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

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

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. said this week.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2018

While Alipay already works with small businesses by offering Ant Financial services that allow businesses to accept payments, the latest offerings suggest that Alipay is enhancing its presence in small businesses’ back offices in the form of financial and operational management tools.

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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 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. B2B eCommerce. 30 million , to be exact.

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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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Insights on Business

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Banking on blockchain for increased trust”. You would be hard-pressed to find tech industry jargon spoken and written about as much as the secure ledger technology known as blockchain. While it is currently revolutionizing a number of industries , blockchain might as well be the word of the year in technology.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

Alternative Lending. alternative small business lending firm, that secured $900 million in 2017, while other alternative finance players, like LendingPoint and SoFi , landed significant investment rounds. The company operates a working capital and trade finance solution for companies to secure financing to power global trade.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2020

Avanti Financial Group said in a press release that it has received permission from the Wyoming Division of Banking to begin operating in the state as a bank as early as October and plans to offer a real-time settlement solution for corporate treasurers. The new banking options are largely built around blockchain technologies.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2016

Businesses across the globe operating in the blockchain, eCommerce-as-a-Service and alternative lending spaces (to name a few) all secured funding. But the segment of B2B FinTech that secured the largest backing — $50 million — is one you’ll never guess. Blockchain . Enterprise Security. ChargePoint.

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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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Insights on Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and cybersecurity are poised to transform the financial services industries. New hybrid cloud platforms will offer unprecedented scalability, agility, and security, optimized for enterprise AI and blockchain. Transforming how financial institutions operate.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

B2B startups in the small business banking, expense management and analytics sectors led this week’s investment roundup, securing more than half of the $108 million raised. But it’s a startup in Africa that not only secured the largest investment round of the week, but set a new record in the process, raising $47.5

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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. Reports said the network is more than 600 times faster than the Ethereum blockchain.

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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 30, 2016

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. Find out who else secured funding below. Blockchain. Alternative Lending. Enterprise Security. Expense Management.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

A few days later, one of the founding fathers of FinTech, Renaud Laplanche , was forced out of Lending Club, the peer-to-peer lender he founded in 2006, following scandals over loan disclosures and conflicts of interest. The really interesting, though less juicy, story is what got Lending Club into trouble.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

In terms of mechanics, the credit scoring software will use data spanning bank and corporate transactions, and Nikkei said the lenders would need to secure borrowers’ consent before accessing and using that data. Blocktrade, according to a release, has a European license in place to trade with tokens and digital coins.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

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. 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 27, 2019

Earlier in February, JPMorgan became the first bank to create its own cryptocurrency aimed at settling transactions with clients of its wholesale payments operation. Since then, the executive has touted the value of blockchain, the underpinning to cryptocurrency.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

Kerstin Braun, president of trade finance solutions provider Stenn , recently told PYMNTS, the global trade finance gap is only expected to grow in the coming years, meaning businesses conducting trade across borders will continue to demand ways to finance operations with tools they may not entirely understand.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

Many companies are partnering to protect their operations and the personal data they handle from bad actors. The Korea Federation of Banks recently unveiled the system known as BankSign, designed to serve as a blockchain-based authentication service for commercial banks. Mapping Data To Guide Smarter Real Estate Lending.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 27, 2018

Although it is called an accelerator, the model of the program is based on Synechron's blockchain project (also called an […]. The program, which Synechron refers to as its Regtech Accelerator Program, went live yesterday.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

seeing the greatest value of investments — with China and Germany also securing massive deals, too. SoFi led the charge securing a $1 billion Series E round last August, just months after a $213 million round. The alternative lending platform focuses on student lending, but some of the top U.S. It amounted to about $12.5

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The biggest opportunities exist in transaction banking and commercial lending, Finastra said, but there is also a real opportunity in working with FinTechs (and the tech they offer) to help banks land a larger slice of the combined $915 billion in revenues FIs are expected to see at the end of the decade.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

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. For any new FinTech company, securing a deal with a financial giant is good news. But, as Moore explained, these types of collaborations are critical to the banks, too.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Talk has shifted from last year’s discussions on blockchain and chatbots to artificial intelligence and cloud-based cores. Fintech funding has grown tougher for startups, but banks’ balance sheets are looking stronger– what does it mean for innovation? Many […].

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

This means Santander is poised to tap into IBM's AI, blockchain and big data offerings. IBM today announced a five-year, $700 million agreement it reached with Banco Santander that will enable the Madrid, Spain-based bank to “accelerate and deepen” its digital transformation to a more open, flexible institution.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Some of the areas that are well represented in the finance industry are: Blockchain. The premier business technology event has an abundance of material for both the developers and operations side of business, and equally there is plenty of deliverables that appeals to the C-level, executive and managerial level of experience.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

On the second day of FinovateFall 2016, fintechs continued to wow attendees with bright, dazzling new finovations. Attendees from banks, credit unions, and other fintech companies saw 31 demos of technology that has applications across the financial sphere, from financial data analysis to mobile payments to trading.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Blockchain technology — its genesis as a decentralized ledger, publicly visible but anonymous and once synonymous (but not limited) to cryptos — has fared better. In other cases, blockchain has helped companies create efficiencies by shaving time off operations and saving on costs. A Case Of Blockchain Fatigue.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In all, the industry secured more than $324 million with B2B payments, logistics and artificial intelligence leading the way. B2B payments company Bill.com secured $100 million from JPMorgan Chase and Temasek Holdings, reports said this week, in one of the most high-profile funding rounds for the industry. Alternative Lending.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 21, 2018

All 2017 Fintech 250 companies remain active and in operation, when our own research shows that 67% of funded startups fail or stall. Business Lending & Financing. General Lending & Marketplaces. Mortgage Lending. Point-of-Sale & Personal Lending. Blockchain. Blockchain. Blockchain.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

Investments hit a wide array of industries, too, with enterprise security and IoT leading the charge. based Full Harvest operates an online platform for restaurants and other food and beverage companies to procure the discounted produce in an effort to cut back on food waste. Enterprise Security. This week, the U.S. HackerEarth.

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