Bank Innovation

MAY 10, 2016

Izabella Kaminska at FTAlphaville, has done an excellent job of putting the current blockchain project-users cases in perspective. Is there a suspicion… Read more Blockchain in Capital markets: Emerging use cases II. She also mentions that all this versioning is introducing lots of new risks.

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JANUARY 19, 2018

The hot topics in B2B venture capital these days are often cutting-edge technologies like blockchain and data analytics. Indeed, these spaces secured significant funding in this week’s B2B venture capital roundup. Check out the B2B payments, blockchain, logistics and data analytics firms that secured funding below.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

What is the state of banking innovation today? Fintech funding has grown tougher for startups, but banks’ balance sheets are looking stronger– what does it mean for innovation? Talk has shifted from last year’s discussions on blockchain and chatbots to artificial intelligence and cloud-based cores.

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

Capital One’s Treasury Management Group is already looking ahead to how corporate treasurers will face the most modern of challenges in 2017. For Capital One, approaching the future of treasury management means collaboration. “We’re

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Unlike B2C eCommerce, B2B transactions require heightened visibility within supply chains — the ability to move large sums of money at set times, generation and management of invoices, purchase orders, payment contracts and more. Betting On Blockchain. The concept of a blockchain-managed digital identity is not new.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Australian supply chain-focused blockchain technology company Security Matters has filed a patent application in the U.S. towards the marking, tracking and managing of the supply chain of cannabis plants, cannabis products and products containing cannabis-based ingredients. This move is our first step to meet those users’ needs.”.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Coca-Cola’s supply chain operations are run by an IT firm called Coke One North America (CONA), and the company recently had such a successful run with blockchain software provider SAP that it’s going to expand the program from two to 70 manufacturers, according to reports. . The funding round was led by Polychain Capital.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

PYMNTS takes a look at those cybersecurity firms, plus a few of the treasury management, blockchain and logistics firms that also grabbed fresh funding. Backers at Meritech Capital Partners and Lead Edge Capital led the Series D investment round, according to TechCrunch news, while Index Ventures and Workday also participated.

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MARCH 20, 2018

Eximchain , a blockchain-based platform developed in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s media lab, has raised $20 million for its supply chain financing solution. Reports in BlockTribune on Monday (March 19) said Eximchain raised the investment from China-based cryptocurrency hedge fund FBG Capital.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Adam Carson, managing director, global technology strategy & partnerships at JPMorgan Chase & Co., 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.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

A new report from Capital One examined this question, focusing on how technological disruption will affect its finances. ” the financial institution (FI) asked in its recent publication, “ Innovation in the Middle Market: Staying a Step Ahead of Disruption.” Where does the middle market fit in this spectrum?

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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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DECEMBER 20, 2017

As more businesses join collaborative groups and invest in internal research and development (R&D) to explore using blockchain for new services, some firms have begun to use the technology themselves. Currently,” Citi explained in its announcement, “banks have to set aside capital as they wait for collateral to be settled.

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JUNE 20, 2018

The skeptics are flocking out of the shadows to warn investors and innovators that blockchain may not be the catch-all solution and market-changing disruptor it promises to be. The latest vocal proponent of blockchain for the enterprise is Sergio Ermotti, CEO of UBS Group. “You need also to be able to price it correctly.”

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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. With the second-largest funding of the week, Billtrust landed $50 million for its invoice-to-cash and accounts receivable management solutions.

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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. Expense Management. Blockchain.

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APRIL 21, 2017

While the industry has been around for well over a century, the term “supply chain management” wasn’t coined until the 1980s. CIO defines supply chain management as “the combination of art and science that goes into improving the way your company finds the raw components it needs to make a product or service and deliver it to customers.

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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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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

General Motors’ financing unit, General Motors Financial, is teaming up with Spring Labs , a blockchain company, to create identity verification solutions. According to a report in CoinDesk , citing Spring Labs, the blockchain FinTech said that GM is also looking at buying a stake in the company.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

HashCash Brings Blockchain Tech To Unnamed Bank. Although blockchain technology company HashCash Consultants did not name the FI, the company revealed it is collaborating with a bank in the U.S. to bring its blockchain-powered corporate trade financing technology into the entity.

