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MARCH 31, 2020

Tokyo, Japan’s digital banking startup Kyash has closed a $45 million Series C funding deal co-led by Greenspring Associates and Goodwater Capital, Kyash said in a statement on Sunday (March 30). Goodwater Capital also invested in Kyash’s Series B Round. growth equity investment firm Greyhound Capital; U.S.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

While businesses have more sources of capital than ever before, from bank loans to initial coin offerings to alternative online investments, experts are urging small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to take a strategic approach to their fundraising efforts — often by combining a variety of funding sources to mitigate risk. Flutterwave.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Capital One has reportedly inked a deal to acquire Paribus, a price tracking service, as the credit card company makes another acquisition in the FinTech space. While the terms of the deal were not disclosed, the report noted the acquisition includes bringing the team of Paribus and its technology under the Capital One umbrella.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

It’s been several months, if not years, since blockchain was the darling of tech startup investors, but this week proved the technology still has a lot to offer venture capitalists. The company plans to use the funding to ready its software for enterprise adoption and explore additional verticals into which it can expand. ClearMetal.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, IBM has bought Canada-based Expertus Technologies, while Gojek is rolling out its new GoBiz Plus point-of-sale (POS) offering. IBM Acquires Canadian FinTech Expertus. Plus, Bridgetown Holdings is reportedly thinking about a deal with Tokopedia.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 2, 2018

It’s no secret distributed ledger technologies (DLT) have been front-of-mind for financial institutions examining solutions to existing problems in institutional and retail banking. Blockchain has been the inspiration for solutions like […].

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JUNE 8, 2020

Retail dispute management system Chargeback announced Monday (June 8) that it has closed a $6.6 Chargeback said the money will accelerate its growth and ability to help online and offline retailers decrease credit card disputes, achieve higher win rates and retain more revenue. million Series A1 funding round.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With more than $1 billion raised — and more to come — this week became the most lucrative for B2B FinTech venture capital funding. million in new funding for its technology targeting small businesses in the U.K. The company targets informal retailers to connect sellers to vendors both locally and around the world.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 10, 2019

based growth equity firm, closed its second fintech valued at $375 million this week. The firm, which closed a $250 million fund in 2015, primarily invests in business-to-business technology companies. Centana Growth Partners, a New York and Palo Alto, Calif.-based

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Most fintech companies are fine, but they’ve stopped blowing off econ class for mimosa brunches. Especially in fintech, which had the roughest semester last spring. Fintech is still alive and well, Gonzobankers, and fintech deals are still happening. Banks Bought More Fintechs (Until Sum mer Break Started!).

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The innovation of fintech is not limited to retail banking, according to the UK Investment Association, which today said it would launch an accelerator for fintech starts focused on AI, ML, DLT technologies in the asset management sector. Investment Association is a 240-member community.

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Payments Source

JANUARY 12, 2021

Walmart's fintech venture with Ribbit Capital gives it a way to influence more technological developments in the retail industry.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Separate research indicates that 51 percent of holiday shoppers will hold their FIs, payment processors and retailers responsible if they experience fraud. The Technology Gap That Fosters Fraudsters. The unfortunate truth is that fraudsters also rely on technological prowess to launch attacks against challenger FIs.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2019

When Swedish banking firm Klarna became Europe’s most valuable financial technology startup last week, it was only the latest sign that digital finance has escaped the troubles afflicting legacy lenders. European fintech companies raised $3.3 billion in venture capital in the first […]. billion valuation.

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PYMNTS

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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Banking Exchange

JUNE 23, 2021

Traditional US financial institutions such as Capital One and TD are still favored over PayPal, Visa and Amazon to deliver digital banking solutions Retail Banking Financial Trends Duties Feature Lines of Business Technology Feature3 Fintech PPP Covid19.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

Case in point: as Minna Technologies has noted, the average European consumes has 11 subscriptions in place — and the average household has 21 subscriptions. It’s an important capacity for banks as they compete with FinTechs. But he noted, too, that retail banks have a significant amount of trust placed in them by end users.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It was a busy week for B2B venture capitalists who spread their wealth amongst a wide range of B2B FinTechs, with investments totaling more than $164 million. Core banking technology provider Modularbank , based in Estonia, has secured $4.85 Procurement Partners. the company said. Fairmarkit.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2019

based B2B startups took control of the funding reins this week, with five of the seven newly-funded technology firms based stateside. California-based ReadMe has raised $9 million in Series A funding for its technology enabling business users to customize API documentation.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 19, 2016

With the holiday season in full swing it seems fintech investors are spreading the cheer. From fare-predicting apps to e-commerce to real estate, fintech had a good week. Below are our top fintech funding rounds of the week: Hopper Montréal-based airfare predicting app Hopper just raised $62.2 million in a Read More.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Ikea and Hennes & Mauritz ( H&M ) are putting money into technology startups as a way to help them sidestep retail disruption, the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (Nov. Lately, the firm has also been putting money into venture capital investments.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

As legal cannabis spreads, the industry is a big opportunity for FinTech, as industry players struggle to manage intense compliance requirements and limited access to traditional financial services. The investors followed a Series C investment round closed by Veritas earlier this year, which was led by CDC, Pai and Lok Capital.

