Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

You have to give people a reason to bank with you,” says Tim Reimink, managing director in the Crowe LLP performance consulting group in Chicago. Now, more than ever, community banks are competing with a broader set of competitors, which may lead some to offer additional products, services or functionality via fintech partnerships.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Banks and credit unions had to fundamentally change their delivery, support and relationship management models at scopes and speeds that were unheard of. Best Use of Card Rewards for Seat Upgrades We saw a Great Dane in the Comfort Plus section of the plane. The Experience Award Goes to BCU , Chicago. Remember that? Everything.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A few years ago, very few people would have guessed that tens of billions of dollars would be invested in fintech vendors and solutions annually – except it happened. 2021 fintech investments, merger activities, and overall focus were off the charts. Best Fintech Acquisition by a Bank. Fintech Acquiring Bank.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 3, 2023

These are the largest events in the insurance industry geared towards technologists, program managers, marketers, developers and C-Suite execs at both legacy insurers and upstart insurance tech firms. Below is our curated list of the best global insurtech events and conferences in 2023.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

It started with an announcement that a California Kroger subsidiary — Foods Co — would stop accepting Visa credit cards (but not debit cards) at 21 of its grocery stores and five of its gas stations, effective Aug. Visa is disappointed at Kroger’s decision to stop accepting Visa credit cards at its Foods Co stores.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Centered around deposit and debit/charge card services Predominantly focused on consumers Primarily digitally delivered (rules out Wells Fargo, BofA, and the majority of traditional banks*) Founded since 1999 Do you run a small business :? Consumers (Nov 2023) first appeared on Fintech Labs SMB Center. Let’s start with our definition.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 11, 2023

These are the largest events in the insurance industry geared towards technologists, program managers, marketers, developers and C-Suite execs at both legacy insurers and upstart insurance tech firms. Below is our curated list of the best global insurtech events and conferences in 2023. And prices tend to rise as the event draws closer.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 2, 2023

These are the largest events in the financial services industry geared towards banking technologists, program managers, marketers, developers and C-Suite execs at both legacy financial institutions and upstart banktech and fintech firms.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 11, 2023

These are the largest events in the financial services industry geared towards banking technologists, program managers, marketers, developers and C-Suite execs at both legacy financial institutions and upstart banktech and fintech firms.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Stripe Connect and billing services help companies manage marketplaces, subscriptions. Virtual card issuance. Business lending and corporate cards.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 18, 2023

These are the largest events in the financial services industry geared towards banking technologists, program managers, marketers, developers and C-Suite execs at both legacy financial institutions and upstart banktech and fintech firms. Below is our curated list of the best global banking tech events and conferences in 2023.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 11, 2016

There has been an average of 28 fintech deals per week this year. Fintech deals by size from 16 July to 22 July, 2016: CommonBond. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Tags: SMB, B2B2C, employers, HR, benefits, investing, retirement savings, investing, wealth management. The total amount raised this week was $532 million. million ($3.5

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In parallel, Amazon has made several fintech investments, mostly focused on international markets (India and Mexico, among others) where partners can help serve Amazon’s core strategic goal. This report is a collection of everything we know about Amazon’s foray into banking, financial services, and fintech.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 6, 2016

London beat that this week with 5, followed by 3 in NYC, and 2 each from Chicago, Florida and Germany. Fintech deals by size from May 7 to 13, 2016: Avant (AvantCredit UK). HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Online payments & cash management for small businesses. Total dollars raised YTD is now $14.7 Consumer alt-lender.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Banks and credit unions are certainly not on their way out, even as they face more pressure from challenger banks, FinTechs and Big Tech in the coming decade. They are described by Google as “smart,” since they will provide account holders with money management tips to optimize and manage the funds in those accounts.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2015

But if there’s one in the fintech sector, the dozens of investors in these 23 companies didn’t get the memo. In the last full non-holiday week of the year, $685 million poured into fintech companies worldwide. Investing & portfolio management. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. FinTech Group. NextCapital.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Large swaths of cash flowed into the global fintech sector last week. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Prepaid card platform. Prepaid card services. Wealth management system for advisors. Tags: SMB, payments, mPOS, merchants, acquiring, hardware, credit/debit cards. Source: Crunchbase. LQD Business Finance.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Chicago-based anti-fraud, transaction monitoring specialist Rippleshot has raised an additional $2.6 Rippleshot’s cloud-based technology monitors millions of credit card transactions a day and the company says it can prevent “more than half of the fraudulent spend from compromised cards.”

