CB Insights

JULY 26, 2022

Venture capital investors scaled back crypto investments in Q2’22 due to macroeconomic pressures and concerns about crypto valuations and stablecoins. Below, take a look at a few highlights from our 192-page, data-driven State of Blockchain Q2’22 Report. Download The State of Blockchain 2022 Report. First name. Company name.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

. “Latin America is a highly attractive growth market for us, and the acquisition of Omni will significantly expand our capabilities in this important region,” the firm’s Founder and CEO Lex Greensill said in a statement. FTV Capital recently announced that it has closed its sixth fund, and totaling $1.2

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

A new partnership recently announced between Capital One and Spotify aims to discount subscriptions as a means to draw more users into signing up for the music streaming service’s premium option. With great partners like Capital One, we can create unique ways to give the millions of Capital One customers in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

As PayPal reaches saturation points in Western markets, it wants to continue to expand internationally, especially in India, where the country’s 450 million mobile users make it an attractive target for retailers. We look at regions and then there are countries of importance?…?India India is a big market.

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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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Abrigo

DECEMBER 18, 2023

WATCH Takeaway 1 Banks and credit unions are critical sources of capital for businesses in their communities, so how institutions assess CRE credits matters. Takeaway 2 Advisors recommend that financial institutions look behind some of the headlines and examine their own markets before ruling out CRE altogether.

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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

JUNE 23, 2017

More than $30 million in venture capital stuck around the U.K., million in Series A investment funding led by Propel Venture Partners; Freestyle Capital, Compound, Upside Partnership and Transmedia Capital also participated. TrueLayer remains in beta phase but will open its solution to more testers later this year, reports said.

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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. Data Nerds. Cybersecurity.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Treating all credit facilities equally by setting minimum credit spreads regardless of size, term, cross-sell opportunities, lifetime value, and credit quality leads to misallocation of capital and substandard return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE). Many banks target profitable commercial clients. Cost-plus pricing.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Reports in the Nikkei Asian Review on Monday (Feb. The companies are targeting SMBs that focus on tea, sake, digital devices and other products, helping businesses that want to capitalize their “Made in Japan” position, and sell to the U.S. Reports said the U.S. Reports said the U.S. via Amazon. via Amazon.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

STC Pay, a digital wallet that is part of the Saudi Telecom Company, has teamed up with payments company Moven Enterprise to launch a new challenger bank in the country, according to reports. He used to work for new markets for Google in North Africa and the Middle East.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Global funding to blockchain and crypto startups fell by 35% quarter-over-quarter in Q3’22, as venture capital investors remained cautious amid the continued crypto winter, rising inflation, and the Fed’s interest rate hikes. . Below, take a look at a few highlights from our 141-page, data-driven State of Blockchain Q3’22 Report.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 9, 2023

In the wake of regional bank failures, one potential answer to equity shorting and bank runs is having the FDIC increase deposit insurance. private and public lending markets are the world’s envy, with a wide availability of financing options for many capital seekers across the entire capital stack. economy needs.

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American Banker

JULY 13, 2023

are expected to sell between $28 billion and $32 billion of new bonds after they report quarterly earnings, and regional banks — seeking to raise more capital — could be right behind them. The six biggest banks in the U.S.

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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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Digital Banking Marketing Innovation Regional 109

PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

Randall will report to Global Head of TTS Naveed Sultan and will be a member of the Global Executive Committee. He will be responsible for managing more than 50 percent of Citi’s deposits across all regions and geographies, covering one of the most extensive, multi-currency, market leading liquidity product capabilities.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This will address the opportunity created as the “account-to-account payments market continues to quickly expand,” a press release said on Tuesday (Sept. A new report put together by ACI and Global Data concluded that “across the world, real-time or ‘immediate payments’ (are) set to accelerate rapidly.”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Three regional players in the organic food retail business — where Whole Foods and parent Amazon rule — have declared bankruptcy over the past month. food retailer to have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy so far this year — and, like predecessors Fairway and Lucky’s Market, it did so after trying to find a buyer. million by Earth Fare.

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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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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Social, political, and environmental pressures have made the LatAm market highly volatile. This has caused some investors to pull back in the region and challenged startups to raise funding from new investors, as illustrated further below by the number of unique investors and startups in the LatAm fintech market. First name.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Yet another business consortium vies for a lucrative, wholesale digital banking license, according to reports. The license bid is “an opportunity for us to impact an underserved segment,” said Mi Li, ADVANCE.AI’s chief marketing officer. billion in capital on hand, and be governed by Singapore leadership.

