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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Blockchain startup Digital Asse t has brought in another $40 million in funding, bringing its total amount raised to $100 million. According to news from Reuters , this latest round was led by Jefferson River Capital, LLC, the family office of Tony James, president and chief operating officer of private equity firm Blackstone.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Alternative lending was the golden child among investors around 2015, but lately, the industry seems to have fallen out of favor thanks to regulatory uncertainty and questions over the viability of some business models. sent a letter to five alternative small business lenders operating in the country, inquiring about their business practices.

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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

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. Still, implementing such strategies is a significant operational challenge in itself.”.

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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

JULY 23, 2018

billion blockchain fund, and the U.A.E’s Network International has launched a Shopmatic-powered eCommerce platform called Go-Online. With the service, customers of myPOS operating in the U.K. And the capital of China ‘s Jiangsu province is rolling out a $1.5 billion fund focused on the blockchain, ZDNet reported.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 12, 2017

As the year saw changes in financial regulation, startup culture, and trends in venture capital, innovation moved forward: blockchain labs were made, funding was fought for, mobile payment systems were integrated, and the limits of artificial […].

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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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Abrigo

JULY 27, 2023

Regtech is simply the use of technology such as AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and blockchain to improve the way businesses manage regulatory compliance. Keeping up with OFAC Russian sanctions , customer due diligence regulations, and consumer lending compliance expectations can be challenging.

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Abrigo

JULY 27, 2023

Regtech is simply the use of technology such as AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and blockchain to improve the way businesses manage regulatory compliance. Keeping up with OFAC Russian sanctions , customer due diligence regulations, and consumer lending compliance expectations can be challenging.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

Cardpay was founded by Kumar Srinivasan , who boasts two decades of experience with payments, retail and credit lending services. Srinivasan will continue to lead the operations at Grit, according to BusinessLine. “Payments-led lending is the new growth mantra for us.

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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. Operating in the trade finance market, CCRManager announced $6.5 Blockchain. Check out the latest investment rounds below. CCRManager. Expense Management.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

million in the largest investment round ever for a FinTech that operates exclusively in the continent. 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. InsightSquared.

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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. BankiFi operates APIs to enable banking clients access to a range of business banking infrastructure to augment their own small business and corporate banking operations.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The most lucrative players are operating in the SME finance space, with a small business banking startup landing more than a quarter of the funding. Alt-Lending. The startup connects small businesses with investors to facilitate cross-border financing of SMEs, using blockchain to process the funds transfer. SME Banking.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

million landed this week (including the blockchain company that secured most of it) below. Nicknamed NepFin, Neptune Financial recently announced $10 million in Series A funding for its alternative lending solution. Blockchain. Dfinity Foundation landed $61 million as part of its quest to build a blockchain “internet computer.”

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 18, 2018

It’s no secret that everyone from small startups to m ajor corporations is jumping on the blockchain trend. RESEARCH briefing: ENTERPRISE BLOCKCHAINS & THE FUTURE OF DECENTRALIZATION. We look at how the enterprise blockchain world is developing, as well as where cryptonetworks could possibly go in the future.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2016

With nearly $120 million raised for enterprise-serving startups, B2B venture capital saw one of its most successful weeks this year. Businesses across the globe operating in the blockchain, eCommerce-as-a-Service and alternative lending spaces (to name a few) all secured funding. Blockchain . Enterprise Security.

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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. The grassroots of community and regional banking will no longer be vanilla operations geographically focused.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

In Kenya, the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has issued its “FinTech Sandbox Guidance Note,” which is now finalized as policy. The first step is one that takes in market-specific operators within a number of spaces, including robo-advisors, crowdfundng and algorithmic trading. Poland, Germany and France.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Top VC Investor: Ribbit Capital is the top investor in Fintech 250 companies, having backed companies on the list including new 2018 unicorns, Nubank, Revolut, and PolicyBazaar as well as returning Fintech 250 companies Robinhood , Wealthfront , Gusto , Coinbase , Cross River Bank , and Upgrade. Business Lending & Financing.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

It’s the reasoning behind Capital One’s latest round of partnerships announced late last month. Deals were made with B2B invoicing and payments firm Viewpost, as well as health care blockchain company Gem and natural language search technology company ClearGraph. Take Capital One’s deal with Gem, for instance.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

Overall, 2015 venture capital investment levels dipped compared to 2014, though only slightly compared to the fraction of investment seen just three and four years ago. The alternative lending platform focuses on student lending, but some of the top U.S. Corporate Venture Capital. It amounted to about $12.5

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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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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

JULY 22, 2019

The funding round was led by BBVA with participation from Toscafund, Woodford Patient Capital Trust and Perscitus LLP. Atom said that lending to both businesses and homeowners was up 76 percent in the last year. Atom wants to move all its operations onto the cloud and modernize its infrastructure in a way that would reduce costs.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Community Banks as Venture Capitalists In fact, not all providers of venture capital are venture capitalists. billion in capital into fintech startups in 2023. 3) Establish operational responsibilities Where will deals come from? Not all venture capitalists (or VCs) are cutting back on investing, however. billion in 2021.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

The funding round was led by BBVA with participation from Toscafund, Woodford Patient Capital Trust and Perscitus LLP. Atom said that lending to both businesses and homeowners was up 76 percent in the last year. Atom wants to move all its operations onto the cloud and modernize its infrastructure in a way that would reduce costs.

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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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Trade finance revenue is slipping at the world’s largest banks, especially as companies struggle in a global trade environment operating with a $1.5 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.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

But this other bank just started a blockchain focus group, and everyone else is investing in tech. This bank created an innovation lab, and that bank is launching a fintech team. Gone are the days when banks could afford to be “conservative” with new product launches and tech projects, which Read More.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2018

Enterprise blockchain startup Axoni secured $32 million in Series B funding this week, the company announced in a press release. The company works with banks and other financial services players to integrate blockchain tools. Capital On Tap. Capital On Tap links small business borrowers to financing. MyDreamPlus.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Between the rise of blockchain technology, the market debuts of faster payments initiatives and the advancements in virtual card capabilities, small businesses have more choice and power when it comes to their payments needs. and EMEA told surveyors that they access cash flow from their operations. .” From the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

venture capital space: Data released this week from KPMG found $17.3 billion worth of venture capital (VC) funding landing at U.S. held a strong presence in B2B FinTech venture capital — half of the eight funding rounds closed in this space this week went to U.S. Alternative Lending. This week, the U.S. announced a $21.25

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