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

AUGUST 14, 2020

million in combined funding, B2B FinTechs remain resilient in today’s current market. ZipLoan operates a digital platform to connect small businesses to loans, with a focus on kirana stores and micro-enterprises. Real-time cross-border B2B payment FinTech Vitesse has announced $8.3 million in Series A funding.

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PYMNTS

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

DECEMBER 2, 2016

We’re covering two weeks’ worth of B2B venture capital funding, and across the board, India has come out on top. But the largest venture capital funding round went to an accounts payable automation firm in the U.S. But the largest venture capital funding round went to an accounts payable automation firm in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

According to nonprofit Accion Opportunity Fund VP Adriana Eiriz , the uncertainty plaguing Main Street today is widespread. While these pivots reflect the resiliency of small business owners, they can also make it more challenging for lenders to understand how a business operates. Small business owners are so resilient," she said. "I

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2017

Menlo Ventures , the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, closed a new $450 million venture capital fund aimed at investing in early stage companies focused in the consumer, enterprise and so-called frontier technologies markets. Menlo Ventures said the fund was oversubscribed, with existing investors and new ones participating.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

With a robust community of technological innovators, and a drive toward the digital economy, India currently stands as an exciting market in FinTech. According to Mittal, there are three main factors that small businesses in India need to succeed: a “strong network, access to finance and simplified business support functions.”

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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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Celent Banking

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Fintech is booming. In 2013, according to a report by Accenture and CB Insights , total investment into Fintech was just less than $4 billion. Yet neither can institutions continue without any change to the operating model. They need to start looking at Fintech startups as an opportunity, not a threat.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers 8. 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. A quick look at top banking podcasts worth a listen, according to Abrigo : 1. Banking Transformed 2. BankTalk 3. Banking with Interest 4.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2016

But across the Pond – regardless of the initial claims last week that Britain had occasioned its own Independence Day via the Brexit vote — for FinTech, freedom is just another word for lots and lots left to lose. FinTech is nascent enough that the U.K. Perhaps just as precious as capital is talent. and the rest of Europe.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

Two Hanoi-based FinTech startups, Vimo Technology and mPOS Technology, are merging to create NextPay Holdings, according to reports. The raised capital will be used to grow the company’s merchant network and to aid in moving into new countries like Myanmar and Indonesia next year. NextPay’s main focus is on offline payments.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Further, the competition is not just another bank that might make a loan or take a deposit, but it could be a credit union, insurance company, retail store, or a fintech. SVA – larger banks consider shareholder value-added pricing, which takes into account operating profits produced over that bank’s cost of capital.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Identity verification solutions provider Jumio recently announced that it launched a video-based verification solution geared toward FIs, FinTechs, digital wallet providers and cryptocurrency exchanges that are looking to boost their digital onboarding capabilities.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

The pandemic is continuing to throw typical business operations for many industries into flux, resulting in disastrous financial consequences. The hope is that these changes will offer SMBs the adaptability they need to keep their operations moving throughout the ongoing pandemic. Government entities in the U.S. SMBs across the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Small businesses (SMBs) are rarely early adopters of new financial technology (FinTech). However, with business owners and entrepreneurs often taking a page out of their personal lives as consumers, the eventual adoption of emerging solutions is an inevitable part of FinTech innovation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

New payment and financial technologies are quickly emerging from the FinTech community, all with the promise of expediting payments and reducing the distance between cross-border trading partners. Traditional banks are seeing new FinTech players become more competitive on several fronts, including lending.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

BaaS makes it easier for businesses and FinTechs to develop capabilities for sending and receiving payments and managing banking data through application programming interfaces (APIs), cloud-based systems and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Around The BaaS World. About The Playbook.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 22, 2018

As it makes its way to South Africa and continues to amass impressive partnerships with the likes of Alipay and PayPal, Samsung Pay might have completed three years in the mobile payments market, but its numbers still lag its main rival, Apple Pay. Samsung revealed yesterday that it had completed 1.3

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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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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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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2020

In response, corporate accounting FinTechs and financial consultants have introduced a range of new services and technologies in an effort to help organizations with lease agreements adapt. What’s more, he added, FinTech had so far lagged in addressing entities that must account for both lessor and lessee arrangements.