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Digital Banking Capital Leadership Fintech 131

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

mainland Europe and its investment bank, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Tuesday (Feb. At the same time, HSBC is moving to grow profits by investing in Asia and the Middle East, both rapidly-growing regions. Hong Kong and mainland China, all considered to be its primary market regions. Quinn said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Apple has been ordered to face a lawsuit from shareholders over CEO Tim Cook's reported concealment of falling iPhone demand in China, Reuters reports, which caused investors to lose billions. pension fund, can sue over Cook's 2018 comment that while the iPhone was facing sales pressure in some markets, China was not among them.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

As such, automakers are hitting the venture capital highway in droves. In the rideshare arena, InMotion , Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital arm, invested $25 million in a $600 million funding round for Lyft in 2017. Beyond rideshares, InMotion Ventures also entered the self-driving taxi market with a $3 million infusion in U.S.-based

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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. Reports in American Banker said CB Insights data has revealed a 45 percent decline in year-over-year FinTech funding in the year’s first quarter, and a 25 percent drop from Q4 2019.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 5, 2024

When we analyze the same size/ROA relationship using banks’ efficiency ratios, it is not surprising that community banks (under $10B in asset size) have, on average, a 5% higher efficiency ratio than regional banks ($10B to $50B in asset size) as shown in the graph below. Larger loans have lower credit risk, all else equal.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 5, 2024

When we analyze the same size/ROA relationship using banks’ efficiency ratios, it is not surprising that community banks (under $10B in asset size) have, on average, a 5% higher efficiency ratio than regional banks ($10B to $50B in asset size) as shown in the graph below. Larger loans have lower credit risk, all else equal.

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Community Bank Community National Lending 195

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

India’s social media platform ShareChat, which serves 60 million monthly users, has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round, as reported on Thursday (Aug. Although ShareChat is available in 15 regional languages, there are no plans to support English, Ankush Sachdeva, co-founder and CEO of the firm, told the reporting news outlet.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

So-called peer-to-peer (P2P) lending has certainly faced challenges in certain markets. Since launching its SME and P2P lending services — the latter involves investors found online who take part in the financing programs in hopes of healthy returns — the situation in the region has been, as Moore put it, challenging.

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Fintech Lending Regional Regulation 144

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Saudi Arabia’s STV , one of the country’s largest venture capital firms, has enlisted the help of a Google employee, Ivan Jakovljevic, with the hope of boosting their startups into unicorns. He was previously in charge of new markets for Google in the Middle East and North Africa. according to Tarabzouni last fall.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

retains the spotlight when it comes to the fight against late supplier payments, but the market isn’t the only one in which vendors struggle to get paid on time. “It is interesting that in a healthy, growing economy, bad debt continues to plague the B2B markets,” said David Huey, president and regional director of U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

Six major banks in the Nordic region will form a customer checking center to help combat money laundering and improve the reputation of the area’s financial institutions, according to a report by Reuters. . Lenders in the region stayed and weathered the storm, and then were rewarded when the economy bounced back.

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Regional Capital Marketing System 147

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The California company was created in 2014 with the merger of Odesk and Elance, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reported. The outlet reported that the company had a $30 million funding round following its 2014 merger, which valued the company at approximately $700 million. Rowe Price are among the company’s biggest stakeholders.

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Regional Capital California Report 101

South State Correspondent

APRIL 10, 2023

Fair value accounting measures assets and liabilities at current market value instead of historical or amortized value. Nonetheless, with the recent collapse of sizeable regional banks, regulators, investors, analysts, accountants, and bankers are now scrutinizing the fair value of banks’ securities and loan portfolios.

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Community Bank Community Security Capital 195

PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2018

A new report by the Bipartisan Policy Center recommended several reforms that would help the U.S. Small businesses are essential job generators, and the major driver of economic growth and vibrancy for all regions of the country.”. The center’s Task Force on Main Street Finance — co-chaired by former Senator Olympia Snowe, former U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The latest edition of the PYMNTS.com B2B API Tracker™ , a FI.SPAN collaboration, examines how APIs are helping both banks and smaller businesses address their fears and embark on new ventures in new markets. The fear of non-payment, in particular, tends to be the smaller merchants’ worst nightmare.

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