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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In the mad dash for small firms to secure capital, many sought their PPP loans from banks other than their usual financial service providers, creating a logistical nightmare for financial institutions (FIs) that still rely on manual and outdated customer onboarding workflows. On Tuesday (Sept.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 4, 2022

These fintech and banking trends should be on financial institutions’ radar in the year ahead. This list of top banking and fintech trends for 2022 won’t tell anyone anything they haven’t already heard about. For banks, crypto will be to 2022 what social media was to 2015. Trend #1: The Great Overdraft Overhaul.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 24, 2016

In a stunning vote, British citizens decided to leave the European Union, and the so-called Brexit has not just profound implications for fintech, but creates massive uncertainty for global financial services. tweeted Eileen Burbidge, a partner at Passion Capital and FinTech Envoy of HM Read More. How can we be so stupid?”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

IBM Acquires Canadian FinTech Expertus. Combining with a blank-check company has become an increasingly popular way for closely held companies to raise capital for expansion. EU Releases First Drafts for Digital Services, Digital Markets Acts. Plus, Bridgetown Holdings is reportedly thinking about a deal with Tokopedia.

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Lex Sokolin

MARCH 31, 2021

Fintech is something some people are interested in, but crypto is something that can make people rich. The Distribution of Social Capital A lot of the language in fintech and Ethereum has been about democratization, and helping people have better financial services. Other forms of social capital are just as valuable?—?from

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 8, 2017

Two distinct streams have surfaced in fintech: passive and active investment. But the active investment strategy for investors is far from dead in fintech. Betterment is the poster child for passive investment, recently booking $70 million in venture funding and has continued to enhance its services.

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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. The event takes place at Level39 in Canary Wharf — where Read More.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 23, 2017

INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to this site, announced its third cohort of startups today. Here are the five companies of Class 3 of INV Fintech: CoverHero is an intelligent insurance roboadvisor that helps users manage, understand, and buy […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2019

Facebook announced partnerships with an array of venture capital funds as part of its VC Brand Incubator initiative, which is reportedly the first in a series of programs the social media and technology conglomerate has launched in India to support small businesses.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Community Capital Technologies, Denizen Financial, Diro Inc., Six of the startups come from INV Fintech, this website’s sister […]. The 12 startups demoing to try to win the “best in show” award at Bank Innovation Ignite have been unveiled. The startups are:[link] Avocado Payments, Budgit Inc., Exagens Corp.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The Libra Association is petitioning the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority ( FINMA ) for a Swiss payment system license for its planned Libra cryptocurrency, Reuters reported on Wednesday (Sept. The social media giant wants to move forward and launch Libra in June despite global questioning and hesitation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2017

Investors are fueling growth for B2B FinTechs across Asia, with startups in Indonesia, Singapore and India securing most of the more than $125 million raised in recent days. Newid Capital and angel investors also participated, reports said. eProcurement. This week the company revealed a $3.8

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Insights on Business

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The dominant story is that fintech startups and banks are better off as friends than foes. Fintech, once seen as a disruptor, is now becoming a mainstream and also a collaborating partner. Banks provide trust and infrastructure to a partnership with fintech. Things seemed different at Sibos this year. Banks are also innovators.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

When an organization is bearing an ever-increasing burden of outstanding accounts receivables, there are multiple sources of capital to which it can turn. As a result, he said, businesses will increasingly turn to FinTechs that can offer more creative, flexible solutions to their cash flow and debt challenges. It's a juggling act.".

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to this site, is pleased to announce its inaugural episode of INV Unfiltered — a new monthly podcast series, which will cover current trends and intriguing topics in financial technology and beyond.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

The small business credit gap is a global issue, a problem that banks and FinTechs continue to hack away at, yet one that remains stubbornly persistent. In markets like Southeast Asia, high rates of credit-invisible, underbanked small businesses make filling the small business credit gap an even more difficult challenge.

