PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

In today’s top digital-first banking news, Goldman Sachs has selected FinTech startup Marqeta to power digital checking accounts for Marcus, while California credit card startup X1 notched $12 million in a funding round headed up by Spark Capital. X1 Card Raises $12 Million In Funding Round Led By Spark Capital.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Danske Bank , the Copenhagen-based retail bank, has partnered with FinTech firm Zenegy to roll out a new method for automating payments made with corporate cards, a report from Crowdfund Insider says. Mastercard also rolled out a service to help with working capital and automation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

As consumers flock to banking apps, succeeding in the world of digital banking is not as easy as it used to be when mobile apps emerged a decade ago. Around the Digital Banking World. However, legacy banks across the globe have been far from idle when it comes to digital and mobile innovation.

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Bobsguide

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

BDB offers conventional and Islamic business finance services, venture capital and investment advisory to small and medium enterprises across multiple industries in the Kingdom of Bahrain. TCS BaNCS will enable BDB to launch new innovative products faster.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

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. FinTech across the Middle East is also set to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 30 percent, and expected to raise over $2 billion in venture capital funding by 2020.".

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. billion bank in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

GPS's technology helps brands by allowing them to provide customized experiences put squarely in the cardholders' hands, the release says, having previously supported FinTechs, digital banks, and eWallets on their various journeys. Last year, GPS partnered with the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

Open banking is often associated with the European Union (EU) almost by default as the region pushes the envelope further on regulation than anywhere, partly to encourage — but also to keep up with — imaginative FinTech innovators going to market throughout the Eurozone. FinTechs Flourishing. Similarities To The EU.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

The rise of open banking (and account aggregation) has shaped the conventional wisdom that banking will pivot toward innovation and service-oriented offerings. To get there, said Verdon, firms need a streamlined way to conceptualize, innovate, test and create new banking products. in sight, too.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Our recent webinar — The State of Fintech Q2 2020: Funding Rebound Reveals the Next Leg of Fintech Innovation — highlighted key fintech trends and deals from the second quarter of 2020, including the rise of embedded fintech applications and demand for digital banking services. Free Download: State of Fintech q2’20.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Skype cofounder Niklas Zennstrom is a known advocate for European startups who has invested much of his fortune into promising startups across the region. But even he has faced difficulties last year in trying to build up a venture capital (VC) fund to back European entrepreneurs due to the uncertainty cast by Brexit.

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Gonzobanker

JULY 7, 2015

Yet while the demos and screen shots at events like Finovate have provided fascinating fodder regarding the future of digital banking, the FACTS show that these buzz-worthy players have had infinitesimal impact on market share. Ally Bank $23,212,768 $60,709,382 $37,496,614. Capital One* 29,565,607 54,374,989 24,809,382.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2019

Chinese social eCommerce platform Wanwu Xinxuan has raised $20 million in a Series B round of financing led by Fresh Capital, with participation from Redpoint China Ventures, according to Deal Street Asia. Launched in August 2018, Wanwu Xinxuan is an online retail platform selling children’s apparel, shoes and accessories.

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Accenture

APRIL 21, 2017

European banks are in the midst of a ‘perfect storm’ of negative interest rates, regulatory pressures and market disruption, and are in search of new sources of value. Strategic growth objectives for transaction banks can be enabled using virtual cash management, allowing increased client acquisition.

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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. Hats off to Thomas Shara at Lakeland and Tony Labozzetta of Provident for architecting the new $25 billion super-community bank in New Jersey. She was a trailblazer and an early innovator in analytics.

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Bobsguide

JUNE 14, 2022

The combined solution, available in the cloud or on-premise, is available to clients in France and the Benelux region, with the potential to expand into other geographies in the future. Paris, France – June 14 – 2022 – Finastra today announced a partnership with Lozenge Analytics, offering the capabilities to Fusion KTP customers.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Banks are just starting to realize this. AI, payments, data, and other aspects of innovation are dropping behind the scenes. While this was a big idea from the past, there was still lots of energy around moving banks to a public, private, or hybrid native cloud construct in their architecture. It is closer to five.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

But, while closing physical bank branches might appear to be a wise cost-saving measure, the move comes with risks that could hurt banks’ relations with new millennial customers. Can banks have it both ways? Staying on Top of Customer Expectations. Staying on Top of Customer Expectations. Getting in Front of Change.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The merger of equals activity in 2021 was sky high, primarily because banks with pinched margins from low rates worked to grabbed scale. From nowhere, sizable regional players are being created. Bank Merger of the Year. GonzoBanker of the Year – Bank. Goes to Eric Sprink, Coastal Community Bank , Everett, Wash.

