As this has happened, we have seen a counter-trend occurring, as the maturing FinTech specialists branch out to create global monoline services in platforms. Digital Bank Fintech Future Grid Opinion MORE
Payments software company HPS is launching an API for other FinTech innovators to integrate into banking systems. The company announced news on Monday (May 21) that its PowerCARD Connect-Open API aims to help FinTech developers integrate mobile payment, tokenization, biometrics and other emerging banking technologies into their own solutions. B2B Payments API B2B banking data sharing FinTech HPS News Open Banking What's Hot In B2B MORE
Now that the industry is (mostly) clear on the fintech “friend or foe” issue, startups are busy pitching their products to the eager incumbents and their innovation teams. Exclusive Innovations Operations Startups Technology Wealth Management fintech startups GoldBean innovation Jane BarrattHowever, a new creature has emerged in this process, which can potentially place more roadblocks on a startup’s development journey. Startups, beware of “innovation tourists.” MORE
Dutch asset management firm Robeco just launched a fintech investment firm. Robeco’s Global Fintech Equities, which was launched yesterday, will focus on three segments: “today’s winners,” “fintech enablers,” and “challengers.” MORE
Standard Chartered has officially open its eXellerator facility, a center designed to promote the innovation of fintech, in Hong Kong, the bank announced today. The bank will operate the innovation center under its SC Ventures arm, which invests in emerging fintechs and other startups. MORE
Fintech startups have taken note of the vast opportunity in the SME space, which has been underserved by banks since the financial crisis. Commerce Exclusive Innovations Lending Open Fintech Payments Premium BlueVine cash flow Intuit QuickBooks SMB lending MORE
Good news for FinTech startups: in the U.S., venture capitalists have been boosting their activity in the market, with Q2 FinTech investments regaining its strength, according to analysts at KPMG. The firm’s Pulse of FinTech report for Q2 2017, released this week , found overall FinTech funding in the U.S. Across the globe, FinTech funding grew, too, more than doubling quarter over quarter to $8.4 MORE
EXCLUSIVE- Echoing the mandate of PSD2, Bank of America Merrill Lynch today unveiled an API gateway that seeks to connect its commercial clients to fintechs and other third-party vendors. MORE
According to Malauzai Software, that’s the term used for vendors that “scrape” digital banking apps on the internet to gather data and then provide that data to fintechs. DataBank Mobile Online Open Fintech Payments PFM APIs Intuit Mint payment processing Yodlee MORE
India’s YES Bank and the Abu Dhabi Global Markets (ADGM) have signed a pact to facilitate interaction between the fintech industries of India and United Arab Emirates. Exclusive Innovations Online Open Fintech Startups Abu Dhabi accelerators fintechs India India fintech Middle East Yes Bank MORE
The Japanese Financial Services Agency, or FSA, has signed a fintech letter of cooperation with Swiss regulators the Financial Market Supervisory Authority, the agencies announced yesterday. MORE
Singapore is taking another step towards cementing itself as the top fintech hub in the world. Today the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) said it would speed up the patent granting process for fintechs in the country. MORE
The Central Bank of Ireland announced today that it would establish a unit to engage with technology providers, startups, and fintechs on various innovation initiatives. Exclusive Innovations Online Open Fintech Central Bank of Ireland innovations startups MORE
I blogged about the FinTech themes that came out of the Celero conference the other day and forgot to mention that I recently joined a one-day retreat at Payments International in London, as a facilitator. Fintech Grid MORE
There are four big things for 2018 from a FinTech viewpoint that are obvious to me however, which are: Getting down to business with Artificial … The post The FinTech outlook for 2018 appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. Fintech Future Grid OpinionI usually start the new year by making some predictions, but so many others have been writing about 2018 trends that I’m not going to. MORE
Following on from talking around the big ten tech themes last Friday, I thought I would follow up with five FinTech themes for right now. It was fun with the CEO, Bob … The post Five FinTech Themes from 2017 appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. Fintech Grid Uncategorized MORE
