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SoFi To Buy Galileo Financial Technologies In $1.2B Deal

PYMNTS

In a deal valued at over a $1 billion, SoFi said it has inked a definitive deal to buy Galileo Financial Technologies. The firm’s offerings can be accessed through desktop, mobile and a tangible debit card. These are products that many of our leading fintech clients are asking for. I think it’s very powerful.”.

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Canadian Fintech Market Map

CB Insights

Finally, looking at Canadian “fintech” (financial technology) specifically, funding was up substantially in the first half of the year. Canadian fintech companies raised $251M through the end of H1’19, nearly double the $133M raised in H1’18. The 2019 Canadian fintech market map. APIs) directly to end-users.

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Virtual, Mobile Payments Battle To Infiltrate Corporate America

PYMNTS

The virtual card FinTech company commissioned a study this month to explore how companies are managing their expense policies and procedures. The vast majority (90 percent) of respondents said that their reconciliation process is challenged because corporate cards are used by more than one employee. The Struggle To Change.

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The Week in Payments: Mobile Wallets, Subscription Solutions And Recentering Financial Services 

PYMNTS

It’s definitely a “Freakonomics result,” Burkhart said, and not one easily explained. “I More seriously, he concurred that in the face of turbulence consumers in some cases will cling to habit — and cards are so ingrained that people prefer using them with gloves on to pulling out their mobile phone. percent to 3.3

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Open banking APIs are open for business

Insights on Business

See how open banking APIs are transforming financial services (and businesses, too!). I wasn’t particularly inspired by the Wikipedia definition , so I’ll give you mine. The emergence of financial technology (fintech) and the push of regulators for more competition are disaggregating and open this closed value chain.

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It’s Dreadful Being a Buyer of Bank Technology

Gonzobanker

For regional and community banks there has never been a more frustrating time to be a buyer versus a builder of financial technology. “And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile…” -David Byrne.

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FinovateSpring 2016 Live Blog – Day 1

William Mills

One use case is to use a bot, via text messaging, to help customers when they have potential credit card fraud. Card-linked offers generated a lot of excitement a few years ago. They have a platform to source the merchant offers, and match them with card issuers. Link your card to website or app, select the offer.