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APRIL 19, 2019

The big news in B2B FinTech investment this week came from Airbnb , which is bolstering its presence in the business travel market with new funding, while corporate card startup Brex also secured a prominent debt capital investment.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

According to reports from CNBC, the market is reacting favorably to the news that Overstock’s subsidiary tZero is joining the business of trading digital coins. That said, this is still a very early-stage financial services market.”. RenGen will be the market maker, providing a bid and an offer for trades.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The 2019 Canadian fintech market map. The startups selected for inclusion in the market map below are all Canada-headquartered, VC-backed fintech companies that have at least US $1M in equity funding, and have obtained equity funding since the start of 2015. Navigating the Canadian fintech market map. Capital markets.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

France’s financial regulator is set to approve a wave of cryptocurrency-related firms in the country, subjecting them to new rules that include paying taxes and complying with capital requirements and consumer protections, according to a report by Reuters. France is a precursor.

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JULY 22, 2020

The new feature in Brex Cash allows customers the choice to hold cash savings with FDIC insurance, or invest in Money Market Funds. Her role will include legal and compliance oversight including the company affiliate, Brex Treasury LLC, a Securities and Exchange-registered broker-dealer.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Bank of England (BOE) Governor Mark Carney said Facebook’s newly-announced cryptocurrency, Libra, can’t be the same unregulated type of service that Facebook is, according to a report by Reuters. must do what London’s markets have always done: evolve,” Hammond said. To remain a dominant player we in the U.K.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Blockchain companies raised more venture capital and private equity funding in H1’21 than any full year in history. For example, online exchanges are making cryptocurrency trading and investing more accessible to consumers. Exchanges: These companies provide platforms for buying, selling, and trading cryptocurrencies.

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JULY 27, 2020

small and medium-sized business market, and the chance to lead a newly-licensed bank that can be part of the solution is a great opportunity.” The investor was TSG Capital Partners, according to TechCrunch. On July 15, Revolut began offering customers a way to buy cryptocurrency.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 1, 2022

The FHFA also issued a request for information (“RFI”) seeking public input on how to facilitate responsible innovation, identify barriers or challenges to implementing fintech into housing finance, support equity for homeowners and renters, and increase efficiency and effectiveness in the compliance and regulatory processes.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2018

If the deal is finalized, Uphold’s compliance footprint will be expanded, as well as its customer base and service offering. Uphold is the creator of an open, transparent digital money platform that allows users to quickly and safely access traditional currencies, cryptocurrencies and other investments in one place.

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Let's Talk Payments

APRIL 20, 2016

Cryptocurrencies seem to be taking a special place in the minds of financial industry professionals as a wide range of cryptocurrencies have reached quite a significant market capitalization and turnover.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

Despite the obvious regulatory hurdles that Facebook’s recently announced cryptocurrency is facing, the company is moving forward with its plan to provide the world with an accessible global currency, according to reports. Facebook has registered Calibra, the wallet that will hold the currency, as a money service business with the U.S.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The 2022 clarity promised by the “roadmap” presumably will supersede, once issued, Interpretive Letter #1179, which appears to function as a general stop-gap until the 2022 publications hopefully provide more detail regarding exactly how banks can attain compliance. Federal banking regulators have been busy in this space.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

As innovative technologies move down stream, small and medium-sized businesses are poised to benefit significantly from being able to customize a flexible payroll and human capital management (HCM) program. Employees and a shifting talent landscape have introduced the demand for payroll flexibility. ” In the U.S., ” In the U.S.,

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

Our analysis delves into companies that focus on the financial services industry, including commercial banking and credit offerings, insurance, asset management, accounting, business management, personal finance, and regulatory & compliance services. Note that the market map is illustrative, and not exhaustive of companies in the space.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2019

In other news, Vaishali Mehta, who worked as a senior compliance manager at Coinbase, has left the company to become the head of compliance for TrustToken , which produces the TrueUSD stablecoin. and European markets. Up until now, the focus of regulators had been on the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

challenger banking market saw a flurry of venture capital (VC) activity this week, as FinTech firms aim to disrupt small business (SMB) financial services (FinServ). Compliance startup Chainalysis works with law enforcement officials and financial institutions (FIs) to ensure that their cryptocurrency operations are within regulations.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2018

Venture capital is for the firms and the individuals with the wherewithal to commit hundreds of millions of dollars. Conversely, there is always risk in those same investments, in terms of loss of capital. To that end, Andra Capital said late last month that it would launch a fund geared toward technology investments.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As a licensed exchange, BitBay has to follow the market standards. Compliance with market standards and regulations allows us to provide our clients with legal security and convenience of using the exchange, with the participation of a friendly banking system and the availability of payment operators,” BitBay said.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Now is the time for bankers to engage lawmakers in how the crypto and digital asset market shapes up. Well, Gonzobankers, the smart, idealist and self-declared revolutionary crypto kids just bought themselves a future of regulation — intricate, overbearing, and frustrating regulation, and regulation that the market will now demand.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2017

