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AUGUST 9, 2018

Grasshopper, a new bank challenger in New York, is gearing up to go after the banking industry, reported FinTech Futures. According to the report, the bank formerly went by the name New York Ventures Bank and is in the process of getting a banking license. In a press release, the U.K.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 9, 2017

Top seed investors in the New York startup community showed their muscle in the final quarter of 2016 and are likely to continue doing so in the coming year, says a new report from Primary Venture Partners. Among the winners in an otherwise difficult year for startups were fintech companies like Read More.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

London-based FinTech startup Curve has raised $95 million in Series C funding led by IDC Ventures, Fuel Venture Capital, and the investment division of Vulcan Capital, launched from the estate of Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. Curve opened last year in Brooklyn, New York, will be the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

Its new FinTech team could ultimately have more than 100 workers. Uber is taking advantage of New York’s talent pool in the financial department, which has more depth in the San Francisco sector. Many FinTech outfits use a small group of institutions like Celtic Bank or Cross River for banking products.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 2, 2019

Nyca Partners has closed on $210 million for its third investment fund, a vehicle that will let it continue to support the growth of fintech innovation, David Sica, partner at the New York- and San Francisco-based venture firm, told Bank Innovation. “I think there’s still a lot of opportunity,” Sica said.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Singapore Signs On With FinTech Firms. In Singapore, news came this week that the country will open up its real-time payment system to FinTech firms. The movement to open that FinTech access, said the minister, brings “greater convenience to consumers” as those individuals use their eWallets. While In New York, New York….

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APRIL 28, 2017

Good news emerged from the U.S. venture capital sphere this week: VC funding for FinTech startups in Q1 alone hit $1.2 billion, found a new report from KPMG. Analysts said the industry has seen its highest venture capital activity since Q1 of 2016, fueled by focus on late-stage investment rounds.

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Payments Source

APRIL 24, 2019

Silicon Valley, New York, London and several of China’s largest cities are the world’s leading fintech hubs, but many other locales are gunning for their crown.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

And one question worth posing is: What will happen to FinTech ? Specifically, what will happen to London’s standing as a FinTech hub? The city has long been known as a financial center (especially in Europe) and more recently as FinTech. That was outpaced, perhaps not surprisingly, by San Francisco, but led New York.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Growth of FinTech funding seems unstoppable, with the latest analysis from Hampleton Partners finding enterprise financial services and integration, online financial services, enterprise financial software and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) risk management as some of the hottest spots for investors this year.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As expected, third-quarter seed funding dropped sharply in the third quarter in New York’s Silicon Alley. Fintechs were hit particularly hard, but let’s set that aside a moment.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 11, 2020

OnDeck’s fire sale aside, recent deals at nCino, Black Knight and Ellie Mae are a shot in the arm to a market in need of some good news. 2020 is the wildest downward ride in the market since 1929, which, one would think, is taking its toll on the fintech ecosystem serving banks and credit unions. It’s one big sandbox.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

New York-based software startup Alkymi recently raised $5 million in a seed round to help financial institutions and other enterprise clients automate back-office workflow.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

Globe Fintech Innovations of the Philippines, the FinTech arm of Globe Telecom , landed $175 million in additional venture funding this month. Now, Globe Fintech, known as Mynt , is reportedly on the hunt for more cash — and looking to get a valuation over $1 billion. Nikkei Asia reported on Wednesday (Jan.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

A FinTech group from Kazakhstan part-owned by Baring Vostok and Goldman Sachs is structuring a London IPO that is the largest listing by a central Asian company since the global financial crisis, the Financial Times reported Monday (Sept. Payments, finance and eCommerce marketplace startup Kaspi.kz London was the choice for Kaspi.kz

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

New York City-based FinTech startup Clair has raised $4.5 We are thrilled to be one of the only sources of free capital for America’s hourly and gig workers,” Nico Simko , co-founder and CEO of Clair, said in a statement on Friday (Oct. We are excited to back a social impact-driven FinTech with a sound business model.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Talk of a decelerating FinTech venture capital market continued to mount this week with reports that digital banking startup Aspiration is struggling to raise money. Venture Capital Funding. raised $10 million from SEB Bank and Seed Capital for its commercial card technology. Cardlay, based in the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Venture capital (VC) is far from the only funding source for B2B FinTechs. Despite a growing array of options, venture capital remains a solid funding source for B2B FinTechs, with this week’s roundup accumulating $104.4 Bill.com’s initial public offer (IPO) on Thursday (Dec. million raised, Reuters reported.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Kazakh FinTech group Kaspi.kz over New York because “investors in this part of the world are closer to Kazakhstan and understand it better,” Lomtadze said at the time. Last month, Shore Capital London announced plans to quit its London listing, and more companies have left the LSE’s main market this year than have joined.

