Lars Markull

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As I have been doing it in the last few years, I want to share my books that I have read this year as well. Usually I have shared all of them, but this time I decided to keep it to my favorite ten books. I always aim to read roughly 50 books per year, but this year fell clearly short of it and landed at around 35-40 books.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 8, 2017

Two distinct streams have surfaced in fintech: passive and active investment. Betterment is the poster child for passive investment, recently booking $70 million in venture funding and has continued to enhance its services. But the active investment strategy for investors is far from dead in fintech.

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 28, 2021

As many of my readers know, I wrote a book, Squared Away-How Can Bankers Succeed as Economic First Responders. If you don't know, it's because I'm not particularly good at getting the word out to the book's target audience: bankers and the professionals that serve them. Pretty niche group, so you think my targeting would be spot-on.

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Payments Dive

AUGUST 25, 2023

Embedded finance accounted for over half of fintech’s new bookings in the first half of 2023, and it’s lining up more clients for the service.

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Disruptive Finance

MAY 14, 2017

A few weeks ago, The Disruptive Group organised a Fintech bootcamp for finance professionals. One of the very experienced speakers advised the audience to start their education in Fintech by reading 10 very important books, but he didn’t mention which ones! The post What are the 10 books to read to learn Fintech?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

Travelers will then click a link to finish the booking. Airlines want more bookings to take place on their own sites, rather than third-party travel agencies. A Spirit Airlines chatbot will collect basic information and then a Spirit agent will take over, spokesman Haven Kaplan told CNBC.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Hot embers continue to glow in the fintech market that GonzoBanker mothership Cornerstone Advisors serves. According to CB Insights, US fintechs raised $14.6B Some perspective on how fast this fintech market is moving: Fintech Labs tracks 269 $1B+ valued fintech unicorns that have been founded in just the past two decades.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2017

FlitWays, a B2B company that helps businesses book ground travel and streamline expense management processes, has enhanced its services and added new features, the company said Monday (July 10). We provide ease of booking for travel managers, employee preferences and many more. Businesses spend $1.25

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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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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 23, 2021

Imagine a fintech, with off-the-chart valuations such as 2.6x book value and 51x EBITDA, buying a bank. For 1.85x book. It was one of my most read posts and is a chapter in my upcoming book, Squared Away (soon to be available in your favorite bookstore). book and over 6x tangible book.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

We asked several banking leaders how they’ve employed fintech to ramp up their marketing campaigns, hone their analytic strategies and gain new patrons in the process. The digital world has opened vastly broader avenues for community banks to attract new customers—especially if they partner with fintechs in their endeavors.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

At a time when surging coronavirus counts are once again muddying the outlook for consumers and business owners, MerchantE Chief Financial Officer Shim Steinmetz says the crisis has also provided a silver lining of sorts to nimble FinTechs that can solve merchants’ cash crunch problems.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

With consumer expectations seeming to evolve faster every year, community banks could consider partnering with a fintech to keep up with technological innovation. of bankers are either strongly interested in or already working with fintechs in digital account opening. The benefits of fintechs. By Elizabeth Judd. Quick Stat.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Morgan Stanley wants to make it easier to acquire new tech from startups as well as pick up the pace of collaboration amid concerns from FinTechs that partnering with big banks can be slow and expensive. With FinTechs disrupting traditional financial services, the big banks have been partnering up at an increasing rate.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 27, 2016

After the books Digital Bank and ValueWeb were translated into Korean, Chinese and soon to be Japanese, I guess the region is interested in my thinking. Or … The post The Rise of #Fintech Asia appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. It was a great conference, and it reminded me of the time I’ve spent in Asia lately.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Sironi’s hot off the press elevator pitch as a global thought leader, is “I sell the finest FinTech Furniture, FinTech Fashion and FinTech Food” Extract from FinTech #Furniture, #Fashion and #Food George Orwell said that “one would write a book only if driven by a demon whom one can neither resist nor understand” Paolo (..)

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

MarketFinance , a FinTech business lender, has secured a £50 million ($65.8 That process means SMBs will be able to apply for a loan today and also set them up for invoice financing or a revolving credit facility when the order book fills up.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

Renz also led other Amazon subsidiaries, including Woot, Abe Books, Endless.com and MyHabit.com. At SoFi , based in Silicon Valley, Renz will lead the FinTech startup’s credit card, brokerage and bank account businesses, one of the sources told WSJ. Renz’s exit is the latest in a slew of company departures.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

While 2021 has kicked off with a bang in the venture capital arena — with several high-value investments on the books — this week's B2B VC roundup is all about the seed rounds. Young B2B FinTechs secured some of their first investments in areas that include small business accounting, alternative lending and financial management.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

The image stems from about two or three centuries ago, when medieval superstitions were being seriously challenged by empirical thought, and the view has been reinforced countless times — even into the early 21st century if you look hard enough — by books, movies, TV shows and other methods of cultural communication. FinTech Partnerships.

