PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2018

Financial technology seems to be leading the startup charge, representing 40 percent of the largest 10 deals of the year so far, collectively worth $100 million. What Branch does have, however, is some direct experience in the world of micro-lending. So why the boom? He said, “[There is] big opportunity in these places.”.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Treasury management provider Dragonfly Financial Technologies launched independently from an ACI Worldwide sale. Alkami partnered with Clinc for conversational AI, Atomic for direct deposit switching and FINBOA for payment dispute management. Jack Henry expanded its partnership with SMA Technologies.

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Payments Source

JUNE 27, 2017

is buying a stake in Swedish payments technology firm Klarna AB and forming a strategic partnership, as both companies aim to expand outside their core markets.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

In today’s top payments news, JPMorgan blocks FinTechs from accessing customers’ passwords, and Ant Financial and Razer throw their hats into the ring for one of Singapore’s five available digital banking licenses. Southeast Asia’s digital lending market is anticipated to top $110 billion by 2025 — over four times what it is worth now.

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Bobsguide

MAY 25, 2022

London — May 16, 2022 — Mindtree , a global technology services and digital transformation company, and Finastra , a leading financial technology provider, today announced a partnership to bring Finastra’s Fusion Payments To Go payments technology to banks in the Nordics, the UK and Ireland, as a managed service.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to lending — to say nothing of the wider world of payments — innovation and disruption have been on the rise in recent years thanks to digital and mobile technology, along with online marketplace models. So-called peer-to-peer (P2P) lending has certainly faced challenges in certain markets.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Finally, looking at Canadian “fintech” (financial technology) specifically, funding was up substantially in the first half of the year. The 2019 Canadian fintech market map. Startups headquartered in Ontario dominate the table, with over 40 fintech companies from this market map headquartered in the Greater Toronto Area.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2020

The deal is part of the move toward market consolidation for FinTechs. Such dealings involve companies such as small business lending platform Kabbage , Ansonia Credit Data and B2B credit and payments systems provider MSTS.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

For starters, a customer may carry large balances but not generate franchise value if those balances are all in high-paying money market accounts or are highly volatile. As you can see in the chart below, one major marker of cash management profitability is payments. Client 2 needs cash management, particularly payment services.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

After all, if a company has worked so hard to develop some type of financial technology, why would they want to lend that technology out to just about anyone? B2B payments company Payoneer is one of the latest firms to use this strategy.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Lendo , a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending marketplace for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), wants to help them pre-finance their invoices so they can potentially get paid faster, according to a report. The company allows for solutions to some of the biggest problems when it comes to the SMB financing market.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

Over the past year, the Accion Quona Inclusion Fund has seen nine investments, which include digital commerce company Ula, digital consumer lending company JULO, end-to-end insurance company Sunday and others. The company’s first fund was worth about $143 million and saw two exits: a sale of Philippines payment company Coins.ph

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Other podcasts might be internationally based and of little interest to community financial institutions or credit unions based in the U.S. or largely focused on the domestic banking market. If you have an interesting podcast to share, please send it to marketing@abrigo.com. Lending & Credit Risk. keep me informed.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

At the time the transaction was announced, the companies said users would benefit from a “highly complementary combination” that offers a range of payments and financial services, spanning account processing and digital banking, integrated payments and the Clover POS system, among other products and services.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Creation of the new unit would be part of a much larger overhaul of the financial technology company and subject to approval by Chinese authorities, who pulled the plug on the company’s massive initial public offering late last year, according to Bloomberg. Ant Group had $263 billion in outstanding consumer loans as of June 2020.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

New payment and financial technologies are quickly emerging from the FinTech community, all with the promise of expediting payments and reducing the distance between cross-border trading partners. The fear of non-payment, in particular, tends to be the smaller merchants’ worst nightmare.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 21, 2017

The reason why they have gained such a valuation is that they have taken something the banks make difficult – setting up online payment services – and made it incredibly easy. Similarly, there are companies that do similar things in lending, savings, investments and other specific areas of financial services based upon internet technologies.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

prime lending rate, which banks charge to their best credit customers, is now at almost its lowest point ever due to Federal Reserve monetary policy. Credit card spending is also the highest it has ever been recently, as the market for Mastercard and Visa is higher than $600 billion. payments ecosystem. payments ecosystem.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 14, 2024

For financial marketers, especially those in credit unions and community banks, the biggest event of the year, The Financial Brand Forum , is just two months away. See below for links to our financial services calendars, including fintech, banktech, insurtech, general banking events, and more.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

