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Digital asset ecosystem data provider Amberdata hits $330M valuation. Amberdata competitors include CoinMetrics, Chainalysis, Elliptic, and TRM Labs.

CB Insights

The round drew participation from Coinbase, Nasdaq Ventures, Aspenwood Ventures, Knollwood Investment Advisory, Chicago Trading Company, and Citigroup, among others. <span q1 2022 brought a -18% decline in quarterly fintech funding. .</p> q1 2022 brought a -18% decline in quarterly fintech funding. .</p>

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Wellness tool from BMO Harris partner finds following with bank's customers

American Banker

Through its partnership with SpringFour, a fintech BMO Harris mentored in 2017, the Chicago bank is referring customers — including many hurt by the pandemic — to reputable nonprofits to help with job training, financial assistance and more.

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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. From nowhere, sizable regional players are being created. Has to be M-O-E.

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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.

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Is your 2017 trade show strategy set for the year?

William Mills

There really is no such thing as “trade show season” in the fintech industry. which features highly relevant and timely fireside chats/presentations among a solid mix of bank and fintech attendees. Sometimes the intimate and more focused regional events are just as valuable (if not more so).

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40 Years of William Mills Agency, the Family Reflects on the Milestone

William Mills

Our friends in the media are also more decentralized today as opposed to 1997, when they seemed to be primarily concentrated in New York, Washington, DC and Chicago. They have to learn the financial industry, FinTech, the media and influencers that serve our industry (and their needs) as well the agency’s systems and processes. .

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

In an interview at CB Insights’ 2019 Future of Fintech conference, CFO and CPO William Gaybrick indicated that businesses are more constrained by developer resources than by capital. This is particularly useful for businesses operating in regions outside of the US. Seed VC, 2019).

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