Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The finance landscape is witnessing some significant changes and disruptions due to fintech companies, blockchain technology, and AI. Innovation in this highly regulated field is necessary, and even giants are rising to the challenge and trying to get more customer-friendly, agile or at least aligned to the new standards set by start-ups.

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Bobsguide

MARCH 21, 2022

CompatibL is proud to have been nominated in the following categories in this year’s FTF News Technology Innovation Awards: 5.Best FinTech Person of the Year: Alexander Sokol, CompatibL. Igor Tsitavets, CompatibL’s President and CEO, says: “We are honored to be shortlisted at this year’s FTF News Technology Innovation Awards.

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JULY 21, 2020

A panel established to grow the United Kingdom’s (UK) financial technology (FinTech) sector plans a review of the industry to identify opportunities for growth, the government announced Tuesday (July 21). Much is at stake when it comes to the country’s FinTech businesses. The sector has an estimated worth of 7 billion pounds ($8.9

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Some FinTech leaders say that this lack of modernization is at least partly to blame for the estimated $1.5 At the very least, outdated tools and workflows slow down the process of getting capital into the hands of exporters and importers that need funding to fuel business. Sometimes, they're still sending documents using snail mail.".

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Multinational investment bank UBS has launched the UBS Next platform in order to help invest in FinTechs and the "broader tech ecosystem," according to a press release. UBS Next will pursue direct investments in early stage FinTechs and other such companies.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

Like many venture capital companies in the payments space, Serent Capital has had a busy year. 15 with the announcement of the launch of its fourth fund, Serent Capital IV — at $750 million. 15 with the announcement of the launch of its fourth fund, Serent Capital IV — at $750 million. That was followed on Dec.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Well, Gonzobankers, the smart, idealist and self-declared revolutionary crypto kids just bought themselves a future of regulation — intricate, overbearing, and frustrating regulation, and regulation that the market will now demand. Welcome to adulthood, y’all. Wonderful” O’ Leary, and of course Tom and Gisele. What’s Next?

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 25, 2019

Fintechs are having trouble facing reality when it comes to obtaining bank charters, FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams and Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting said here at the FDIC’s Fintech and the Future of Banking conference on Wednesday. WASHINGTON, D.C.

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

Though FinTech has, in many ways, heated up the competition with banks, traditional financial institutions (FIs) widely began to realize in 2018 that their best strategy to remain competitive in today’s financial services landscape is often to collaborate with (not against) those FinTech firms. Square Links Up With Handshake.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

MiddleGame Ventures has launched a new €150MM fund targeting FinTech investments in Europe and North America. We are pleased to have new capital from substantial investors to support great, transformational businesses across Europe and the US with our highly focused fund.

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

Singapore-based FinTech platform Nium is expanding into the Middle East, the company announced on Monday (Oct. 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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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Innovate Finance, which represents 300 UK fintech companies, says venture capital investment fell from $1.2bn (£970m) in 2015, to $783m last year. “Our members tell us Brexit has had a chilling effect on investment,” Innovate Finance chief executive Lawrence Wintermeyer told the BBC. .

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

The panel included: Doug Bergeron , managing partner at Hudson Executive Capital ; Ian Drysdale , executive in residence at Great Hill Partners ; Amit Jhawar , venture partner at Accel and Rick Roberts , analyst and portfolio manager at Vulcan Capital. on a state by state basis) will impede innovation, he warned. Data Privacy

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that financial regulators should look more closely at the role of non-bank tech companies in the small business (SMB) lending and consumer lending markets. According to the banks that have linked with FinTech firms, such guidelines would help relationships between the parties.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Through the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee and Washington are looking to standardize the ways firms across traditional financial services and FinTech upstarts apply for, and are granted, licenses. That comes as Open Banking bowed in Europe last month.

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MARCH 31, 2020

FinTech firm MatchMove has struck a deal to acquire a “strategic stake” in eCommerce solutions company Shopmatic, according to reports. MatchMove’s LightSpeed solution won top honors in the category “Best Payments Innovation of the Year” in the 4th Payments and Cards Awards 2019 held in Mumbai, India.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 30, 2018

Melbourne-based challenger bank Judo Capital will be focusing its efforts on small business banking in Australia, according to banking plans unveiled by the challenger yesterday.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 12, 2017

