Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 19, 2019

digital partnerships team in Chicago, is […]. These relationships have been necessary to help institutions evolve their distribution models and enable startups to develop product offerings that meet customer expectations. BMO Financial Group‘s Ben Schack, who leads the bank’s U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

A second office is slated for Chicago and by the end of 2020, the company expects to more than double its staff. It is also contemplating the purchase of other FinTech firms, the source said. Numerous consumer FinTechs have started offering bank accounts in the past year. Chime’s account base is 6.5

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The wave of technology that's turned card swipes into dips, phones into wallets and micro merchants into global sellers will proliferate, says to Andrew Rueff of Waud, a Chicago-based private equity firm.

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Cisco

DECEMBER 13, 2022

By creating sustainable financial offers, prioritizing green investment mechanisms and reallocation of capital, financing sustainable programs, and tracking the carbon footprint tracking of transactions, FIs can incentivize the integration of sustainability criteria into financial services decision-making.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

That’s just the beginning,” warned the Chicago Tribune less than a week earlier. While investors are increasingly cautious and focused on an investment's potential for downturn protection, investment capital remains abundant. Return on Tech Investment – Measuring and Achieving Value from Fintech. Learn More. Learn More.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Today in the payments news roundup, FinTech startup Brex is launching a business cash management account to take the place of traditional business bank accounts. Brex Co-Founder and Co-CEO Henrique Dubugras said in a press release , “Even before customers think about credit cards, they need a place to store their business capital.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

million in B2B venture capital was divided among alt-finance, supplier payments and Big Data services startups this past week. MCI Capital, based in Poland, led the financing via its MCI.TechVentures Fund, according to reports. Chicago’s LQD Business Finance announced a Series A funding round on Thursday (July 21).

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A few years ago, very few people would have guessed that tens of billions of dollars would be invested in fintech vendors and solutions annually – except it happened. 2021 fintech investments, merger activities, and overall focus were off the charts. Best Fintech Acquisition by a Bank. Fintech Acquiring Bank.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

B2B FinTech startups struck out this week, but that doesn’t mean venture capitalists ignored the B2B startup space altogether. Carrick Capital Partners led the investment, which will be used to help Bay Dynamics expand globally and continue to innovate in the cyberrisk management space. Cybersecurity. Bay Dynamics. and Singapore.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Chicago-area cybersecurity specialist Rippleshot has raised $1.2 The investment round was led by KGC Capital and featured participation from UMB Bank, Wintrust, and SixThirty, the fintech accelerator based out of St. Founded in June 2013 and headquartered in Chicago, Rippleshot demonstrated its platform at FinovateFall 2014.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 6, 2016

This week’s startups to watch are investing in under-leveraged niches of the fintech world, from P2P networks to lower insurance premiums, Read More. A few weeks ago we focused on invest tech, and brought up three startups working to help the market-savvy turn a small advantage into a major lead over other investors.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Avant is best known among its financial services peers as a FinTech firm, founded to throw automation and an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced underwriting process at the problem of creating accessible, affordable personal loans for consumers.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

On the M&A side, Northwestern Mutual invested in LearnVest before acquiring the company for $250M in 2015, while New York Life made its entry into the ETF industry by acquiring FTV Capital-backed ETF issuer IndexIQ , maker of 23 ETFs. Fintech companies focused on wealth management continue to gain popularity. Wealth Tech Startups.

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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It's hard to believe that an entire month has gone by since Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco — but baseball fans will have noticed that things have been a bit hectic here in Chicago of late. Most banks, however, are not Capital One. Banks can roll their own code, spool up a VM, and off they go.

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William Mills

AUGUST 17, 2016

While this year will be remembered for: fintech labs and partnerships with traditional FI’s; the rise of millennials; and a push for real-time payments; I’ve been thinking a lot about how to gauge disruption and how we should view the messengers. Alternative lenders are learning more about fraud to their dismay and access to capital.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

B2B startups continue to steal the venture capital spotlight. Recent reports in Citing Venture Intelligence data, LiveMint said B2B FinTech has secured $657 million in India so far this year, compared to $617 million for B2C FinTechs. B2B FinTech companies are more predictable than B2C firms,” he told the publication. “A

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 12, 2021

CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. We are calling it the FAB score, standing for Fintech Attention Barometer. The 171 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (April 2021 update). The 171 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (April 2021 update). First Look: Watch 7 Fintech Startups Pitch at Startupbootcamp Sydney.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 9, 2015

There’s more to the Forbes Fintech 50 list than just an awesome logo featuring George Washington wearing wrap-around shades. HQ: Chicago, IL. Personal Capital. The post 20 Alums Make the First Forbes Fintech 50 appeared first on Finovate. To make the cut, companies were required to have operations in the U.S.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 18, 2017

