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Fintech Deals to Watch: Growing in the Digital World

Gonzobanker

Hot embers continue to glow in the fintech market that GonzoBanker mothership Cornerstone Advisors serves. According to CB Insights, US fintechs raised $14.6B Some perspective on how fast this fintech market is moving: Fintech Labs tracks 269 $1B+ valued fintech unicorns that have been founded in just the past two decades.

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The ICBA 22/23 executive committee is all in

Independent Banker

and CEO and chairman, Minnesota Lakes Bank, Delano, Minn. We must continue to fight increased regulation, specialty charter considerations and the potential for more fintech access to traditional rails without the same oversight. In addition, the ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator is one of the best fintech accelerators you will find.

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CEO Roundtable: Ideas for a successful 2023

Independent Banker

I’m excited going into 2023, because we have the capital to do more and make a difference in the communities that we serve.”. Sills: Our bank has about $100 million in new capital. We received $80 million in ECIP [Emergency Capital Investment Program] funding through the U.S. James Sills, M&F Bank.

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2020 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Credit Union Merger of the Year Minnesota-based Firefly and TruStone credit unions come to terms on a solid combination in the Twin Cities area. During a busy year we saw Jill supporting her local community, blogging with Mark Cuban, spinning up new PPP technology and innovating with things like curbside banking. THE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS.

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Sezzle Scoops Up $500k Investment from Brussels-based E-Merge

Fintech Labs Insights

Courtesy of Brussels-based fintech fund, E-Merge, Sezzle is $500,000 closer to its fundraising goal of $1.5 Sezzle is a startup based in Minnesota whose initial solution, Sezzle Pay , leverages the ACH rails to provide faster, lower cost payments. “We’ve already put some of this capital to use,” he wrote.

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Fintech Fundings: 29 Companies Raise $1.2 Billion Week Ending April 8

Fintech Labs Insights

For the 14th week in a row, fintech deals worldwide surpassed the 20-mark. Three Finovate alums raised capital and one of the first FinovateSpring presenters, TradeKing , was acquired by Ally Financial for $275 million. Here are the fintech deals by size from 2 April to 8 April 2016: Home Link (Lianjia). Scalable Capital.

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Bright Paths Students Demonstrate New Skills with Incredible Variety of Apps

Perficient

Technology Stack: Python, Flask, HTML, CSS, SQLAlchemy, Jinja2, PostgreSQL | APIs Used: Cloudinary Media Optimizer. Technology Stack: Flask, SQLAlchemy, Bootstrap, ForeignKeys, Jinja | APIs Used: Used data from “California regulations of possibly harmful products”, which was a CSV file. Bright Paths Project: Plenti.

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