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On-Demand Payroll Leads B2B FinTech Funding

PYMNTS

This week saw B2B FinTechs targeting a range of pain points for business customers around the world, as investors put nearly $462 million in combined funding into the space. Finexio’s AP automation technology has attracted another $2.5 Chicago’s Leaf Trade saw $4.5 Chicago’s Leaf Trade saw $4.5

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Avant Brings SaaS Lending Tech To Banks

PYMNTS

Avant is best known among its financial services peers as a FinTech firm, founded to throw automation and an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced underwriting process at the problem of creating accessible, affordable personal loans for consumers. This is the bank’s product backed up by our brand.

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Alt-Lending Regulation Fears Won’t Stop Investors

PYMNTS

It feels like 2014 again with the ongoing popularity of alternative lending startups. Earlier this week, reports emerged that some alternative lending and industry professionals are beginning to heighten their anxieties about incoming regulation, particularly as some ponder whether the U.S. Alternative Lending. MarketInvoice.

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Top 13 Bank, Fintech & Financial Services Marketing Conferences

Fintech Labs Insights

While dedicated financial marketing events are limited, there are many other wide-ranging fintech and banking events that have numerous sessions on marketing and product topics. See below for links to our financial services calendars, including fintech, banktech, insurtech, general banking events, and more.

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B2B Tech Startups Land Backing To Modernize The Enterprise

PYMNTS

More than $25 million in new funding landed at B2B FinTech startups this week, making it one of the slower VC roundups for the B2B landscape this year. Though it didn't reveal how much it raised, Zero Hash, based in Chicago, announced the close of its Series C investment round led by holding company tastytrade. Cloudentity.

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7 ways community banks can boost profitability

Independent Banker

A bank needs a team with diverse perspectives and unique abilities—technology, sales, lending and leadership—that is willing to work together at a heightened pace, he notes. Build a lending niche. There are many examples of bank-fintech partnerships. You have to give people a reason to bank with you.”.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

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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