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MAY 13, 2016

Promoting bitcoin. Which is why Obama and his team probably aren’t enthusiastic about an op-ed for CNBC from a former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner suggesting that the White House should “heed the call” on bitcoin. One thing that’s probably not higher on that rapidly growing list?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Through the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee and Washington are looking to standardize the ways firms across traditional financial services and FinTech upstarts apply for, and are granted, licenses. Regulatory News, of the Global Type.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

PayPal has announced that it is jumping into the wild world of cryptocurrency, making it possible for wallet holders to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, ethereum, bitcoin cash and litecoin in their PayPal accounts. Investors Say FinTech Valuations Are High, But Not Overheated.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 8, 2018

Bitcoin mania has died down in the fintech world, and the conversation has shifted to technologies like voice banking, payments, and alternative credit scoring. What is the state of banking innovation today? Each year, we poll the industry to find out.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2019

Local FinTech firms such as PeerSafe will be supplying technical support. In other news, Vaishali Mehta, who worked as a senior compliance manager at Coinbase, has left the company to become the head of compliance for TrustToken , which produces the TrueUSD stablecoin. Mehta is the latest Coinbase executive to jump ship.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Banks and FinTechs have been both competitors and collaborators in the financial services space. In recent years, banks have even seen greater competition in the lending market from new FinTech players that can quickly approve loan applications and distribute funds to lenders. New tools for new FinTechs.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 10, 2016

Is there a suspicion… Read more Blockchain in Capital markets: Emerging use cases II. She emphasizes that there is too much versioning and regressing from fundamentals; essentially heading towards a different but centralized system. She also mentions that all this versioning is introducing lots of new risks.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

The survey stretched across 77 C-level executives, IT managers and others — and of that tally, 76 percent of firms are not currently in compliance with their own information governance policies. FinTech Firms Eye Bank Charters. Might a floodgate be opened — if only one were to open the floodgates?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Grab Financial Group, a Southeast Asian FinTech, said it notched $300 million in a funding round. South Korean asset management firm Hanwha Asset Management headed up the round. Flourish Ventures, Arbor Ventures, GGV Capital and K3 Ventures were some other investors in the round.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Adoption of cryptocurrency by large fund managers is being hurt by the difficulty cryptocurrency exchanges and traders located in Asia are having trying to get insurance to protect against hacks and theft. However, getting such coverage is almost impossible despite their best efforts.”.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

Latin America’s fintech scene is gaining momentum, with 80+ fintech deals closing for around $300M in 2016, and over 100 deals already closed in 2017. Track the LatAm fintech companies in this brief and many more on our platform. Track LatAm fintech companies. LatAm Fintech. LatAm Fintech. 630+ items.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

Powering the push in spending, according to the Commerce Department reports, are historically low unemployment figures , wages finally starting to show real gains and additional liquid capital among workers due to the tax cuts of late 2017. In and of itself, that is not terrible news, as long as consumers are managing all that debt well.

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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.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

For bitcoin — and for cryptocurrency brethren — a stretch of calm before the storm? The marquee name would be bitcoin , of course, which as of this writing was changing hands at a bit more than $9,100. Libra is governed by a Managing Director, a Council and a Board. Then again, it might spell the death of bitcoin.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

New payment and financial technologies are quickly emerging from the FinTech community, all with the promise of expediting payments and reducing the distance between cross-border trading partners. Traditional banks are seeing new FinTech players become more competitive on several fronts, including lending.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

“We know the demand from the general public is to keep anonymity by using paper money and coins … we will give those people who demand it anonymity in their transactions,” Mu Changchun, head of the People’s Bank of China’s digital currency research institute, said at the FinTech Festival in Singapore.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A Year in Financial Models, Fintech Valuations, Super Apps, Big Tech, Decentralized Finance, the Multiverse, Pandemic, Revolution, Crypto Art, and the Nature of the Universe Hi Fintech futurists — You should be out partying! Is Ant Financial the best Fintech in the world? Or rather, you should be inside, partying. Runner up?—?

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A Year in Financial Models, Fintech Valuations, Super Apps, Big Tech, Decentralized Finance, the Multiverse, Pandemic, Revolution, Crypto Art, and the Nature of the Universe Hi Fintech futurists — You should be out partying! Is Ant Financial the best Fintech in the world? Or rather, you should be inside, partying. Runner up?—?

