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AUGUST 27, 2019

million fundraise, India-based FinTech BharatPe revealed new funding for its solution aimed at small businesses. 26) that the company raised $50 million in Series B funding led by Ribbit Capital, based in San Francisco, and Steadview Capital, based in London. Four months after announcing a $15.5 TechCrunch reported Monday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

House committee this week began reviewing the idea of allowing the likes of Amazon or Facebook to receive charters to operate as banks — an idea that’s already gotten plenty of pushback from traditional financial institutions (FIs). This isn’t the OCC’s first attempt to create a special banking charter that would benefit tech firms.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

UK FinTech GoCardless Raises $95 Million Led By Bain. FinTech GoCardless has raised $95 million in a Series F funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Fiserv To Acquire FinTech Ondot Systems. The FinTech Fiserv has signed a deal to acquire Ondot Systems. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2017

B2B FinTech saw one of its most stellar funding weeks in a while, led, of course, by the high-profile Bill.com investment. According to reports, the company is also hoping to help SMBs raise capital as they face a funding shortage from traditional banks. But that wasn’t the only — or even the largest — investment round confirmed.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

Last month, The Washington Post reported more than 40 conglomerates, including Google and Dell, have nixed working with Chinese vendors in an effort to avoid those fees that aim to encourage businesses to shift their supply chains to the U.S. According to Kocher, bank-FinTech collaboration is key to addressing that gap, particularly in Asia.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

But innovation is a must for banks, who are not only competing with fintechs like neobanks, PFMs, and payment companies, but also with the likes of Amazon, Google, and even Walmart. And for banks, making sure regulatory and security compliance is met on each technology undertaking only makes those costs larger. But […].

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

But innovation is a must for banks, who are not only competing with fintechs like neobanks, PFMs, and payment companies, but also with the likes of Amazon, Google, and even Walmart. And for banks, making sure regulatory and security compliance is met on each technology undertaking only makes those costs larger. But […].

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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. Additionally, it processes almost 80% of all mobile money operator-based transactions and 20% of all nonmerchant point of sales (POS) transactions in Nigeria.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

And while much has been quiet on the ILC front ever since, as of 2017, two big FinTechs made them very visible again: Sofi in June and Square in mid-September. Square already has an SMB lending arm – Square Capital – which it operates through a deal with Utah-based Celtic Bank. billion to more than 141,000 firms.

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PYMNTS

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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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. Legit question.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The news agency said that while Pan stopped short of calling for Ant’s breakup, officials want the firm to set up a separate holding company to ensure its capital adequacy and regulatory compliance. Any FinTech disruptor, when it becomes so big, represents systemic risk,” he told Webster.

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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. Breaking Banks Breaking Banks , billed as the #1 global fintech podcast and radio show, began in 2013 and is hosted by media firm Provoke.fm. Indeed, with 2.8

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CB Insights

AUGUST 1, 2017

This teardown features annotations & commentary by four Social Capital partners. Thanks to the Social Capital team for updating/confirming their portfolio data on the CB Insights Editor. Social Capital is a VC fund with a focus on healthcare and education. As in all teardowns, the data analyzed comes from CB Insights.

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Lex Sokolin

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Brain activity is always *ON* in the same way that your computer is always running background software for its operating system. fintech is overpriced, crypto is a new paradigm). Each has centuries of operating experience, as well as deep precedent?—?whether In a similar vein, Google has essentially failed out of neobanking.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Google … and Ad-Supported Search . The category that Google innovated 20 years ago – ad-supported search – now appears to be one of its scariest things. Consumers don’t Google for takeout anymore – they go straight to Grubhub. Apple … and the iPhone Customer.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2019

Other investors that participated in the round include Allianz, General Catalyst, GV (formerly known as Google Ventures), OurCrowd, and Thrive Capital. The startup plans to use the proceeds from the capital raise to pick up the pace of expansion in the U.S. and Europe this year, and to evaluate possible new product lines.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2017

