Bankelele

MARCH 1, 2017

Recent events in the fintech (financial technology) payment space in East Africa. The post Fintech Moment in East Africa: AmEx FT Pesalink Bitcoin appeared first on Bankelele. Pesalink is a fully owned subsidiary of KBA and it will enable customers to make […].

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Payments Source

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Policymakers and industry officials should join forces in creating regulations and standards for cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence and other innovations before they become more widespread.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Globe Telecom’s financial technology division, Globe Fintech Innovations of the Philippines, notched $175 million in additional venture funding in January. Globe Fintech, which is called Mynt, is said to be now looking for more funding — and aiming to get a valuation in excess of $1 billion.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

Thus, the RBA is positing the creation and administration of a digital offering that would track the Australian dollar, as well as ostensibly sidestep the volatility that has marked the likes of bitcoin and its brethren. As a] unit of account, people don’t post their prices in bitcoin, even [at] bitcoin conferences.

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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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Chris Skinner

MARCH 11, 2017

There are … BIS endorse Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) for payments clearing and settlement I’ve just been alerted by friend Gijs Boudewijn to the release of a fascinating white paper by BIS, the Bank for International Settlements (the guys who do Basel stuff and are big cohonez in banking circles). However, it’s still early days.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

Thus, the RBA is positing the creation and administration of a digital offering that would track the Australian dollar, as well as ostensibly sidestep the volatility that has marked the likes of bitcoin and its brethren. As a] unit of account, people don’t post their prices in bitcoin, even [at] bitcoin conferences.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

House of Representatives, asking the government to establish a national policy for technology. The resolution implies that bitcoin and blockchain technology are ways to help the unbanked and empower the consumer. A non-binding resolution was passed on Monday (Sept. 12) by the U.S.

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Jessica Ellerm

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

And while financial technology is still a nascent industry, no doubt this sector will be subject to a little more of our Kiwi ingenuity over the coming few years. Like a Morningstar for Bitcoin, the company hit the global stage recently as a finalist in the World Cup Tech Challenge 2015 in Silicon Valley. I kid you not.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

FinTech company SPEZA announced that it will be able to accept China’s Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP), the world’s first sovereign digital currency. And just last week, the People’s Bank of China announced that it will certify 11 types of financial technology hardware and software used for digital payment and blockchain services.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Three ways millennials could accelerate FinTech trends in 2016. When it comes to finance, millennials are a generation known to be conservative in spending and distrustful of financial institutions. Thus, it’s not shocking that millennials are a driving factor in the growing financial technology, or FinTech, movement.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2018

Fintech Select, a financial technology firm based in Canada, has created a “physical bitcoin” product to pair with its “Selectcoin” cryptocurrency POS platform, the company said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

A renewed focus has been placed on researching and testing blockchain applications, as well as pushing the development of information and financial technology within the country, The CoinTelegraph reported. “It s recent exit from the EU, Moscow may throw its hat into the race to replace London as the FinTech capital of the world.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

In a roundtable discussion, the last in the “Powering the Digital Shift” series with Karen Webster, six experts in money movement, fraud prevention, banking and financial technology discussed one sure bet: “Digital optional” is no option as we move toward contactless commerce. Cross-Border Friction — And Bitcoins And Blockchain.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 24, 2016

It’s 2016, and the red hot fintech sector has evolved immensely since Finovate first launched 10 years ago. FinovateFall 2016 is sponsored by The Bancorp , AARP , Financial Technology Partners , Grant Thornton , Hudson Cook , KPMG , and Leverage PR.

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Let's Talk Payments

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Startup Stories highlights the companies that are shaping the new Financial Technology industry. MEDICI now! Keep an eye out each week for new stories! If you or someone you know.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It was a quieter week in fintech fundings. Other than Blackstone’s $820 million bet on what is likely the oldest financial technology company on the planet, NCR founded in 1884 as National Cash Register, just $82 million flowed to the under-100-year-old crowd. ATMs, POS & financial technology.

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Filene

MAY 18, 2017

Filene's Center for Emerging Technology hosted their first annual colloquium on the hype around financial technology. Middleton , PhD Student: The Art of FinTech Decision Making - Disruption in financial services is being driven by changes in the FinTech industry itself and the nature of technology.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The German FinTech startup has raised $64 million cumulatively and will use that money to expand its banking platform across Europe. Close on the heels of that $32 million garnered by Raisin, $30 million came Bitfury’s way, as the bitcoin miner looks to expand its presence in China. The latest funding round was led by Thrive Capital.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 22, 2015

We published our first fintech unicorn list in April 2014 with a mere 11 companies. Time will tell whether these valuation bets are temporary insanity from private investors or the beginning of a long cycle of re-imagining financial services. Here is the breakdown by fintech sector: Sector. Bitcoin/Block. Real estate.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2017

