PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

FinTech Lendbuzz has announced Monday (July 15) that it has secured an additional $150 million in debt and equity financing led by 83North, with participation from existing investors. The debt funding was led by BHI, ConnectOne Bank, IDB Bank, Viola Credit and a large insurance company. “This is a significant step forward for Lendbuzz.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

In Florida, reported American Banker – in the community banking realm – Seacoast Banking has paired with SmartBiz Loans to shorten the loan approvals process. For smaller loans, said the financial publication, FinTech could be a useful conduit. Community banking may get a boost from technology, if recent activity is any indication.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2018

Once less than friends with FinTechs, it looks like big banks are warming to the concept of collaboration with the relatively nimbler tech upstarts. We are proud to partner with Premier Community Bank to bring automation and payment innovation to their large and growing HOA customer base in central Florida.”.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The fintech space is gaining momentum. Last year saw a double record of $46B invested across over 2,800 deals to fintech startups — a 92% uptick in funding year-over-year. GET THE 83-PAGE q2 2019 FINTECH TRENDS REPORT. Q2’19 fintech funding topped $8.3B, boosted by a record quarter of $100M+ mega-rounds. KEY TAKEAWAYS.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Other backers included Florida Funders, Post Road Partners, including investors Peter Wirth, Keith Meyers, Paul Friday & Lou DeRose, Alpine Meridian Ventures, Stormbreaker Ventures, Joe Proto, CEO of Transactis, Finexio senior management and numerous FinTech and payments industry leaders.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2018

INTRUST Bank recently announced it is also taking part in the trend of collaborating with FinTechs. In July 2017, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) held a meeting with a group of community bankers which told officials about the competitive pressures they’re facing from FinTechs.

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American Banker

AUGUST 23, 2023

Despite ESG headwinds in Florida, Climate First Bank in St. Petersburg continues to make "green" loans and plans to show consumers how their purchases affect the environment.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

Florida FinTech Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) is partnering with London FinTech Liberis , to offer small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) an alternative funding source, FIS announced in a press release Wednesday (Jan. FIS merchants in the U.S. Liberis Group.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Following our previous mapping of the most well funded startups in each state and most well funded food & beverage startups in each state , we used CB Insights database to identify the most well-funded private fintech startup in each state. FINTECH TRENDS Q3 2017 RESEARCH BRIEFING. Click on the image below to enlarge. California.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), the Florida FinTech, announced in a January press release that it was teaming with Liberis to provide an alternative funding source to small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

FinTech firms and government bodies are responding to the wave of cybercrime by developing new anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) technologies, particularly those leveraging biometric authentication factors. Other companies are adopting biometric identity verification solutions from third-party FinTechs.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 9, 2020

The CFPB announced ACFIN’s creation last September, in conjunction with finalizing revisions to its trial disclosures and no-action letter policies and its proposal to create a new fintech sandbox policy.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2020

Florida-based FinTech FIS is helping lenders provide Small Business Administration (SBA) loans under the coronavirus stimulus package, the company announced Friday (April 3). small businesses and merchants impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The CFPB announced ACFIN’ s creation last year, in conjunction with finalizing revisions to its trial disclosures and no-action letter policies and its proposal to create a new fintech sandbox policy.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2017

The city had a population of 270,934 in 2015, making it the 73rd largest city in the United States and the fourth largest in Florida. PYMNTS: What do you think makes Orlando (or Florida as a whole) an attractive location for both entrepreneurs and investors? PYMNTS: What’s Orlando’s FinTech sector like?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Its omnipresence is altering how members want to interact with their CUs, though regulatory and compliance issues often mean that members cannot reasonably expect the same lightning-fast interactions they might get from banks and FinTech firms. Deep Dive: CUs Deploy Emotional Marketing Campaigns To Stay Competitive.

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ForwardBanker

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Hundreds of movers and shakers in the banking industry will mix, mingle, and get up to speed on the latest industry topics when Deluxe Exchange (aka DX18) takes place in Boca Raton, Florida, Feb. The post Forbes, Faster Payments, and FinTech: Cutting-Edge Banking Topics at Deluxe Exchange 2018 appeared first on Deluxe FI.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida introduced a $100 billion program under the Small Business Administration (SBA) 7a program to extend long-term, inexpensive loans to small businesses. FinTech Kabbage could be seeking a sale , and in doing so, could look to garner up to $1 billion. The deal went down for $100 million.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Petersburg, Florida-based CUSO said its Enhanced Fraud Services initiative has already helped 10 credit unions combat fraud, including chargebacks stemming from instances of members’ payment card details being stolen and sold on the dark web. Credit unions have stepped up to reinforce their digital operations during the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

