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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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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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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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

DECEMBER 9, 2015

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

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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. Sigma aims to streamline business operations. Virtual card issuance. Business lending and corporate cards. Growing the internet economy. Empowering developers.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

You know that dog either has Capital One or Delta Amex. While institutions wax poetically about spinning up data architectures and leveraging robotics, Citizens CEO David Brager and Chief Operations Officer David Harvey have led the usage of transparent cross-sales data to drive the leading commercial relationship banking culture at CBB.

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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 company handled more payments than Mastercard in 2017, operated the biggest money market fund in the world and served tens of millions of customers.

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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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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This week’s look at the convergence of AR and AP finds new solutions from banks and FinTechs alike finding opportunity to strengthen the buyer-supplier relationship through tools that tackle friction on both ends of the B2B transaction. Signature Bank Streamlines Supplier Onboarding.

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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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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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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

A year later, she landed at University of Chicago to do research under the tutelage of one of the most famous pharmacologists of that time, who also thought he was hiring a man named Frances. RaaS operations — Ransomware as a Service — now flourish and make it easy for the most amateur of cybercriminals to get into the game.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

We worked with them with loans to buy equipment and vehicles for delivery and the beginning operational cash needs of the business,” Bunnell says. So, when the community bank’s leadership learned of a fintech that needed a bank partner to launch a credit-building tech product, they were intrigued. Wrentham Co-operative Bank.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella referred to chat as the “third run-time” — an indispensable piece of operating a platform, second only to the operating system and the web browser. Fintech: Contract review & bill negotiation. Fintech: Contract review & bill negotiation. Table of Contents. Get the full report.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

“The initial 7 years were all about having negative working capital, positive cash flow and a sustained ability to fund our own growth. I started treasuring GMV, room-nights and other ‘vanity’ metrics instead of the fundamentals of cash flow and working capital,” he explained. Those were the only metrics we tracked. Product: Bridj.

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