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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

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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Bank Innovation

MAY 9, 2018

New takes on lending and underwriting dominated the opening day of demos at FinovateSpring 2018 here yesterday. SANTA CLARA, Calif. - But this being fintech's leading demo showcase, the featured startups offered up these basic, fundamental aspects of banking in a new way, often with "artificial intelligence" under the hood.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

28) that digital currencies could potentially dry up lending for banks and affect the economy as a whole, according to a report by Reuters. The BoE has warned about Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency Libra , as well as other digital coins, and how they must be carefully considered before being approved.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The 12 startups demoing to try to win the “best in show” award at Bank Innovation Ignite have been unveiled. The startups are:[link] Avocado Payments, Budgit Inc., Community Capital Technologies, Denizen Financial, Diro Inc., Exagens Corp., Fintel Labs, iGTB, JUDI.AI, KapitalWise, OpenDoor Securities, and Operant.AI

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

INV Fintech, the technology accelerator run in partnership with Fiserv, has opened its Demo Day event to financial institution executives attending Bank Innovation Ignite. Previously, only INV Fintech members were permitted to attend Demo Day on March 11 in Seattle.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

We’re serving up a four-course meal on Lending Club, bitcoin, the Visa Everywhere contest and Karen Webster’s latest opinion piece. Get the 411: Lending Club’s Skyrocketing Chargeoffs. But YoCoin is pitching itself as a “new cryptocurrency with mainstream appeal.” What’s on the menu, you ask? Social engagement.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

12) that the federal government would be rolling out new regulations regarding cryptocurrency at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FCEN). He said that there had to be a balancing act — the tech should be allowed to move forward and innovate. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday (Feb. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The rise of blockchain technology was accompanied by that of cryptocurrencies, but innovation in blockchain technology does not mean we should speculate in virtual currencies.”. Two years ago, Chinese regulators banned cryptocurrency and trading exchanges. The Shanghai Stock Exchange said Monday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. When most people asked “what’s next?” Old Problems, New Paradigms .

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2020

On July 22, the federal Comptroller of the Currency issued a notice clarifying that federally chartered banks could provide custody service for cryptocurrency assets. By doing so, banks can continue to fulfill the financial intermediation function they have historically played in providing payment, lending and deposit services.”

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Aside from the important events like record-level funding for fintechs across the globe, cryptocurrency mania, Coinbase entering the Unicorn club at a $1.56B valuation in the last quarter, there have been some […].

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2018

The funding comes in the form of Ripple’s own cryptocurrency and will be used to fund startups selected by Blockchain Capital. Ripple said it hopes the investment will be used to support innovators that deploy Ripple technology. Artificial Intelligence. Details of the investment are scarce, but Player’s Network Inc.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) has launched a new Research and Innovation Division that will be responsible for licensing and supervising virtual currencies. None of the information on the database, which held 86 million lines of daily updating records of the lending platform, was encrypted.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

The speed of technical innovation is very fast. Amamiya said he doesn’t foresee CBDC changing how the current monetary policy affects areas like interest rates, asset prices and lending. But he stressed he felt it was “very important” that the BOJ continues to scrutinize the feasibility of circulating CBDC. According to several U.S.

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Payments Source

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

China’s crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges raises questions about the future of digital asset innovation, a movement that some bankers view as a threat and others embrace as a boon to payments, P-to-P lending and other activities.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 1, 2022

The FHFA also issued a request for information (“RFI”) seeking public input on how to facilitate responsible innovation, identify barriers or challenges to implementing fintech into housing finance, support equity for homeowners and renters, and increase efficiency and effectiveness in the compliance and regulatory processes.

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Bussman Advisory

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The post Dorsey resigns from Twitter | Facebook’s executive in charge of cryptocurrency is leaving the company | Investors see looming NFT bubble appeared first on Bussmann Advisory AG. The latest edition of the FinTech Ecosystem Newsletter is here : Interested in FinTech or Digital Assets related Advisory or Workshop?

