PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The FinTech Sezzle has struck up a partnership with Ally Lendin g, a digital financial services company. Our collaboration with Ally Lending enhances our customer financing offerings, making it possible for consumers to better manage their finances," said Charlie Youakim , executive chairman and CEO of Sezzle, in a press release.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2021

This will mark Figure’s fifth online financing facility, in which the company has closed almost $1.5 With the facility, Figure will work on fueling mortgage lending growth, which shot up nearly 50 percent month over month in the fourth quarter. billion, in partnership with numerous banks and facilities, including Jefferies.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Last week, the American Banking Association (ABA) held its annual Bank Marketing Conference in Denver, receiving rave reviews. The theme was – developing your marketing superpowers. Amid the brewery networking, superhero costumes, and fun, some fantastic bank marketing lessons were had, and not just for bank marketers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

What makes the current developments so interesting and exciting is that “we're just seeing that they're at the end of the innovation growth cycle,” he explained. All of these new FinTechs and digital innovators are changing the landscape as the role of payments rapidly shifts in the broader financial services arena.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

FinTechs continue to push the envelope to see how far open banking frameworks can go in improving the SMB banking experience, and increasingly, SMB lending is shifting to the center of these collaborative efforts. ’s experience is quickly influencing the way SMB lenders approach open banking in other markets like the U.S.

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Bobsguide

APRIL 21, 2022

Finastra appoints Isabel Fernandez to accelerate lending business growth. Company welcomes Isabel to the Finastra leadership team, as EVP, Lending Business Unit. Isabel will be part of Finastra’s recently expanded leadership team as the company pivots to a ‘Business Unit’ led model. Global Head of PR. finastra.com.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

The level of market volatility hitting the U.S. It also opened the door for a boom of FinTech innovation and a flood of alternative lenders targeting the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) segment. “It comes in waves, there’s no doubt about it,” he said about the alt-lending boom. ” A Banking Pullback?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Smaller companies were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to new cards designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). billion, and it extends Goldman Sachs’ push into Main Street Lending. American Express, Amazon Rollout Card For UK SMBs. billion in spending annually with the deal.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

One of the key reasons for the complicated relationship – the term “frenemies” comes to mind – is that FinTech newcomers are demonstrating innovative approaches to traditional banking practices, including financial management services and money transfers, while older banks tend to be wedded to older systems. New tools for new FinTechs.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Blockchain lending firm Figure Technologies announced that it has closed a $103 million series C funding round led by Morgan Creek Digital. MUFG Innovation Partners Co., The company has also recently added new hires, including C.D. The company has so far originated over $700 million in loans. and abroad.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2017

ShopKeep’s mission has been to innovatively support the growth of the independent businesses we serve while making the lives of their owners and staff easier,” DeSimone continued. According to the company, its financing solution does not require fixed monthly payments. We’re not competing with financial institutions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

Innovation has always been important for community banks, but the driving force of digitization over the last decade has greatly sped up the pace, said Kevin Tweddle, chief innovation officer for the Independent Community Bankers of America ( ICBA ). ICBA chose to back an accelerator program to speed up time to market, Tweddle said.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 15, 2020

card companies just moved a step closer to gaining access to China’s $27 trillion payments market. The biggest U.S. China said it won’t take longer than 90 days to consider applications from providers of electronic-payments services such as Mastercard, Visa and American Express Co.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Cryptocurrency-backed lending platform Cred is opening up its technology to third-party developers, the company has announced. “Lending and earning crypto are hard businesses to get right, particularly in a bear market,” he said. In a press release on Tuesday (Dec.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 11, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – German online lender Kreditech is making its way to India, Bank Innovation has learned. For this expedition, the fintech has teamed up with SaaS banking platform Mambu for providing short-term lending products specifically tailored to local consumers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2019

The 2008 financial crisis gave rise to the alternative lending market as a result of a massive gap in available capital, especially for small businesses and startups. The market’s creation was a spark that ignited a slew of disruptive changes for the small business financial services space.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 24, 2018

If there’s one area that fintech companies are giving banks tough competition in the U.S. market, it’s the lending space.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that financial regulators should look more closely at the role of non-bank tech companies in the small business (SMB) lending and consumer lending markets. Such alternative data, said the GAO, could pose risk to such lending decisions. Late last week, the U.S.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

IBM, one of the world’s largest technology companies, has agreed to sponsor Bank Innovation Ignite, which explores new ideas and technologies needed to push banking forward. Bank Innovation Ignite, March 11-12 in Seattle, offers high-level discussions and networking around the future of what’s next in banking.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 14, 2024