Through a free public website, Mambu Marketplace, the Berlin-based fintech is hoping to create a comprehensive platform of tech and service providers that banks can use for various […]. Exclusive Online Open Fintech Operations Premium bank partnerships Mambu MORE
Taking a page from Goldman Sachs’ book, Morgan Stanley is beginning to lend to FinTech startups in Brazil as it seeks more of a return on its investments. Morgan Stanley’s move comes at a time when the Brazil FinTech market is exploding. According to a Goldman Sachs report from May of 2017, there are 210 FinTechs operating in Brazil, representing the largest concentration in Latin America. MORE
The company today announced the launch of IBM Cloud for Financial Services, which will give fintechs and large FIs access to IBM APIs and data in order to build apps quickly and at scale. IBM’s cognitive platform is opening up its doors to financial services developers. MORE
fintech startup ClearScore, for $385 million (or £275 million) in a deal expected to close later this year, it was announced today. Cards Exclusive Mobile Online acquisitions ClearScore credit cards Credit Karma Experian UK fintechCredit data service Experian has agreed to acquire U.K. MORE
Under the heading ‘SC Ventures,’ the unit will focus on the bank’s existing “minority investments in fintech,” as reported by Reuters, while also searching for new fintech investments. The bank’s current fintech investments include companies such as […]. MORE
There’s a lot of discussion about FinTech and what it means to banks. I personally believe most of the discussion is off-beam … The post What FinTech means to banks appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. Digital Bank Fintech Future Grid Innovation OpinionOriginally, everyone was talking about disruption, disintermediation and dissing banks. Then the discussion went to incumbents versus start-ups. Then it ended up last year about partnering and co-creation. MORE
As we wrap up an unpredictable and sometimes tumultuous year in both the fintech industry and the world, we’re looking back at the last 12 months of IBM FinTech blogs to pick out some of the more popular and insightful posts of 2017. MORE
Some people talk about FinTech disruption and how payments and banking is being attacked and unbundled by start-ups, but we often look at banking too simplistically. Blockchain Fintech Grid Innovation MORE
Capital Compliance Corporate Exclusive Innovations Lending Mobile Online Open Fintech Payments Premium ABN AMRO BBVA Bank solarisBank VisaEXCLUSIVE - Known as one of the first technology companies in Europe to procure a German banking license, solarisBank has lofty ambitions for 2018. MORE
Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston all have thriving fintech communities, and are definitely worth a trip for the invested fintech entrepreneur, but the U.S. is already seeing a cluster of other fintech hubs emerge. MORE
As if the life wasn’t hard enough for fintech startups. As expected, the questions also addressed bank-fintech partnerships. Exclusive Operations Startups Bank fintech OCC OCC fintech charter partnership Silicon Valley Bank MORE
I keep trying to define and delineate more and more of this FinTech Wave. It is no longer FinTech, but PayTech, IDTech, InsurTech, WealthTech, RegTech, GulfTech and more. Fintech Grid Innovation Opinion Regulation MORE
EXCLUSIVE - On March 6 in San Francisco, 12 impressive startups demoed their latest in fintech technology at INV Fitnech's 2nd annual demo day. INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to Bank Innovation, is partnered with Fiserv and eight banking partners with over $3 trillion dollars in assets. MORE
EXCLUSIVE (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Welcome back to the fintech boom. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck. But the fintech market has rebounded. MORE
Israeli venture capital firm Viola Venture has raised $100 million towards a new independent fintech-focused fund, dubbed Viola Fintech. Capital Exclusive Startups fintech funding Israeli fintech startups venture capital MORE
South Africa’s Reserve Bank today unveiled a fintech unit. Based on a Finextra report, Groepe said of the fintech unit: Given […]. Exclusive Innovations Insurance Lending Mobile Open Fintech Payments Startups digital payments fintech Mobile banking MORE
wants to apply the old way of regulation to the fintech firms that are becoming the new norm for financial services. Fintech has started to permeate the [global] economy in one way or another—fintech Read More. fintech U.S. fintech Vested MORE
AUSTIN — Better customer service comes from disruption within, not from trying to change consumer behavior, according to Yolande Piazza, CEO of Citi Fintech. “I Corporate Exclusive Innovations Payments Startups Citi Fintech Digital Banking conference P2P Yolande Piazza Zelle MORE
