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Fintech Deals to Watch: Back to School

Gonzobanker

Most fintech companies are fine, but they’ve stopped blowing off econ class for mimosa brunches. Especially in fintech, which had the roughest semester last spring. Thankfully, there was still a smartphone and social media to commiserate. Banks Bought More Fintechs (Until Sum mer Break Started!). Sam & Chris.

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Checkout.com Buys Australian Startup Pin Payments

PYMNTS

This marks the next natural move for us and offers our merchants access to Checkout.com’s global acquiring footprint,” Bissett said in a statement. In Pin Payments, we found an awesome team who shared a similar dedication to solving problems for businesses with innovative financial technology.”.

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Crypto 2020: One Step Up; Two Steps Back

PYMNTS

If 2020 taught us anything about cryptocurrencies, it’s that they’ve reached a tipping point. Building The (Retail) Use Cases. Part of the enthusiasm from investors comes as use cases have proliferated. At a high level, that means helping crypto companies and FinTechs come to market with crypto payments across the Visa rails.

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Innovation & Insight Day – some Highlights; and a Goodbye

Celent Banking

With more than 400 registrants, we had to improvise with an overflow room that streamed video of the main stage (thanks to all who helped us accommodate this nice problem). Closing out the day was Suresh Ramamurthi, the Chairman of CBW Bank, who showed us what a sub $20mm asset bank can do by completely rethinking its technology platform.

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Inaugural Flyover Fintech Conference Summary

Social Assurance

This week, the inaugural Flyover Fintech conference was held at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Nebraska Innovation Campus. The goal of this conference was to bring together entrepreneurial innovators, financial services leaders and key policymakers to the center of everything fintech. Key Takeaways. Send Me Updates.

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Twitter Talk from FinDEVr 2017 New York

Fintech Labs Insights

But with FinDEVr London only a few months away, we’re already looking forward to seeing what the international developer community is doing to drive innovation in financial technology. Now let’s relive a little of that social media magic from FinDEVr 2017 New York.

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Virtual communities and digital worlds

Lex Sokolin

Thus the current Fintech obsession with Buy-Now-Pay-Later companies like Klarna and Affirm ( going public ), which lever up these marketplaces with credit. Next, check out this fantastic essay from Matthew Ball, a commentator on media and frontier technology, about the emerging opportunity in audio (music, podcasts, etc.).What