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Lex Sokolin

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

has reinforced the value of Bitcoin. The price of the cryptocurrency rose to over $15,000, breaking again the $250 billion market capitalization barrier. Perhaps this was also driven by the much discussed move from PayPal, the payment processor, to finally incorporate Bitcoin into its currency options. billion users?

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 4, 2016

Fintech is far from a U.S.-only only phenomenon, as this week’s top funding rounds make clear.

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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. This is enough evidence of 100x revenue multiple companies raising huge checks from Coatue and Tiger Management. Fee-based revenue is what you would earn as a percentage from holding assets under 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. This is enough evidence of 100x revenue multiple companies raising huge checks from Coatue and Tiger Management. Fee-based revenue is what you would earn as a percentage from holding assets under management.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2017

In the biggest funding round of the week for B2B FinTech, HR and payroll company Namely secured $50 million in venture capital funding. But it’s not the only B2B FinTech firm that secured new investments. 5), with Altimeter Capital and Scale Venture Partners leading the Series D round.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

Of course, the FinTech industry doesn’t have to look it up, but the dictionary now defines blockchain as a technology that enables the keeping of records of financial transactions in a digital database as part of a publicly accessible network. Blockchain is now an official word in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

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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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CB Insights

AUGUST 26, 2021

SoftBank’s capital firepower has helped it become the #2 unicorn investor in the world. The fintech sector represents the second-most frequent investment target for SoftBank in 2021, with 26 fintech companies garnering deals. . Clearco provides growth capital for small businesses. Blockchain & crypto fin services.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 4, 2022

These fintech and banking trends should be on financial institutions’ radar in the year ahead. This list of top banking and fintech trends for 2022 won’t tell anyone anything they haven’t already heard about. Anyone who’s paid attention to the banking and fintech space in 2021 knows how hot embedded finance is.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 25, 2019

If you read anything but this newsletter, you’ve got to read: Blockchain Capital’s 2019 Year in Review Messari Research Crypto Theses for 2020 DappRadar 2019 dapp Industry Review Decentralized Finance Overview So let’s narrow our entire lens to decentralized finance. a wealth management service from Set Protocol.

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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. Passive ETF asset allocation assets have gone through the roof , in part because they are the choice of fee-based financial advisors and wirehouses that now control about $10 trillion in assets under management.

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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. Passive ETF asset allocation assets have gone through the roof , in part because they are the choice of fee-based financial advisors and wirehouses that now control about $10 trillion in assets under management.

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

These gears of computational machine enable core banking, portfolio management, risk assessment, and underwriting in the guise of various companies. Over 60% of Ant’s revenue comes from Fintech product lead generation, with capital risks passed on to the underlying banks and insurers, which Ant also digitizes.

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Lex Sokolin

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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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 5, 2016

Fintech deals by size from 2 July to 8 July, 2016: Qufenqi. Bitcoin exhange & wallet. Consumer debt management tool. Stealth bitcoin payments . Tags: SMB, investing, fundraising, capital, VC, angel investing. The total number of deals YTD stands at 760, nearly double last year’s 386. Total raised: $874 million.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The $208 million this week brings total 2015 YTD fintech fundings to $12.4 Retail deposit savings account management for FIs. Wealth management solutions. Bitcoin wallet (hardware). The post Fintech Fundings: 18 Companies Raise $210 Million Week Ending Sep 10 appeared first on Finovate. Total raised: $43.7

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 13, 2016

For the 14th week in a row, fintech deals worldwide surpassed the 20-mark. Three Finovate alums raised capital and one of the first FinovateSpring presenters, TradeKing , was acquired by Ally Financial for $275 million. Here are the fintech deals by size from 2 April to 8 April 2016: Home Link (Lianjia). Scalable Capital.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

. $5.78B: This week, Chinese home improvement and furniture company Easyhome raised $2.05B from investors including Alibaba Group, Yunfeng Capital, Sequoia Capital China, and JD Capital Management, among others. Coatue Management and Glade Brook Capital participated in the round. Download it here.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

And, although Google searches for “bitcoin” and “blockchain” have slid, companies are still flush with cash from 2017’s ICO boom, cryptocurrency price run-up, and venture capital investment — and are spending it. How 2017’s winners are turning into money managers, venture investors, and acquirers. Corporate activity.

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