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MARCH 27, 2019

The company, which was started by former Google employees and is backed by the company, wants to raise $100 million. Mobvoi was Google’s first direct China investment following the exit of its search engine from the country in 2010. Mobvoi was previously valued at $300 million in a financing round that Google led in 2015.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. They saw a greenfield waiting to be planted. The list goes on.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

It will capitalize on Contis’ regulated status to help SMBs access support from FinTechs, including new payments and lending capabilities. Those cards are linked to popular digital payment services, including Apple Pay and Google Pay. There will be three programs for U.K. ”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Published reports indicate that China’s central bank and banking, securities and foreign-exchange regulators summoned Ant Group executives this past weekend to discuss official concerns about the firm. Reuters quoted central bank Vice Gov. Will Chinese Authorities Force Ant To Restructure? . A Growing Crackdown .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

FinTech GoCardless has raised $95 million in a Series F funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Massachusetts regulators filed a complaint against Robinhood on Wednesday (Dec. 16) alleging that the stock-trading platform failed to protect its customers and their assets, violating state laws and regulations.

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Lex Sokolin

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Anyway, this is a mechanism that regulates the spending of energy and attention according to the pursuit of some sort of goal. But do consider this idea of the purpose of law, regulation, and social categories as constructions at the level of civilizations to maintain and grow civilizations. Don’t ask the police to innovate.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The day after Halloween marks the 60-day sprint to the end of the year – a year in which the pace of innovation has accelerated materially. The shifts associated with that innovation are beginning to take root, and those impacts are beginning to be felt. Google … and Ad-Supported Search .

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

2015, CEO Francisco Gonzalez said, “Some bankers and analysts think that Google, Facebook, Amazon or the like will not fully enter a highly regulated, low-margin business such as banking. BBVA has a lot more going on than Simple, cool as that acquisition was. I disagree. What is more, Read More.

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NCR

MARCH 7, 2018

Over the last few years, a range of new competitors have emerged looking to take on legacy financial institutions by offering more agile, innovative banking solutions to consumers. However, these firms have long been barred from offering full financial services in the US due to regulations mandating the separation of commerce and banking.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

This time, it’s a move from Google , but it’s unclear how far these efforts will really go, and whether they will have a major impact anytime soon on consumer perceptions of online trust — one of the biggest ongoing issues in payments and commerce. The push to offer more online privacy to increasingly concerned consumers continues.

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

But there’s another reason why the neo-challengers are so front-of-mind: They’re industry leaders in cultivating technology innovation and optimising customer service and experience. They also deliver innovative, easy-to-use apps that help users with things like managing their daily budget or travelling abroad. Regulation.

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Insights on Business

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Consumers have been conditioned by Google and Apple to see that banking services can be much more accessible and convenient from a mobile device. Banks, on the other hand, in addition to understanding complex regulations and having greater access to capital, know their customers and have their trust. Banks are also innovators.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

Banks, he noted, have to be compliant with a host of extremely stringent regulations, and often across multiple jurisdictions – all with different rules. Throw into the mix consumer protection guidelines, active anti-money laundering checks and capital requirements, and things get difficult, Oosthuizen noted.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Not just any decade, but one that has seen unprecedented levels of innovation touch nearly every industry segment and almost every corner of the world. Only then, he said, can one get clarity about how those dots can guide innovators about the future. The last 10 years in payments and commerce have given us millions of dots to connect.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2020

Not just any decade, but one that has seen unprecedented levels of innovation touch nearly every industry segment and almost every corner of the world. Only then, he said, can one get clarity about how those dots can guide innovators about the future. Tuesday marked not only the end of a year, but the end of a decade.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Technology giants like Google and Amazon , which gained their market muscle from non-finance-related ventures, are slowly stepping into the space. Google could be in the running, too, she added. “If Their next target could be small business lending, and according to some experts, it’s fast approaching the market.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

Meeker is a longtime internet and digital economy expert who now works for Bond Capital, a venture firm. While internet advertising growth is solid and innovation is healthy, there are areas where customer acquisition costs may be rising to unsustainable levels.”. This year’s 333-slide report found that some 3.8 consumer spends 6.3

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Ed Metzger, Santander’s head of technology innovation, was quoted as saying : “The worlds of technology and banking continue to evolve at pace, working hand in hand to deliver a friction-free user experience. We are excited to be the first U.K. Most internet calling services don’t allow for U.S. Still, there’s more to hash out.

