Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

EXCLUSIVE—Investors don’t need to wait for Initial Coin Offerings to reach their full potential: this way of raising capital is already redefining how businesses in certain markets can operate, Taynaah Reis, CEO for cooperative banking system company Moeda told Bank Innovation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The seed of FinTech innovation often comes from a desire to do things differently. But as finance and payments tech expands, these traditional FIs are learning that perhaps the best way to meet the demands of their corporate clients isn’t to compete with FinTech innovators but to collaborate with them.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2018

Blockchain applications may still be a ways away from real-world proliferation, but the technology is certainly beginning to take steps from proof-of-concept phase into beta and pilot testing. This week’s Blockchain Tracker takes a look at some of the latest initiatives to make progress and inch closer to a real-world launch.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

B2B startups saw a little bit of everything this week when it came to venture capital. And that goes for the industries covered, too, with treasury management’s Kyriba, blockchain’s BlockApps and enterprise security’s Druva landing on the board, to name a few. Blockchain. Alternative Lending.

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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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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

will participate in a fireside chat at Bank Innovation 2017. Bank Innovation 2017, March 6-7 in San Jose, Calif., will feature dozens of speakers on investing in innovation, chatbots, blockchain and more. Adam Carson, managing director, global technology strategy & partnerships at JPMorgan Chase & Co.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2018

Funding targets this time around included blockchain, logistics, alternative finance, artificial intelligence and T&E — with a few startups taking a stab at some of the biggest problems in the cannabis industry, procurement and microfinance. Blockchain. Blockchain Capital. Blockchain Capital. TravelPerk.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2016

It may have been a big week for alternative lending in the consumer finance space, but in B2B payments, blockchain and eCommerce startups snagged the biggest share of venture capital. Blockchain. But that doesn’t mean blockchain is free from its notoriety. 30 million , to be exact.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

The financial services market has progressed by leaps and bounds in terms of innovation, from the rise of alternative finance to the development of technologies like blockchain and open banking initiatives. Now, a decade on, small business optimism is up in the U.S.,

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2019

Coming off a year of high growth, enterprise blockchain startup Symbiont on Wednesday closed a $20 million Series B funding round led by Nasdaq Ventures, with participation from new investors including Galaxy Digital, Citi Ventures, and Raptor Group.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

As with other forms of financing, alternative lenders have stepped into this space to fill that gap left by traditional banks – and yet, the gap remains, highlighting the limitations of alternative lending’s proliferation in recent years. Alt-Fin’s Limited Impact.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 27, 2017

The opportunity ship has sailed for personal finance management, lending, or robo advisory sectors of fintech, according to Rebecca Lynn, co-founder of venture capital firm Canvas. So where are investors looking for new opportunities?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Blockchain. Marketplace lending.

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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

MARCH 2, 2018

Toward the start of 2018, analysts began to highlight the potential for venture capital (VC) to embrace the B2B business model. and India drove a surge in FinTech venture capital funding in 2017, and Accenture Financial Services Senior Managing Director Julian Skan pointed to the B2B business model as a significant presence in this trend.

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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

MARCH 17, 2017

But on the second day of Innovation Project 2017, eyes were beyond Beantown and cast toward the world at large. Lending, Lending Everywhere, With Quite a Lot to Think. That includes lending, and, in one panel discussion, loans themselves came under the microscope. It’s a big problem. That is not true,” O’Neil noted.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While AOBA 2022 had its share of execs wanting to “fake it until they make it” with future innovation, credit is due to the bankers who are pouring real financial investment into new fintech experiments. In some respects, AOBA 2022 felt a bit like bank executives wanted to “fake it until they make it” with their future innovation and fintech.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

The tallies are in: Innovate Finance has calculated the state of investment in FinTech for 2015, and we have the numbers. Innovate Finance released The 2015 FinTech Investment Landscape this month, a report that offers a snapshot at how investors are placing their money among financial innovators. It amounted to about $12.5