In a round led by Sapphire Ventures and featuring participation from Jump Capital, advanced natural-language generation technology innovator Narrative Science has raised $11 million. Quoted in Crain’s Chicago Business, Sapphire Ventures partner Jai Das wasted few words in explaining Narrative Science’s edge.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 6, 2016

London beat that this week with 5, followed by 3 in NYC, and 2 each from Chicago, Florida and Germany. Fintech deals by size from May 7 to 13, 2016: Avant (AvantCredit UK). HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Capital Float. Working capital financing. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Total dollars raised YTD is now $14.7

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In parallel, Amazon has made several fintech investments, mostly focused on international markets (India and Mexico, among others) where partners can help serve Amazon’s core strategic goal. This report is a collection of everything we know about Amazon’s foray into banking, financial services, and fintech.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

Reports in the Chicago Tribune indicated that Kroger CIO Chris Hjelm was thinking that perhaps it was time to really re-evaluate Kroger’s total relationship with Visa. The story got bigger from there: Kroger announced it was thinking bigger, and might consider a total ban on accepting Visa credit cards throughout all of its grocery chains.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Stripe went on to raise a seed round from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, and PayPal founders Peter Thiel and Elon Musk in 2011.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Chicago-based anti-fraud, transaction monitoring specialist Rippleshot has raised an additional $2.6 The investment, led by the venture capital arm of CUNA Mutual Group, CMFG Ventures, takes the company’s total funding to $4.6 million in seed funding.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2015

But if there’s one in the fintech sector, the dozens of investors in these 23 companies didn’t get the memo. In the last full non-holiday week of the year, $685 million poured into fintech companies worldwide. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. FinTech Group. Indexa Capital. There may be a bubble in tech investing.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 20, 2015

Fintech funding records continue to fall. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Capital Match. Drip Capital . The post Fintech Fundings: 25 Companies Raise $1.6 Last week was the record number of deals, with 27. This week it was the biggest total dollars raised at $1.63 billion, from 25 companies. Total raised: $1.75 billion ($1.1

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 24, 2016

The Series B round was led by MK Capital, and featured participation from Grotech Ventures and Relevance Capital. Passport CEO Bob Youakim said that the capital infusion would help speed the company’s growth and expansion both in the U.S. The new investment takes Passport’s total funding to $17 million.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

You know that dog either has Capital One or Delta Amex. The Experience Award Goes to BCU , Chicago. Canapi is the Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon halved with someone in this group 1 (2-3 at most) degree away from every bank and fintech decisionmaker in America. THE VENDOR AWARDS.

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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. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. 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

JULY 12, 2016

With 38 deals reported – one shy of the weekly record – fintech companies raised $303 million worldwide the first week of June. Fintech deals by size from May 28 to 3 June, 2016: Partners Life. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Kikka Capital. Nine of the deals were for undisclosed amounts and $2 million was reported as debt.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. We are calling it the FAB score, standing for Fintech Attention Barometer. CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. The 260 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Oct 2021). Fundera (NerdWallet). Biz2Credit. Channel Partners. Minneapolis. Rapid Finance. Bethesda, MD. Lendinero. HQ: Atlanta.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. We are calling it the FAB score, standing for Fintech Attention Barometer. CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. The 260 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Oct 2021). Fundera (NerdWallet). Biz2Credit. Channel Partners. Minneapolis. Rapid Finance. Bethesda, MD. Lendinero. HQ: Atlanta.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. We are calling it the FAB score, standing for Fintech Attention Barometer. CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. Fundera (NerdWallet). Biz2Credit. Channel Partners. Minneapolis. Rapid Finance. Bethesda, MD. Lendinero. It’s a work in progress, so expect changes in the formula. 156 reviews). .

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 4, 2015

And we are as excited as ever to see live and up close what our roster of 72 fintech innovators has in store. Alten Capital. Baird Capital Partners. Capital One. Capital Source. Crosslink Capital. Federal Reserve of Chicago. Foundation Capital. Metropolitan Capital. Quantum Capital.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 27, 2016

This week, small business lender Mayava Capital honored the most influential people in small business lending in its Marketplace Lending Power 20 awards. OnDeck Capital CEO, Noah Breslow. Formed the idea of the company in 2011 to help Chicago recover from the real estate crash. Acquired BillGuard for $30 million in 2015.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Maybe it’s passé to say another year was a “banner year” for investment in fintech. Credit Karma raised the largest amount of capital, pulling in $175 million in June. million in round led by KGC Capital. iSignthis completes $10 million capital raise. Now we present the numbers for the entire world.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

So begrudgingly, I introduce you to The Guarantors , a NYC-based startup that is stepping up to meet the needs of renters trying to qualify for an apartment in New York City, and eventually other markets such as Boston, Chicago and California. And if you are Wells Fargo, Capital One, American Express, or Chase, just buy them outright already.

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