economies, announced on Tuesday (Sept. B2B Cross-Border Payments Network Thunes Raises $60M.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Amid these controversies, smaller commercial card FinTech startups like Brex continued to add new competition into the market. As a result, SMBs struggled to access the capital they needed to survive what was, for many, a complete ceasure of revenue. Spring’s SMB Support. As the pandemic spread across Europe, and eventually the U.S.,

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APRIL 10, 2019

FinTech startup Extend announced it has raised $11 million in Series A financing, as it tries to capitalize on interest in virtual credit cards. Extend , which was founded in 2017 by American Express and Capital One veterans, provides the technology so companies can provide virtual credit cards to employees and contractors instantly.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 29, 2017

It’s clear that fintech startups are not going away — there are more of them all the time. And here are five more.) What’s not clear is how they are getting along with banks. The number of publicly announced substantial partnerships is vanishingly small.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

And while much has been quiet on the ILC front ever since, as of 2017, two big FinTechs made them very visible again: Sofi in June and Square in mid-September. Square already has an SMB lending arm – Square Capital – which it operates through a deal with Utah-based Celtic Bank. billion to more than 141,000 firms.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, reached $1 trillion market value, joining Apple, Amazon and Microsoft in hitting the milestone. Global Blue Acquisition Capitalizes On Consumer X-Border Spend. Only two weeks into 2020, mergers and deal-making in payments, specifically within digital payments and FinTech, are sizzling.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2015

FinTech, FinTech, FinTech! We must be moments away from downloading a gamified banking app via our Google Glass, paying in Bitcoins using Apple Pay! A banker told me yesterday that if I wanted headlines in American Banker , put FinTech in my copy. That's all I'm hearing. It's like global warming. Legit question.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

The news agency said that while Pan stopped short of calling for Ant’s breakup, officials want the firm to set up a separate holding company to ensure its capital adequacy and regulatory compliance. Any FinTech disruptor, when it becomes so big, represents systemic risk,” he told Webster.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

million podcasts in the world, you might find it daunting to weed through the lists on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, or other platforms to find the best banking podcasts. Breaking Banks Breaking Banks , billed as the #1 global fintech podcast and radio show, began in 2013 and is hosted by media firm Provoke.fm. Indeed, with 2.8

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JUNE 17, 2020

United Arab Emirates-based bank Emirates Islamic , a unit of Emirates NBD, is rolling out debit cards for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in an effort to accelerate the ability for SMB owners to access capital and manage cash flow. The card is compatible with Apple Pay and other wallets as well, reports in Verdict.co.uk

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

An obvious reason is the inroads they’re making into the market, both domestically and globally: recent Accenture research finds that digital-only banks operating in the UK could amass a total of 35 million customers globally within the next 12 months, up from 13 million today. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers?

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

FinTech is no stranger to this pattern, and while venture capital levels have seemed to dwindled in certain markets (analysts found VC funding down by 29 percent in 2016 compared to last year), B2B startups remain the apple of many investors’ eyes. India saw a particularly lucrative year. Supply Chain Management.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 20, 2021

We gaze with wonder at over $1 billion in raises announced last week, and over $10 billion in Fintech company value creation. Before we go there, however, we need some operating metrics. Perhaps even more importantly, it could sit under Google Pay or Apple Pay and reach into any country you like.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 20, 2021

We gaze with wonder at over $1 billion in raises announced last week, and over $10 billion in Fintech company value creation. Before we go there, however, we need some operating metrics. Perhaps even more importantly, it could sit under Google Pay or Apple Pay and reach into any country you like.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Alphabet’s stock took a drubbing, and remains down after they reported a decline in the prices it charged advertisers, coupled with the increase in the cost of paying partners to distribute its search engine – some $9 billion to Apple alone , it’s been reported. Apple … and the iPhone Customer.

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MARCH 2, 2017

In this week’s Brexit Tracker , major tech firms show they still have an eye on Britain, surveys show the tech sector faces some major losses and FinTech may be looking to jump the U.K. Even Apple announced its intention to establish a new U.K. Hello, FinTech Exodus? I don’t know of a licensed FinTech company in the U.K.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Consultants will don a Bluetooth reader that pairs with Apple iOS or Android smartphones or tablets, to accept payment of credit and debit cards. Mobile Payments Startup OPER Raises $750,000. Louis-based startup has defied the odds and raised $750,000 during a slowdown in funding for Fintech startups. Mary Kay has 3.5

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Here’s a banana, and that’s an apple. The offering is a full on banking, payments, and capital programming environment that connects to Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and Citi. Let’s transition to Green Dot, the original bank powering big tech company bank accounts starting with Apple, and now including Google.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Here’s a banana, and that’s an apple. The offering is a full on banking, payments, and capital programming environment that connects to Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and Citi. Let’s transition to Green Dot, the original bank powering big tech company bank accounts starting with Apple, and now including Google.