It may be slow on the B2B venture capital front, with just $31.5 With $16 million in new venture capital (VC) funding, SyncHR, based in the U.S., The company provides Human Capital Management cloud-based software to businesses. Launched last year, Wishbook was founded by former Google worker Arvind Saraf.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

Minna co-founders and CEO Joakim Sjöblom and Chief Operating Officer Jonas Karles told PYMNTS that getting a better handle on subscription spend can be done through retail banking channels, boosting financial institutions’ own revenue streams. It’s an important capacity for banks as they compete with FinTechs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2017

In the biggest funding round of the week for B2B FinTech, HR and payroll company Namely secured $50 million in venture capital funding. But it’s not the only B2B FinTech firm that secured new investments. 5), with Altimeter Capital and Scale Venture Partners leading the Series D round. B2B eCommerce. CloudCraze.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

For weeks the FinTech industry has been managing fears and anxieties over the future of the novel alternative finance space. Find out which alt lenders secured $77 million in venture capital, as well as the other startups across the U.S., Europe and Asia that followed suit with their own investment rounds.

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CB Insights

JULY 11, 2019

Today, there are over 20 fintech startups that have crossed the 1 million customer account mark, according to CB Insights data — including Acorns , Robinhood , SoFi , Coinbase , and Credit Karma , among others. oVER 20 Fintech startups with 1m+ customer accounts. fintech startups are Changing the consumer experience.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 20, 2021

We gaze with wonder at over $1 billion in raises announced last week, and over $10 billion in Fintech company value creation. Before we go there, however, we need some operating metrics. Perhaps even more importantly, it could sit under Google Pay or Apple Pay and reach into any country you like.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 20, 2021

We gaze with wonder at over $1 billion in raises announced last week, and over $10 billion in Fintech company value creation. Before we go there, however, we need some operating metrics. Perhaps even more importantly, it could sit under Google Pay or Apple Pay and reach into any country you like.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

PayPal, Google Give OCC’s Bank Charter the Cold Shoulder. By changing to the XRP digital currency, however, it forecasts lower operating costs along with the value of working capital it needs. As largely online operations, they are tempting targets for fraudsters and hackers — therefore, robust anti-fraud systems are vital.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The interview happened during a time of expansion and aggressive future planning for the company, a small business and consumer micro-lending technology company that operates in Nigeria. Something must be working – not only can FairMoney raise capital, but according to Hainy, loan acceptance rates have recently tripled. One-Stop Shop.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

This week, venture capital for B2B startups is all about quality — not quantity. Another B2B startup, operating in the SaaS space, positions itself in an unlikely vertical, while the biggest investment round of the week placed $50 million into a startup that is soon to go public. We break down the $68.3 B2B Payments.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 17, 2017

While the fintech industry in the country of over 260 million people is still incredibly nascent, deal activity in the space has picked up over the last two years and is on pace for a record high in 2017 at the current run rate, according to an analysis of CB Insights data. First Name.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

It seems every week we ponder whether there actually exists a drought in venture capital. Adding to the confusion is the latest data from KPMG International and CB Insights, which revealed that private investment in FinTech startups more than doubled last year. B2B funding is far from consistent. million to B2B startups. B2B eCommerce.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

The roundup of this week’s venture capital investments in B2B startups offers some insight into the geographical differences in how this space is developing. With new funding, ProcMart said it will continue to collaborate with FinTech and logistics companies as it looks to add financing and other services for its business customers.

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

An obvious reason is the inroads they’re making into the market, both domestically and globally: recent Accenture research finds that digital-only banks operating in the UK could amass a total of 35 million customers globally within the next 12 months, up from 13 million today. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

Rick Roberts , analyst and portfolio manager at Vulcan Capital , joined Karen Webster to discuss Disney ’s big digital win, the latest stimulus debate and the week’s other major developments. “I Google made headlines about a year ago when it announced it was working with Stanford Federal Credit Union to offer a mobile checking account.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

In this briefing, we analyze the Southeast Asia venture capital landscape, macro trends affecting the region, where deals and dollars have trended and a look ahead at which areas might be primed for startup investment in the future. Tech Investing in Southeast Asia. First Name. Please click to enlarge. in disclosed funding.

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