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JUNE 13, 2018

Holdaway, who has an MBA from Harvard Business School, joins Barclays after 15 years at Capital One , where he held a variety of senior leadership roles in new business initiatives, internet acquisitions and partnership finance. Shane is a talented and innovative professional who is positioned well to lead cards and payments U.S.

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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. According to Reuters , Europe has lagged behind the United States in developing new technologies. billion euros ($1.75

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MARCH 7, 2018

But the fintech market has rebounded. In 2017, in the United States, overall VC funding -- a barometer of startup activity and appeal.Read More. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck.

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JUNE 27, 2017

INV Fintech, this site’s sister accelerator, announced a partnership today with Shanghai-based JadeValue, an incubator and investment fund, to enhance financial technology startups in both the United States and China. INV, […].

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Zamna announced that it has raised a $5 million seed funding round led by LocalGlobe and Oxford Capital. In other news, an executive of the Panamanian payment processing firm Crypto Capital has been arrested in Poland for allegedly laundering drug money for an international crime group.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Trov, an innovative insurance startup from Australia, will launch in the United States before the end of 2017, the company said yesterday. launch is being made possible by a deal announced yesterday with Munich Re, the German reinsurance provider. Trov (pronounced Trove — officially, there is macron on top Read More.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. But a standstill in the credit markets created a vacuum for a bit, at least along traditional lending conduits. Necessity is the mother of invention. Behind the Numbers .

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JUNE 7, 2019

A growing number of new players in any industry is a sign of an expanding market and opportunities for innovators. Increasing access to capital, consumer awareness, and acceptance to new ways of managing finances and other ecosystem drivers have been attractive for entrepreneurs in 2018 as well. FinTech is not an exception here.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

“The SMB segment is a priority for Visa, and we continue to be an advocate for the 30 million SMBs in the United States,” said Visa Global Head of Small and Medium Enterprises David Simon in a statement.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2019

The completion of the deal comes as talk abounds that the company wants to raise $250 million in fresh capital. “As a crowdfunding pioneer in the United States, SeedInvest helped to shape the JOBS Act. News of the deal comes after news broke over the weekend that Circle was seeking more capital.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

In the wake of the Capital One data breach that exposed data tied to 100 million individuals in the United States comes a warning that there really are not any places to hide. Does the Capital One breach portend risks for banks on the Continent? No rest for banks amid the hackers.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

High interest rates have forced many banks to pay more to retain deposits (often via brokered deposits), while many institutions have seen deposits flee to higher-yielding money market funds. In the first half of 2023, nearly half of the “checking accounts” opened in the United States were opened by digital banks and fintechs.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Last year, Lendbuzz’s loan origination grew 320 percent, and the company increased its dealership network across the United States to include key markets, including California and Florida. Lendbuzz’s technology allows the company to tap into this market. “This is a significant step forward for Lendbuzz.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

To that end, news came earlier this week in the United States that a dozen community and regional banks have formed a group aimed at exploring the opportunities amid FinTech offerings. Here In The States. In the United States, sandboxes are grabbing a bit of headline space.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

But on the second day of Innovation Project 2017, eyes were beyond Beantown and cast toward the world at large. The money flow — between, say, the United States and Mexico, or as remittances evolve in newly (almost) cashless India — may be embracing technology, but interactions between banks, wires and processors are still required.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

More than 40 percent of United States businesses received at least some of their invoices in 2019 via a form of communication that many younger generations may have trouble identifying, let alone using: fax. Deep Dive: Tapping The Trillion-Dollar Market Potential Of The Baas Model. Around The BaaS World. About The Playbook.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

has announced the launch of a venture banking and lending business to provide debt capital financing and commercial banking solutions to growth companies and their investors. Stifel offers senior secured loans up to $40 million for working capital and growth capital needs. Stifel Financial Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The company is active in 1,000 areas across the United States and is focused on growing domestically, but has an eye for international growth in the future. The acquisition reinforces Clutter’s market leadership and expands Clutter services by offering a better experience for customers who need self-storage or on-demand storage.”. “The

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Ikea, the largest furniture retailer worldwide, and H&M, the second-largest clothing store, have been making venture capital investments into a variety of technology companies. Lately, the firm has also been putting money into venture capital investments. Partly, we need it now as our business is transforming.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