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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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JANUARY 30, 2020

Banks and FinTechs continue to discover new opportunities in unlocking corporate clients’ financial data, with banks embracing data integration for their own product development initiatives, and FinTechs finding new ways to collaborate with each other. Mastercard Taps FinTech for Biz Card Boost.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 29, 2019

BNY Mellon's three key financial technology executives added last month were given the directive to pursue investments and fintech partnerships in natural language processing, rule-based automation systems and robotic process automation (RPA), Bank Innovation has learned. The initiatives had previously not been disclosed.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, British FinTech GoCardless has landed $95 million in a Series F funding round, while Australian buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm Openpay has officially launched in the U.S. UK FinTech GoCardless Raises $95 Million Led By Bain. UK FinTech GoCardless Raises $95 Million Led By Bain.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

And for banks, making sure regulatory and security compliance is met on each technology undertaking only makes those costs larger. But innovation is a must for banks, who are not only competing with fintechs like neobanks, PFMs, and payment companies, but also with the likes of Amazon, Google, and even Walmart. Innovation is expensive.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

And for banks, making sure regulatory and security compliance is met on each technology undertaking only makes those costs larger. But innovation is a must for banks, who are not only competing with fintechs like neobanks, PFMs, and payment companies, but also with the likes of Amazon, Google, and even Walmart. Innovation is expensive.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 9, 2018

EXCLUSIVE - On March 6 in San Francisco, 12 impressive startups demoed their latest in fintech technology at INV Fitnech's 2nd annual demo day. INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to Bank Innovation, is partnered with Fiserv and eight banking partners with over $3 trillion dollars in assets.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Visa Unveils FinTech Partnership Program In Europe. Visa is launching a new program designed to connect European FIs and retailers with state-of-the-art digital payment services. Railsbank, the British Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) upstart, completed a $37 million funding deal co-led by Ventura Capital and MiddleGame Ventures.

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BankInovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

Tech labor costs are an “elephant in the room” for technology companies and banks. While that’s true for Capital One, the $432.4 billion bank may face “more of a headwind” with regard to the tech talent shortage, CEO Rich Fairbank said during this week’s earnings call. “I I want to savor that for a second,” Fairbanks […].

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

The GAO said it had seen — through interviews with 11 FinTech firms — loan volume grow by sevenfold, while collaborative efforts with banks continued to grow from 2013 to 2017. According to the banks that have linked with FinTech firms, such guidelines would help relationships between the parties. Sandboxes, Gathering Steam.

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Bobsguide

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Finastra named a top global provider in IDC FinTech Rankings. IDC’s prestigious annual ranking highlights the leading companies in financial technology. London, UK – September 21, 2022 – Finastra is proud to be ranked one of the top providers in the 2022 IDC FinTech Rankings. Click here for more on Finastra’s recent awards.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

PCI compliance is top of mind for many organizations, with a burden and commitment from the chief financial officer (CFO) suite that is not nominal — and quite capital intensive. FinTech firms, however, are looking to lessen that work through their offerings: Modo , in one case, has a Modal component to its /Checkout product. “We

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

CB Insights has unveiled the third annual Fintech 250 — a list of 250 of the top private fintech companies using technology to transform financial services. The 2020 Fintech 250 cohort has raised approximately $49.2B 25+ winners will be presenting at our upcoming fully virtual Future of Fintech Conference (Nov.

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JULY 31, 2018

Loosening federal regulations, enacting national data breach protections and drafting “model laws” at the state level to reduce overlapping red tape, could help promote FinTech in the United States, according to report released Tuesday (July 31) by the U.S. financial technology efforts. FinTech Growth. Treasury Department.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

B2B startups continue to steal the venture capital spotlight. Recent reports in Citing Venture Intelligence data, LiveMint said B2B FinTech has secured $657 million in India so far this year, compared to $617 million for B2C FinTechs. B2B FinTech companies are more predictable than B2C firms,” he told the publication. “A

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