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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Rob Palacios, EVP and Director of TCB Labs at Texas Capital Bank, sat down with Yousef Hashimi from IBM at Money2020 to discuss the banks’ work around AI and their use of the IBM Garage. There was a lot of buzz at the event on fighting fraud faster as criminals have become more adept at fraud schemes in record time.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

It was a busy time for B2B venture capital this week, and while funding ranged across verticals from expense management to SaaS, there was a clear theme in investment rounds: high-tech data analytics. Intel Capital, California Technology Ventures, Tesi, SmartFin Capital and Open Ocean also participated in the round.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

million for its anti-fraud solutions designed for retailers. With artificial intelligence (AI), Fraugster has developed a software solution that prevents fraud for online retailers, analyzing data from multiple sources and cross-checking information to determine whether a transaction is fraudulent or not. SESAMi/Capital Match.

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MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Commerce Ventures, Flint Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, Synchrony and Sorenson Capital also participated, according to reports.

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JUNE 28, 2019

Corporate travel and expense (T&E) management solutions provider TripActions led this week’s B2B venture capital roundup with its announcement of new funding that propelled its valuation to $4 billion. Lulalend lends directly to SMBs that can apply online, with an automated approval process accelerating access to capital.

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OCTOBER 31, 2019

29) in San Francisco alleging that the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group targeted some 1,400 WhatsApp users with Pegasus. Last year, regulators in India told the company it suspected the messaging platform was being used to spread misinformation. The breach comes on the heels of a lawsuit filed by WhatsApp on Tuesday (Oct.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Gabi , a San Francisco-based digital broker for home and car insurance, raised a $27M Series B led by Mubadala Capital. Capital, AngelList, Burst Capital, Canvas Ventures, CMFG Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Project A Ventures, and Securian Financial Group also participated in the round. .

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JANUARY 25, 2019

Despite raising over $125 million in venture funding from the likes of Greycroft, ACME Ventures (formerly known as Sherpa Capital), Menlo Ventures, e.Ventures, Cota Capital, M13 and others, it seem Munchery couldn’t quite serve up the business needed to stay a going concern. Crypto daily fraud: As much as $2.5

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JUNE 20, 2016

San Francisco-based Plaid was founded in 2012 with the vision of making the world a better place for FinTech firms by providing easy infrastructure to connect FinTech innovators with their clients’ bank accounts. Goldman is leading the round, and our major existing investors, including NEA and Spark Capital, also participated.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

The SEC found LCA, LendingClub and Laplanche guilty of fraud for improperly using LCA assets to benefit LendingClub Corporation, LCA’s parent company for which Laplanche was both founder and CEO. million Series C financing round led by Foundation Capital and joined by Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and Canaan Partners.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Fraud prevention tools. Additionally, the company must underwrite risk, and is on the hook in the event of fraud or returned items.

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DECEMBER 14, 2017

Meanwhile, in America, Amazon has reportedly slashed the number of open positions at its Seattle headquarters and is even talking about a hiring freeze leading up to major capital expenditures on its forthcoming second headquarters in a city TBD. The urban-style campus will introduce 3.6

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MAY 5, 2017

The Series C round, which brings the company’s total capital to $87 million, was led by Bain Capital Ventures with contributions from Menlo Ventures, American Express, and other existing investors. The company will use the funds to expand its team of engineers and fraud experts. Europe, and Asia.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Anyone who follows the industry knows this focused institution led by Findlay is all about executing the timeless principles of capital management, credit quality, efficiency and customer service. They should have been investing in fintech growth businesses and they had the capital to do it.” Grab some popcorn and watch.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

On October 6 & 7 in San Francisco, 60 companies will present their latest developer tools, tips, and integrations. As a customer data validation service, the solution becomes more competitive and prevents fraud. Thinking Capital. Personal Capital. Today starts our FinDEVr Preview blog series. BlockCypher.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

Square was a newbie, largely written off as a wrought-with-fraud business model that would never survive and scale. Uber was a San Francisco-based on-demand black car service. Ten years ago, the world of payments and commerce was in a very different place. Braintree still belonged to Braintree and was run by its CEO.

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JUNE 22, 2015

E-commerce anti-fraud platform, Signifyd has raised $7 million in Series A financing from a squad of all-star investors including Allegis Capital, IA Ventures, Lucas Venture Group, QED Investors, and Tekton Venture, Finovate confirmed today. The investment takes Signifyd’s total capital to more than $11 million.

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MAY 23, 2019

Below, we take a look at some of these frauds and the lessons they can teach entrepreneurs hoping to launch their own products, companies, and funds. Mozido’s fintech fraud fiasco. Virgin Hyperloop One’s utopian vision derailed by fraud. Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme.

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JUNE 17, 2015

Be sure to register now for the only event exclusively for fintech developers, FinDEVr 2015, Oct 6-7 in San Francisco. . Thinking Capital announces new name, visual identity and tagline. UPS Capital Partners integrates with Kabbage to offer more SMBs access to a loan through UPS. Expensify announces V2 Xero integration.

