CB Insights

JULY 25, 2019

Fintech is often associated with digital tools targeted at tech-savvy millennials. But there is a growing market of fintech companies serving the unique financial needs of Baby Boomers and older retirees — and for good reason. Baby Boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) represent a massive market opportunity.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

Will China follow the United Kingdom and the United States as the leader of payment services and FinTech? Western bankers and credit card executives who travel to China keep returning with the same anxiety: Payments can happen cheaply and easily without them.”. That’s hardly a new question. That contrasts with the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2018

Instead, the company uses credit and debit cards, bank transmission and mobile wallets like Apple Pay or Android Pay to fund transfers. Right now, 5 percent of the money transmission market is digital,” Nazzaro said. “[But] But] we’re projecting by 2021, it’ll take up the majority of the market.”. Nazzaro asked.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2016

And what better way to mark that milestone than with a monthly recap of the Top 12 news items in one major market in the payments ecosystem: mobile payments. Samsung Pay is the first mobile payment service of its kind to be launched in Spain, giving it a head start in the market over Apple Pay and Android Pay. Apple Pay — 20 Months In.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 26, 2021

It has also backed companies like Perch and GlobalBees that acquire and scale third-party brands on Amazon and other retailer marketplaces, also known as “ Amazon market jockeys.”. The fintech sector represents the second-most frequent investment target for SoftBank in 2021, with 26 fintech companies garnering deals. .

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 19, 2016

Fintech deals by size from 23 April to 29 April 2016: Mosaic. Deposit price comparison site. Health insurance comparison site. Tags: SMB, merchants, security, payments, POS, credit/debit cards, authorization. ——-. Marketplace lender for residential solor projects. Latest round: $200 million Private Equity.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Numerous applications, including card processing, online banking and bill pay, are overwhelmingly being outsourced. Cards are a perfect example. In the last 18 months, the industry has been hit with EMV, Pay Apps and Card Controls – all major undertakings for banks’ IT departments. Maintenance and Speed to Updates.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 29, 2023

Companies with a significant volume of credit/debit card payments rely heavily on payment processors to keep them afloat. SMB market for third-party solutions. In comparison, the big 3 each have more than 1 million visits each day! all prior to 2021 ( Crunchbase ) – Market cap: $48.6B (29 June 2023) – Revenues: $7.4B

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

5) announced it is launching a new online platform called Market Trends, aimed at banks and financial institutions across Europe. The platform is currently available to card issuers in Europe, with plans to roll out beyond the continent soon, according to Mastercard. Mastercard on Wednesday (Aug.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The fintech sector attracted $266 million in new capital the second week of August. Fintech deals by size from 6 Aug to 12 August 2016: Interactions. Financial services price comparison portal. Alt-credit score & risk management for financial institutions in emerging markets. Financial services comparison site.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 13, 2016

For the 14th week in a row, fintech deals worldwide surpassed the 20-mark. Ixaris landed $6 million for its prepaid card platform. Here are the fintech deals by size from 2 April to 8 April 2016: Home Link (Lianjia). Prepaid card payments platform. This week, 29 startups raised $275 million, or $1.20 Source: Crunchbase.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 5, 2017

In alternative distribution, AmFam Ventures has focused on the personal P&C and SMB spaces with investments in insurance comparison firm CoverHound , and contract-related insurance startup Bunker. In 2015, Assurant participated in a $7.7M Aviva Ventures. Number of investments: 4. new sharing economy platforms). XL Innovate.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 3, 2015

headed for the beach, investors in the rest of the world unleashed a tsunami of cash into the fintech sector. billion in new fintech investments (not including Ant). Financial services comparison site. Predictive analytics for financial markets analysis. As folks in the U.S. Online marketplace for financial services.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

For the 12th consecutive week, there were 20+ fintech fundings worldwide. The number of deals was inflated somewhat by the six new fintech companies launched at YC’s demo day that we had not previously covered. Here are the fintech deals by size from 19 March to 25 March 2016: Open Lending. Edgewater Markets.

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CB Insights

JULY 16, 2017

In alternative distribution, AmFam Ventures has focused on the personal P&C and SMB spaces with investments in insurance comparison firm CoverHound , and contract-related insurance startup Bunker. Hiscox’s latest investment, Indio , provides a workflow management platform for commercial insurance brokers.

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Lex Sokolin

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Let’s mark things to market so that we are able to walk forward again. Markets still reflect financial constructions and schemes decoupled from the experience of the average person. When the old world wobbles, the new one seems more safe by comparison. The virus gorges on the social animal. has reinforced the value of Bitcoin.

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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. Financial services comparison portal. Financial services comparison portal. AI for detecting stock market manipulation. Financial services comparison portal. Source: Crunchbase.

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Over 60% of Ant’s revenue comes from Fintech product lead generation, with capital risks passed on to the underlying banks and insurers, which Ant also digitizes. This therefore incorporates the types of enabling fintech that Refinitiv and Finastra dream about. It is less a banking enablement software (i.e.,

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The money flow into fintech continued unabated this week with more than a half-billion ($557 million) raised by 24 companies. Year-to-date fintech firms have raised $13 billion. Financial services comparison site. Secondary market for private equity. Automatic bill payment for prepaid cards. Source: FT Partners.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

Other investors included Rakuten FinTech Fund, Greycroft Partners and e.ventures. Card-on-file was the most common “other” in this category. As part of this announcement, PayPal also released new numbers for One Touch penetration — now, some 21 million people in every market that PayPal serves. “We percent of the time.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Large swaths of cash flowed into the global fintech sector last week. Prepaid card platform. Prepaid card services. Nous Global Markets. Crowdsourcing financial market predictions. Tags: Consumer, insurance, price comparison, lead gen. Total raised: $10 million. HQ: New York City. Source: FT Partners.