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Gonzobanker

JULY 6, 2021

It has become crystal clear that digital transformation is now the largest technology initiative for regional and community financial institutions. It also requires both top-down and bottom-up commitment as the institution will be breaking down departmental siloes and developing new ways of managing risk.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 26, 2021

SoftBank’s capital firepower has helped it become the #2 unicorn investor in the world. Clearco provides growth capital for small businesses. SoftBank has also backed a number of other crypto-focused vendors, including investment firm Hashdex , Brazil-based exchange Mercado Bitcoin , and digital asset wallet O3 Labs.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Chris Myers, President & CEO, Citizens Business Bank – During a tumultuous time for West Coast banks, Myers kept his sights on being a top commercial relationship bank. The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion.

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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. As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This deal looks good for Temenos, Kony and the banking industry clients of both firms. The digital banking market continues a long burn—this time like the smoke of a Texas summer barbecue. Geneva-based Temenos’ announced the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based digital application provider Kony in a deal totaling $580 million.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

According to data from the latest Store Front Business Index (SFBI), a collaboration between CAN Capital and PYMNTS.com, these small businesses are growing faster than the U.S. Digital Banking. The 411 On The Digital Banking Evolution. Digital Identity. million, accounting for nearly 37 percent of all SMBs.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Highlighting the need to accelerate access to capital for SMBs, HSBC said it is integrating Biz2X within its existing HSBC Fusion offering to speed up credit application approval. The technology is also opening up the doors for non-banks to introduce their own banking services to customers.

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Tefkin

JANUARY 5, 2016

While banks are still experiencing the effect of the crisis notably through restrictive regulation and a continuing string of financial scandals, their public messaging is one of innovation and change. 2016 will see a strong competition in the pure banking space. 2016 will see a strong competition in the pure banking space.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Nine years after the introduction of the iPhone to the market — and the subsequent great mobile leap forward — the verdict is pretty much in on mobile banking applications: Consumers like it, verging on loving it, and are eager for more of it. The first is the obvious issue: They lack the massive scale and deep IT pockets of the large banks.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 12, 2016

Xero ( F11 ) partnered with a large bank in Southeast Asia , UOB, to launch its first direct bank feeds in the region. It’s no coincidence that Finovate is returning to Asia now to bring the innovators together in one place. – Bank Innovations. Funding Societies raised $7.5

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Auto-financing is ripe for innovation. Listening to banks and realized that they don’t have sentiments of their customers to create insights and they were not looking forward. Built a solution called Customer Insight for banking. 10:50 am Moonraft Innovation Labs – [link] – @moonraft.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2018

For the first time, local and regional DVD rental stores aside, people across the U.S. In 1979, Sony introduced the Walkman , an innovation that made music both portable and personalized. All of these same forces are disrupting banking and lending. What’s an Intermediary to Do? And two more things.

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

One popular approach: in-house financial innovation labs. We’ve created a list of finance innovation labs from some of the biggest names in the industry, as well as from newcomers looking to make a name through tech. We’ve written about corporate innovation theater before — and how sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 15, 2021

By region: USA: 20 startups. Streamline your debt capital raise and management. R2 Capital. Stripe Capital for Latin America. Capital #SMB. The digital bank for small businesses in the Philippines. Banking #SMB. Capital #SMB. Digital ledger app for Latam microbusinesses.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 16, 2015

After a month-long screening process, we narrowed the pile to the newest and most innovative ideas in fintech. D3 Small Business Banking brings omnichannel, data-driven, digital banking solutions for small business customers of financial institutions.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question. Eldercare has long been a target for technological innovation, with advocates highlighting the practical and infrastructural challenges presented by 73M baby boomers aging into their retirement years.

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