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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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 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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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. This is the bank’s product backed up by our brand.

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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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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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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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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

During a busy year we saw Jill supporting her local community, blogging with Mark Cuban, spinning up new PPP technology and innovating with things like curbside banking. For more than 20 years, John has helped City National grow its niched commercial and private banking businesses with strategic technologies. THE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS.

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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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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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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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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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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 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. Payments technology. Blockchain technology . Total raised: $1.92

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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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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. ‘PayFac’ technology simplifies underwriting and onboarding. ‘PayFac’ technology simplifies underwriting and onboarding merchants.

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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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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. Diversified financial technology provider. NextCapital.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 20, 2015

Fintech funding records continue to fall. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Guideline Technologies. Capital Match. Agio Technologies. Drip Capital . 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

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. Qingshongchou Network Technology. Kikka Capital. Online insurance. Latest round: $134.5

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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Meeting the needs of both buyers and suppliers is becoming increasingly easy thanks to technology sitting in between accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP) departments. Signature Bank Streamlines Supplier Onboarding. Cashfree Wields UPI for Both AR and AP. LexisNexis CounselLink Targets Buyer-Supplier Needs.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

eMoney Advisor won the Client Portals and Innovation – Platform categories, and Betterment for Business won the 401(k) Retirement Plan Support Services Technology category. ” Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Chicago (Envestnet) and Redwood City (Envestnet | Yodlee), Envestnet demonstrated its technology at FinovateFall 2016.

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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. Alkami Technology earns $11 investment.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2018

Alternative finance, cybersecurity and logistics providers landed the majority of the more than $205 million in funding placed for B2B startups in venture capital and debt. Cerebro Capital. Wunder Capital. The largest investment round of the week goes to Wunder Capital, a U.S. TTV Capital, based in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

It should be a call to action to the cybersecurity regulators that, when innovation — even intellectually and technologically sophisticated innovation — goes off the rails, it’s time to give a good hard look with an eye to reining it way, way in. Bitcoin is a fascinating technology on the merits. That means bitcoin.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 17, 2016

Envestnet offers wealth management technology and services to help advisory firms leave brokerages and compete with large financial institutions. Based in Chicago, IL. As a founding partner of the firm, we had a vision to level the playing field in a world dominated by the most capitalized firms on Wall Street. 1,500+ employees.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Rowland; and EVP and chief technology officer Mike Beattie. 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. First Capital Bank. TriState Capital Bank. Photo by Steve Puppe. CONSUMER AND MORTGAGE. Lee’s Summit, Mo.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Mentions of chatbots in earnings calls and press releases skyrocketed, and for many, it seemed that chatbots might be the next big disruptive technology. Today, the bots are still being used across industries like fintech, healthcare, sales and CRM, retail, and even law — and they’re having important, though quiet, effects.

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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 . Sidechain technology. Receipt extraction technology.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Calling FactSet’s platform an “ideal match” for advanced NLG technology, Narrative Science COO Nick Beil said the integration would “reduce time-to-market, streamline client reporting, and raise the bar for prompt and comprehensive service.” Stuart Frankel is founder and CEO.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The feedback was eye-opening and generally the same: “Really great technology and vision. In our mission to deliver the best tea experience, we didn’t compromise on the Teforia Infuser technology, quality or the premium tea packaged within our Sips. Product: AOptix Technologies. But how does this become a platform?”…

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