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Fintech on Fire: Deals to Watch

Gonzobanker

The fintech market is smokin’ hot right now. Fintech is no different. Q1 2021 was the largest funding quarter on record, according to CB Insights , with fintechs raising $22.8 Banks and fintechs are in a heated mashup and seeking niches. Fifth Third Bank is acquiring healthcare fintech Provide.

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Why The Bank-FinTech Relationship Is More Complicated Than Conflicted

PYMNTS

Or, as a recent CNBC article put it, quoting a source, “a mass extinction event.”. The ongoing struggle, supposedly existential in nature, that pits upstart, relatively young FinTech firms against arrogantly complacent banks for supremacy in this new and growing world of digital payments and commerce. Trust in Banks.

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Fintech Deals to Watch: Fall Festivities

Gonzobanker

Digital: Pigskin Pick-Ups Bankjoy , a digital banking provider, had a funding round led by the Curql Collective Credit Union Service Organization. Fiserv partnered with Central Payments LLC , a BAAS provider for fintech, and sold its Frontier Reconciliation and Accurate Reconciliation solutions to Trintech.

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Alibaba And Shopee Face Off In Vietnam’s Marketplace Showdown

PYMNTS

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. Shopee, the article says, has become a favorite for its free deliveries and low fees. Sea raised almost $3 billion in a funding round recently.

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Digital smartphone banking is used by 97% of Asia’s developed market consumers

Chris Skinner

The first is a translation of an announcement from the People’s Daily, the most official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, discussing digital currencies.

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Why Mexico’s SMBs Need A FinTech Operating System And Not Another Bank

PYMNTS

Emerging markets have their own challenges when it comes to banking, where big, traditional financial institutions (FIs) are anything but efficient. The world doesn’t need another bank,” Poovala told Webster. The world needs a FinTech operating system.”.

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Fintech Deals Are Still Happening – and It’s a Good Thing

Gonzobanker

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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