Developers platforms have quickly gone from being cutting edge to being something like table stakes for serious financial technology players, as Karen Webster observed in a recent conversation with Vantiv’s Head of Developer Integration’s Matt Ozvat — “it feels a bit like everyone out there has their own version of a platform for the developer.”.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 6, 2016

By sharing more about the backgrounds and inspirations that help drive our FinDEVr presenters, we hope our slideshow below provides insights into what our industry’s brightest talents are working on now, as well as a preview of where financial technology may be headed in the years to come. Click image to view slideshow.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 6, 2016

Fintech deals by size from May 7 to 13, 2016: Avant (AvantCredit UK). Blockchain technology . Online financial advisor. Bridge Financial Technology. Back-office platform for financial advisors . Bitcoin exchange . Tags: Consumer, payments, cryptocurrency, bitcoin, blockchain, remittances.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In total, 23 fintech companies raised more than $121 million including Finovate alums Spreedly which brought in $2.5 Clarus Financial Technology. The post Fintech Fundings: 23 Companies Raise $120 Million Week Ending Oct 30 appeared first on Finovate. Tags: Crypto-currency, blockchain, bitcoin, payments.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

FinovateFall 2016 is sponsored by The Bancorp , AARP , Financial Technology Partners , Grant Thornton , Hudson Cook , KPMG , and Leverage PR.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 19, 2015

Are you building new financial technology? Be sure to register soon for the only event exclusively for fintech developers, FinDEVr 2015 , Oct 6-7 in San Francisco. Developer news: CIO of UBS asserts the blockchain will heavily impact financial services. Inc: Why Fintech Is One of the Most Promising Industries of 2015.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2015

But if there’s one in the fintech sector, the dozens of investors in these 23 companies didn’t get the memo. In the last full non-holiday week of the year, $685 million poured into fintech companies worldwide. FinTech Group. Diversified financial technology provider. Person-to-person lender .

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Save your spot and join us in San Francisco October 6 and 7 for the premier event for fintech developers, engineers, and CTOs. Leading technology companies will showcase their latest tools, APIs, and case studies to help fintech developers optimize their innovations. Many themes remain front and center after a year.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 3, 2016

You can check out the amazing companies below who will be hitting the stage next week (and read more about them in our “Sneak Peek” blog post series ): Our two-day show will be packed with live demos of new fintech innovations, as well as great opportunities for high-quality networking with our largest west coast audience to date.

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2018

Industry: Fintech. As with a couple other companies on this list, the coinciding meteoric rise in Bitcoin price likely helped buoy investor interest in all things crypto at the time.). The timing of the announcement coincided with an unprecedented peak in Bitcoin price (with some estimates valuing the cryptocurrency at $20,000+).

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 25, 2020

Some of you are working on building a new Fintech company, using the leverage of Silicon Valley to remake an economic order under new rules. Software companies are realizing that monetizing through financial products can double or triple their total addressable market. Whereas Fintech is a bridge?—?trying Bain and Andreessen.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 4, 2016

FinovateSpring 2016 is sponsored by The Bancorp , Accenture , Association for Financial Technology , Cyberport / InvestHK , FT Partners , Greater Zurich Area /Swiss Business Hub, Hudson Cook , KPMG , and Leverage PR.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 13, 2016

ProActive FinTech. FinovateFall 2016 is sponsored by The Bancorp , Financial Technology Partners , Hudson Cook , and KPMG. LendingFront. M1 Finance. ModoPayments. Moonraft Innovation Labs. NCR Corporation. Personetics. RightCapital. Tango Card. TransUnion. Xentral Station.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 29, 2015

Are you building new financial technology? Be sure to register soon for the only event exclusively for fintech developers, FinDEVr 2015 , October 6-7 in San Francisco. Let’s Talk Payments looks at how the financial services industry is learning to love the blockchain. Pich Technologies launches new website.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 5, 2016

But there may be no better metaphor for the changing landscape of fintech than the fact that “Billpay,” one of the larger themes of 2015, is out and “Blockchain” is in. This is the kind of peek into the future of fintech that FinovateSpring provides. Advisor Software. BaseVenture. brandCrowder. Chip Shield.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 8, 2016

Who goes all the way to San Jose, California for a fintech conference, you ask? rest assured that we’ll be ready with everything you need for two rewarding days of live fintech demos and networking starting bright and early Tuesday. A better question might be, who doesn’t? FinovateSpring is less than 48 hours away.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

On October 18 & 19, FinDEVr Silicon Valley will showcase the latest in fintech tools, tech, APIs, platforms, case studies, and tutorials. Speaking topics will span the fintech spectrum with payments, blockchain, investment, big data, finance and wealth management, security, and more. Financial Samurai. Credit Simple.

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