FinTech company Worldline was up 3.1 The combined companies will be located in FIS’ headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida. FIS paid $35 billion for Worldpay and other companies’ shares floated up on the news. percent, and software company Atos, which owns about a 50 percent stake in Worldline, was up 1.2

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American Banker

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Instacart said it would be rolling out the pilot program at more than 60 ALDI locations in Georgia, with plans to expand that to more than 570 stores in Illinois, California, Florida and Pennsylvania in the coming months. In May, global payments processor and FinTech Fiserv announced it was also taking part in the USDA’s pilot program.

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ABA Community Banking

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

As part of its efforts to facilitate community bank innovation, the Federal Reserve may provide banks with information about core processors and other critical third-party vendors that the banking agencies supervise directly, Fed Governor Michelle Bowman said today at ABA’s Conference for Community Bankers in Orlando, Florida.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

With the advent of emerging FinTech startups, banks face some competition for payments. As a result, banks are investing in and engaging with FinTech startups to grow their customer base and their market share. banks by assets have made 81 deals with FinTech companies since 2012 — and more than $4 billion in funding.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

The two partnered to enable MCCCU member access to EncoreFX’s FinTech platform and risk management strategy solutions. The CU recently acquired Florida-based Citizens State Bank , a move that will close by mid-year and expand VyStar’s presence in the state.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

FinTech investments targeting B2B and corporate services spanned the globe, with particular concentration this past week in SMB lending across India and Europe. FinTech startup ePayRails said it has garnered $2.5 The combined total is about $396 million for the week in VC funding. million tally. million tally.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Financial solutions provider Best Innovation Group (BIG), for example, recently announced that it will use the Conversation Software Development Kit (SDK) from FinTech Geezeo to expand its voice-based offerings. Elsewhere in the space, another technological development could help CU members find their financial voice.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

Children appear especially focused on this problem, which inspired a FinTech to offer biodegradable credit cards designed for use by minors. That massive shift in spending activity is rendering 90-day profiles obsolete, and FIs have had to respond, said Carlos Mejia, chief digital executive at Florida-based Pacific National Bank.

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The Financial Brand

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

New Florida institution, built by two banking veterans on a modern tech platform, may be what the start-up of the future will look like. The post Neobank Alternative: Building a Hybrid Digital-First Bank from Scratch appeared first on The Financial Brand - Banking Trends, Analysis & Insights.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The rise of FinTech offers a bit of a prism through which to view those events. The door is open, then, and has been, for FinTech in lending, where inroads have been made in, say, mortgages (like Lending Tree and Rocket Mortgage, for example). The trigger for the look back has of course has been the Sept. Behind the Numbers .

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Alan leads the firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group and James is a co-leader of the firm’s inter-disciplinary Fintech Team. Last month, the CFPB finalized its proposed revisions to its trial disclosures and no-action letter (NAL) policies and also finalized its proposal to create a new FinTech sandbox policy.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2017

Louis, Missouri; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Jacksonville, Florida. The people of Jacksonville have actually sworn to take the number one Kool-Aid consumption seat, because apparently having Disney World is not enough for Florida – it also wants to be America’s Kool-Aid capital. 11 through Aug. 13 across in Hastings.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Bank-FinTech collaboration continues to thrive as more financial service providers place small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) front-and-center of product development. Bank-FinTech collaboration isn't all about FIs ingesting third-party products and services. Progress Bank Taps Sensibill For Digital Receipts.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Which is why reports emerging in media that banks might be strategically blocking FinTech firms’ access to consumer data quickly caught so much attention. FinTechs need the data. The Federal Reserve is encountering issues, which is delaying ACH files,” Florida-based financial service firm VyStar Credit Union told clients in a tweet.

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FICO

MAY 12, 2022

After a 30-month Covid hiatus, FICO World 2022 kicked off this week in Orlando, Florida with more than 1,000 customers and partners joining the conference to explore best practices and new ideas in digital transformation and applied intelligence. FICO World Is Back!

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FICO

MARCH 28, 2023

We have also organized regional forums for female leaders in fintech, such as a recent Women in Leadership event held in Toronto in December 2022. This year, we will again have a Women in Leadership program at FICO World , which will be held May 16-19 in Hollywood, Florida. Join us there!

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

For small business lenders and for FinTech too, expansion is key; but for Biz2Credit, expansion is literal. For small businesses, expansion is key, and expansion needs capital.

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