PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

The recent $14 billion worth of fresh capital for Ant Financial — the China-based firm that is now the most valuable privately held tech firm in the world, ahead of Uber — comes amid fresh fears among some banking professionals in the West that China is passing them by. That’s hardly a new question. That contrasts with the U.S.,

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Javelin Strategy & Research

JUNE 3, 2015

Moven is a reloadable debit card and mobile app. It’s as if a prepaid card had a love child with Mint that grew up to be an older, more mature debit card that is able to track your money in real-time. I’m not the first person to compare physical activity to financial activity but I think the comparison is really compelling.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 26, 2021

SoftBank’s capital firepower has helped it become the #2 unicorn investor in the world. The fintech sector represents the second-most frequent investment target for SoftBank in 2021, with 26 fintech companies garnering deals. . Clearco provides growth capital for small businesses. Blockchain & crypto fin services.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 19, 2016

Fintech deals by size from 23 April to 29 April 2016: Mosaic. Deposit price comparison site. Health insurance comparison site. Tags: SMB, merchants, security, payments, POS, credit/debit cards, authorization. ——-. Marketplace lender for residential solor projects. Latest round: $200 million Private Equity.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

In this briefing, we analyze the Southeast Asia venture capital landscape, macro trends affecting the region, where deals and dollars have trended and a look ahead at which areas might be primed for startup investment in the future. Tech Investing in Southeast Asia. First Name. Please click to enlarge.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 13, 2016

For the 14th week in a row, fintech deals worldwide surpassed the 20-mark. Three Finovate alums raised capital and one of the first FinovateSpring presenters, TradeKing , was acquired by Ally Financial for $275 million. Ixaris landed $6 million for its prepaid card platform. Scalable Capital. Cortera raised a fresh $3.5

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The venture capital games of embedded finance , open banking, PSD2 and API, all of these revolve around the premise that banks are behind on cloud technology and do not know how to package and deliver financial products to where they matter. This therefore incorporates the types of enabling fintech that Refinitiv and Finastra dream about.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The fintech sector attracted $266 million in new capital the second week of August. Fintech deals by size from 6 Aug to 12 August 2016: Interactions. Financial services price comparison portal. Bigstone Capital. Financial services comparison site. million to alt-auto-title lender Finova Financial. $17

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 1, 2016

Although we saw one high-flying fintech unicorn crash to earth this week , the fintech sector continued to attract significant capital with 21 companies raising $214.8 FlexScore was bought by United Capital . Seven weeks into the new year, fintech companies have raised $4.7 Loyalty card platform.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

For the 12th consecutive week, there were 20+ fintech fundings worldwide. The number of deals was inflated somewhat by the six new fintech companies launched at YC’s demo day that we had not previously covered. Here are the fintech deals by size from 19 March to 25 March 2016: Open Lending. Total dollars raised, $6.3

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It was a quieter week in fintech fundings. ” According to today’s WSJ story , the money appears to be earmarked for share repurchases, meaning it’s just a transfer of $820 million to the existing common stock holders, rather than new capital sitting on the balance sheet. .” million this week. billion or $22.8

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

In the latest edition of the India FinTech Tracker, we spotlight the deal-making that spans hundreds of millions of dollars, flowing into verticals as diverse as food delivery, retail payments, microfinance, P2P and the Internet of Things. By way of comparison, through the first three quarters of 2018, FinTech investments stood at $2 billion.

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Lex Sokolin

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

When the old world wobbles, the new one seems more safe by comparison. The price of the cryptocurrency rose to over $15,000, breaking again the $250 billion market capitalization barrier. For comparison, Visa today sits at about $420 billion in market capitalization, representing the discounted cash flows of owning a payment network.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 5, 2016

Fintech deals by size from 2 July to 8 July, 2016: Qufenqi. Multi-merchant credit/debit card loyalty progam. Credit card & mobile payments fraud protection. Credit card & mobile payments fraud protection. Tags: Consumers, mobile payments, credit/debit cards, security, fraud protection. HQ: Beijing, China.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 16, 2016

Finovate alums accounted for 40% of the week’s dollar volume including: Personal Capital raised $75 million for its digital wealth management service. Fintech deals by size from May 14 to 20, 2016: Clover Health. Personal Capital. Consumer credit card management. million) and Jetty ($4 million). Latest round: $12.2

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 8, 2016

There has been an average of 28 fintech deals per week this year. Fintech deals by size from 9 July to 15 July, 2016: Blockchain Intelligence Group. Lost/stolen credit & debit card solution. Tags: Consumer, payments, credit/debit cards, security, convenience. Total dollars raised YTD is $18.1 Latest round: $14.4

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Other participants in the round include Founders Fund, QED Investors, Redpoint, Ribbit Capital, Sequoia, and Tiger. Founded in 2013, Nubank offers a Mastercard credit card with a companion mobile app that features PFM capabilities, spending alerts, and a card lock feature.

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Gonzobanker

JUNE 16, 2022

According to Jim Marous, CEO of The Digital Banking Report : “Consumers expect financial institutions to understand their needs and deliver personalized solutions similar to what they receive from fintech and Big Tech firms. A new crop of fintech startups—often called challenger banks—is addressing this personalization gap. solutions).

