Bank Innovation

MAY 3, 2019

You may not have heard of the term “Silicon Alley,” but I am sure you are aware of the game-changing financial technology that is emanating from it. Silicon Alley” was initially coined in the mid-1990s as a way to group media startups housed around the Flatiron neighborhood of Manhattan.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 18, 2017

Now that it has burst, the interview seems quite prescient so, here it is … UBS interview with Chris Skinner Cryptocurrencies – digital currencies based on encryption – are in the midst of a bubble, but that should not overshadow the genuinely transformative change that is taking place within the financial services industry.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 21, 2018

I know that we deal with quite complicated things in financial technologies.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Mastercard is expanding its Accelerate financial technology (FinTech) portfolio and is adding 11 companies to its Start Path startup engagement program, according to a Wednesday (Aug. The company said its efforts recognize “the important role FinTechs play in the world’s rapid digital transformation.”. 12) announcement.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 17, 2019

As readers of our blog know, our consumer financial services group has been at the forefront of legal developments involving new technologies. Our Banking and Financial Services and Retail industry groups add further depth and specialized knowledge.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

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. digital collectibles”).

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Bankelele

JUNE 29, 2017

Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed rules to create a regulatory fintech sandbox for innovations which do not fit within the country’s current financial regulatory framework. The post Kenya CMA drafts Sandbox Rules to test Bitcoin and other Fintech appeared first on Bankelele.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

He added that the new partnership “will provide great benefit not only to banks and central infrastructures” but to merchants, their customers and financial technology companies (FinTechs). In July , ACI added new services that will help to speed up real-time payments, a press release said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Germany-based FinTech services firm Wirecard is partnering with the Union Bank of the Philippines to improve banking services for corporate customers, Wirecard announced on Friday (Feb. Fajardo added that the partnership will empower businesses by offering financial services that will help them create a positive economic impact. “As

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

challenger banking market saw a flurry of venture capital (VC) activity this week, as FinTech firms aim to disrupt small business (SMB) financial services (FinServ). Compliance startup Chainalysis works with law enforcement officials and financial institutions (FIs) to ensure that their cryptocurrency operations are within regulations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The People’s Bank of China announced that it will certify 11 types of financial technology hardware and software used for digital payment and blockchain services. Blockchain’s future is here, but we must remain rational,” he said, according to state-run news outlet the People’s Daily. billion won (about $9 million US) in funding.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2019

All that is changing due to emerging technologies. The banking industry is facing many unprecedented challenges due to the rise of financial technology companies. For quite a long time, traditional brick and mortar banks only had to worry about making money and being profitable.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 11, 2017

As referenced in my R3 fake news last week, there are various camps out there fighting for the cryptocurrency crown. It sheds light on where challenger banks and financial technology (fintech) firms can make ground on the established banks. The lead runners are bitcoin and Ethereum, and both have serious backing.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

It started a FinTech-targeted Innovation Hub this month, saying that the hub should “foster international collaboration among central banks on innovative financial technology.” . The ECB has been open to the idea, and could already be experimenting.

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Urs Bolt

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Fintech to facilitate inclusive financial system establishment in China, say experts. Leveraged by tremendous customer data, Chinese Fintech companies have an edge over their Western counterparts in innovation applications.”. China could improve its regulatory technologies. Cryptocurrencies. Financial Services.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

FinTech company SPEZA announced that it will be able to accept China’s Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP), the world’s first sovereign digital currency. And just last week, the People’s Bank of China announced that it will certify 11 types of financial technology hardware and software used for digital payment and blockchain services.

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Jack Henry

DECEMBER 28, 2018

With rapid-fire changes in how we invest, borrow and save; how financial institutions control risk; and how financial institutions (FIs) analyze data and control lending, the financial technology, or fintech, market is bringing significant disruption to the $8.5 financial services industry. trillion U.S.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Three ways millennials could accelerate FinTech trends in 2016. When it comes to finance, millennials are a generation known to be conservative in spending and distrustful of financial institutions. Thus, it’s not shocking that millennials are a driving factor in the growing financial technology, or FinTech, movement.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

A renewed focus has been placed on researching and testing blockchain applications, as well as pushing the development of information and financial technology within the country, The CoinTelegraph reported. “It s recent exit from the EU, Moscow may throw its hat into the race to replace London as the FinTech capital of the world.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

