Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

And in 2021, she became one of three founding general partners of Black Tech Nation Ventures (BTN.vc), a venture capital fund for tech startups led by Black and diverse leaders. The venture capital fund itself is one of a very small percentage of majority Black-owned venture capital funds operating in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

Startup companies in Vietnam, ranging from FinTech to logistics and artificial intelligence, are attracting a record amount of venture capital money in the country, according to a report by the Financial Times. One of the companies attracting a lot of attention is FastGo, which is a competitor for ride-sharing company Grab.

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CB Insights

JUNE 10, 2022

Juni , a neobank for e-commerce companies, has raised $206M in a mix of debt and equity. The $100M Series B equity round drew participation from Mubadala Capital, while the $106M in debt financing was provided by TriplePoint Capital. <span js”></script> <script> hbspt.forms.create({.

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BankUnderground

JUNE 8, 2022

There is a lively debate about whether and how capital regulations for banks and insurers should be adjusted in response to climate change. Incorporating climate-related risks into the capital regime will require a reliable methodology to measure these risks. Marco Bardoscia, Benjamin Guin and Misa Tanaka.

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CB Insights

APRIL 29, 2022

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CB Insights

AUGUST 17, 2021

The round drew participation from Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, General Atlantic, SoftBank Group, and Dragoneer Investment Group. HOW’S THE COMPANY PERFORMING? The company reportedly has more than 5M customers in the US. The company is adding hundreds of thousands of accounts per month.

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BankUnderground

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Some have said that companies have increased their profits over that period: so-called ‘greedflation’. We use published company accounts for thousands of large listed companies to look for signs of increased profits in the data. Companies in the euro area are in a similar position. Why look at large companies?

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Further, the competition is not just another bank that might make a loan or take a deposit, but it could be a credit union, insurance company, retail store, or a fintech. Traditionally, community banks would compare their financial performance and health to similar-sized banks in their region.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Historically, wealthy citizens have gotten around this through foreign investments in real estate and other assets, sometimes even using shell companies to carry out investments,” the survey said. It’s highly unlikely that all of this is capital flight,” Chainalysis said in the report.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Earlier this year, Italy initiated its largest bank bailout in its history when it committed up to $19 billion to save two failing regional banks, Banca Popoalare di Vicenza SpA and Veneto Banca SpA. 20), the ongoing struggles of those FIs is putting as many as 40,000 small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the region in jeopardy.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2019

With a new capital infusion, SoftBank Group is extending a lifeline of up to $8 billion into the office space and workspace solutions firm WeWork. billion into the company, according to reports. billion into the company, according to reports. Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive of SoftBank Group Corp.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Visa, the payments company, announced Tuesday (October 23) a strategic minority investment in Conductor, a digital payments processing technology platform in Brazil. Visa said its investment in Conductor is part of the payment company’s global strategy to open up the Visa ecosystem and support a broad array of new partners.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

We look at regions and then there are countries of importance?…?India PayPal wants to overcome one of the biggest obstacles facing tech companies in India, which is people going through the multiple-step process of ordering an item but stopping before they hit the buy button. India currently is an area of focus.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2019

With a new capital infusion, SoftBank Group is extending a lifeline of up to $8 billion into the office space and workspace solutions firm WeWork. billion into the company, according to reports. billion into the company, according to reports. Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive of SoftBank Group Corp.,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Its investment in Latin America this year will target eCommerce, healthcare, FinTech and other industries, as it looks at about 650 firms in the region. SoftBank has so far earmarked $100 million to $150 million to fund 17 companies and two venture capital firms. . “We

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In a press release , Tala said the undisclosed investment from PayPal will help the company bring visibility and access to underserved regions in emerging markets across the world. It also makes it difficult for the traditional financial services companies to reach these consumers. 22) a strategic investment from PayPal.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Cross-border peer-to-peer (P2P) payments firm MoneyGram has teamed up with foreign exchange and global money transfer company LuLu Money , MoneyGram announced on Tuesday (Jan. He added that the firm sees this as marking “a new era for digital money transfers and remittances” in the Asia-Pacific region and the world.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

The hot topics in B2B venture capital these days are often cutting-edge technologies like blockchain and data analytics. Indeed, these spaces secured significant funding in this week’s B2B venture capital roundup. In total, companies landed more than $255.6 million, an impressive way to start the year for the B2B startup space.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Executives at MCI Capital , the biggest publicly traded private equity firm in Poland, are optimistic that a recent record-breaking initial public offering (IPO) in the eCommerce space bodes well for the industry, Bloomberg reported. The company's website stated that it was founded in 1999 and is 76 percent owned by management.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