ChronoBank.io, the cryptocurrency company that is trying to change the short-term labor market, is aiming to launch an exchange early next year where buyers and sellers of different trades can trade skills for money and time. million in venture capital funding by AXL Strategic Partners. ChronoBank.io

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 25, 2018

For all the negative press and warnings from various regulatory authorities, initial coin offerings (ICOs) are still a meaningful way for many companies to raise capital. According to a recent report by Fabric Ventures called “The State of the Token Market,” released last week, a total of $5.6

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In other news, the SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) announced that it is joining forces with the Swiss National Bank (SNB) on a proof of concept to look into how digital central bank money could be used in the settlement of tokenized assets between market participants. “As We are starting to see more demand pick up in the market,” Lim said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

The near-term road map for Nash, beyond cryptocurrency trading, is to move to securities (amid smart contracts) as licensing and compliance is achieved for each case. Canesin said the Nash platform allows the firm to display different markets for people at different geolocations. “We Blockchain, Wallets and Payments. “In

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Community Capital Technologies, Denizen Financial, Diro Inc., The 12 startups demoing to try to win the “best in show” award at Bank Innovation Ignite have been unveiled. The startups are:[link] Avocado Payments, Budgit Inc., Exagens Corp., Fintel Labs, iGTB, JUDI.AI, KapitalWise, OpenDoor Securities, and Operant.AI

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Through our efforts, we have infinite faith in promoting the development of this industry while addressing major issues surrounding market integrity, compliance, practice standards and business models.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

The problem is the tides in the market are changing extremely quickly — and fraudsters and other bad actors in the system are always aiming for speed in their pivots. What the market needs at the moment is more confidence in the data it is working with to repel those efforts, not less. “A Big ships take a while to turn.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

The survey stretched across 77 C-level executives, IT managers and others — and of that tally, 76 percent of firms are not currently in compliance with their own information governance policies. As many as 85 percent of firms are boosting budgets over the previous year’s, tied to data privacy and compliance.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Why should organizations say “yes” to purchase order matching and “no” to cryptocurrencies? Adopting a purchase order (PO) matching process is a significant marker of maturity, according to Rob Israch, chief marketing officer for accounts payable (AP) automation startup Tipalti. Why bother making new and old systems play nice together?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2016

What once may not have been taken seriously — cryptocurrencies and futuristic payments — is today exploding as the innovation financial institutions are targeting for investments, largely hoping to get a jump on the blockchain before disruption takes a bite out of their traditional business.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

There are currently more than 5,500 different cryptocurrencies in circulation, but the biggest name in the business — and often a metonym for the industry itself — is bitcoin. billion bitcoins in circulation, with a market capitalization of $117.81 The year 2020 saw 18.42 Transaction Monitoring Behind The Scenes.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2017

A small business needs working capital, letters of credit, export insurance logistics, shipping insurance and credit protection. The CEO admitted that he was skeptical of the technology at first, especially considering the complexity and inevitable regulation surrounding cryptocurrencies.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

While the prices of cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets have fallen from their 2017 peaks, equity investment into blockchain startups is on pace to hit all-time highs in 2018. ICOs are expensive, and often incur legal, marketing, and advisory expenses. In others, teams sell small equity stakes in exchange for runway before an ICO.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2017

Amazon has about 70 percent market share, with Google Home to have about 24 percent of the market, according to eMarketer, and against that backdrop, 36 million U.S.-based That’s Amazon’s commitment to its India ops, where growth is sizzling enough, and competition robust enough, to mandate heavy duty capital allocation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2018

Intense industry hype and alarming cryptocurrency volatility have led regulators the world over to perk up their ears to the growing number of cryptocurrency exchanges. Despite appearances, though, Aaron Travis, COO of Vaultbank, says regulators are not an enemy to the digital asset market.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We’ve watched the payments industry address changes in customer behavior, shifts in compliance rules (GDPR, UBO, CCPA, EMV), the introduction of cryptocurrencies and the race to move money faster. Both firms never quite made it to the mass market, overwhelmed with delays, snags, regulatory issues and complete consumer disinterest.

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Lex Sokolin

JULY 1, 2019

Goldman Sachs entered and dominated personal digital lending, runs a neobank and roboadvisor, bought a large digital wealth footprint in United Capital, launched a credit card in partnership with Apple, and is now looking into cryptocurrency stablecoins ?—?something But when you look at market cap and activity, Tether remains top dog.

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