Further to my recent trip to Pakistan Business Recorder (their version of The Financial Times) interviewed me in depth about what is happening in FinTech. He is the Chair of the European networking forum: the Financial Services Club and sits on the advisory boards of numerous companies including Innovate Finance, Moven, and Meniga.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It would instead offer payment companies a national servicing platform to replace the regime of state regulations such firms would be subject to under existing laws. Commercial companies accessing a payments charter would avoid oversight and regulations that protect the financial system and consumers,” the bank industry leaders wrote.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to lending — to say nothing of the wider world of payments — innovation and disruption have been on the rise in recent years thanks to digital and mobile technology, along with online marketplace models. Regulators the world over are beginning to take a closer look at the alternative and marketplace lending business model.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Global FinTech Rapyd announced that it has launched a single platform in Singapore that enables businesses to go cashless. Singapore has been a leading payments innovator for years, but as payment options have increased, it hasn’t gotten easier for merchants to offer the full breadth of options to their customers.

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JUNE 24, 2020

With corporate travel still on pause, commercial card innovation has taken a different direction. This week’s look at the latest initiatives explores how FinTechs are wielding the corporate card in ways other than business trips, from accessing credit for accounts payable to financing employee lunches.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Grab Financial Group, a Southeast Asian FinTech, said it notched $300 million in a funding round. Flourish Ventures, Arbor Ventures, GGV Capital and K3 Ventures were some other investors in the round. Saudi Arabia’s Open Banking Plan Aims To Advance Digital Innovation.

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Rapid changes in payments and regulations have blown open the door to new ideas, creating frontiers for fintech investors. Javier Perez hopes three decades of experience will help him have an early read on startups.

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JULY 31, 2020

Colin Walsh got lots of laughs five years ago when he talked of his intention to launch a financial technology (FinTech) startup. Department of the Treasury that charters and regulates financial institutions. Varo is the first consumer FinTech to receive a new national bank charter from the U.S. To date, Varo has raised $419.4

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JANUARY 15, 2019

As FinTechs eye growth, and look to gain scale by providing more “mainstream” financial services, might those plans hit a speed bump when it comes to the infrastructure needed to bring products to the masses? As has been reported, the regulators include the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.,

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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.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Collaboration amid competition has been a hallmark of the financial services space, as traditional financial institutions (FIs) join forces with FinTech startups. The group, to be known as Alloy Labs Alliance, according to a press release , is being managed by FinTech Forge. Guidelines From The UK. and MarketInvoice.

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Accenture

MARCH 23, 2017

I wanted to explore how investment trends in this area are impacting the industry and how the ecosystem can work with the regulator. Right now, compared with Fintech, RegTech has low investment for the size of spend. It’s relevant not just in banking, but capital markets, wealth management and insurance. RegTech means… RegTech!

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Accenture

MARCH 23, 2017

I wanted to explore how investment trends in this area are impacting the industry and how the ecosystem can work with the regulator. Right now, compared with Fintech, RegTech has low investment for the size of spend. It’s relevant not just in banking, but capital markets, wealth management and insurance. RegTech means… RegTech!

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MAY 30, 2018

Banks, he noted, have to be compliant with a host of extremely stringent regulations, and often across multiple jurisdictions – all with different rules. Throw into the mix consumer protection guidelines, active anti-money laundering checks and capital requirements, and things get difficult, Oosthuizen noted. Why Banks Need FinTechs.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The conference, which took place here on February 11 to 14, saw barely a mention of Brexit amid the discussions on global and European fintech innovation. Unless of course, you attended Finovate Europe. This points to what seems to be the reality of […].

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The company noted that it still needs to gain approval from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of the Abu Dhabi Global Market, which issued regulations for crypto exchanges last summer. billion of venture capital invested in the sector across 2,304 deals, a 148 percent or 2.5 Bithumb has certainly been busy.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

“High-tech,” or fintech banks may be required to hold higher capital buffers and larger liquidity when entering Europe, the European Central Bank said in draft licensing guidelines today.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The latest global FinTech collaboration ties together Singapore and Dubai in a deal designed to encourage innovation in digital payments, online and mobile commerce, and related areas. The agreement … sets out a process to share and use information on innovation in their respective markets.”. According to U.K.-based

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The delicate balance between bank-FinTech competition and collaboration continues to teeter in the U.S. In a market without Open Banking regulations, FinTechs continue to enter in to the market, collaborating with bank partners to offer their own financial services — which often compete directly with other financial institutions.

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MARCH 17, 2017

Those market conditions present interesting obstacles and opportunities for everyone in the banking FinTech space. Reports last week said the merger aims to create a FinTech “powerhouse” as both Misys and D+H evolve their services to meet the more sophisticated demands of the industry. The company will merge with DH Corp.,

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