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Community Banks Debut FinTech Alliance

PYMNTS

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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A community bank-fueled payments rail

Independent Banker

based banks, fintechs and more, sits on top of a payments rail operated by Payrailz, a digital payments company based in Glastonbury, Conn. For a community bank to be innovative means you need to make big bets with your depositors’ capital—and that’s something we take very seriously,” Thurlow says. “By billion-asset community bank.

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Dwolla Raises Capital, Relaunches Access API

Fintech Labs Insights

Milne wrote that the investment will be used to expand Dwolla’s sales and account management operations in Des Moines, Iowa. The round featured participation from Detroit Venture Partners, Firebrand Ventures, High Alpha, Ludlow Ventures, and Next Level Ventures, and brings Dwolla’s total capital to just over $39 million.

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Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $220 Million Week Ending March 25

Fintech Labs Insights

For the 12th consecutive week, there were 20+ fintech fundings worldwide. The number of deals was inflated somewhat by the six new fintech companies launched at YC’s demo day that we had not previously covered. Here are the fintech deals by size from 19 March to 25 March 2016: Open Lending. HQ: Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Facebook, Online Lending, Cash – And The Twilio Surge

PYMNTS

This week it was Minnesota, and then yesterday Walmart really got warmed up and announced the expansion of their new payments service in: Michigan, Virginia, the Carolinas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Washington, D.C. A few things stand out. .

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Lenny Loves Dwolla: Digital Payment Network Helps Bring Microloans to Millennials

Fintech Labs Insights

And in September, Dwolla teamed up with Comenity Capital Bank to add a new credit payment feature to its platform. Founded in 2008 and based in Des Moines, Iowa, Dwolla has raised more than $32 million in funding. The company demonstrated its FiSynch technology at FinovateSpring 2015.

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Malauzai Raises $11 Million in Venture Funding

Fintech Labs Insights

But the new capital takes Malauzai Software’s total to more than $24 million. This week, Malauzai announced a deployment of its mobile remote capture technology at Citizen’s 1st National Bank in Iowa. Malauzai Software has just filed a form D with the SEC for $11 million in equity financing.