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When did FinTech become cool?

Chris Skinner

When did FinTech become FinTech? When did technology in finance become cool? I guess the first thing is to define FinTech, which I did badly four years ago. I say badly because my definition back then was: FinTech [is] a new market that integrates finance and technology.

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SMB Banking-as-a-Service Ushers In Bank-FinTech Collaboration

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Small business Banking-as-a-Service rises to the top in this week's roundup of the latest bank-FinTech collaborations and open banking initiatives. Two SMB BaaS companies secured new funding, while FinTech Wise says it is ushering in a new definition of open banking with its embedded banking functionality. StreetShares.

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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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SoFi To Buy Galileo Financial Technologies In $1.2B Deal

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In a deal valued at over a $1 billion, SoFi said it has inked a definitive deal to buy Galileo Financial Technologies. These are products that many of our leading fintech clients are asking for. The online personal finance firm will pay total purchase consideration of $1.2 I think it’s very powerful.”.

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Banks’ Definitive B2B Payments Guide To Sibos

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While FinTechs are offering a greater variety of solutions to business users than ever before, corporate finance chiefs and treasurers still turn to their banks first to improve their B2B payments strategies. Banks’ ability to be empowered through data can occur in other ways beyond API integrations, though.

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eCommerce FinTech Katapult To Go Public By Merging With SPAC

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18) that they have entered into a definitive merger deal. The company’s digital technology infrastructure offers a flexible lease purchase option to consumers to let them receive key durable goods from its network of eCommerce merchants. Katapult Holding, Inc. and special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) FinServ Acquisition Corp.

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The FinTech Wave, Part Two

Chris Skinner

As mentioned in the first part of these two pieces, we talk a lot about FinTech. In this second part, I thought it worth discussing the remaining areas that are primarily generic technologies with a financial flavour such as AI, machine learning, IoT and biometrics. So, here is the FinTech Wave, Part Two.

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