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Aside from the theoretical mention of blockchain technology, there haven’t been many major changes in cross-border money movement technology. And when you’re a company that’s more than 165 years old, trying to be innovative and fresh can be tricky, which is why cross-border money transfer company Western Union teamed up with the Denver, Colo.-based

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2018

Also landing on the board this week are alternative lending, expense management, cybersecurity and blockchain players. Alternative Lending. The investment was co-led by Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed and Kramer Capital Partners, the firm said, and brings the total amount raised by At-Bay to $19 million. Blockchain.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

Soon after the company scrapped its IPO plans, Misys launched a new solution for its bank customers to “take back that piece of the lending market” taken away from alternative lending competitors, said Senior Product Officer Jean-Cedric Jollant in an interview with PYMNTS last year.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 19, 2020

What is the role of innovation in response to these rapidly unfolding events? For insights into these questions, Bank Innovation and INV Fintech, its sister banking innovation services platform, will present a special Zoom meeting on […]. How will banks and startups work together?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

He said that there had to be a balancing act — the tech should be allowed to move forward and innovate. In other news, soccer powerhouse Barcelona is teaming with Chiliz, a FinTech platform, with the intent of creating its own blockchain-based token for the team. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Alloy’s Julieann Thurlow, CEO of Reading Cooperative Bank, said, “Community banks play a special role in the lives of our customers, but we don’t have the same IT and innovation budgets as the big banks to capitalize on that relationship.” This time around, Sweetbridge is using blockchain in a lending context.

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Bussman Advisory

JULY 1, 2023

This week’s must-know stories: Visa snaps up core banking platform Pismo for $1bn Mastercard launches DLT network for settlement of tokenized bank deposits Generative AI frenzy pushes Nvidia market capitalization past US$1T mark Plus, 9 more exclusive stories to help you stay ahead of the curve!

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

According to “Digital Disruption — Revisited: What FinTech VC Investments Tells Us About A Changing Industry,” Citi expects an influx in venture capital across the FinTech startup scape. The nation’s current market climate is ideal to fostering FinTech growth and innovation, and investors will fuel that growth through 2017.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

A summer lull in B2B venture capital appears to have given way to an impressive start to the fall season. This week, two massive deals landed with B2B payments innovators at Fundbox and Tipalti, but they were far from the only players to have secured new funding. said this week. ZenBusiness.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

The latest research puts a price tag on the finances of better procurement, banking, cash management and innovation among small and medium-sized businesses. 290 million in venture capital landed at blockchain startups in H1 , revealed Juniper Research. But it may be more effective to actually show how much money can be saved.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2016

For startups, 2016 wasn’t the best year in venture capital. VCs used 2016 to manage costs, set priorities and valuations,” explained Rahul Khanna, managing partner at Trifecta Capital, in an interview with Business Standard published Wednesday (Dec. Alt-Lending. Blockchain. and the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The FinTech space is hoping to address these challenges head-on, targeting the paper and manual-based processes of trade finance transactions though innovations like blockchain. The survey polled more than 515 banks and 1,336 companies across 103 countries, finding that FinTech innovators can, indeed, help address the $1.5

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

TReDS, Invoicemart offers supplier SMEs the option to tell invoices via a bidding process, with the funds that are provided to small businesses also qualifying for priority sector lending benefits for the banks. Last year, Axis Bank became one of two Indian banks to be the first to join SWIFT’s global payments innovation (gpi) initiative.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 11, 2020

At Royal Media, Bank Innovation‘s publisher, we take great pride in the value of our exceptional industry conferences and the effort we put into their production. We rightly view our more than a dozen annual conferences as crucial opportunities for business development in our industries.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2019

The most recent evidence of this comes from Balboa Capital , which published a research report last week finding that nearly two-thirds of SMBs obtained a small business line of credit from a nonbank lender within the last year. The bank-FinTech collaboration trend has hit the small business customer segment particularly strong.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

While AOBA provides a fertile forum for buyers and potential sellers in the bank M&A space to commensurate, the crowd uses this valuable face time to also delve into discussions about the economy, strategic growth, fintech innovation, competition, and talent wars.

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