PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Spend controls were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to feature and program launches. This week’s commercial card innovation tracker includes a rollout of the next generation of authorization controls from Comdata Inc., as well as the launch of the Flex by Finaxar initiative from Finaxar.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

million in fresh funding, capital that will go toward “a B2B offering (that allows) individual travel agents at large online travel management companies and tour operators to offer a ‘seamless travel experience’ to their end customers, making the booking experience simpler, faster and cheaper.”. based startup called Duffel.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Adeeb Ahamed, managing director of LuLu Financial Group , which is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, said the collaboration with MoneyGram “will revolutionize” how remittances are handled in the Asia-Pacific region, “changing the way people approach digital transactions.”. ” Launched in 2009, Lulu Money has five million users processing 1.1

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

Hong Kong’s travel and leisure booking platform Klook has closed a $200 million Series E funding round led by Aspex Management , with participation by Sequoia Capital China , SoftBank Vision Fund, Matrix Partners China and Boyu Capital , according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Innovation Challenges. Payments innovation, for starters, is an alien concept for many travel service providers, especially in the U.S. and Europe, which are often left to take lessons from payment advances in the Asia-Pacific region. Innovation Willingness. Where is that spark for innovation coming from?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2017

Careem, a transportation startup that is in 80 cities across the Middle East, has reportedly raised $150 million, closing a Series E venture capital funding round with $500 million raised. Daimler, the German car maker, DCM Ventures and Coatue Management also participated in the round of venture capital investing.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank (AGTB) was awarded the first digital banking license and Category 1 status from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), Islamic Business & Finance reported on Wednesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2017

More than $30 million in venture capital stuck around the U.K., Preparations for corporate banking disruption and PSD2 are stirring the innovation pot, it seems. million in Series A investment funding led by Propel Venture Partners; Freestyle Capital, Compound, Upside Partnership and Transmedia Capital also participated.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Belgium’s capital city is becoming known for more than just housing major international institutions like EU Parliament, EU Commission and NATO. The region is also home to an active and fast-growing startup scene. The city was ranked as a strong innovator by the latest edition of the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS 2016).

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ayoub Jemail has been assigned the role of general manager of business development for the region, the company stated in the announcement on its website. FinTech across the Middle East is also set to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 30 percent, and expected to raise over $2 billion in venture capital funding by 2020.".

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Tala, the consumer lending app in emerging markets, announced Monday (Oct. In a press release , Tala said the undisclosed investment from PayPal will help the company bring visibility and access to underserved regions in emerging markets across the world. 22) a strategic investment from PayPal.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Latin America -based Loft , a digital real estate startup that aims to make buying and selling real estate in the region easier, has raised $175 million in a series C funding round, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

The hot topics in B2B venture capital these days are often cutting-edge technologies like blockchain and data analytics. Indeed, these spaces secured significant funding in this week’s B2B venture capital roundup. But a lesser-discussed market grabbed the largest investment of the week: logistics. Blockchain. Data Nerds.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

So why do FIs opt for the sideline in participating more fully in innovation? I recently wrote on these pages that FIs should develop Shark Tank like processes to get early stage equity capital into the hands of nearby entrepreneurs to fuel growth in local markets. But innovation need not start in northern California.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Singapore’s FinTech firm ADVANCE.AI , Hong Kong’s financial services company Sheng Ye Capital and Singapore’s firm Phillip Capital are the most recent in a series of contenders for critical business permits in Singapore. billion in capital on hand, and be governed by Singapore leadership.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

Automakers that want in on ridesharing, self-driving cars or innovative car financing options aren’t always developing their own technologies or starting their own ventures. As such, automakers are hitting the venture capital highway in droves. What’s next for automaker-backed venture capital firms? Ridesharing. What’s New.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

Because many banks are now producing below their cost of capital, growth further exacerbates their issues and drives them out of business (likely through a sale) faster. Without the windfall of profit accrued to banks in 2022 because of faster-than-expected rate increases, banks will need to be better allocators of capital.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Billionaire Jack Ma’s Ant Financial is planning to raise about $1 billion for a fund that will invest in startups from Southeast Asia to India and help strengthen its foothold in fast-growing mobile internet markets, a person familiar with the matter said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

percent of domestic and cross-border payments in December 2017, SWIFT found, with the company’s Head of Payments Markets, Asia-Pacific, Michael Moon noting, “Experts suggest that capital controls and uncertainties over future regulations mean that a significant reversal of the decline in RMB usage for trade and payments is unlikely in 2018.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