French bank BNP Paribas has launched a new fund to invest in fintech startups, the bank announced today. Capital Exclusive Startups BNP Paribas fintech investment French fintech startups MORE
It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. MORE
The island nation of Mauritius will now have a sovereign fund dedicated to investment in fintech. Capital Exclusive fintech Mauritius MORE
Big banks say they want to invest in fintech. Capital DataBank Innovations Lending Mobile Open Fintech Operations Payments Citi Goldman Sachs JP MorganBut which are the ones actually putting their money on it? MORE
EXCLUSIVE – If the future of banking is partnering with fintech startups, then finding the most innovative and efficient fintechs becomes crucial for banks’ success. based The Venture Center’s FinTech Accelerator program, which is backed by financial […]. MORE
What’s hot in fintech? Regtech, insurtech, real estate, robos — all of those (and more) have enjoyed the fintech spotlight recently, with impressive startups on the leaderboard. MORE
INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to this site, announced its fifth class of startups today. Here are the six companies comprising the new class of INV Fintech: Active.ai Bookbild Confirmu Fintel Labs Fiserv INV Fintech Stakana u. MORE
based digital bank Tandem closed a deal to acquire fellow British fintech Pariti, a personal money management app in the country with about 95,000 registered users. Exclusive Mobile Payments acquisitions Harrods Bank neobanks Pariti Tandem UK fintech MORE
Fintech Related Topics Bank Innovation
MARCH 7, 2018
EXCLUSIVE (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Welcome back to the fintech boom. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck. But the fintech market has rebounded.
Bank Innovation
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
French bank BNP Paribas has launched a new fund to invest in fintech startups, the bank announced today. Capital Exclusive Startups BNP Paribas fintech investment French fintech startups
Bank Innovation
JANUARY 30, 2018
South Africa’s Reserve Bank today unveiled a fintech unit. Based on a Finextra report, Groepe said of the fintech unit: Given […]. Exclusive Innovations Insurance Lending Mobile Open Fintech Payments Startups digital payments fintech Mobile banking
Bank Innovation
APRIL 5, 2018
The Japanese Financial Services Agency, or FSA, has signed a fintech letter of cooperation with Swiss regulators the Financial Market Supervisory Authority, the agencies announced yesterday.
Bank Innovation
APRIL 27, 2018
Singapore is taking another step towards cementing itself as the top fintech hub in the world. Today the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) said it would speed up the patent granting process for fintechs in the country.
Bank Innovation
MAY 14, 2018
INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to this site, announced its fifth class of startups today. Here are the six companies comprising the new class of INV Fintech: Active.ai Bookbild Confirmu Fintel Labs Fiserv INV Fintech Stakana u.
Chris Skinner
OCTOBER 9, 2017
Following on from talking around the big ten tech themes last Friday, I thought I would follow up with five FinTech themes for right now. It was fun with the CEO, Bob … The post Five FinTech Themes from 2017 appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. Fintech Grid Uncategorized
Chris Skinner
OCTOBER 11, 2017
I blogged about the FinTech themes that came out of the Celero conference the other day and forgot to mention that I recently joined a one-day retreat at Payments International in London, as a facilitator. Fintech Grid
Bank Innovation
APRIL 16, 2018
Standard Chartered has officially open its eXellerator facility, a center designed to promote the innovation of fintech, in Hong Kong, the bank announced today. The bank will operate the innovation center under its SC Ventures arm, which invests in emerging fintechs and other startups.
PYMNTS
MAY 14, 2018
Taking a page from Goldman Sachs’ book, Morgan Stanley is beginning to lend to FinTech startups in Brazil as it seeks more of a return on its investments. Morgan Stanley’s move comes at a time when the Brazil FinTech market is exploding. According to a Goldman Sachs report from May of 2017, there are 210 FinTechs operating in Brazil, representing the largest concentration in Latin America.
Chris Skinner
JANUARY 1, 2018
There are four big things for 2018 from a FinTech viewpoint that are obvious to me however, which are: Getting down to business with Artificial … The post The FinTech outlook for 2018 appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. Fintech Future Grid OpinionI usually start the new year by making some predictions, but so many others have been writing about 2018 trends that I’m not going to.
