PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Nonetheless, Many FIs are looking to simplify and secure their onboarding procedures while also enabling customers to stay safe during the pandemic, leading them to seek out innovative technologies to do so. Brazil-based facial recognition and identification technologies provider Acesso Digital recently reported that more than 5.2

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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. See how venture firms, corporates, regulators, and builders are shaping the future of blockchain technology. THE FUTURE OF BLOCKCHAIN TECH.

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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

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. The evolution of payroll is all about pushing back against the notion of one-size-fits-all. ” In the U.S.,

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Bank Innovation

MAY 3, 2018

But working with the cryptocurrency taught the payments company quite a bit about blockchain technology, and how it ends up employing that knowledge may be the true payoff […]. Square made a splash when it announced it would sell bitcoin in its Cash app, but failed to make much money doing so, it was revealed yesterday.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

It might be easy to look at that 5 percent year-on-year price decline and conclude that perhaps the world’s best-known cryptocurrency is getting more stable. But a new group of lenders has emerged to help miners and bitcoin holders turn some of their cryptocurrency into more easily spendable fiat funds, without having to sell their coins.

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BankUnderground

AUGUST 9, 2022

Our focus here is on blockchain-based cryptoassets because of their enabling technological characteristics (eg interoperability, incentive alignment in decentralised networks) for a decentralised metaverse. But many of the enabling technologies to create this ecosystem do already exist. The role of cryptoassets.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Similar to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and Facebook’s proposed libra, China’s Digital Currency Electronic Payment will be powered partially by blockchain technology and dispersed through digital wallets.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 25, 2022

Technology: Stakeholders are primed to hear a technology narrative. Questions about how much you spend on technology relative to your total budget and historical trend remain common. Top Line Revenue & Lending. Now, more households and businesses are thinking about switching banks, and the customer experience is king.

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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 2, 2018

Blockchain applications may still be a ways away from real-world proliferation, but the technology is certainly beginning to take steps from proof-of-concept phase into beta and pilot testing. IBM is no stranger to blockchain, and the technology conglomerate has several distributed ledger projects in the works. percent to 7.57

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

Latin America fintech companies are creating solutions aimed at rethinking banking, lending, and payments in the region. Lending : Companies providing loan and credit products, such as Creditas , which has raised $27M to offer collateralized loan products. 500 Startups, Kaszek Ventures, Lead Edge Capital. Fiinlab, Vox Capital.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Alternative lending, eProcurement and cross-border payments innovators all saw impressive activity (though several funding values remained private), and one single startup raised $165 million — more than the rest of the eight other funding rounds this week combined. Alternative Lending. eProcurement. Tradeshift. BuyerQuest.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Meanwhile, technology changes continued at a breakneck pace, with generative AI the biggest topic around management tables. The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet. Grab some popcorn and watch.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Finally, looking at Canadian “fintech” (financial technology) specifically, funding was up substantially in the first half of the year. Qualifying top five venture capital investors (e.g. venture capital, growth equity, and super angel) and corporates (e.g. Capital markets. Navigating the Canadian fintech market map.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. SoFI gets a commercial bank that brings deposits, compliance, AND business lending. Goes to Tom Brown and the Second Curve Capital team for the inspiring message from Clemson CEO Jim Clements.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2017

The big news this week in cryptocurrency is, of course, bitcoin hitting new record highs amid the possibility that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could approve a bitcoin exchange–traded fund. How bitcoin will fare if and when introduced to the Market with a capital M is anybody’s guess for now.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Among plenty of emerging use cases, the technology aims to create a new and improved payments system for the world — one that’s secure, transparent, decentralized, fast, and uses cryptocurrencies (types of digital cash) as a means of exchange. But the value of most cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoin, fluctuates on a daily basis.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Marketplace lending. The blockchain can even end world poverty and transform society by making it safer for total strangers to lend each other money — without any third-party intermediary — and without any risk. Marketplace Lending. Blockchain. Digital banks. Blockchain. Take the blockchain. And to learn.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

He further noted that if “I need capital to lend, then let’s have the same rules for everyone – for the internet giants, too.”. In the bitcoin realm, finance officials from France and Germany have requested that discussion of cryptocurrencies – specifically on policy – be part of the agenda at next month’s G20 meeting.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Nicknamed NepFin, Neptune Financial recently announced $10 million in Series A funding for its alternative lending solution. Sands Capital Ventures led the investment, which NepFin recently told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster will go toward expanding its origination team and investing in its underlying technology and data capabilities.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