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Jessica Ellerm

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The 2017 P2P Friction Study Report , which surveyed over 424 global procurement and accounts payable professionals, found that paper based invoices remain the main source of friction and wasted man-hours, with 49 percent of respondents naming this as their number one cause of friction. Xero-ing in on e-invoicing. Isolate then innovate.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

FinTech is on the march, and one area where progress is highly visible is in the growing gig economy ecosystem. But there are also other factors at play — among the main ones is consumer trust. As Javarappa told PYMNTS, Qwil operates as a liquidity-as-a-service platform.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2017

based Victory Park Capital. In a recent interview, PYMNTS’ Karen Webster spoke with Jacob de Geer, founder and CEO of iZettle, about the recent funding round, the company’s growth, broader trends in the payments ecosystem in Europe and beyond, as well as what’s coming up next for the FinTech.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

The high failure rate of a new small business has entrepreneurs focused on simply surviving their first few years in operation. That presents opportunities for FinTech firms, like cloud accounting providers, to address the many unknowns an entrepreneur faces when starting the exit process. An Emerging Market.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2016

“You need a form of digital cash on the distributed ledger in order to get maximum benefit from these technologies,” said Hyder Jaffrey, head of fintech innovation at UBS. That frees up capital trapped during the process.”. What that allows us to do is to take away the time these processes take, such as waiting for payment to arrive.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

FinTech holding company Crossfin is one such player making a bid to cater to small merchants. It recently invested in SMB-focused Retail Capital , which offers merchants short-term funding options through its mPOS devices. According to Crossfin, the move helps it better provide FinTech solutions to local merchants.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Does ‘Google Checking’ Foreshadow Big Tech, FinTech Payments Changes? That was one of the main messages from a recent PYMNTS discussion featuring Karen Webster and Vaduvur Bharghavan (who goes by VB), the president and CEO of Ondot Systems. Rowe Price and Discovery Capital. Other investors include T. for $4 billion.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

UAE Exchange CEO Promoth Manghat told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster that staying ahead on technology and working capital investments has not only kept UAE Exchange in the game since 1980, but enabled it to grow into a global leader in the financial services space, handling close to $30 billion in transfers each year. Let me give you an example.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

With more consumers moving to mobile transactions over visits to branches, some banks are considering closing brick-and-mortar locations to reduce operational costs. The price of real estate is prompting even the largest players in the banking world to scale back their branch operations. Getting in Front of Change.

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The main driver of today’s entry is the news?—?which How does software operate? Where does it operate? Over 60% of Ant’s revenue comes from Fintech product lead generation, with capital risks passed on to the underlying banks and insurers, which Ant also digitizes. Please also note that this my take?—?not

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

London’s Big FinTech Troubles. And they are wrong to be worried, Lavin notes, as tech — and particularly FinTech — has become a very, very big business in London. . In the last year alone, investment in British FinTech firms has leapt up 660 million pounds ($974 million), making it the biggest investor nation in the E.U.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

But there is a minority group of blockchain projects that move from proof-of-concept phase into beta testing, and some even onto the main stage of a working solution. California-based FinTech Remitware Payments revealed plans to launch MoneyOS, a mechanism to support cross-border B2B payments using blockchain technology.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

“Regulatory efforts to ensure financial stability must be accompanied by equally vigorous, data-driven analysis to make certain that Main Street companies continue to have access to the financial services they need.” Only 5 percent said regulation has not made business operations more difficult in some way.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

The city’s GDP per capital is $54,722. According to FinTech accelerator tryb, despite the fact that there’s been an estimated $300 million in FinTech funding in Hong Kong, many of the startups in the industry face tough challenges when trying to get off the ground. Hong Kong is estimated to have a population of 7.3

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