Bank Innovation
MARCH 14, 2018
based digital bank Tandem closed a deal to acquire fellow British fintech Pariti, a personal money management app in the country with about 95,000 registered users. Exclusive Mobile Payments acquisitions Harrods Bank neobanks Pariti Tandem UK fintech
Bank Innovation
JANUARY 15, 2018
Big banks say they want to invest in fintech. Capital DataBank Innovations Lending Mobile Open Fintech Operations Payments Citi Goldman Sachs JP MorganBut which are the ones actually putting their money on it?
Bank Innovation
APRIL 20, 2018
The Central Bank of Ireland announced today that it would establish a unit to engage with technology providers, startups, and fintechs on various innovation initiatives. Exclusive Innovations Online Open Fintech Central Bank of Ireland innovations startups
Bank Innovation
MAY 8, 2018
Fintech startups have taken note of the vast opportunity in the SME space, which has been underserved by banks since the financial crisis. Commerce Exclusive Innovations Lending Open Fintech Payments Premium BlueVine cash flow Intuit QuickBooks SMB lending
Bank Innovation
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
The island nation of Mauritius will now have a sovereign fund dedicated to investment in fintech. Capital Exclusive fintech Mauritius
Chris Skinner
JULY 11, 2017
As this has happened, we have seen a counter-trend occurring, as the maturing FinTech specialists branch out to create global monoline services in platforms. Digital Bank Fintech Future Grid Opinion
Chris Skinner
APRIL 4, 2018
There’s a lot of discussion about FinTech and what it means to banks. I personally believe most of the discussion is off-beam … The post What FinTech means to banks appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. Digital Bank Fintech Future Grid Innovation OpinionOriginally, everyone was talking about disruption, disintermediation and dissing banks. Then the discussion went to incumbents versus start-ups. Then it ended up last year about partnering and co-creation.
Bank Innovation
OCTOBER 13, 2017
India’s YES Bank and the Abu Dhabi Global Markets (ADGM) have signed a pact to facilitate interaction between the fintech industries of India and United Arab Emirates. Exclusive Innovations Online Open Fintech Startups Abu Dhabi accelerators fintechs India India fintech Middle East Yes Bank
Bank Innovation
MARCH 22, 2017
The company today announced the launch of IBM Cloud for Financial Services, which will give fintechs and large FIs access to IBM APIs and data in order to build apps quickly and at scale. IBM’s cognitive platform is opening up its doors to financial services developers.
Bank Innovation
JANUARY 24, 2018
EXCLUSIVE- Echoing the mandate of PSD2, Bank of America Merrill Lynch today unveiled an API gateway that seeks to connect its commercial clients to fintechs and other third-party vendors.
Bank Innovation
JANUARY 17, 2018
Under the heading ‘SC Ventures,’ the unit will focus on the bank’s existing “minority investments in fintech,” as reported by Reuters, while also searching for new fintech investments. The bank’s current fintech investments include companies such as […].
Chris Skinner
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
My good friend Slava of Life.SREDA has just written a book called The First Fintech Bank’s Arrival. Fintech for the … The post Fintech for the Snapchat generation appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. Fintech Grid
PYMNTS
MAY 22, 2018
Payments software company HPS is launching an API for other FinTech innovators to integrate into banking systems. The company announced news on Monday (May 21) that its PowerCARD Connect-Open API aims to help FinTech developers integrate mobile payment, tokenization, biometrics and other emerging banking technologies into their own solutions. B2B Payments API B2B banking data sharing FinTech HPS News Open Banking What's Hot In B2B
Bank Innovation
JUNE 22, 2017
Now that the industry is (mostly) clear on the fintech “friend or foe” issue, startups are busy pitching their products to the eager incumbents and their innovation teams. Exclusive Innovations Operations Startups Technology Wealth Management fintech startups GoldBean innovation Jane BarrattHowever, a new creature has emerged in this process, which can potentially place more roadblocks on a startup’s development journey. Startups, beware of “innovation tourists.”