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Gonzobanker

JUNE 16, 2022

According to Jim Marous, CEO of The Digital Banking Report : “Consumers expect financial institutions to understand their needs and deliver personalized solutions similar to what they receive from fintech and Big Tech firms. A new crop of fintech startups—often called challenger banks—is addressing this personalization gap. solutions).

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 5, 2016

Fintech deals by size from 2 July to 8 July, 2016: Qufenqi. Multi-merchant credit/debit card loyalty progam. Credit card & mobile payments fraud protection. Credit card & mobile payments fraud protection. The post Fintech Fundings: 23 Companies Raise $530 Million Week Ending July 8 appeared first on Finovate.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Companies with a significant volume of credit/debit card payments rely heavily on payment processors to keep them afloat. SMB market for third-party solutions. In comparison, the big 3 have 33M to 45M visits per month EACH! We call it the FAB score, standing for Fintech Attention Barometer. Market cap: $82B (15 Dec 2021).

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Almost 40% of the total ($223 million) went to Chinese real estate marketplace FangDD which is not universally classified as fintech. Developer tools for mobile card acceptance . Financial services price comparison portal . Curated stock & market ideas. million), Ripple ($4 million), Praesidio ($3.1 CardFlight.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 30, 2015

Electronic gift card platform. Online auto insurance comparison site. The post Fintech Fundings: 15 Companies Raise $125 Million Week Ending May 1 appeared first on Finovate. Tags: Prepaid, gift card, non-profits, mobile. Source: Finovate. Loop Commerce. HQ: Palo Alto, California. Latest round: $16 million Series B.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Over the years, the region’s tech industry has grown, and today Indonesia is one of the world’s fastest-growing Internet markets, as well as home to two newly-minted tech unicorns: ride-hailing startup GO-JEK (which hit a $3B valuation in Q2’17) and travel booking company Traveloka Indonesia (valued at $2B in Q3’17).

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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. Loan price comparison portal. The post Fintech Fundings: 21 Companies Raise $460 Million Week Ending April 1 appeared first on Finovate. Bluefin Payments received $6 million to expand its secure payment system. Total raised: Unknown. Latest round: $9.2

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 16, 2020

In my 25 years in the fintech space, I’ve had the misfortune to experience three massive ecosystem shocks. To help gauge where fintech is now and how and when it will get back on its feet, let’s compare and contrast the three downturns and their recoveries. year run from high to low; for comparison the S&P dropped 48%).

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Prepaid card platform. Off-market real estate listings. The post Fintech Fundings: 27 Companies Raise $420 Million Week Ending October 23 appeared first on Finovate. Tags: Consumer, mobile, debit/credit cards, account aggregation, PFM. Source: FT Partners. Wave Crest Group. Latest round: $14 million. Total raised: $32.9

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2016

The latest CyberSource annual report on online fraud tells the tale of card-not-present fraud not just going down, but going down by a whole big bunch – across all channels. FinTech got a huge primetime shoutout courtesy of Lesley Stahl, “60 Minutes” and Stripe last week.

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Jessica Ellerm

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

For some reason, the first month of the Gregorian calendar has an amazing ability to motivate us to abstain from alcohol, dust off our running shoes and chop up all our credit-cards. To be fair, I probably had more subscriptions than most, given I play around with a lot of automation and SaaS marketing services. Sold some clothes.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

JANUARY 15, 2015

From Finextra: FCA to foster fintech innovation; Treasury pushes P2P, APIs and virtual currency ]. Their comparison table (in section 3.2) Banking and Finance Markets APIs' and so on) seem in the right ballpark to me — but I can’t help feeling that the “call for action” as described is a bit trivial.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

MARCH 26, 2015

Technologically speaking, the credit card as we know it should have vanished long ago. This will enable FinTech firms to make use of bank data on behalf of customers in a variety of helpful and creative ways, and ensure the UK remains at the forefront of developments in financial technology and innovation. They could sell this service.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 29, 2015

That said, I do like the comparison to a newsfeed, a more modern concept generally not associated with banks. See the choices: Customers can find which checking accounts, credit cards or mortgages best fit their lifestyle. My take : Big brands have been toying with “content marketing” off and on for 20 years.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The fintech sector attracted $332 million in new capital the first week of August. Fintech deals by size from 30 July to 5 August, 2016: Mosaic. Middle market capital matchmaker. Tags: Consumer, insurance, price comparison, discvory, lead gen. Nearly two-thirds of the money went to solar energy lender, Mosaic. StreamLoan.

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

To the extent it pipes people to banking product, that goes to a $500 million market capitalization public company that makes prepaid cards. This model gives visibility in the public markets to what Chime may try to sound like. in fact it sits on our favorite overlooked banking infrastructure provider, The Bancorp.

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