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Why Not All FinTech Providers Are FinTech Firms

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Such is the case in financial services, where “ FinTech ” is often used to describe financial technology vendors. “A A firm that offers financial technology is not necessarily a FinTech,” said Provenir Managing Director Paul Thomas, who thinks the distinction between the two needs to be clearer.

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Canadian Fintech Market Map

CB Insights

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.

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Seeks Advice On Financial Data Access

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The announcement by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ( CFPB ) comes on the heels of a symposium it held in February which included experts from consumer groups, financial technology (FinTech) companies, trade groups, banks and data aggregators.

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Digital-First Banking Branches Out

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In other news, cash recyclers are nowhere near as sexy as ITMs, but they do enable ATMs to require less frequent cash fill-ups, and that’s digital-first thinking, even if it’s not the pure-play definition of digital-first banking. In the U.K., The report says Chinese FIs are expected to spend “… up to 220 billion yuan ($31.6

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Uncovering The Value Proposition In FinTech Innovation

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Governments and banks have a lot to do with developing an ecosystem that supports adoption of payments technologies for both consumers and corporates, and DeLuca sees some stark differences between the U.K. markets that could be slowing down the digitization of electronic B2B payments. The adoption curve, especially in the U.S.,

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Open banking APIs are open for business

Insights on Business

See how open banking APIs are transforming financial services (and businesses, too!). I wasn’t particularly inspired by the Wikipedia definition , so I’ll give you mine. The emergence of financial technology (fintech) and the push of regulators for more competition are disaggregating and open this closed value chain.

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It’s Dreadful Being a Buyer of Bank Technology

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For regional and community banks there has never been a more frustrating time to be a buyer versus a builder of financial technology. As banks focus on speed to market, they must become more discerning about how different solutions impact the pace of delivery. Tech companies trying to support a bank stack have no easy task.