PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2017

Yet again, the B2B FinTech industry proves it’s quality over quantity when it comes to venture capital. But it was blockchain that turned heads with its record-setting funding. Backers at Riverwood Capital Management led the investment, reports said, with plans to use the funds to grow into new markets and continue product innovation.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

Horizon Blockchain Games announced that it has raised $3.75 million in a seed round, led by Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian’s venture fund, Initialized, with participation from Golden Ventures, Polychain, Coinbase, Digital Currency Group, and Inovia Capital.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty. Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

As more banks, industries, companies and even retail brands take on and use blockchain technology in their business, there are the enhanced and innate elements of efficiency and security. “A But blockchain has also become a tracking mechanism, more so a cost-cutting measure for a variety of reasons. billion for a typical lender.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2021

LVL, an upstart bitcoin exchange, has rolled out its own Mastercard debit card which it's taking pre-orders for, a report from CoinDesk says. The card will be linked to bitcoin and fiat accounts, and will be one of Mastercard's premium accounts, able to be used anywhere globally, CEO Chris Slaughter said, according to the report.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 3, 2018

But working with the cryptocurrency taught the payments company quite a bit about blockchain technology, and how it ends up employing that knowledge may be the true payoff […]. Square made a splash when it announced it would sell bitcoin in its Cash app, but failed to make much money doing so, it was revealed yesterday.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After his departure from SoFi, Cagney moved quickly on to his next venture: Figure Technologies Inc , a new online lending venture built around using the blockchain to offer cheaper, faster and more efficient digital loans products. The firm has raised $50 million from investors, including venture capital firms Ribbit Capital and DCM.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

Sharma now joins the other two co-founders, Robert Farkas and Raymond Trapani, in admitting that they duped investors into funding the Centra Card, which was purported to allow users to purchase items with digital currencies anywhere that accepted Visa and Mastercard. They falsely claimed to have a Harvard-educated CEO backing them.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

If decentralization is everything in blockchain, what does that mean beyond just the transaction — for the actual sharing of data, of things of value, of content itself? But, he said, “what if sub $1 payments were possible, but leveraged at scale?”

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The afternoon session brought on the blockchain. The morning session at BBVA Open Talent Challenge was all about artificial intelligence. From these sessions, two winners were chosen that will have the chance to engage with a global bank — perhaps the ultimate prize for a fintech startup today. The challenge was part Read More.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blockchain and a bank charter might do much to boost financial inclusion. While many digital-first companies springboard from payments into lending, Figure Technologies , a FinTech focused on home improvement, debt consolidation and retirement products that leverage blockchain protocols, is branching out from lending into payments.

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Banking Exchange

MAY 26, 2021

Customers Bank, Capital Bank and Community 1st Credit Union among the latest to embrace financial technology Technology Financial Trends Payments Feature3 Fintech Feature Lines of Business Tech Management Mobile Online Cards Blockchain PPP Covid19 Community Banking.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Revolut has launched an acquiring solution for its Revolut Business starter pack, which will allow businesses in 13 European countries to accept credit card payments online. and EEA consumer cards and a 2.8 percent fee for all other cards. Serent Capital Invests In Procurement Partners. The product will feature a 1.3

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Transactions can now be directed via six rails, including checks, cards, SWIFT, treasury, blockchain and digital wallet, the announcement stated. Veem noted in the announcement that its blockchain usage has been consistently on the uptick as of the company’s 2014 founding.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

What about gift cards? Research says millennials love gift cards , so that may be a way to create a budding bitcoin trend. But other research says to forget millennials and focus on ourselves, as many of us enjoy buying eGift cards for me, myself and I — and, sometimes, you. Just like cash.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

Finch Capital recently invested an undisclosed sum into Indonesia’s Jojonomic, a company that provides expense management and business management technology. India’s M1Xchange has secured an undisclosed amount of Series A funding from Mayfield India and SIDBI Venture Capital, reports in Inc42 said this week.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

The platform offers help with physical and virtual credit cards, invoice processing and early payments discounts, BusinessLine reports. Cardpay’s card issuance technology and experienced team” — along with Infibeam’s FinTech suite — will help “all types of merchants, allowing them to scale and prosper,” he added.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The data, said the Fed, came from surveys of depository institutions in 2012 and 2015, and payment card networks in 2015 and 2016. Payments fraud was up between 2012 to 2015, driven by card fraud. Perhaps predictably, “remote” card fraud also gained ground. The company called for an immediate capital injection.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

“We began researching XRP more than a year ago and have already identified several hundred XRP accounts linked to illicit activity ranging from thefts to scams and the sale of stolen credit cards,” said Tom Robinson, Ph.D., A smaller category was the sale of credit card details. XRP has a market capitalization of about $10.98