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 27, 2023

Here are the biggest players in the United States ranked by our FAB score ( Fintech Attention Barometer ). The post Top 18 Digital & Online Insurance Providers for Small Businesses (SMB): June 2023 first appeared on Fintech Labs SMB Center. views (unchanged), 126 subscribers Instagram : 1,300 followers TrustPilot : 4.6

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Chicago-area cybersecurity specialist Rippleshot has raised $1.2 The investment round was led by KGC Capital and featured participation from UMB Bank, Wintrust, and SixThirty, the fintech accelerator based out of St. Developers, account managers, and sales staff are among the kinds of talent the company is looking for.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Fintech circles were abuzz this week as four massive fundings pushing several companies higher up the billion-dollar valuation ladder (yep, I can avoid the U-word if I really try). student loans, the worldwide fintech total surpassed one billion ($1.254 billion to be precise) thanks to Paytm ($675 million), Avant ($325 million) and 17 others.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 12, 2016

With 38 deals reported – one shy of the weekly record – fintech companies raised $303 million worldwide the first week of June. Fintech deals by size from May 28 to 3 June, 2016: Partners Life. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Prepaid debit card for youth. Tags: Consumer, advisors, trading, wealth management, investing.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 4, 2016

Here are the fintech deals by size from 26 March to 1 April 2016: Ceridian. Real estate transaction management technology. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. The post Fintech Fundings: 21 Companies Raise $460 Million Week Ending April 1 appeared first on Finovate. Stratumn grabbed $670,000 for its blockchain services. Real Matters.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2015

There were two blockbuster deals, $170 million to German marketplace lender Auxmoney and $81 million to health insurance management platform Collective Health. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Payment management . Prepaid card platform. Online personal financial management. Healthcare payment management. MoneyForward.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 20, 2015

Fintech funding records continue to fall. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Mobile investment research & management tool. Microfinance management for the institution. Tags: Y Combinator (YC S15), investing, retirement, wealth management. Last week was the record number of deals, with 27. billion, from 25 companies.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 22, 2016

Here are the fintech deals by size from 12 March to 18 March 2016: Future Finance. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Lien rights management. Digital rights management platform on the blockchain. Tags: SMB, merchants, payments, acquiring, credit/debit cards. Alt-lender to students. Source: Crunchbase. Cumulus Funding.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Pointing to creating sales opportunities with branch traffic declines, Verba talked about the power of instant issue/replacement debit cards and 1 million gift cards issued a year. Fintech by the numbers: 5 CEOs, 10 stage lights, 2 flat panels, and 6 amps (with Hendrix-esque feedback). Two jumped out. Well done, again, Sir Bob!

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Chicago-based, cybersecurity specialist Rippleshot will join the Fall 2015 cohort of the SixThirty accelerator program. SixThirty managing partner Atul Kamra said that they had received a record number of applications for the fall cohort. The program runs from September 14 through December 11, and is based in downtown St.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This week’s look at the convergence of AR and AP finds new solutions from banks and FinTechs alike finding opportunity to strengthen the buyer-supplier relationship through tools that tackle friction on both ends of the B2B transaction. Signature Bank Streamlines Supplier Onboarding.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Signature Bank, based in Chicago, announced a new accounts payable solution for its corporate clients designed to support businesses’ demand for choice when it comes to payment rails. All of those risks add up to costs and inefficiencies in the marketplace.” ” Metro Bank Loops SMBs Into Bacs.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

But as they always do, they came through for individuals and businesses in their communities with a combination of personalized service and prudent risk management practices. So, when the community bank’s leadership learned of a fintech that needed a bank partner to launch a credit-building tech product, they were intrigued.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Despite turmoil in global equity markets, the fintech sector continued its 3-year bull market with 21 companies raising $259.1 Six weeks into the new year, fintech companies have raised $4.5 Here are the fintech deals by size from 6 Feb to 12 Feb 2016: Renew Financial. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. HQ: Chicago, Illinois.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Private capital continued to flow into the fintech sector this week with 21 companies raising $257 million. Just five weeks into the new year, fintech companies have raised $4.25 Just five weeks into the new year, fintech companies have raised $4.25 Here are the fintech deals by size from 30 Jan to 5 Feb 2016: Credibly .

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 21, 2015

HQ: Chicago, Illionois. Card-linked rewards & offers. Credit reports & debt management. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Money collection & management for groups. The post Fintech Fundings: 24 Companies Raise $440 Million Week Ending May 21 appeared first on Finovate. Total raised: $100 million.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 17, 2015

While the data wasn’t broken out by sector, I’d wager that last quarter’s $5 billion in fintech startup funding was 5x to 10x more than in 1999/2000. But at least in fintech, there are vast opportunities to improve existing processes and open new markets. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Source: Finovate. RealtyMogul.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Today, the bots are still being used across industries like fintech, healthcare, sales and CRM, retail, and even law — and they’re having important, though quiet, effects. Fintech: Contract review & bill negotiation. Personal finance: Using chatbots to help people manage their spending. Table of Contents.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 8, 2016

Here are the fintech deals by size from 27 Feb to 4 Mar 2016: iAngels. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Deposit management for landlords and their tenants. Identity management. Tags: Consumers, banking, debit cards, savings accounts. AnchorID added a $125,000 convertible note for its security software. Total raised: $16.25

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