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CB Insights

JUNE 11, 2018

investment fund dedicated to startups innovating in the AV space. In many ways, Apollo resembles Google’s Android Open Source Project (AOSP), Google’s open software platform for a mobile operating system (OS) that launched in 2007. Rather than launching its own smartphone, Google focused solely on software.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

Income sharing is not a common method of financing as of 2019 — though, as of late, it has begun to get much more interest from investors and innovators, particularly in the context of student loan financing. On the startup side, the best-known and best-funded player in the space is the Lambda School , founded in 2017.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Vullo said in a statement, “Today’s approval is a further step in implementing strong regulatory safeguards and effective risk-based controls, while encouraging the responsible growth of financial innovation.” Venrock led the round with Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Google Ventures and others joining.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

B2B: The trillion dollar industry that gets overshadowed in innovation by consumer gee-wizardry tech, B2B is gaining more attention by the day. Across the pond, estimates Innovate Finance and Pitchbook, the B2B FinTech market has gotten nearly half of all FinTech funding in the European Union through the past year. Just sayin’.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Blockchain. Marketplace lending. Digital banks.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

It’s a worrisome and complicated dynamic that’s putting competitive pressure on community banks, but it’s also creating opportunities through data analytics, partnerships and the ability to innovate to meet evolving customer demands. “We Now it has a small-business financing program, Square Capital. Familiar and new.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

regulators have levied $126 million in fines for data violations since mid-2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls for international cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI) governance and U.K. UK Regulators’ Data Violations Fines Top $126.5M. Regulators in the U.K. Regulators in the U.K.

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CB Insights

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. As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation.

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

You can see this thesis proven out by the massive revenues Google, IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft generate in their Financial Cloud divisions. Over 60% of Ant’s revenue comes from Fintech product lead generation, with capital risks passed on to the underlying banks and insurers, which Ant also digitizes. Will there be convergence?

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Lex Sokolin

MAY 13, 2019

It is becoming a truism that companies are going public much later in their vintage, and as a result, the capital that fuels their growth is private rather than public. The barrier to entry into the private markets is not just existing regulation?—?which Implications of Staying Private First, let’s talk about who makes money and when.

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Lex Sokolin

MAY 13, 2019

It is becoming a truism that companies are going public much later in their vintage, and as a result, the capital that fuels their growth is private rather than public. The barrier to entry into the private markets is not just existing regulation?—?which Implications of Staying Private First, let’s talk about who makes money and when.

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CB Insights

JULY 11, 2019

Technological innovation across the financial services space is growing. Latest to launch: Dave was founded in October 2016, and its first reported capital raise was a $3M seed round in April 2017, making it one of the youngest companies in this cohort to cross 1M+ customers. As a result, consumer adoption is at an all-time high.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

Even as the media storm around the sector has calmed, regulators are acting more aggressively and decisively, issuing subpoenas to bad actors and providing guidance to good ones. See how venture firms, corporates, regulators, and builders are shaping the future of blockchain technology. So far it looks like US regulators do not agree.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. Google and Nest. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Google and Motorola. Price: $7.9B.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Eos Venture Partners and IQ Capital Partners also participated in the round. private equity round led by Long Arc Capital and BPI France. Talege , a Reno, Nevada-based digital insurance platform, raised a $5M Series A led by Merus Capital. Tinubu Square , a France-based credit and surety software provider, raised a $16.3M

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 5, 2019

Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. Capital One’s estimate for $150 million on $28 billion seems off, to say the least. They point to Fintechs and Crypto, the innovative parts of our economy, and accuse it of poor practices.

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 5, 2019

Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. Capital One’s estimate for $150 million on $28 billion seems off, to say the least. They point to Fintechs and Crypto, the innovative parts of our economy, and accuse it of poor practices.

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CB Insights

JULY 16, 2017

Amid the influx of capital to both auto tech and supply chain & logistics tech , it’s no surprise that trucking tech startups — which sit at the juncture of these two trends — are drawing investor interest. Accel Partners India, Flipkart, Sands Capital. Agility, Goldman Sachs, Lumia Capital, Valor Capital Group.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Indonesia features the largest ($27B in 2018) and fastest-growing (49% CAGR 2015-2018) internet economy in Southeast Asia, according to a study by Google and Temasek. Source: Google and Temasek. This analysis focuses on where insurance innovation in the market is happening today and where it is headed next. in 2013 to 15.8%

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