PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

South African regulators also approved Goldman Sachs for a bank operation license as the firm strives for growth in the most liquid and sophisticated economy on the continent. Africa’s eCommerce volume is expected to reach $75 billion by 2025, and economic output in FinTech is anticipated to add $150 billion by 2022 to its GDP.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Also seen in this week’s roundup of the latest in Bank-FinTech innovations was Alacriti teaming with The Clearing House on real-time payments (RTP), while Singapore Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) startup RootAnt concluded a seed round with $1.46 In addition, Monese adopted Thought Machine’s cloud banking platform. Europe and South Africa.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 28, 2016

Last week we looked at a group of fintech companies spanning the world with a suite of Series B rounds. Feeling out of place? The five startups below may have the frontier know-how you need. This week the common denominator lies in the oddball assistance needed by entrepreneurs, businesses, and investors Read More.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

Capital is the lifeblood of economies, and of the companies (and yes, of course, individuals) that collectively make things and provide services … and in the age of FinTech, the capital comes digitally and across innovative channels. Within the FinTech space, there may be a resurgence of sorts for one firm.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

London-based FinTech startup Curve has raised $95 million in Series C funding led by IDC Ventures, Fuel Venture Capital, and the investment division of Vulcan Capital, launched from the estate of Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. Founder and Curve CEO Shachar Bialick said in a press release on Tuesday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With more than $1 billion raised — and more to come — this week became the most lucrative for B2B FinTech venture capital funding. said the company saw BHL Holdings lead the second Series A funding round, while Nire Capital and existing backers Concentric, Seedcamp and Beazley also participated. Reports in Verdict.co.uk

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Singapore-based FinTech Grab is mulling a U.S. Last week, Grab announced that its Grab Financial Group had raised $300 million in a Series A funding round led by Hanwha Asset Management and joined by K3 Ventures , GGV Capital , Arbor Ventures and Flourish Ventures.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

General Electric ‘s divestiture of GE Capital assets continues as MUFG Union Bank announced plans to acquire GE Capital’s Trade Payable Services (TPS) operations. 16), MUFG Americas and GE Capital said MUFG Union Bank will acquire GE Capital’s supply chain finance platform for an undisclosed sum.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

With more than $200 million in venture capital funding landing with B2B FinTechs this week, investors had their eyes set on a variety of pain points in corporate finance. Below, PYMNTS breaks down the latest in B2B FinTech funding. Meanwhile, logistics, data analytics, and business travel technologies also won over investors.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

16) that merger talks with TCS Group Holding (Tinkoff) have fallen apart. . TCS Group Holding is the parent company of the Russian lender Tinkoff Bank. “We Lavka stocks roughly 2,000 items and operates as a digital market for convenience items. Russian search giant Yandex said in a statement on Friday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In PYMNTS’ latest B2B venture capital roundup, which yielded $75 million in new funding, startups embraced distributed ledger technology for B2B payments and supply chain management, with 80 percent of total funding landing at blockchain companies. Envoy Group. The $13 million raised for U.K. The $13 million raised for U.K.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In terms of the total amount invested to date in FinTechs, as tracked by PYMNTS via the India FinTech Tracker, the year to date tally stands at just under $3.7 million through a Series B financing round that was in turn led by Ribbit Capital, based in the United States. Three months to go, more or less.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2020

SoftBank has been looking at European FinTech startups, the source told The Telegraph. The investment group also sat down with Monzo’s competitor Revolut, and recently funded London-based digital bank startup OakNorth with £297.7 operations, reporting to Bloomfield. expansion.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2020

It’s too soon to tell how coronavirus will impact the venture capital ecosystem, but some analysts are turning to the economic crisis of 2008 to make some educated guesses. companies, including $75 million landing at one FinTech looking to bolster small business credit card payment adoption. ”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

This week, however, venture capital rounds were all about the small- and medium-sized business (SMBs), and how to address their biggest financial management pain points. raised venture capital for their SMB-facing tools, including global payments, accounting and banking. Businesses across Asia, South Africa, the U.K. Nisa Finance.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

The Banking & Payments Federation Ireland said it had established a FinTech Foresight Group — further evidence of collaborations between traditional financial institutions and tech upstarts. It is indeed imperative that banks capitalize on these technological advances and the associated business models. Sandbox In India.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

Brazil’s unicorn FinTech and payments startup EBANX is trialing a digital wallet, called Ebanx Go, with 10,000 consumers on a test basis, the company announced on Wednesday (Jan. The digital wallet offering is intended to solidify the FinTech’s reach in the Brazilian payments market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Growth of FinTech funding seems unstoppable, with the latest analysis from Hampleton Partners finding enterprise financial services and integration, online financial services, enterprise financial software and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) risk management as some of the hottest spots for investors this year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