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JUNE 16, 2016

Finovate alums accounted for 40% of the week’s dollar volume including: Personal Capital raised $75 million for its digital wealth management service. HQ: San Francisco, California. Personal Capital. HQ: San Francisco, California. HQ: San Francisco, California. Source: Crunchbase.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Along with participation from Allegis Capital, IA Ventures, QED Investors, and individual investors, Bill McKlernan and Tim Eades, anti-fraud specialist Signifyd has raised $20 million in a Series B round led by Menlo Ventures. ” The funding takes Signifyd’s total capital to $31 million.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

E-commerce anti-fraud innovator Signifyd has locked in an investment of $19 million from American Express Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and TriplePoint Capital. Earlier this year, Signifyd unveiled a fraud protection app for Magento Marketplace, and was featured in a column from TechCrunch called “The rise of APIs” in March.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The fintech sector attracted $266 million in new capital the second week of August. million went to Finovate alum Pindrop to further its phone-based fraud solutions. $5 HQ: San Francisco, California. Phone-based fraud solutions. Bigstone Capital. HQ: San Francisco, California. Cybersecurity.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Goodcover , a San Francisco-based insurtech, raised a $2M seed round led by Fuel Capital. The company focuses on using AI and IoT to drive better decisions in insurance underwriting, claims processing, and fraud detection. . Artivatic , a Bengaluru, India-based startup, raised an incubator/accelerator round. PARTNERSHIPS.

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JUNE 27, 2016

Speaking about the financing, Klarna’s Erik Engellau-Nilsson said that the funding was the company’s “first small step to a wider presence in debt capital markets.” The second goal was to “test the debt capital markets, and see what the appetite was like,” Engellau-Nilsson said. name and address).

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The remaining $10 million came as unannounced follow-on financing from early investors, including BDC Capital and Blumberg Capital. The most recent funding will be used to capitalize on growth, including scaling up operations in new markets, said Trulioo, and to grow headcount to 200 people from the present roster of 130 individuals.

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MARCH 1, 2016

Although we saw one high-flying fintech unicorn crash to earth this week , the fintech sector continued to attract significant capital with 21 companies raising $214.8 FlexScore was bought by United Capital . Fraud protection for e-commerce. HQ: San Jose, California. Improving capital efficiency for derivatives trading.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

HQ: San Francisco, California. HQ: San Francisco, California. Credit card & mobile payments fraud protection. Tags: Consumers, mobile payments, credit/debit cards, security, fraud protection. Source: FT Partners. Bitcoin exhange & wallet. Latest round: $10.5 Total raised: $117.2 Latest round: $5.1

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

Simultaneously the bank invested in Paladin Fraud, Trabian Technology, and Chartwell Compliance to provide compliance and risk management solutions in the complex and connected web of fintech partnerships. Goes to Zelle from this San Francisco Giants game street vendor. Distant Third Place with Street Vendors Award. Enough said?

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MARCH 28, 2016

Connects marketplace lenders to institutional capital. HQ: San Francisco, California. HQ: San Francisco, California. Tags: Investors, big data, business intelligence, investing, capital markets. Blockchain forensics tools. Latest round: $5 million. Total raised: $7 million. HQ: London, England, UK.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

MX CTO Brandon Dewitt presented “How You Build Something Is More Important Than What You’re Building,” at FinDEVr San Francisco 2015. MX has raised $50 million in funding and includes USAA, TTV Capital, and North Peak Ventures among its investors.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

Both have access to significant financial capital to scale far beyond what’s available to even well-funded startup challengers. In April of this year, Revolut raised a $250M Series C from DST Global, Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital, and Rocket Internet at a $1.7B savings accounts. Millennials. Expense Management.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Ripple will use the funding, which takes the company’s total capital to more than $93 million , to grow its customer base and its team, as well as help secure strategic partnerships. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Ripple demonstrated its technology as OpenCoin at FinovateSpring 2013.

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JUNE 6, 2016

Capital Float. Working capital financing. HQ: San Francisco, California. HQ: San Francisco, California. Tags: SMB, accounting, bookkeeping, expense reporting, compliance, fraud protection. Total raised: $35 million. HQ: Daytona Beach, Florida. Source: Crunchbase. Latest round: $25 million Series B.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

.” According to today’s WSJ story , the money appears to be earmarked for share repurchases, meaning it’s just a transfer of $820 million to the existing common stock holders, rather than new capital sitting on the balance sheet. HQ: San Francisco, California. But we’ll see if they do follow that path.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

Today, JPMorgan (JPM) is using its capital and scale to build an entirely digital bank. In July, JPM led a funding round to Volley Labs, a San Francisco-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to help large enterprises generate training content for employees. First Name. What is Chase Sapphire?

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OCTOBER 16, 2016

Though usage remains low, Mastercard reported this week that it has seen an overall decrease in fraud since the EMV change. The company reports that between April 2015 and April 2016, retailers who have transitioned to EMV experienced a 54% decrease in counterfeit fraud. Capital One integration with Amazon Echo. Ready, set, ACH.

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