The bank that will be around in the next 50 years will be one that develops the ability to build infrastructure now that allows for efficient innovation in the future. Banks need to evaluate new technology, new lending areas, and new cash management levels to name a few with a longer time horizon and with some process rigor.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Sterling Bancorp announced that it has launched its new Innovation Finance Group , and has tapped veteran technology bankers John Hoesley and Josh Roberts to lead it. Before joining Sterling, Hoesley was at CIBC Bank USA with Josh Roberts, where the two established the Innovation Banking group in 2014.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 13, 2016

The firing of Renaud Laplanche at Lending Club has not stemmed the stock’s decline, and some market observers are starting to say that the online marketplace company might go into a financial “death spiral.” ” The issue was and is trust. Apparently, the errant sale of loans to Jefferies & Co.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

In the bid to hasten their digital transformation, when it comes to innovation , financial institutions (FIs) may benefit from an “app store” approach as they weigh existing and new solutions. In a nutshell: If banks don’t innovate in a way that is imaginative and proactive, they will lose customers. Launching Into New Markets.

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Perficient

JANUARY 12, 2021

Smaller financial institutions will have to be more innovative and rely on third parties and as-a-service based solutions to specifically address the needs of the niche market they are servicing. Small Business Innovation. Small businesses remain an untapped marketing opportunity for the financial services industry.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

has announced the launch of a venture banking and lending business to provide debt capital financing and commercial banking solutions to growth companies and their investors. The business will target early stage startups through mature growth companies, with a focus on the technology, healthcare, and life sciences industries.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 24, 2020

billion since its 2017 founding, is optimistic about venture capital funding for tech companies, despite current market volatility. Brex, a corporate card and financial product startup that has raised $315 million in equity and reached a reported valuation of $2.6

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Small business finance is one of the most competitive, innovative and challenging markets in which to operate. For invoice financing company Fundbox , the best way to navigate in a field like this is to stay focused on the task at hand. “We But the last 12 months also saw new developments for the company.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Fiserv, a leading banking technology company, has signed on as the headline Diamond sponsor of Bank Innovation 2017. Bank Innovation 2017 is this blog’s annual gathering on ideas and opportunities in fintech.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

Long before founding a data science, credit scoring and digital finance company, the Russian-born and U.K.-educated And so, in 2012, with only a few hundred thousand of their own dollars to get up and running, ID Finance launched in one of those underserved markets — their home market of Russia. A New $200 Million Fund.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The startups and small businesses that innovate aren’t just coming up with new technologies — they’re creating entirely new business models that, while progressive, can place increasing pressure on cash flow management for the enterprise. This is the type of market Venbridge has in mind.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

Renaud Laplanche , Former CEO of Lending Club, in a 2013 interview. Those were the good old days of Lending Club, a Silicon Valley darling that was the next big thing in lending. Lending Club was the poster child of that alt lending movement. I want to create something new and innovative.” The problem?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

It was the (initially) small FinTech startups that delivered a collective shakeup to the small business (SMB) lending industry. Technology giants like Google and Amazon , which gained their market muscle from non-finance-related ventures, are slowly stepping into the space. Amazon in particular is positioned to dominate.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

After a difficult deliberation, 10 early-stage fintech companies were selected by a team of judges to compete in this year’s DEMOvation Challenge, to take place in Seattle on March 1.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

In this week’s Commander in Chief series, PYMNTS talks with mobile capture and identity verification company Mitek Systems ’ CEO James DeBello about what moves the ball for the mobile industry. He also offers advice for how to innovate in the field. PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Committee Chairwoman Nydia Velázquez said, according to the report, “it is vital that Congress keep pace with the evolving needs of our country’s innovative small businesses.” Eight Roads led the round, with Telekom Innovation Pool, HKT, Telefónica Innovation Ventures and Singtel Innov8 also participating.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

This is Part I of a series looking into the Mortgage Market. The inspiration came from a great conversation that Kevin Simback , Director of Strategy at IBM Lending Solutions, started on the Fintech Genome, MortgageTech – the last frontier for Fintech? A starting list of companies focused on Mortgage. Read More.

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Abrigo

MARCH 2, 2023

Takeaway 2 According to Forrester data, firms pursuing technology-driven innovation grow three to four times faster than industry averages. The company has estimated that the impact of its system meltdown during bad weather will cost it as much as $825 million. But experts say that would be a mistake.

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