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China B2B FinTech Nabs The Venture Capital Spotlight

PYMNTS

Yet, small business (SMB) banking wasn’t the only highlight of this week’s B2B venture capital roundup, with the two largest fundraises showcasing China’s rising B2B FinTech ecosystem in areas like expense management and invoicing. As part of its rebrand , blockchain payments firm BitPesa is now AZA Group. Starling Bank.

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How Singapore Is Fueling A ‘Smart Nation’

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Singapore is on a mission to build up a Smart Nation by utilizing innovation and technology to create opportunities and strengthen communities. Startups are estimated to employ nearly 300,000 on the island nation. Singapore is poised to become the world’s first country to make the notion of a “Smart Nation” an actual reality.

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Fifth Third Links Rejected Business Borrowers To Alt-Lender

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To offer expanded services as it pursues a digital innovation strategy of harnessing partnerships to provide an enhanced customer experience, Fifth Third is teaming with Fundation for small business loans. Companies that lack access to capital are not able to grow their operations or have had to cut their headcounts.

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The Bank Legacy Is Dead: Long Live the Fintech Collision

Gonzobanker

Instead, stories and conversations were salted with examples of fintech investments, BaaS opportunities, customer experience transformation, crypto integration, and even blockchain experiments and the potential of DeFi. The grassroots of community and regional banking will no longer be vanilla operations geographically focused.

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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

How Banks Can Leverage: Niche markets abound in banking, and community banks are in the perfect position to create a following on a national level should they desire. How Banks Can Leverage: While not exactly a banking innovation, banks can better allocate capital to COIs. months, including an annual operating cost.

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10 Lessons From The Small Business Banking Conference

South State Correspondent

This conference is crucial because it provides insight into small business banking and has a good mix of essential banking-focused topics with a heavy emphasis on the customer experience. Many banks were looking to install more automation to lower operating costs. However, banks differed in how to get there.

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The Cash Flow Impact Of Connecting AR With AP

PYMNTS

Yet their tie-up is also focusing on another important opportunity in accounts receivable to deepen its ties with clients’ accounts payable operations for an improved customer experience. Supply chain finance, he said, can be an effective way to meet the needs of both AP and AR operations.

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