” The Bank of Canada , TMX Group and Canada’s payment system teamed up for a test to settle and clear mock stocks using the blockchain, Bloomberg reported. The system, intended to be linked with market infrastructure already in place, enabled participants to settle mock securities with mock central bank cash.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The Products entries for 2017 fall broadly into four sub-categories: Payments Product — for launching the best consumer or business payments product. Lending Product — for the most impressive consumer or business lending or collections initiative. The submissions represented two approaches to Open Banking.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The Products entries for 2017 fall broadly into four sub-categories: Payments Product — for launching the best consumer or business payments product. Lending Product — for the most impressive consumer or business lending or collections initiative. The submissions represented two approaches to Open Banking.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Are community banks missing the chance to climb aboard the faster payments train? In late July, the Federal Reserve Faster Payments Task Force released its much-anticipated report on how to strengthen and operate the U.S. faster payments system. faster payment system. faster payment system.

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Bobsguide

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

IDC’s prestigious annual ranking highlights the leading companies in financial technology. Vendors on the elite list are recognized based on 2021 calendar year revenues attributed to financial services and fintech industries, and have demonstrated their commitment to their customers and the industry. “The

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

Nyca Partners, the venture capital firm focused on the FinTech market, raised $125 million for a second fund. The fund invested in a slew of FinTech startups, including Lending Club, SigFig and Orchard. By providing financial technology knowledge to early-stage companies, we are able to offer a unique and much-needed service.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2018

A financial technology company called B-Social has raised £3.2 Valimahomed said the idea was born from his own financial frustrations with friends, and his view that people are banks themselves, lending and borrowing from acquaintances. “A Then the app will let the group see who owes what and allow for easy payment.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

The financial technology and data analytics firm has traditionally focused on the consumer finance space in its lending operations. “Furthermore, Enova knows that the small business market is a blind spot for big banks because the numbers are too small.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2019

“The acquisition — our sixth investment in Asia Pacific since 2017 (following venture investments in Grab, Jirnexu, C88 Financial Technologies, BankBazaar.com and CompareAsiaGroup ) — demonstrates our ongoing commitment to investing in this region and using our advanced data and analytics expertise to remove complexity from the lending process.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

Businesses are largely behind the push, with government initiatives promoting a digital economy and FinTech innovators targeting corporate payments and finance in addition to their consumer-focused endeavors. With BCG and SWIFT urging banks to take “immediate action,” some banks have chosen to pivot away from corporate lending.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

The eCommerce conglomerate is best known in its home market of China, where Chinese vendors gain access to an estimated 10 million business buyers, most of which are across borders. The North American market is undoubtedly a strategic one for the firm, with Onan pointing to the importance of enabling U.S.-based International Ambitions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Because threat actors often get recipients’ emails from password breach lists, they sometimes include passwords to lend authenticity,” Hunter Johnson, Cofense Professional Services at Cofense, wrote in a blog post. We are starting to see more demand pick up in the market,” Lim said. According to Bloomberg , bitcoin gained as much as 6.6

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

By creating a financial technology task force, the Commission said it is responding to the effects of digital innovations changing the banking industry. The force will be chaired by both DG Fima and DG Connect and will connect with market participants and delve into financial regulation, competition and consumer protection issues.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

These are just a few of the ways that digital marketplaces are making these connections with digital payments and commerce, in an age when consumers are looking for more choices when it comes to their shopping experiences: One-hundred and sixty-two U.S. and European workers participate in the gig economy. Just under 40 percent – or 39.1

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

PYMNTS also explores the venture capital and lending spaces as professional investors make some changes and as businesses look to invest in themselves. Researchers agreed that this shows a continually high level of interest in the financial technology and innovation space among investors, despite the overall drop in VC funding.

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Banking 2020

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Financial services organisations in China are expected to shine a light for the rest of the world when it comes to innovation in the banking sector in the coming years, with the primary drivers being non-traditional companies that are looking to develop new payment solutions and platforms. At the turn of the millennium, just 1.8

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 1, 2019

This is up from 35% in 2017, and way up from 18% in 2013, according to Financial Technology Partners’ 2018 Annual Fintech Almanac. Strategic participation in fintech climbed in 2018, with 41% of all fintech financings containing either a corporate VC or strategic investor.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

In a conversation with Karen Webster, Bottomline CEO Rob Eberle discussed how the company came to launch a solution designed to ease the loan application burden on both banks and borrowers and described the role of B2B FinTechs elsewhere as market disruption forces finance teams to prioritize their digitization efforts.

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