Bussman Advisory

MAY 8, 2021

The latest edition of the FinTech Ecosystem Newsletter is here : The post Twitter adds ‘tip jar’? to pay for good tweeting | WEF on blockchain use in capital markets | HSBC voice biometrics prevents £249m attempted fraud appeared first on Bussmann Advisory AG.

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

Google and Amazon are ready to shake up the small business lending world and place competitive pressure on traditional banks, according to Karen Mills, advisor for small businesses to former President Barack Obama. It’s putting pressure on banks to rebound from lost market share, Mills told CNBC in an interview following the conference.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Today in B2B payments, Virgin Money has tapped a FinTech partner as it prepares the rollout of its business banking offering, while Iceland debuts its instant payments network. Plus, Altana raises funding for its supply chain technology, Velo Labs partners with Visa on SME lending and Google's former CEO backs a new tech fund.

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CB Insights

APRIL 22, 2021

Amazon, Facebook, and Google’s strategies focus on business lending — offering capital to the merchants, small businesses, or enterprises that they often already provide other services to. FREE DOWNLOAD: STATE OF FINTECH q1’21 preview. Big tech companies are moving more and more into financial services.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 25, 2021

OPay , a fintech startup, has raised $400M in a Series C with participation from SoftBank Group, Source Code Capital, Sequoia Capital China, and 3W Partners, among others. The company’s partner base includes the World Health Organization, Interswitch, Betway, and Google, among others. Want the full post?

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Facebook Bid Against Google in Attempt to Acquire Fitbit. Chris Douvos of investment firm Ahoy Capital told The Wall Street Journal , “We’ve been in the middle of a rollicking party that’s gone on for five years and someone has snapped on the light switch. Ant Financial Ramps up SEA Capital With $1B Fund.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Last week was a good week for fintech funding (particularly blockchain companies).This This week we’re looking at other areas of fintech: payments, point-of-sale providers, and data analytics.

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MAY 30, 2018

Throw into the mix consumer protection guidelines, active anti-money laundering checks and capital requirements, and things get difficult, Oosthuizen noted. And, he noted, banks and FinTechs are going to need time to negotiate their relationships with each other, and with consumers the world over. Why Banks Need FinTechs.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Firms with strong balance sheets, he said, have been in a position of strength to capitalize on select opportunities. Big Tech players such as Google make inroads into banking (through the recently announced Google Plex , for example, which integrates checking accounts into the Google app).

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Insights on Business

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The dominant story is that fintech startups and banks are better off as friends than foes. Fintech, once seen as a disruptor, is now becoming a mainstream and also a collaborating partner. Consumers have been conditioned by Google and Apple to see that banking services can be much more accessible and convenient from a mobile device.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Overseen by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the charter would allow firms like Facebook, Google or Amazon to bypass the process by which they need to collect money transmitter licenses state by state. This isn’t the OCC’s first attempt to create a special banking charter that would benefit tech firms.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

Dublin, the capital of Ireland, is a burgeoning hub for startups in the technology sector. Trezeo , a FinTech startup that seeks to smooth out income for self-employed workers, is one of the innovators that call Dublin home. Charlon said that Dublin is an attractive place to FinTech firms for several reasons.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

The new capital will be used to help Lili boost its ever-growing expansion and add to its product and engineering teams and boost customer adoption, the release says. We are looking forward to expanding our product suite and market leadership while providing freelancers with an unparalleled banking experience.”.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Banking leaders looking for the next wave of growth need to think differently about marketing to half the population. Traditional financial institutions that want to compete with fintech disruptors like Chime and X (formerly known as Twitter) need to up their social media game. Demographically, half of the U.S. Take a look at Chime.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

The funds can then be uploaded to a mobile wallet, including Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Google Pay. “New and growing small businesses often need fast access to capital that supports basic needs like inventory purchases, payroll and marketing,” said Edward Siegel, CEO of Bitty Advance, in a statement.

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Lex Sokolin

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In Partnership with: Join Fintech’s Largest Online Interactive Community! Fintech Spring Meetup ?—?Meet Melvin Capital, the $8 billion hedge fund that didn’t find GameStop funny, lost 53% of its portfolio in January ( $7 billion ) trying to short against the rallying cries of the Reddit Capitalist Union. June 15–17, 2021.

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Lex Sokolin

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In Partnership with: Join Fintech’s Largest Online Interactive Community! Fintech Spring Meetup ?—?Meet Melvin Capital, the $8 billion hedge fund that didn’t find GameStop funny, lost 53% of its portfolio in January ( $7 billion ) trying to short against the rallying cries of the Reddit Capitalist Union. June 15–17, 2021.

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JULY 8, 2016

But we are heading to France, where the country’s capital city is making a name for itself as a booming tech center. The Wall Street Journal reported just this week that government officials and bankers gathered in Paris to help promote the city as the next potential financial capital for Europe. The Next Startup Capital.