According to news from Reuters , this latest round was led by Jefferson River Capital, LLC, the family office of Tony James, president and chief operating officer of private equity firm Blackstone. While Digital Asset has focused on using its technology in financial markets, the company would not exclude other sectors in the future. “I

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2020

SMB lending . Companies in this category target small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) for business loans and working capital financing. . Capital Float is an India-based startup providing business loans through a lending platform. Consumer lending. Phone number. Business credit cards. First name.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Because threat actors often get recipients’ emails from password breach lists, they sometimes include passwords to lend authenticity,” Hunter Johnson, Cofense Professional Services at Cofense, wrote in a blog post. Ransom is demanded in bitcoin, upon threat of releasing damaging information to family, friends, and co-workers. percent rate.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

But this very loud and public backlash against cryptocurrencies from banks begs the question: What do banks have to be afraid of? What is blockchain technology? We’ll provide the definitions and analogies you need to know for bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and more. The short answer is “a lot.”.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Regardless of the name, nonbank technology firms are wedging themselves between community banks and their customers by offering a slew of traditional and nontraditional banking products. They are mostly looking for simple, convenient payment options, says Cary Whaley, ICBA vice president, payments and technology policy. By Kelly Pike.

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BankUnderground

MAY 25, 2023

These protocols, based on distributed ledger technology, eliminate, in theory, the need for trust in counterparties and for financial institutions as we know them. Figure 1 shows that three stablecoins and the two largest cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and Ether, make up the top five most borrowed assets. To this date over US$6.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

But in business, money is oxygen, and when the flow of money, from venture capital and private equity firms, or investment from companies willing to commit research and development dollars to a sector starts to dwindle, then several projects do not make it beyond concept to the land of reality. Want another data point?

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Many speakers talked about the huge opportunity to integrate fintech and breakthrough technologies like blockchain and AI into the established banking industry. The techies had clearly moved from the kids’ table to an elbow-to-elbow prime seat beside the leaders who control the resources and capital in the industry.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Why should organizations say “yes” to purchase order matching and “no” to cryptocurrencies? Israch said automating this process using technology like that which Tipalti just added to its AP suite, which can both reduce risk and slash the time spent manually completing these tasks by approximately 80 percent. A digital U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is examining the Community Reinvestment Act, which in part means that rules governing short-term lending may be reversed, and would let community banks compete more directly against payday lenders. Capital requirements would be loosened and stress tests would come less than once a year.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 9, 2018

EXCLUSIVE - On March 6 in San Francisco, 12 impressive startups demoed their latest in fintech technology at INV Fitnech's 2nd annual demo day. INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to Bank Innovation, is partnered with Fiserv and eight banking partners with over $3 trillion dollars in assets.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Through trial and error, the company has set up key financial pillars across payments, cash deposits, and lending. It is a notable pivot from Amazon’s IP strategy, where the playbook has been to build, patent, and keep proprietary technology in-house to fuel Amazon’s marketplace. Amazon’s Next Financial Pillar.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

If you are a financial advisor or a trust company, you have missed out on $1 trillion in capital appreciation for your customers. And that the capital appreciation that matters?—?cementing While Steven Mnuchin is sceptical of cryptocurrencies, Brooks is a clear proponent. It must attract global capital and global talent.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

If you are a financial advisor or a trust company, you have missed out on $1 trillion in capital appreciation for your customers. And that the capital appreciation that matters?—?cementing While Steven Mnuchin is sceptical of cryptocurrencies, Brooks is a clear proponent. It must attract global capital and global talent.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Two of the most recent unicorns are vertical payments processor Flywire , which raised a $120M Series E from Goldman Sachs, Temasek, Tiger Global, and Adage Capital Management in February 2020 at a $1B valuation, and point-of-sale payments startup Pine Labs, which closed a corporate minority round from Mastercard in January 2020 to reach a $1.6B

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 8, 2018

Bitcoin mania has died down in the fintech world, and the conversation has shifted to technologies like voice banking, payments, and alternative credit scoring. What is the state of banking innovation today? Each year, we poll the industry to find out. This year, the pressure for banks to innovate is high, as banks no longer […].

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