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Chris Skinner

JANUARY 11, 2018

Just before Christmas, I was interviewed by a Turkish magazine about the future, Turkey and fintech. I thought it might interest folks to share it here … When you wrote your first book about fintech – little was known about it.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

It was a slow week for B2B FinTech venture capital investments, though the industry still managed to pull more than $46.8 based B2B FinTech startup focused on providing trade credit at the point-of-sale on B2B eCommerce platforms, has announced $33.85 million in fresh funding. Credit Key. Credit Key, a U.S.-based

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 11, 2016

ValueWeb: How FinTech firms are using bitcoin blockchain and mobile technologies to create the Internet of Value After months of writing and editing, I’m delighted to say that my new book ValueWeb is now available.

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Lars Markull

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As I have been doing it in the last few years, I want to share my books that I have read this year as well. Usually I have shared all of them, but this time I decided to keep it to my favorite ten books. I always aim to read roughly 50 books per year, but this year fell clearly short of it and landed at around 35-40 books.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 27, 2021

Khatabook, a fintech company specializing in digital bookkeeping and credit collection, has raised $100M in a Series C. The post This Digital Book-Keeping Startup For Indian Merchants Raised $100M At A Valuation Of $600M appeared first on CB Insights Research. HOW’S THE COMPANY PERFORMING? The company, which reported a $17.1M

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CB Insights

JANUARY 26, 2023

The fintech industry took a hard hit in 2022 as investors scaled back their investments amid market turmoil. Fintech is central to a16z’s investment strategy. Of the 206 deals a16z participated in last year, almost a quarter went to fintech companies — more than any other industry. appeared first on CB Insights Research.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

In other news, Webjet, the owner of WebBeds, has announced the launch of Rezchain , a new blockchain-based technology that can find and eliminate discrepancies in hotel booking transactions. Rezchain works by receiving a daily update of all bookings between two Rezchain connected parties.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2020

companies, including $75 million landing at one FinTech looking to bolster small business credit card payment adoption. FInTech that raised $75 million in Series D funding for its small business credit card technology. Even so, an impressive $114 million was raised by U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

Taking a page from Goldman Sachs’ book, Morgan Stanley is beginning to lend to FinTech startups in Brazil as it seeks more of a return on its investments. Morgan Stanley’s move comes at a time when the Brazil FinTech market is exploding. Fortress Investment Group also took part in that deal.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2018

FinTech startups and big tech may provide competition for established banks that have bad loans on the books, The European Banking Authority (EBA) said on Tuesday (July 3). And, while London has served as Europe’s primary FinTech center, Brexit could change that: The U.K.’s s exit from the bloc next year.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The lead underwriter for the offering is Goldman Sachs Canada in cooperation with book managers Credit Suisse Securities Canada Inc, BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. Nuvei did not disclose the amount it is planning to raise or the price of shares, Reuters reported. The company said it plans to use net proceeds from the offering to repay debt.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2019

Large financial institutions (FIs) are increasingly turning to FinTech firms and alternative lenders to augment their small business (SMB) offerings, but community banks are beginning to get on board with the partnership strategy , too. According to the publication, the partnership is not only noteworthy for the FI’s work with a FinTech.

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Chris Skinner

JANUARY 18, 2020

The main blog headlines are … Bye-bye FinTech I just spent time with a bank talking about Doing Digital. The host had read a preview copy of my new book and was asking a few questions about it. What had surprised me the most in my talks with five banks?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Zurich-based FinTech company neon announced it has closed a $5 million fundraising round led by Tamedia. The company intends to focus on speed, with faster booking of card transactions or more user self-service, and will also launch the addition of e-bills.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

Venture capital (VC) is not easily available to every startup, but this week, VC investors hinted at a big year ahead for the B2B FinTech space. In a rarity for B2B FinTech funding, B2B payments startup Flutterwave announced a $35 million fundraise, turning the spotlight to Nigeria’s FinTech community. Flutterwave.

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Chris Skinner

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Your newest book, Digital Human, is obviously an outgrowth from your two previous books, ValueWeb and Digital … The post Financial Institutions Aren’t Prepared for the Digital Revolution appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. I recently did an interview with my American friend Jim Marous over on The Financial Brand.

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Perficient

JANUARY 12, 2021

Until businesses receive forgiveness confirmation, they are stuck with loans on the books that prevent additional loans from being approved. In these times of economic crises and lending restrictions, FinTech will disrupt and fill the gap. It will inevitably foster closer alliances between financial institutions and FinTech companies.

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