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Cross-Border Payment Efforts Grab Funding

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As noted in the American Banker , SWIFT has maintained that Ripple has not set up relationships with firms that can navigate regulatory hurdles. SWIFT said its own global payments innovation (gpi) offerings succeed in clearing those complexities, and that hundreds of banks have signed on with gpi. dollars to Philippine pesos.

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

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All of you with your hands up… … uh huh. It would have required a few trips to the local dispensary to dream up what bankers have endured this year. 2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. OK, show of hands. Pull ’em down. No, you didn’t.

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AltFin Shines As Investor Interest In B2B FinTech Continues

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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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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

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THE BANKER AWARDS. Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. Doug Larson. Gonzo readers, 2021 was just plain schizophrenic.

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FinTechs Find VC Favor Amid Collaborative Efforts

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But there can be a sea change afoot that can mix things up a bit. As noted in American Banker , the deal count came to 371 deals for the first half of the year, with a few triple-digit investment rounds. Unlike the broader VC market, early-stage FinTech companies have continued to attract a solid flow of capital in the U.S.,

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Where are The FinTech Darlings Now?

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A banker told me yesterday that if I wanted headlines in American Banker , put FinTech in my copy. So far I'm up to five mentions. Perhaps I should have mentioned blockchain. Firms started in the dorm room that have no employees, just an eager volunteer, no revenue, and no capital need not apply. Legit question.

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Gonzo Notes from Money20/20

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Money20/20 became quite the event in a very short time, with 10,000 – count ’em – attendees up from 2,300 only three years ago. Continuing on the “Pay” theme, we know all about Apple Pay and the noise it caused in the market last year. The logistics. Would we all take that growth? Big stories/buzz. Apple Pay … not.