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

Find out who raised the money, and other winners of this week’s B2B venture capital roundup, below. Blockchain. Cambridge Blockchain. Endeavour Catalyst and Satya Capital also participated. California’s Plastiq provides small businesses with a commercial card solution to facilitate bill and expense payments.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The type of tax paid — capital gains tax, corporation tax, income tax, national insurance contributions, stamp taxes or VAT — will be decided by the tax authority. s tax authority has released cryptocurrency tax guidance for businesses, revealing that crypto assets will still be defined as commodities.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

While the prices of cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets have fallen from their 2017 peaks, equity investment into blockchain startups is on pace to hit all-time highs in 2018. THE FUTURE OF BLOCKCHAIN TECH. See how venture firms, corporates, regulators, and builders are shaping the future of blockchain technology. in February.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But with recent investment by Blue Star Capital, the company is expanding into the B2B realm to address cross-border corporate payments hurdles. A Borderless Blockchain. Through collaborating with blockchain firm Stellar, SatoshiPay is embracing distributed ledger technology to both work with and circumvent existing networks.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

While 2021 has kicked off with a bang in the venture capital arena — with several high-value investments on the books — this week's B2B VC roundup is all about the seed rounds. The company offers a range of services, including business accounts, commercial cards, bill payment, expense reimbursement and accounting. TripActions.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

GoCardless has landed $95 million in a Bain Capital Ventures-led Series F funding round. In addition, GoCardless will grow into eCommerce and roll out bank-to-bank payments as a less costly alternative to cards. Transactions can now be sent through six rails such as cards, checks, treasury, SWIFT, digital wallet and blockchain.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

million landed this week (including the blockchain company that secured most of it) below. Sands Capital Ventures led the investment, which NepFin recently told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster will go toward expanding its origination team and investing in its underlying technology and data capabilities. Blockchain. Alternative Finance.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

As perks for consumers go, cash-back offerings remain the leader of the pack when consumers are choosing credit cards. 13 percent of adults have an airline or hotel credit card, and 12 percent have a general travel rewards credit card, according to surveys by CreditCards.com and YouGov Plc. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Blockchain. Blockchain. Take the blockchain. An alien landing on Earth and reading the popular tech press would be thoroughly convinced that blockchain is the biggest thing to have happened here since the invention of indoor plumbing. In short, there seems to be, literally, nothing the blockchain cannot do.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Cloud-native London FinTech startup Thought Machine has raised $83 million in a Series B funding round led by Draper Esprit, with participation from existing investors Lloyds Banking Group, IQ Capital, Backed and Playfair, Thought Machine announced on Monday (March 2).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

Commercial card startup Brex captured headlines this week when it confirmed a significant funding round that propelled the two-year-old startup’s valuation to $2.6 Funderbeam operates a blockchain-powered funding and trading platform for the private sector in an effort to address the small business venture and capital gap.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Procurement Partners , a procure-to-pay technology provider designed for the healthcare industry, did not disclose how much it raised from Serent Capital when it announced the growth investment. The company secured $40 million in Series C funding led by Founders Fund, while Thrive Capital , Nosara Capital and Lerer Hippeau also participated.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The company connects into small businesses’ bank accounts and credit card transaction data to automate data collection and analytics, providing firms with real-time visibility into their finances. million funding round in a press release this week, with the seed investment led by Aya Peterburg of Haim Sadger and S Capital.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Ripple , the blockchain startup, is heading up a new cryptocurrency lobbying group called Securing America’s Internet of Value Coalition. Meanwhile, Hard Yaka is developing a prepaid card that lets users spend Ripple balances on the spot. Coindesk noted that most of the members of the new lobbying group have ties to Ripple.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

The news comes as Tradeshift is heightening its presence in the B2B payments space through the launch of Tradeshift Pay, and is introducing a blockchain-powered early payments service as part of the new offering. Its end-to-end payments and finance tool lets buyers make payments via virtual cards and other payment rails.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Instead, stories and conversations were salted with examples of fintech investments, BaaS opportunities, customer experience transformation, crypto integration, and even blockchain experiments and the potential of DeFi. experiments with a more visible move from shareholder capitalism to stakeholder capitalism.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2019

The banking regulator said that all in-country transactions, which include international payment systems cards, will be processed by the National Payment Card System in Russia. The payments firm co-led the funding round along with digital currency-focused venture capital firm Blockchain Capital.

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Lex Sokolin

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The vectors of change for software and money remain deeply anchored to the fractal of blockchain. The price of the cryptocurrency rose to over $15,000, breaking again the $250 billion market capitalization barrier. banks, card issuers, e-commerce sites, point of sale terminals, regulators, and so on. The election’s end?—?and

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