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MARCH 20, 2019

percent of the market’s total capitalization, falling to a low of 50.54 In other news, China issued its first blockchain-based electronic invoice for a subway ride. And four companies presented real-world blockchain demos to the U.K. CoinDesk reported that the crypto currently accounts for 50.9 percent on March 17.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

When it comes to payment rails innovation, financial service providers can either improve upon existing infrastructure, or build entirely new rails altogether. This week's look at the latest innovation initiatives finds a big push for the latter. SatoshiPay Debuts Blockchain Payments Platform. BELLIN Secures SWIFT gpi Label.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Spending on blockchain technologies will ramp up to $9.2 Its latest Worldwide Semiannual Blockchain Spending Guide also calculated a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of blockchain spend of 81.2 2018 will be a crucial stage for enterprises as they make a huge leap from proof-of-concept projects to full blockchain deployments.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Logistics technology provider OpenPort has announced a partnership with blockchain company Fr8 Network in a deal that will enable OpenPort to connect its customers to blockchain solutions. OpenPort currently provides transportation management technology and trade finance to its corporate customers.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Thomson Reuters is joining a consortium that includes some of the largest financial institutions around the world working to determine how to use blockchain technology in global financial markets. Blockchain technology is behind bitcoin, the popular digital currency, and enables data to be shared between a network of individual computers.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

BMO Bank has been “heavily” investing in its technology architecture for the past five years. The bank reached a “major milestone” at the end of 2016, according to David Gordon, the bank’s U.S. chief technology and operations officer. That’s in terms of all the tech capabilities we have built, which will Read More.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

SoFi grew up quickly, expanding both the number and types of products it had on offer (mortgage loans, personal loans, wealth management services and life insurance) and its ambitions for what type of firm it wanted to be. The firm has raised $50 million from investors, including venture capital firms Ribbit Capital and DCM.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

While more banks and businesses are delving into and even getting comfortable with the idea of blockchain, some businesses are removing themselves from it. This week Goldman Sachs opted out of renewing its membership to the R3CEV blockchain consortium. Another bank’s blockchain commitment that seems not firm is Germany’s central bank.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

This year could be the year that blockchain emerges from its current status as a largely hypothetical game-changer to one that’s put to the test. While few working applications of blockchain technology are in use today by financial service providers, the industry continues to place its confidence — and money — behind the technology.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Even some of the largest proponents of blockchain agree that distributed ledger technology (DLT) is still in its early days, and its impact on the financial services market probably won’t be fully understood for some time. About 90 percent of blockchain projects that start on GitHub, researchers found, become idle and inactive within a year.

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Insights on Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Reengineering core banking systems that have been developed over decades while innovating fast enough to stay competitive would be like trying to change your tires while speeding down the freeway. With the IBM Open Banking Platform , financial institutions can innovate faster, reduce risk and protect core banking applications.

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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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OCTOBER 7, 2020

RootAnt has said that it will use the capital to expand in Singapore, Southeast Asia and Japan. In terms of mechanics, the company connects enterprises and financial institutions (FIs) to help bring embedded financing and other innovations to enterprises. Thus, working capital challenges are mounting for these SMBs.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

Other B2B FinTech firms that landed funding this week include expense management firms Mooncard and Jojonomic , as well as logistics company NEXT , which landed the largest investment round of the week at $97 million. In the employee expense management field as well, France’s Mooncard revealed a $5.7

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Insights on Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

In March of 2016, I testified on the revolutionary nature of blockchains before the U.S. Since that time, blockchains have continued garnering interest across multiple industries from banking to health care, and have been explored for quite a few additional use cases. And let’s not forget blockchain’s nature as a disruptive technology.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

The cross-border payments space presents a whole host of challenges for FinTech innovators to try to solve, with new solutions targeting everything from global eCommerce to international tuition payments. B2B payments, according to management consultant company McKinsey & Co.,

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

We have a deep dive into spend management in addition to news involving the Sprint and T-Mobile merger, as well as data on state tax laws. . Behind Sysco’s Spend Management Switch To Cards. Did Blockchain Peak In 2019? Gov’t Fights States’ Bid To Block Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Saying Move Would Slow 5G. Trackers and Reports.

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