With the investment, MatchMove, which is also based in Singapore, will be able to extend its “banking-as-a-service” wallet capability to Shopmatic’s ecosystem spanning over 435,000 eCommerce small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and individual entrepreneurs across the region.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to lending — to say nothing of the wider world of payments — innovation and disruption have been on the rise in recent years thanks to digital and mobile technology, along with online marketplace models. So-called peer-to-peer (P2P) lending has certainly faced challenges in certain markets. Despite lending £6.7

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

Open banking is often associated with the European Union (EU) almost by default as the region pushes the envelope further on regulation than anywhere, partly to encourage — but also to keep up with — imaginative FinTech innovators going to market throughout the Eurozone. FinTechs Flourishing. Similarities To The EU. “The

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America Regional Regulation Fintech 168

PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

To drive home the marketing message, the burger was priced at $4.20. The promotion took place in Denver, capital of a state where marijuana is legal for recreational purposes. QSR Innovation. In regions like the Midwest, Southwest and West, meanwhile, growth lags behind the country’s mean. Denver CBD Burger.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

With social distancing and an economic downturn the new reality for many markets around the world, venture capital is expected to slow significantly. bank technology firm securing $100 million to expand in the region. This week, Southeast Asia is in the spotlight, with one U.S. KarbonCard. Cross River Bank.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The partnership will enable Bithumb to further expand in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. The company noted that it still needs to gain approval from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of the Abu Dhabi Global Market, which issued regulations for crypto exchanges last summer.

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Accenture

APRIL 21, 2017

European banks are in the midst of a ‘perfect storm’ of negative interest rates, regulatory pressures and market disruption, and are in search of new sources of value. At the same time, virtual accounts can be used in new ways to power innovation and new business model propositions (e.g.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2018

To make sure they can compete with the United States and China, France and Germany want an EU-wide initiative that will fund innovation and research in tech startup projects across the region. With that in mind, France and Germany have called for the European Innovation Council to fund “ambitious” tech startups. “A

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2018

Ride-hailing firm Grab , based in Singapore — which entered a deal to acquire Uber ’s southeast Asia business in the first quarter — is reaching even farther into the region. Tan continued, “Let’s talk about the wider region. People can say they want to be regional, they want to go out. Operating one country is one thing.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Trying to manage this fast-paced environment with annual plans, static operating budgets and gatekeeping project management offices is proving too slow and clunky for an industry that has innovators delivering new apps at 10x the pace of traditional banks. Once they run buzzwords and innovations through management’s “B.S.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

More than $874 million in fresh funding landed at B2B startups this week across a range of market segments and geographies. An Egyptian firm landed the MENA region’s largest-ever seed round, a California company proved U.S.-based based Steadview Capital, adding to the previous Series A round announced in April.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Nuvemshop , a Latin American alternative to Shopify, has raised $30 million in a venture capital round as it tries to boost business, according to reports. The four intended to start a new marketplace software product for the Latin America region.

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America Regional Lending Online 215

Bank Innovation

JUNE 6, 2016

Whether it is equity or debt platforms, the trend is very much alive with regional variations and adapting regulations.

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Fintech Regional Capital Regulation 150

PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

Some of the company’s achievements last year included raising $100 million in new funding, expanding its presence in Asia-Pacific and EMEA and making significant gains in both regions. Our team, both our employees and our investors, have put us in a great position to capitalize on a massive opportunity.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

This week’s B2B Venture Capital roundup is all about data. However, the biggest funding round of the week went to a company that is not yet in the B2B FinTech space, though it has plans to use the capital to launch a cross-border, small business (SMB) money-transfer service. Catch up on the latest investment rounds below.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The small business loan market is oversaturated, she argued, creating a “FinTech credit bubble” that first showed signs of deflating as investors pulled out of some players like CAN Capital and LendingClub in 2016. The market is ripe for consolidation and beneficial partnerships,” Grealish wrote. On Thursday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

According to Kris Puskar , senior vice president and business banking sales and innovation director at Eastern Bank , the current climate has forced both small businesses and their banks to shift their mindsets away from historical data and take a closer look at what's happening today in order to best prepare for tomorrow.

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