Since then, the financial technology (FinTech) company has expanded its portfolio to also offer business banking. While Revolut has emerged as one of the biggest players in the crowded FinTech sector, it has yet to make a profit. with an app and debit card, expanded into cryptocurrency trading with Paxos Trust Co.,

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Insights on Business

JUNE 14, 2018

Is it smartphone-carrying merchants; other advancements in technology like AI, data science and cognitive computing or new ways companies and individuals can conduct business by circumnavigating bank involvement with decentralized digital assets such as cryptocurrencies? The simple answer is: all of the above.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

With further distancing from the retail environment, the paper stated that there might be “little demand” by households because “they already have good access to digital money in the form of commercial bank deposits that provide payment services, are interest-bearing and are protected (up to $250,000 per account) by the Financial Claims Scheme.”.

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Let's Talk Payments

AUGUST 11, 2017

Startup Stories highlights the companies that are shaping the new financial technology industry. MEDICI now! Keep an eye out each week for new stories! If you or someone you know.

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Filene

MAY 18, 2017

Filene's Center for Emerging Technology hosted their first annual colloquium on the hype around financial technology. Middleton , PhD Student: The Art of FinTech Decision Making - Disruption in financial services is being driven by changes in the FinTech industry itself and the nature of technology.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2018

Fintech Select, a financial technology firm based in Canada, has created a “physical bitcoin” product to pair with its “Selectcoin” cryptocurrency POS platform, the company said.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It was a quieter week in fintech fundings. Other than Blackstone’s $820 million bet on what is likely the oldest financial technology company on the planet, NCR founded in 1884 as National Cash Register, just $82 million flowed to the under-100-year-old crowd. ATMs, POS & financial technology.

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 25, 2020

Some of you are working on building a new Fintech company, using the leverage of Silicon Valley to remake an economic order under new rules. Software companies are realizing that monetizing through financial products can double or triple their total addressable market. Whereas Fintech is a bridge?—?trying Bain and Andreessen.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

With further distancing from the retail environment, the paper stated that there might be “little demand” by households because “they already have good access to digital money in the form of commercial bank deposits that provide payment services, are interest-bearing and are protected (up to $250,000 per account) by the Financial Claims Scheme.”.

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2018

Industry: Fintech. Overstock further extended its blockchain focus just a few weeks after the tZero ICO announcement, via subsidiary Medici Ventures, which led a seed funding round to blockchain-enabled mobile voting platform Voatz , another indication of the company’s interest in fostering diverse use cases of blockchain technology.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In total, 23 fintech companies raised more than $121 million including Finovate alums Spreedly which brought in $2.5 Clarus Financial Technology. The post Fintech Fundings: 23 Companies Raise $120 Million Week Ending Oct 30 appeared first on Finovate. mil), iSignThis ($10.5 mil) and Zebit ($10 mil). Source: Crunchbase.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2015

But if there’s one in the fintech sector, the dozens of investors in these 23 companies didn’t get the memo. In the last full non-holiday week of the year, $685 million poured into fintech companies worldwide. FinTech Group. Diversified financial technology provider. Person-to-person lender .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

In a roundtable discussion, the last in the “Powering the Digital Shift” series with Karen Webster, six experts in money movement, fraud prevention, banking and financial technology discussed one sure bet: “Digital optional” is no option as we move toward contactless commerce.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 6, 2016

Fintech deals by size from May 7 to 13, 2016: Avant (AvantCredit UK). Bridge Financial Technology. Back-office platform for financial advisors . The post Fintech Fundings: 30 Companies Raise $390 Million Week Ending May 13 appeared first on Finovate. Total dollars raised YTD is now $14.7 Consumer alt-lender.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 29, 2015

Are you building new financial technology? Be sure to register soon for the only event exclusively for fintech developers, FinDEVr 2015 , October 6-7 in San Francisco. Let’s Talk Payments looks at how the financial services industry is learning to love the blockchain.

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Lex Sokolin

MAY 25, 2020

There are, all of a sudden, a lot of deals being done across financial technology. The world is changing, prices are collapsing, and people are going on about mobile apps and cryptocurrencies. You are forgiven for not remembering all my favorite Fintech minutiae. Wealthtech is one fire, they say now. Here’s a reminder.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2021, there were more than 120 fintech IPOs in the U.S., 2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Acquisition of the Year: Bank Acquiring a Fintech. Acquisition of the Year: Fintech Acquiring a Bank. Oh, what a mere 12 months can do.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. The only direction now is scale, scale, scale!

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