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Hong Kong’s FinTech Strategy

Chris Skinner

It shows how important FinTech is when major financial centres vie for focus. London has been leading the charge to be the FinTech capital of the world, but many other cities are nipping at their toes. So I was intrigued to see Hong Kong issue their FinTech strategy today. Does this matter?

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Deep Dive: How FinTechs Harness Machine Learning To Approve SMB Loans More Quickly And Safely

PYMNTS

The following Deep Dive explores how these issues are hindering SMB financing as well as how FinTechs are exploring technologies to overcome these issues and give SMBs the help they need to thrive while the world economy faces its biggest challenge in years. FinTechs that harness ML to process loan applications were approving 57.2

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Helping FI’s Develop Their ‘FinTech Sense’

PYMNTS

They are heavily regulated and require heavy investment,” both in terms of capital and human resources. “It It takes time and it takes capital [to go deeper into digital],” he continued. “It “Traditional financial institutions are not exactly known for their agility,” he said. But that’s not the whole story, of course.

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FinTech Partnerships With FI Marked By Global Scope

PYMNTS

In addition, corporate clients will be able to apply for working capital loans and make vendor and salary payments. In reference to the partnership’s advantages, the firms said, is the elimination of manual data entry and accounting. Auto bank reconciliation will also be available to SMEs.

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Why One Startup Is Desperately Seeking Regulation

PYMNTS

As a general rule, most startups aren’t too happy when the regulator comes around, and it is rarely indicative of good news. And while that is bad news for a startup like Uber, as it turns out, instinctive fear of the regulator is not an endemic condition among startups. On some level, Circle’s move seems strange.

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How $12 Billion in Fintech SPAC capital is teaching us about the economics of target unicorns

Lex Sokolin

The average size is about $300 million, and quite a few are focusing on Fintech and financial services. Here, for comparison, is similar data on venture capital funds?—?printing despite creating the same outcome of a regulated public company. Let’s narrow down the story to Fintech, using data from Spactrack.

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How $12 Billion in Fintech SPAC capital is teaching us about the economics of target unicorns

Lex Sokolin

The average size is about $300 million, and quite a few are focusing on Fintech and financial services. Here, for comparison, is similar data on venture capital funds?—?printing despite creating the same outcome of a regulated public company. Let’s narrow down the story to Fintech, using data from Spactrack.

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