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Lars Markull

MAY 30, 2020

You have probably read somewhere that Shopify is now becoming a FinTech company due to the launch of a couple of new products. A few years ago it was quite easy to identity Fintech players but the lines are getting blurry. Affirm is another big player in the “pay later” market and seems like a logical choice for Shopify.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 25, 2017

More fintech is coming to Austin. The massive South by Southwest conference and festival features startups in a number of categories — transportation, augmented/virtual reality, and of course fintech — plus several others. The event is the 9th annual pitch session for SXSW’s accelerator.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 24, 2016

Y Combinator President Sam Altman knows fintech — he helped Green Dot build GoBank, after all. So when only two fintech startups made it to the stage yesterday at Day 1 of its Summer Demo Day(s) 2016, we took notice. But today 10 of the 48 demoing companies are fintech-focused, Read More.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 15, 2016

Calling all fintech startups — today marks the opening of the application period for the second class of INV Fintech, a global accelerator operated by Bank Innovation and Fiserv. Interested startups can apply here. The application period will close Friday, September 9. INV, which launched in January, is the first Read More.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. That’s enough to send normal people into the fetal position.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

From these sessions, two winners were chosen that will have the chance to engage with a global bank — perhaps the ultimate prize for a fintech startup today. The afternoon session brought on the blockchain. The challenge was part Read More.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

or largely focused on the domestic banking market. In many cases, the podcasts or hosts have sizable social media followings, and all release a new episode at least once per month so you can stay up to date with the latest trends in the finance world. We have webinars , whitepapers , and other resources to make your job easier.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

With more consumers than ever interested in fulfilling all their financial needs on mobile, both legacy banks and FinTech firms are focusing on creating digital-only banking services, designed to catch and keep customers using their smartphones to bank. Around the Digital Banking World. Read the Tracker’s Deep Dive to find out.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 15, 2016

Bank Innovation today officially launches BankBoost, a new app that fosters information discovery in the fintech industry. BankBoost is an “answerbase,” which means it is an app for getting questions to your fintech questions. Users can post on any fintech topic and seek answers from the Bank Innovation community.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 29, 2016

Why are fintech startups different from other tech startups? Banks want fintech to be regulated to level the playing field, and fintech companies want regulation to make working with banks easier. But at the Empire Startups Fintech Conference Read More.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 24, 2016

Just under 10% of the companies — 15 to be exact — were fintech-related. Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 Demo Days just wrapped up, with 159 startups taking the stage and making their play for funding. This is about average for a YC incubator class, with the 26% from Summer 2015 being an Read More.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The social media company made multiple bids for Fitbit in October, with a final offer of $7.30 Chris Douvos of investment firm Ahoy Capital told The Wall Street Journal , “We’ve been in the middle of a rollicking party that’s gone on for five years and someone has snapped on the light switch.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 14, 2019

Africa’s largest company by market value is in talks to inject about $200 million into business loan provider […]. Naspers Ltd. wants to spend about $1 billion in India this year as it scours the globe for investments that can replicate its blockbuster bet on China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd., a person familiar with the matter said.

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Lars Markull

MAY 30, 2020

You have probably read somewhere that Shopify is now becoming a FinTech company due to the launch of a couple of new products. A few years ago it was quite easy to identity Fintech players but the lines are getting blurry. Affirm is another big player in the “pay later” market and seems like a logical choice for Shopify.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 13, 2022

In this age of social media, global interconnectedness, and market volatility, banks can be one tweet torrent away from a lightning-fast onset of risk. Banks that take too much risk fail, and banks that take too little risk produce returns below their cost of capital and either get acquired or driven out of business.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

B2B FinTech enjoyed more time in the spotlight with investors this week as companies around the globe — ranging from eProcurement to small- and medium-sized business (SMB) accounting to supply chain management startups — secured fresh funding to support growth. Kinara Capital. Alternative Lending. B2B payments.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

“If entrepreneurs can’t get capital from a bank, they will look for other sources.”. It’s not simply that a lack of access to bank loans adds pressure on growing small businesses in the market. We have an analysis about their psychometric, their willingness to pay, their behavior on social media,” he said. “For

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Bobsguide

JULY 7, 2022

3 rd place: Aphaïa , an equity crowdfunding platform focused on supporting natural capital projects in emerging countries. Fastest go-to-market solution: Tetard Capital , a social media platform enabling startups to access funding by connecting them with Gen Z investors. The overall winners are….

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

There are just two China-based fintech businesses valued at over $100B in the world. The second, conceivably, is Tencent’s fintech business. In May 2019, Barclays released a note estimating the value of Tencent’s fintech business at $123B, or close to a third of the company’s total market cap.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

For financial services, and specifically for FinTech , the ripple effects may keep rippling. But then again, capital is being deployed into the sector, with more than $3 billion coming to FinTechs through the first few months of 2019, up 18 percent from last year, as Innovate Finance estimated.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

The dispute over the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ‘s (OCC’s) national bank charter, which became available to FinTech firms last year, has reportedly caused technology conglomerates to shy away from a tool that aims to provide nonbank firms with a more streamlined way to operate on a national level.

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