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Fintech Deals to Watch: Fall Festivities

Gonzobanker

Treasury management provider Dragonfly Financial Technologies launched independently from an ACI Worldwide sale. Core: Core-n Mazes and Hayrides FIS acquired embedded finance provider Bond Financial Technologies and announced plans to spin off merchant solutions (to be named Worldpay ). LevelField Financial Inc.

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CFPB, CFTC Develop FinTech Regulatory Sandbox

PYMNTS

The United Kingdom has already provided startups with this type of space, and earlier this year Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced plans for a global testing bed for new financial technology apps. But the U.S.

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Analyzing The Private Market Investment Strategies of P&C Insurers

CB Insights

And most recently, Allianz made a strategic investment in US online homeowners and renters insurance carrier Lemonade , which currently operates in New York, Illinois, and California. Stated investment focus: Underserved risk markets, innovative approaches to risk underwriting, financial technology with application to risk underwriting.

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

Meanwhile, a number of other financial technology firms received major funding and rolled out new alliances and products. Reducing technology costs and local market savvy can enable community banks to become equal competitors in the mobile and digital footrace, but they’ll need to begin taking steps soon and planning strategically.

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Fintech Fundings: 23 Companies Raise $685 Million Week Ending Dec 18

Fintech Labs Insights

HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Diversified financial technology provider. Secondary market for private company shares. Nous Global Markets. Crowdsourcing financial market predictions. Tags: Consumer, lending, youth market, alt-credit, underwriting, sub-prime, loans, P2P, investing. HQ: New York City.

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Payday Lending’s Long, Strange Trip Through 2016

PYMNTS

There is neither a shortage of controversial topics in financial services or financial technology nor a shortage of subjects that tend to polarize people. These customers have two equally important needs: not being taken advantage of by unscrupulous lenders and not being completely locked out of the credit markets.

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