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Jaja Buys Bank Of Ireland UK Card Business

PYMNTS

credit card business, mobile-first company Jaja will pay an initial cash consideration of $671 million at current rates. The FinTech firm will also serve as the consumer credit card issuer for the AA and the bank’s U.K. s Automobile Association and a Bank of Ireland branded card. (It To acquire the Bank of Ireland’s U.K.

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Truist selling last chunk of insurance business. Now what?

American Banker

The Charlotte, North Carolina, company has agreed to sell its remaining 80% stake in its insurance brokerage unit to raise billions of dollars in cash and extra capital. The "wild card" is how Truist will deploy them, one analyst says.

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5 New Year’s Resolutions For Any Sized Bank That You Must Get Right in 2023

South State Correspondent

Because many banks are now producing below their cost of capital, growth further exacerbates their issues and drives them out of business (likely through a sale) faster. Without the windfall of profit accrued to banks in 2022 because of faster-than-expected rate increases, banks will need to be better allocators of capital.

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Data’s Influence And Contactless Vending, In Style At Fashion Week

PYMNTS

In 1943, the fashion capital of the world at the time, Paris, was at war and under siege. In fact, “see now, buy now” experiments were underway at Fashion Week New York this year, care of a partnership with Visa that brought tap-to-pay with contactless cards and devices to Fashion’s big show this year.

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The Mother List of All Banking Books

Jeff For Banks

Oil Capital: The History of American Oil, Wildcatters, Independents and Their Bankers 2016 Dwight L. House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street 2009 William D. A Term at the Fed: An Insider's View 2004 John Moody Moody, John The Masters of Capital: A Chronicle of Wall Street 2012 George S.

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Fintech Fundings: 27 Companies Raise $420 Million Week Ending October 23

Fintech Labs Insights

Finally, congratulations to Finovate alum Financit which grabbed an undisclosed, but we are guessing considerable, amount of capital from Goldman Sachs. Prepaid card platform. HQ: Charlotte, North Carolina. LoanBook Capital. Tags: Consumer, mobile, debit/credit cards, account aggregation, PFM. million or less.

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Fintech Fundings: 23 Companies Raise $685 Million Week Ending Dec 18

Fintech Labs Insights

HQ: Charlotte, North Carolina. Indexa Capital. Tags: SMB, payments, POS, ePOS, mPOS, credit/debit card acquiring, merchants. Latest round: $6.0 million Series A. Total raised: $6.0 HQ: Herlev, Denmark. Source: Crunchbase. Workflow tool for investment bankers. Latest round: $5.3 million Series A. Total raised: $5.57 TransferGo.

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