PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The platform now supports trading through eight pairs, including Ethereum, bitcoin, Tether, USD Coin, NEO, TrueUSD, Paxos Standard Token and KuCoin Shares. In other news, General Motors (GM) could be looking into a way to manage autonomous car data with blockchain, CoinDesk reported.

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PYMNTS

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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Ether, for instance, seems to have dropped in value, just as many organizations that had previously raised funds in Ether via ICO “cash out” so as to finance their operations and pay for expenses, Bloomberg said. It’s another gap in the market giving rise to FinTech firms addressing this issue. This week, U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

The scheme by the “Modern Money Team,” as Putnam referred to the entire operation, was reportedly to offer investors “cryptocurrency trading packages” they had purchased, which could have ostensibly been used for “arbitrage” opportunities at Bitfinex. The group managed to get $12 million from 2,000 investors, Coindesk reports.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

UK FinTech GoCardless Raises $95 Million Led By Bain. FinTech GoCardless has raised $95 million in a Series F funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Fiserv To Acquire FinTech Ondot Systems. The FinTech Fiserv has signed a deal to acquire Ondot Systems. Bitcoin Rally Here to Stay — Or Fleeting?

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

million in total funding across nine rounds, with startups ranging from corporate travel and expense (T&E) management and small- and mid-sized business (SMB) accounting to artificial intelligence and beyond. and Asia, and PYMNTS lined up all the B2B FinTechs that recently scored fresh funding. Travel and Expense Management.

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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

JULY 21, 2020

Crypto enthusiasts proclaim that you can front the best-known players like bitcoin or the most obscure blockchain-backed currencies circulating the world and tap into the future of money. Even bitcoin is accepted by only a relative handful of digital retailers. Dhamodharan said that’s impossible to say from the outset.

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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. An ‘API-first’ strategy.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

Explore how B2B FinTech is on the cusp of change as we break down all of the statistics and surveys below. fleet managers consider fuel card fraud a major issue , found oil giant Shell in its first Fraud Matters report on the fleet card industry. Those services include bitcoin and peer-to-peer lending, analysts said. 65% of U.K.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

In and of itself, that is not terrible news, as long as consumers are managing all that debt well. Mall operators, for example, are finding it difficult to sell low-end mall retail, even at fire sale prices. Bitcoin: Pricing cracks below $6,600, amid news of U.S. Bit by bit, the news has been bitter for bitcoin.

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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

APRIL 6, 2017

For technology startups looking to expand their reach, crowdtesting has become a key resource to ensure operability on the global market. FinTech Abra, for instance, looks to change the way people around the world send and receive money. The goal is to have the process be as easy as sending a text message. “If

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Lex Sokolin

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

has reinforced the value of Bitcoin. Perhaps this was also driven by the much discussed move from PayPal, the payment processor, to finally incorporate Bitcoin into its currency options. The second is more deeply transformative, and analogizes more closely to owning Bitcoin and using it to transact. The election’s end?—?and

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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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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. The Amazon of China may be operating in blockchain, but the world’s actual Amazon is doing the same.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The Clearing House ’s (TCH) Real-Time Payments (RTP) network received multiple shows of support from B2B FinTechs this week as service providers embrace the U.S.’s s newest payments network in decades. But RTP isn’t the only novel network to gain traction in the small business in corporate realm. B2BinPay Integrates Blockchain.

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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. This is enough evidence of 100x revenue multiple companies raising huge checks from Coatue and Tiger Management. Onto the mental model.

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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. This is enough evidence of 100x revenue multiple companies raising huge checks from Coatue and Tiger Management. Onto the mental model.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

Uber had many wonderful years of asking for forgiveness instead of permission and managed to build a worldwide ridesharing empire on the strength of that conviction. Said charter will mean that Circle will face tighter scrutiny but great ease operating on a national scale. On some level, Circle’s move seems strange.

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NCR

AUGUST 3, 2016

I am certain you have already heard about fintechs being the next big threat to banks. With about $20 billion of investment in the last few years, the fintech industry is extremely active and agile. Fintechs are often compared to Uber for taxis or Airbnb for hotels. For instance, Bitcoins have been banned in China.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

A Singapore-based startup offering bitcoin exchange and cryptocurrency services secured another major round of funding this week. According to reports, Quoine is the largest bitcoin exchange that operates in a major bitcoin market and has $50 million bitcoins transacted over its exchange per day.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2016

EDNA allows banks, payment service providers, merchants and the overall FinTech ecosystem to benefit from sharing risk information, while maintaining users’ information privacy. This is a fundamental change to the way institutions have historically managed risk,” he explained. So, that’s what we did.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2018

The initiative reflects a rising sentiment among financial institutions with regards to blockchain and other disruptive FinTech: The banks may not be entirely convinced of the technology, but they don’t want to necessarily rule it out. That can’t be said for all financial institutions (FIs), however. “The

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Together, SAP and EY said they are pushing for corporate adoption of blockchain in the area of supply chain management, a common target of open-source blockchain projects. Their partnership deploys EY’s Ops Chain supply chain management solution built on distributed ledger technology.

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Accenture

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Some themes endure year-after-year, as shown in the table below—real-time payments, cybersecurity, fintechs, blockchain and open APIs. Benefits include development of new data-rich products tailored to customer needs, and provision of mechanisms to better manage cost and risk. Banks and Fintechs.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Banks and credit unions had to fundamentally change their delivery, support and relationship management models at scopes and speeds that were unheard of. billion is just glad we own some Bitcoins at this point. Not too attractive this year and Bitcoin not yet on the menu. Remember that? Everything. Drum roll please….

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

operations. He will be the executive responsible and accountable for leading Google, and managing Alphabet’s investment in our portfolio of Other Bets.” . New Visa Alliances Help FinTechs Launch Payments Solutions. Visa is working with four global finance firms to help FinTechs issue digital and plastic payments.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

But not to worry, folks: This is just an inconvenient speed bump on the way to a future where cryptocurrencies – bitcoin and Ethereum and the 998 offspring they beget – become the underpinning of our new global financial system. PayPal’s India Push. For us, the marathon has just begun.”. The Fed’s New Digital Payments Outlook.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

For other firms, such as FinTechs or telecommunications companies, “they must coordinate and provide access to multiple different interfaces or protocols.”. Even as open APIs boost services available to customers, Gascon told PYMNTS that “those APIs still need to be secured, monitored, controlled and managed.”. Bitcoin Ban or No?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Governments may not be too keen on bitcoin, but blockchain is another story. A regional government in Russia is now working with state-backed VEB, reports in CoinDesk said this week, as authorities explore how to use blockchain “to improve the quality of management decisions.”.

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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. That, said Namely, is a reflection of how demands for payroll technology are changing across the mid-market.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

In this technology-centered age, this is rightly seen as an unacceptable state of affairs for businesses who simply want to manage their day-to-day cash needs.”. Wirex , which providers consumers with an account to store both fiat and cryptocurrency, recently stepped into the corporate finance space with the launch of its business account.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 25, 2019

There’s a lot to say about the overlap of Fintech and blockchain, but let’s find the very edge of the frontier and focus right there. you get paid some market-clearing interest rate to loan out assets like Bitcoin, which someone is borrowing for a trading or hedging purpose. a wealth management service from Set Protocol.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 26, 2021

Many of SoftBank’s portfolio companies operate across a variety of different industries. The fintech sector represents the second-most frequent investment target for SoftBank in 2021, with 26 fintech companies garnering deals. . Bubble size and proximity to center correspond to number of investments. Retail & consumer.

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