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JUNE 23, 2017

More than $30 million in venture capital stuck around the U.K., We break down all the B2B FinTech funding rounds below. We break down all the B2B FinTech funding rounds below. This week the company announced two new solutions as well as $6.5 This week the company announced two new solutions as well as $6.5

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Bank Innovation

MAY 24, 2016

Santander InnoVentures, the fintech venture arm of Santander Group, together with nine other major FIs and investors, today announced its investment in robo-adviser SigFig. SigFig netted $40 million overall from Comerica, Eaton Vance, New York Life, UBS and venture capital Read More.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 7, 2019

As fintech moves beyond digitizing legacy systems to a focus on intuitive, customer-driven experiences, the field of startups competing for market share is getting crowded. According to CB Insights, venture-backed fintech companies raised $6.3 NYCA Partners, based in New York and San […].

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

Wealthfront is not alone in the diversified financial services sector: New York-based Betterment , Acorns headquartered in Irvine, California and Personal Capital in the Redwood City, California compete with Wealthfront in the financial application software industry, according to Owler.com, which conducts research on companies in real time.

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MARCH 3, 2020

To continue supporting technology in regions all over the world from North America to Southeast Asia, Leonid Boguslavsky-founded RTP Global unveiled a new $650 million fund to keep investing in early-stage tech companies. The venture capital firm’s last fund totaled $200 million and was rolled out in 2017, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

With the pandemic nudging businesses further into the digital payments realm, commercial card innovation is heating up to capitalize on the opportunity for adoption. ” Capital On Tap Enables Receipt Bank Card. Capital on Tap wields the commercial card to connect small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to financing.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2016

It’s no surprise that venture capital rounds in B2B FinTech may be dwindling as the holidays ramp up, but that doesn’t mean the space has gone ignored. Europe and Asia provided more than $19 million across treasury management, corporate FinTech and Software-as-a-Service. Investors in the U.S., Treasury Management.

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MAY 16, 2018

PayPal is partnering with Alpha JWC , the Indonesian venture capital firm, to invest in FinTech companies operating out of Southeast Asia. The program is aiming to provide funding for several startup FinTech companies in Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand. Why have them when you can have a QR code or NCR tablet?”

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 10, 2018

New York-based fintech YieldStreet has raised $116 million in debt and equity financing to further expand the loans it offers on its platform, Bloomberg reported today.

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JUNE 25, 2020

Subsidiaries of Cannae, Black Knight and CC Capital Partners will be investing $200 million, $100 million and $100 million respectively toward private placements of Dun & Bradstreet’s common stock, depending on whether the offering ends up being at least 98.5 percent of the initial public offering price, the release says.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Affirm , a FinTech that offers customers payment plans at the point of sale, is reportedly looking to raise around $1.5 New York venture capital firm Thrive Capital is reportedly at the helm of the financing and Spark Capital is participating. FinTech investment is constantly reaching new highs.

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

As Brexit inches closer to its culmination date of March 2019, one unanswered question from the impending exit from the EU is will London still be seen as the ‘ capital of Fintech ” in Europe? The UK is currently facing its most serious challenge so far as the fintech hub of Europe. and Europe, the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

In today’s top payments news around the world, Checkout.com has brought its valuation to $15 billion after the closing of a $450 million Series C funding round, while Pakistan has debuted a government-run instant digital payment infrastructure. Plus, Delivery Hero is launching an early-stage venture capital (VC) firm.

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American Banker

JULY 24, 2020

Similar to a law passed two years ago in California, legislation headed to the New York governor’s desk would require fintech and other nonbank lenders to uniformly disclose total cost of capital, APR and other metrics to potential borrowers.

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BankInovation

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Tiger Global is looking to raise $6 billion for its next venture capital fund. The New York-based hedge fund recently invested in GrubMarket, ServiceUp, FlatLife, Zopper and Opto Investments in September, according to Crunchbase.

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OCTOBER 18, 2019

USA Technologies CEO Stephen Herbert has stepped down against the backdrop of a proxy war ignited by the company’s biggest investor, New York-based hedge fund Hudson Executive Capital, Biz Journals reported on Friday (Oct. Herbert’s exit follows a plan by Hudson Executive Capital to take over the USAT board.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The New York-based FinTech company Petal has announced a $300 million debt round from global investment bank Jefferies, adding to existing venture capital investments from Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Rosecliff Ventures and others, the company announced in a press release on Wednesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2016

The alternative lending boom of yesteryear secured impressive amounts of attention, and dollars, from venture capitalists towards the FinTech startup industry. Today, however, investors are increasingly showing a more conservative approach to the FinTech space. We break down the investments below. Alternative Lending.

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