Globe Fintech Innovations of the Philippines, the FinTech arm of Globe Telecom , landed $175 million in additional venture funding this month. Now, Globe Fintech, known as Mynt , is reportedly on the hunt for more cash — and looking to get a valuation over $1 billion. and China-based Ant Group.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

And one question worth posing is: What will happen to FinTech ? Specifically, what will happen to London’s standing as a FinTech hub? The city has long been known as a financial center (especially in Europe) and more recently as FinTech. But one clue as to how FinTech may fare is where the talent goes. and to the EU.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Banks and FinTechs continue to discover new opportunities in unlocking corporate clients’ financial data, with banks embracing data integration for their own product development initiatives, and FinTechs finding new ways to collaborate with each other. Mastercard Taps FinTech for Biz Card Boost. Bankin’ Steps Into Payments APIs.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Israeli startup Access Fintech has received $17.5 million in venture capital funding from Goldman Sachs , JPMorgan Chase , Citigroup and Credit Suisse. The funding announcement comes as large banks are starting to collaborate with each other and young financial technology (FinTech) startups more often. “We

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 15, 2016

Emirates NBD, one of the Middle East’s largest banking groups, is hosting a hackathon in partnership with Berlin-based Open Bank Project in London, the reported fintech capital of the world, April 15 to 17. The deadline for early applications is today.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

As legal cannabis spreads, the industry is a big opportunity for FinTech, as industry players struggle to manage intense compliance requirements and limited access to traditional financial services. The investors followed a Series C investment round closed by Veritas earlier this year, which was led by CDC, Pai and Lok Capital.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

Rocket Internet owns majority stakes in HelloFresh and Global Fashion Group. Global Fashion Group, which operates fashion Websites in Russia, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, took a hit because of a decline in the Russian rouble and the Brazilian real. Sales were up 18 percent after excluding the impact of currency changes.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

Payments FinTech Sila offers an Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform to help companies more seamlessly integrate compliant payments capabilities within their solutions via application programming interface (API), with an integrated stablecoin, SILA. Sila Raises Funding to Nix ACH. The company recently announced $7.7

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Don’t let the lack of news about mega-grossing venture capital (VC) rounds fool you. This week’s B2B venture capital activity led to an impressive $141.2 and Asia, and PYMNTS lined up all the B2B FinTechs that recently scored fresh funding. VC activity was especially high across the U.S. TravelBank.

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Bank Activities

JUNE 30, 2022

The Estonia-headquartered LHV Group indicates that the funds will be used to capitalize its new UK bank which is in the process of obtaining a UK banking license. LHV Group is labeled as being the largest domestic financial group, and it is listed on the NASDAQ Baltic.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

million in the largest investment round ever for a FinTech that operates exclusively in the continent. Find out who raised the money, and other winners of this week’s B2B venture capital roundup, below. Partech and Digital Currency Group also participated in the round, reports said. Small Business Banking.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Talk of a decelerating FinTech venture capital market continued to mount this week with reports that digital banking startup Aspiration is struggling to raise money. Venture Capital Funding. raised $10 million from SEB Bank and Seed Capital for its commercial card technology. Cardlay, based in the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

Ayala, the Philippines -based conglomerate, is raising money for a new capital fund that will invest in technology companies. As reported in Deal Street Asia , Ayala Chairman and Chief Executive Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala said the focus will be on companies in eCommerce, FinTech and healthcare.

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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. How’s the company performing? The company has more than 300,000 agents and over 5M users in Nigeria. Want the full post?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

But some players are taking matters into their own hands with the formation of a new group to promote responsible SME lending practices, on both the borrower and lender sides. The announcement also revealed Breakout Capital, a small business lender, as a new committee member for the group. “We The CRBF is not the U.S.’s

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

Companies separated across borders want payments to be delivered on time so they can meet their payment deadlines, access capital and deliver products in a timely fashion. A group of Nordic banks have selected Mastercard to overhaul its financial services operations for the region. Around the Smarter Payments World.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

Taking a page from Goldman Sachs’ book, Morgan Stanley is beginning to lend to FinTech startups in Brazil as it seeks more of a return on its investments. The company is also reportedly in talks with international investors about raising $50 million via an equity round that QMS Capital is handling.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

Toward the start of 2018, analysts began to highlight the potential for venture capital (VC) to embrace the B2B business model. and India drove a surge in FinTech venture capital funding in 2017, and Accenture Financial Services Senior Managing Director Julian Skan pointed to the B2B business model as a significant presence in this trend.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2017

In venture capital news, London startup TrueLayer has raised $3 million in Series A funding so that it can enable FinTech companies to access bank APIs. According to TechCrunch , the Series A funding round was led by Anthemis Group, with participation from existing investor Connect Ventures.

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