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JULY 1, 2016

But outside of a drive to take the smarty city concept to a nationwide level, Singapore has also gained recognition for its advancement in innovation-driven entrepreneurship and becoming a startup capital of the world. With an estimated population of just 5.47 million, an unemployment rate of 3 percent and an adult literacy rate of about 96.54

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Cambr, a cloud-based platform powered by investment firm StoneCastle and digital banking software provider Q2 Holdings, is helping neo-banks and fintechs launch and scale up through a network of 850 community banks.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A few years ago, very few people would have guessed that tens of billions of dollars would be invested in fintech vendors and solutions annually – except it happened. 2021 fintech investments, merger activities, and overall focus were off the charts. Best Fintech Acquisition by a Bank. Fintech Acquiring Bank.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The competition in India for digital payments dominance got that much more competitive this week with the announcement that PayPal has officially launched domestic operations in India. With that in mind, the competitors are lining up: Amazon , Apple and Google are all pushing to enter India’s growing and expanding market.

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

What does it mean to have a market capitalization? Why is it important whether the market capitalization is high or low? The market capitalization is not the enterprise value, just the equity value. Companies could be levered with debt, which can be related to the operations of the firm, or the activities of the customer.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

3 tallied up $361 million in investments, dominated by the FinTech space at $283 million of that total. The FinTech sector saw a strong pull of banking activity as Atom Bank raised roughly $126 million and said that it would announce within the next few weeks the names of the investors who put up the capital.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

They’re also operating against an increasingly competitive backdrop amid consumer expectations for faster, smarter, suitably tailored and personalized experiences. There are multiple routes in — from real-time Open Banking data overlaid with AI insights, to personalization through fintech partnerships.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

If you are a financial advisor or a trust company, you have missed out on $1 trillion in capital appreciation for your customers. We love the robot as much as the next Fintech commentator. And that the capital appreciation that matters?—?cementing Second, Fintechs (e.g., It must attract global capital and global talent.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

If you are a financial advisor or a trust company, you have missed out on $1 trillion in capital appreciation for your customers. We love the robot as much as the next Fintech commentator. And that the capital appreciation that matters?—?cementing Second, Fintechs (e.g., It must attract global capital and global talent.

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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 21, 2016

" For the largest banks like Capital One that have significant IT development capabilities in-house and with the willingness to experiment with new technologies, AWS makes a lot of sense. Most banks, however, are not Capital One. " and have moved onto the more interesting question " How cloud? "

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JULY 1, 2019

Goldman Sachs entered and dominated personal digital lending, runs a neobank and roboadvisor, bought a large digital wealth footprint in United Capital, launched a credit card in partnership with Apple, and is now looking into cryptocurrency stablecoins ?—?something as it has over and over again across Fintech. was everywhere.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

Here’s Palm’s CEO: “We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone … PC guys are not going to just figure this out,” said then-Palm CEO Ed Colligan in 2006 , after news that Apple was developing a phone. “It’s more Wal-Mart and Apple.”. Who listens to 1,000 songs?”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

There are Pays courtesy of mobile operating systems, like iOS/Apple and Android/Google and Samsung. Apple has introduced a credit card and companion card app with personalized offers and an easy customer interface to drive more Services revenue. Some, like M-PESA in Kenya and I-Mode/DoCoMo in Japan, are enabled by telcos.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2020

There are Pays courtesy of mobile operating systems, like iOS/Apple and Android/Google and Samsung. Apple has introduced a credit card and companion card app with personalized offers and an easy customer interface to drive more Services revenue. Some, like M-PESA in Kenya and I-Mode/DoCoMo in Japan, are enabled by telcos.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Here’s Palm’s CEO: “We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone … PC guys are not going to just figure this out,” said then-Palm CEO Ed Colligan in 2006 , after news that Apple was developing a phone. “It’s more Wal-Mart and Apple.”. Who listens to 1,000 songs?”

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