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CB Insights

JULY 10, 2018

Today, there are over 25 fintech unicorns across four different continents. Using CB Insights data, we dug into which investors have backed the most billion-dollar fintech startups — and which are poised to gain the most if their portfolio companies manage exits on par with their huge private market valuations. First Name.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

South Asia is the fastest-growing market in FinTech and eCommerce, according to Credify. The area is projected to be a $72 billion market for FinTech in 2020, at an CAGR of 72.5 percent, and is expected to be a $102 billion eCommerce market by 2025. The number of startups here is fewer than [in] the U.S.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

The Hong Kong-listed Razer created a consortium to form Razer Youth Bank with Singapore startups and Asian billionaires, including local supermarket operator Sheng Siong Holdings and early-stage tech venture capital firm Insignia Ventures Partners. 2) for a wholesale license, which has a capital commitment of $100 million.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

It was the (initially) small FinTech startups that delivered a collective shakeup to the small business (SMB) lending industry. Technology giants like Google and Amazon , which gained their market muscle from non-finance-related ventures, are slowly stepping into the space. Google could be in the running, too, she added. “If

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In recent weeks, a number of financial institutions and FinTech providers have begun testing, introducing or adding upgrades to voice navigation functionalities for their banking customers. Santander went with the former, while FinTech startup D3 Banking recently unveiled an intelligent voice banking interface. In the latter camp, U.K.

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MARCH 10, 2017

Big Data and software as a service (SaaS) once again caught the attention of venture capitalists in the B2B FinTech space this week, but it was cross-border B2B payments that landed the most money. based FinTech startup, helps businesses make cross-border payments. according to reports. Existing backers also participated in the round.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

“Yandex regrets to confirm that it has not been able to agree to definitive transaction terms with the core shareholders of Tinkoff, and accordingly that the parties have mutually agreed to terminate discussions regarding a possible offer by Yandex for 100% of the share capital of Tinkoff,” Yandex said in a press release.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Momo, a Vietnam-based FinTech company that provides users with digital payment options, has reportedly received a very large Series C investment from American private equity firm Warburg Pincus. Vietnam has a market of almost 100 million people, about 25 percent of whom are under 25 years old.

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Lars Markull

MAY 30, 2020

You have probably read somewhere that Shopify is now becoming a FinTech company due to the launch of a couple of new products. A few years ago it was quite easy to identity Fintech players but the lines are getting blurry. Affirm is another big player in the “pay later” market and seems like a logical choice for Shopify.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Pan Gongsheng as saying that officials criticized Ant for poor corporate governance, defiance of regulatory demands, illegal regulatory arbitrage, the use of its market advantage to squeeze out competitors and harming consumers’ legal interests. Any FinTech disruptor, when it becomes so big, represents systemic risk,” he told Webster.

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Microsoft & Visa integrating personal financial data into Excel and the open ecosystems of Google Sheets and MetaMask As a neobank, you would dream of these numbers. How many clients, do you think, would prefer to use niche wealth management document management solutions, and how many would like to use Google Drive?

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2015

FinTech, FinTech, FinTech! We must be moments away from downloading a gamified banking app via our Google Glass, paying in Bitcoins using Apple Pay! A banker told me yesterday that if I wanted headlines in American Banker , put FinTech in my copy. That's all I'm hearing. It's like global warming.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 8, 2022

Meanwhile, the data can also be used to turn your attention outwards and execute marketing campaigns within specific channels and adjust pricing to meet your short-term goals efficiently. Lesson 1: Better Optimize Your Marketing Dollars For Cumulative Lifetime Value. Lesson 2: Your Message Matters How You Collect Profitable Customers.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

According to a report in Reuters, citing Go-Jek Founder and Chief Executive Nadiem Makarim, the company is working to enter the Philippines market as well. The company will also boost its presence in the Philippines via the acquisition of FinTech company Coins.ph, which has five million users, the executive told Reuters.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

million podcasts in the world, you might find it daunting to weed through the lists on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, or other platforms to find the best banking podcasts. or largely focused on the domestic banking market. If you have an interesting podcast to share, please send it to marketing@abrigo.com. Indeed, with 2.8

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AUGUST 6, 2020

It will capitalize on Contis’ regulated status to help SMBs access support from FinTechs, including new payments and lending capabilities. Those cards are linked to popular digital payment services, including Apple Pay and Google Pay. There will be three programs for U.K.

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Fintech is expensive. Fintech is everywhere. Fintech is the global competition for regulation, talent, and macroeconomic supremacy. Fintech is the trade war between the US and China. Fintech is the trade war between the US and China. Fintech is Facebook and Amazon. Fintech is the next bubble to burst.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

In the latest round, GIC was joined by Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Founders Fund and Ribbit Capital, among others. The mobile app, which launched two months ago, is available through both the Apple iOS App Store and Android’s Google Play.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The company is backed by Alibaba Group and led by Johnny Chou, former Greater China president for Google. Best highlights the strength of China’s logistics market, which saw $1.6 percent of the nation’s express delivery market in the first six months of 2017, reports said. trillion in revenue last year.

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