STC Pay, a digital wallet that is part of the Saudi Telecom Company, has teamed up with payments company Moven Enterprise to launch a new challenger bank in the country, according to reports. STC Pay, which does financial technology work for both companies and individuals, works with the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

Supply chain financing company Greensill revealed its acquisition of Colombia-based Omni, a small- to medium-sized business (SMB) lender that will enable Greensill to strengthen its Latin American footprint. FTV Capital recently announced that it has closed its sixth fund, and totaling $1.2

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Belgium’s capital city is becoming known for more than just housing major international institutions like EU Parliament, EU Commission and NATO. The region is also home to an active and fast-growing startup scene. The city was ranked as a strong innovator by the latest edition of the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS 2016).

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American Banker

MARCH 9, 2021

Comerica, Regions and KeyCorp executives say their companies will proceed with caution despite the green light from the Federal Reserve to buy back stock in case they have to cover a surge in loan growth as the economy recovers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2020

Alcanza Capital and Bontu. As SoftBank’s Latin America fund is one of the leading technology investors in the world, the equity infusion will give AlphaCredit the opportunity to “consolidate its place as one of the leading financial technology platforms” in the region, a press release says.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Singapore-based FinTech platform Nium is expanding into the Middle East, the company announced on Monday (Oct. Ayoub Jemail has been assigned the role of general manager of business development for the region, the company stated in the announcement on its website.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 30, 2022

Research by various consultants shows that 80% of companies across industries rate themselves as providing superior service, but only 8% of these companies genuinely deliver such service. Banks can then calculate SVA, which requires banks to subtract their cost of capital from net operating profit after tax for each client.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

Greensill, which provides working capital finance for customers around the world, has acquired Latin America-based lender Omni, a lender to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). trillion market for working capital finance. trillion market for working capital finance.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

Some are taking an alternate approach to speed up development or add new business lines: They’re simply investing in another company that has already developed the next big thing. As such, automakers are hitting the venture capital highway in droves. The number of automaker-backed investments seems to have skyrocketed overnight.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

To continue supporting technology in regions all over the world from North America to Southeast Asia, Leonid Boguslavsky-founded RTP Global unveiled a new $650 million fund to keep investing in early-stage tech companies. The venture capital firm’s last fund totaled $200 million and was rolled out in 2017, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

The round was led by Hanwha Asset Management , South Korea’s leading asset management company. Other investors in the round include K3 Ventures , GGV Capital , Arbor Ventures and Flourish Ventures , the release stated. Grab Financial Group had a productive 2020 in which it managed to increase total revenue by 40 percent. “We

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

Citi has named Stephen Randall as the TTS global head of liquidity management services in the London office, the company has announced. The longtime Citi employee has held several senior roles in his two dozen years with the company. Most recently, he was the head of regional treasury. He succeeds Mark Smith in the role.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The Center will be set up for artificial intelligence-focused computer chip research, development, prototyping, testing and simulation, and help solidify the region as a global hub for research and development. IBM will also expand and extend its partnership with SUNY Poly for the Center for Semiconductor Research (CSR).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

and EEA card payment acceptance at no additional charge, the company said on Friday (Dec. Pioneer Bank has joined the number of firms filing lawsuits over the continuing and complex MyPayrollHR/ValueWise scandal, which a report from the Daily Gazette calls one of the largest in Capital Region history. percent fee for U.K.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

Hong Kong’s travel and leisure booking platform Klook has closed a $200 million Series E funding round led by Aspex Management , with participation by Sequoia Capital China , SoftBank Vision Fund, Matrix Partners China and Boyu Capital , according to a press release.

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CB Insights

JULY 18, 2018

Investors from around the globe are flocking to Latin America — within the first half of 2018, deep-pocketed investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global have backed startups in the region. Private technology companies in Latin America have raised over $5.8B Want the 12-page report for free?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

London-based FinTech startup Curve has raised $95 million in Series C funding led by IDC Ventures, Fuel Venture Capital, and the investment division of Vulcan Capital, launched from the estate of Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. Founder and Curve CEO Shachar Bialick said in a press release on Tuesday (Jan.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 18, 2023

WATCH Takeaway 1 Banks and credit unions are critical sources of capital for businesses in their communities, so how institutions assess CRE credits matters. Takeaway 3 Loan-level stress testing can help assess repricing risk, while capital stress testing helps clarify the impact of CRE loan losses on capital.

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