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SMB Alt-Lending Gears Up For Another Industry Shakeup

PYMNTS

It also opened the door for a boom of FinTech innovation and a flood of alternative lenders targeting the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) segment. “It comes in waves, there’s no doubt about it,” he said about the alt-lending boom. ” A Banking Pullback? The More Things Change.

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Temenos to Acquire Kony: So What?

Gonzobanker

Still to be sorted out are overlaps between Infinity and Kony’s UI/UX assets. For Kony clients, the Temenos deal eliminates the distraction that could have been associated with an IPO and provides a strong, well-capitalized parent. This group is known to be pretty adaptive and innovative, so prepare to test the agile skills.

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SoFi Unveils Digital Wealth Management Platform, SoFi Wealth

Fintech Labs Insights

Less than a month after announcing its new $105 million SoFi Prime Income Fund to help raise funds to issue loans, online lending innovator SoFi is making headlines again with the launch of SoFi Wealth. The presentation focused on how Quovo developed a bank authentication API for SoFi that both improved security and streamlined UX.

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Disrupting Insurance: The Other Financial Services Opportunity

Tefkin

In the last years, most of the focus on innovation in financial services has been, it seems, on banking (investing and lending) and payment. In the past 20 years, arguably the investment side of the insurance business has seen the most innovation. A classic case of Innovator’s dilemma. billions. A new carrier?

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion. Yet the Gonzo team has to give a shout out to the late entry of Texas Capital and Independent Bank. It is an innovator with tech (e.g., The Tech Award – Goes to Capital One.

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. SoFI gets a commercial bank that brings deposits, compliance, AND business lending. Let’s see how this new scale allows for big investments in future innovation. Well, except for the ones who didn’t.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

A host of startups have emerged to capitalize on this trend. For three of the tools we looked at — Mint, Level Money, and Check — we studied how their product evolved all the way up to their acquisition (by Intuit, Capital One, and Intuit, respectively). In aggregate, they command $1.3 trillion in annual spending.

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