Bank Innovation
JUNE 9, 2017
As if the life wasn’t hard enough for fintech startups. As expected, the questions also addressed bank-fintech partnerships. Exclusive Operations Startups Bank fintech OCC OCC fintech charter partnership Silicon Valley Bank
Chris Skinner
AUGUST 4, 2017
Some people talk about FinTech disruption and how payments and banking is being attacked and unbundled by start-ups, but we often look at banking too simplistically. Blockchain Fintech Grid Innovation
Bank Innovation
AUGUST 17, 2017
Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston all have thriving fintech communities, and are definitely worth a trip for the invested fintech entrepreneur, but the U.S. is already seeing a cluster of other fintech hubs emerge.
Bank Innovation
MARCH 1, 2018
According to Malauzai Software, that’s the term used for vendors that “scrape” digital banking apps on the internet to gather data and then provide that data to fintechs. DataBank Mobile Online Open Fintech Payments PFM APIs Intuit Mint payment processing Yodlee
PYMNTS
AUGUST 2, 2017
Good news for FinTech startups: in the U.S., venture capitalists have been boosting their activity in the market, with Q2 FinTech investments regaining its strength, according to analysts at KPMG. The firm’s Pulse of FinTech report for Q2 2017, released this week , found overall FinTech funding in the U.S. Across the globe, FinTech funding grew, too, more than doubling quarter over quarter to $8.4
Bank Innovation
MARCH 15, 2018
fintech startup ClearScore, for $385 million (or £275 million) in a deal expected to close later this year, it was announced today. Cards Exclusive Mobile Online acquisitions ClearScore credit cards Credit Karma Experian UK fintechCredit data service Experian has agreed to acquire U.K.
Chris Skinner
AUGUST 17, 2017
I keep trying to define and delineate more and more of this FinTech Wave. It is no longer FinTech, but PayTech, IDTech, InsurTech, WealthTech, RegTech, GulfTech and more. Fintech Grid Innovation Opinion Regulation
Bank Innovation
MARCH 9, 2018
EXCLUSIVE - On March 6 in San Francisco, 12 impressive startups demoed their latest in fintech technology at INV Fitnech's 2nd annual demo day. INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to Bank Innovation, is partnered with Fiserv and eight banking partners with over $3 trillion dollars in assets.
Bank Innovation
JANUARY 30, 2018
EXCLUSIVE – If the future of banking is partnering with fintech startups, then finding the most innovative and efficient fintechs becomes crucial for banks’ success. based The Venture Center’s FinTech Accelerator program, which is backed by financial […].
Bank Innovation
APRIL 24, 2018
Capital Compliance Corporate Exclusive Innovations Lending Mobile Online Open Fintech Payments Premium ABN AMRO BBVA Bank solarisBank VisaEXCLUSIVE - Known as one of the first technology companies in Europe to procure a German banking license, solarisBank has lofty ambitions for 2018.
Bank Innovation
APRIL 5, 2018
Through a free public website, Mambu Marketplace, the Berlin-based fintech is hoping to create a comprehensive platform of tech and service providers that banks can use for various […]. Exclusive Online Open Fintech Operations Premium bank partnerships Mambu
Bank Innovation
JUNE 13, 2017
AUSTIN — Better customer service comes from disruption within, not from trying to change consumer behavior, according to Yolande Piazza, CEO of Citi Fintech. “I Corporate Exclusive Innovations Payments Startups Citi Fintech Digital Banking conference P2P Yolande Piazza Zelle
Bank Innovation
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
wants to apply the old way of regulation to the fintech firms that are becoming the new norm for financial services. Fintech has started to permeate the [global] economy in one way or another—fintech Read More. fintech U.S. fintech Vested
Bank Innovation
NOVEMBER 21, 2017
Dutch asset management firm Robeco just launched a fintech investment firm. Robeco’s Global Fintech Equities, which was launched yesterday, will focus on three segments: “today’s winners,” “fintech enablers,” and “challengers.”
Bank Innovation
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Israeli venture capital firm Viola Venture has raised $100 million towards a new independent fintech-focused fund, dubbed Viola Fintech. Capital Exclusive Startups fintech funding Israeli fintech startups venture capital
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