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 14, 2019

According to Henrique Dubugras, CEO and co-founder of Brex, blockchain is overhyped but cryptocurrencies are underrated. Fintech executives sounded off on blockchain at CB Insights’ Future of Fintech conference this week. The corporate credit card startup is fresh off a $100 million funding round that has landed it a $2.6

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

The B2B FinTech space saw its fair share of venture capital, too, with investors targeting spend management, alternative small business lending, workforce management and enterprise crypto services — plus, some news of a few more investment rounds likely on the horizon. The company remains one of the largest cryptocurrency players in the U.S.,

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Not even a month has passed since Julie Demarigny, a veteran in digital entertainment industry having served Warner Bros. and Sony Music, has joined West Coast focused Union Bank as its head of digital banking. In her new role, Demarigny will lead all digital strategy for the bank and its savings-only platform PurePoint Financial as […].

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 25, 2018

The cryptocurrency bitcoin, which shocked everyone by surpassing $17K, further shocked everyone by dropping below $10K. EXCLUSIVE — It’s not even a month into 2018 and already so much has changed. Then of course there are various other events sweeping the financial services space, from new tax laws in the U.S., to the rise of […].

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Smartphone maker HTC has launched a new entry-level phone aimed at cryptocurrency users, TechCrunch reported on Monday (Oct. The new phone also is full of cryptocurrency-related features allowing users to exchange, lend and borrow digital assets.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Marketplace lending. Marketplace Lending.

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Bussman Advisory

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The post Facebook’s cryptocurrency venture to wind down after asset sale to Silvergate | Zuckerberg’s ‘metaverse’ business lost more than $10 billion | IOC launches Beijing Olympics-themed mobile game with NFTs appeared first on Bussmann Advisory AG. Contact us at info@bussmannadvisory.com for more details.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Here are the five companies of Class 4 of INV Fintech: Bloxable: Bloxable provides decentralized solutions for lending origination and the securitization of mortgages […]. The six companies were chosen from among a wide array of applications from across the globe.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

He further noted that if “I need capital to lend, then let’s have the same rules for everyone – for the internet giants, too.”. Elsewhere, in India, that country’s Reserve Bank has floated a raft of proposals seeking to boost the FinTech space, with a focus on innovation labs and data protection, among other initiatives.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2019

Then there is also the possible revival of older trends (hint: cryptocurrency could be […]. The seed for some trends like voice banking and contactless payments were already planted last year, while others such like core overhauls went relatively untouched last year.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

Consider the fact that International Monetary Fund Chief Christine Lagarde said late last week that cryptocurrency assets do not pose an “immediate danger” to financial asset stability and asserted the need for an “even-handed” regulatory agenda that would allow for innovation in the space.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 3, 2018

But working with the cryptocurrency taught the payments company quite a bit about blockchain technology, and how it ends up employing that knowledge may be the true payoff […]. Square made a splash when it announced it would sell bitcoin in its Cash app, but failed to make much money doing so, it was revealed yesterday.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2019

It may take a few years for blockchain’s impact to be felt meaningfully, but it will provide some advancements in certain areas even as cryptocurrencies falter, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 1, 2018

million) securities lending transaction using blockchain-based software created by blockchain consortium R3. Credit Suisse Group and Dutch bank ING Groep NV today announced they successfully completed a €25 million ($30.48

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

Much hype and hope surrounds the adoption of cryptocurrencies — bitcoin among them as the marquee name in the space, of course — beyond the Wild West of speculative trading that exists now. Direct Lending Probe : An SEC investigation has prompted the founder and CEO Brendan Ross to resign. IPO could stand for … Investors Prefer to Own.

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Accenture

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Connecting more than 8,000 decision makers and thought leaders across the industry, Sibos 2017 in Toronto was once again the platform where the global financial community explored the disruptions and opportunities in payments driven by innovation, technology and new business models. Open APIs was the standout technology at the conference.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 9, 2018

INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to Bank Innovation, is partnered with Fiserv and eight banking partners with over $3 trillion dollars in assets. EXCLUSIVE - On March 6 in San Francisco, 12 impressive startups demoed their latest in fintech technology at INV Fitnech's 2nd annual demo day.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

SoFI gets a commercial bank that brings deposits, compliance, AND business lending. Let’s see how this new scale allows for big investments in future innovation. His passion for innovation, community, culture, and clients provides a leadership template for all future GonzoBankers. Merger (MOE) of the Year: Credit Union.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Here are five deals, in no particular order, that Bank Innovation's editors think will most significantly impact the landscape in 2019. This year the financial services industry saw a lot of fintech M&A activity. iZettle is […].

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