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 16, 2020

In my 25 years in the fintech space, I’ve had the misfortune to experience three massive ecosystem shocks. To help gauge where fintech is now and how and when it will get back on its feet, let’s compare and contrast the three downturns and their recoveries. year run from high to low; for comparison the S&P dropped 48%).

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Finally, congratulations to Finovate alum Financit which grabbed an undisclosed, but we are guessing considerable, amount of capital from Goldman Sachs. Prepaid card platform. LoanBook Capital. The post Fintech Fundings: 27 Companies Raise $420 Million Week Ending October 23 appeared first on Finovate. million or less.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 18, 2016

Year-to-date fintech companies have raised $450 million in new equity, 67% more than the $270 million raised in the first half of January 2015. Startup capital raising platform. The post Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $330 Million Week Ending Jan 15 appeared first on Finovate. RealtyMogul took in another $18.4

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

million transactions with over 6,500 merchants on Affirm's platform,” Renaissance Capital said in a note to clients. Many, many, many Americans are deciding this is a better alternative for them than [using] a credit card,” Affirm CEO Max Levchin told PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster in a December 2018 conversation.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2016

The latest CyberSource annual report on online fraud tells the tale of card-not-present fraud not just going down, but going down by a whole big bunch – across all channels. FinTech got a huge primetime shoutout courtesy of Lesley Stahl, “60 Minutes” and Stripe last week.

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Jessica Ellerm

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

For some reason, the first month of the Gregorian calendar has an amazing ability to motivate us to abstain from alcohol, dust off our running shoes and chop up all our credit-cards. That’s why each week I write an article for Daily Fintech , and try to choose something I don’t understand and/or want to learn more about.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 23, 2015

An investment of $175 million has boosted Credit Karma’s total capital to $368.5 This new functionality includes the ability to consolidate student loans “with just a few clicks,” comparison shop for customized insurance quotes, find the best credit card for their spending and savings profile, and more.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The fintech sector attracted $332 million in new capital the first week of August. Four of those came out of the most recent batch of companies launched from accelerator 500 Startups , where each received $125,000 in seed capital. Fintech deals by size from 30 July to 5 August, 2016: Mosaic. billion, double the $9.8

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 29, 2015

Umpqua Bank , Verity Credit Union or even Capital One ) do a better job showcasing banking products as opposed to “lifestyle” content that Chase seems enamored with (see #5 below). That said, I do like the comparison to a newsfeed, a more modern concept generally not associated with banks. But I think other homepages (e.g.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 15, 2021

Early on, fintech startups were a small part of its class, although Stripe (S09) and Coinbase (S12) were notable (and extremely profitable) exceptions. When I looked at YCvalums in mid-2014 , there had been just 40 fintech grads in its first 10 years. By comparison, the latest batch (W21) had 54! (Of Cards #Rewards.

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

To the extent it pipes people to banking product, that goes to a $500 million market capitalization public company that makes prepaid cards. Just referring customers to capital sources. But Chime is even further removed from any actual capital. An arbitrage between Apple and commodity banking capital.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 5, 2017

In alternative distribution, AmFam Ventures has focused on the personal P&C and SMB spaces with investments in insurance comparison firm CoverHound , and contract-related insurance startup Bunker. In 2015, Assurant participated in a $7.7M Aviva Ventures. Number of investments: 4. new sharing economy platforms).

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CB Insights

JULY 16, 2017

In alternative distribution, AmFam Ventures has focused on the personal P&C and SMB spaces with investments in insurance comparison firm CoverHound , and contract-related insurance startup Bunker.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Mozido’s fintech fraud fiasco. WrkRiot’s short-lived house of cards falls down. Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. Select Investors: AllianceBernstein, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital Partners. Select Investors: BlackRock, Norwest Venture Partners, Sands Capital.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 25, 2016

For the third time this year, we tied the single-week record of 39 fintech financing deals. This week, those 39 fintech startups raised a whopping $932 million, (or $680 million not counting the $253 million Bats Global IPO). Here are the fintech deals by size from 9 April to 15 April 2016: Bats Global. Latest round: $12.4

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 1, 2016

Second quarter closed with a frenzy of fintech fundings with 49 deals announced the last week alone, 10 more than the previous weekly record. Fintech deals by size from 25 June to 1 July, 2016: Paycor. Credit card with consumer controls. Tags: Consumer, lending, credit, credit/debit cards, spending controls, security.

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

You might think the comparison is daft. As a historic comparison, here’s Dropbox reaching $1 billion in revenue. In Fintech, this has meant new payments, banking, lending, and portfolio management Web2 software companies. Personal Capital) have been doing this for over a decade. But let’s dig a bit deeper.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

It was the sixth week in a row that the number of fintech fundings topped 20. Expansion Capital Group. International remittances price comparison site. Bitcoin debit card (e-coin). Tags: Consumer, debit card, payments, cryptocurrency. Last week, 20 companies raised $175 million, including $25 million in debt.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Private capital continued to flow into the fintech sector this week with 21 companies raising $257 million. Just five weeks into the new year, fintech companies have raised $4.25 Here are the fintech deals by size from 30 Jan to 5 Feb 2016: Credibly . Credit card acquiring for bitcoin exchanges & wallets.

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