There are 67 million adults in the United States who are part of the “underserved” market, and those individuals, who do not have bank accounts, paid as much as $141 billion in fees for various financial products last year. Activity has, in fact, moved toward other conduits, such as small business marketplace lenders.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2016

In any business endeavor, working capital is a form of oxygen. Working capital allows firms to buy parts, pay workers, ship products and wait for payment with a cushion of funding in place that can help meet unforeseen events. Recently, the firm announced a deal with Hitachi Capital America Corp.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

So it started with crypto — that's [its] native token — and it has moved to cash,” Cascarilla said, noting the current $25 billion tokenized cash market that grew fivefold last year. Hamstringing American Innovation. s ability as a country to effectively innovate. Innovation is going to keep happening. It doesn’t stop.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2016

In a world where sunshine in the news is in something of short supply, the good folks at Thrive Market can add good news for those in need of some to report to the list of things they deliver. You can’t eat it, but after the week the world’s markets have been having, reporting numbers in black ink is pretty delicious.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

But many luxury trips can run aground without effective and innovative payment solutions to help travelers meet and manage associated costs. The luxury travel market is booming: The PYMNTS Luxury Travel Study found that luxury travelers from the United States spent $1.1 trillion market.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

to offer an on-demand commercial drone delivery option with Wing,” said Vish Sankaran, chief innovation officer, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. Christiansburg was chosen as the test market because Wing already had a relationship with Virginia Tech, located in nearby Blacksburg, to test the delivery drones in the U.S.

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APRIL 28, 2016

To be American is to have the freedom to innovate, take risks, create, transform and put in the hard work that has led to the successes – and failures – that define human progress. Many innovators with great ideas and great potential do not begin with great wealth, so they need a great government partner to support their success.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2018

JPMorgan is setting up a financial inclusion lab in India through a partnership with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad’s (IIMA) Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE). According to FinTech Futures , the $9.5

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JUNE 29, 2018

If entranced by bitcoin’s ebbs and flows, one would be forgiven for being caught off guard (if they are, in fact, off guard) to find that a major bank is coming to market with a service backed by blockchain, which now is live and available — and can help make sure that funds cross borders with speed and surety. and pounds to the U.K.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

To be sure, the personal chef market is relatively small, where the United States Personal Chef Association ( USPCA ), a trade group, estimates that there are 5,000 to 6,000 personal chefs working across the U.S. – a small slice of the roughly 128,000 chefs/cooks working throughout the country.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Open banking looms in many corners of the world, mandated in some areas (think PSD2) while driven by market forces in others (here in the United States). Those risks would harm its reputation and even hamper market participants from “manag[ing] their legal obligations.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

He noted that some markets like New Zealand, where COVID-19 has been very successfully contained, are seeing gyms reopen and a resumption of ClassPass’ normal subscription-billing operations. I think we’ll see the private markets figure it out by the end of the year.”. And the gyms seem to be hanging on so far.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

Bank profits in the United States took a 69.6 There is a rush to capitalize on a digital shift powered by the pandemic, and it isn’t about providing physical a digital channel. Can Telehealth And Other Innovations Cure America’s Post-Pandemic Medical-Cost Woes? percent hit for Q1 compared to the same period in 2019.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The digital banking market continues a long burn—this time like the smoke of a Texas summer barbecue. market expansion. Third Time’s Finally the Charm for Temenos in the United States? While growing outside the United States for many years and mopping up on the international core system competition, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The FinTech space is hoping to address these challenges head-on, targeting the paper and manual-based processes of trade finance transactions though innovations like blockchain. The survey polled more than 515 banks and 1,336 companies across 103 countries, finding that FinTech innovators can, indeed, help address the $1.5

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

We will continue to look for ways to release innovative financial education tools and partner with public and private sector entities engaged in consumer financial education to maximize the reach of these tools.”. Regulations Abroad.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2016

At JPMorgan Chase’s 2016 annual meeting of shareholders , CEO Jamie Dimon took the occasion to point toward the marriage, established and ongoing, between finance and technology, which may be viewed as a tailwind for market presence on a global scale and in new greenfield opportunities as well.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

The fear that robots will replace humans in much of the world of financial services isn’t necessarily overstated or unfounded – but that doesn’t mean technology and innovation should be feared. The executive also talked about what he would do if he were the next President of the United States.

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