PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2018

Coverage includes Oracle ’s decision to bring its FinTech Innovation Program to Brussels. In addition, blockchain technology is expected to take hold in India and BS/2 plans to expand its point-of-sale (POS) terminal network in Georgia. Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

We asked several banking leaders how they’ve employed fintech to ramp up their marketing campaigns, hone their analytic strategies and gain new patrons in the process. The digital world has opened vastly broader avenues for community banks to attract new customers—especially if they partner with fintechs in their endeavors.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

The ThinkTECH Accelerator is one of several initiatives underway this year to foster community bank-enabled fintech partnerships. The ThinkTECH Accelerator is one of several initiatives underway this year to foster community bank-enabled fintech partnerships. By Charles Potts, ICBA.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Reuters reported news on Tuesday that banking regulators from seven states across the United States are working to, as the newswire reported, “streamline” the FinTech reporting process, with an eye on those tech firms having an easier road toward offering their products and services across the nation.

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Breaking Banks

MARCH 13, 2020

This episode brought to you by Theragun (solving Host Jason’s hip issues), CoMotion (our partner at the University of Washington) and the Miles Card (for all the rewards junkies).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

Venture capital (VC) is not easily available to every startup, but this week, VC investors hinted at a big year ahead for the B2B FinTech space. In its oversubscribed series A funding round, OnPay , a Georgia-based payroll software startup, secured $6 million, the company said this week. Flutterwave.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 9, 2018

For Lasha Gurgenidze at Tbilisi, Georgia-based TBC Bank, this mandate combined with low operational costs were the two fundamentals he and his team followed in launching TBC’s digital-first Space Neobank. “We For a digital bank, time to market is one of the most important innovation mandates.

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William Mills

MAY 2, 2019

With more than 70 percent of all transactions going through Georgia fintech companies, it’s no surprise that the Technology Association of Georgia’s (TAG) annual FinTech South event continues to grow in size and influence, but seeing Georgia Governor Brian Kemp address more than 1500 attendees in the building that just recently hosted global, high (..)

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American Banker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Leaders at the helms of organizations like Georgia United Credit Union, BayPort Credit Union, Blend Labs and more are adapting products such as "soft check" credit scoring, artificial intelligence-powered bots to streamline application reviewal and more.

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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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William Mills

MARCH 8, 2018

Metro Atlanta has established itself as a major hub for the fintech (financial technology) industry. Here are three reasons why the fintech industry is thriving in Atlanta: Incubators and accelerators. Atlanta is home to a host of startup incubators dedicated to creating environments for early-stage fintech companies to grow.

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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.

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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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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

APRIL 2, 2020

Georgia-based Kabbage claims it has provided small business borrowers with over $9 billion in loans as of its 2009 establishment. Borrowers, who realized the credit lines were halted when they signed onto their accounts, claim the company did not provide them with notice, according to a Bloomberg report.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

Walker joined Edwards and Speight for this weeks’ chat about the PPP’s ongoing rollout and brought an unusual perspective to the discussion as he is the CEO of a business that just got a loan via First Planters as well as a board member at a different community bank and a Georgia State Senator.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

New Hampshire FinTech Bottomline Technologies has launched a free initiative to help the nation’s banks provide relief to small businesses hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. In February, Bottomline released its 2020 Treasury Fraud and Controls Survey in partnership with Strategic Treasurer, a Georgia-based financial processing company.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Gaming FinTech Mazooma has formed a partnership with FinTech data network Plaid to bring an instant transfer solution to the iGaming and sports betting industry, according to a Tuesday (Nov. Mazooma, a gaming industry leader for more than 15 years, is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and was founded in 2009. 10) press release.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Through the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee and Washington are looking to standardize the ways firms across traditional financial services and FinTech upstarts apply for, and are granted, licenses. As was widely reported this past week, seven of them are trying to do so.

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Payments Source

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Georgia's fintech academy; Softbank builds mobile pay tech. The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: EU cracks down on laundering; ATMs decline in the U.K.;

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

She is a board advisor to the Nationwide Building Society in London and serves as an advisor to FinTech startups. In July , Trulioo expanded its global identity verification services to customers in new countries, including Bahrain, Iceland, Qatar and Georgia. She has more than 20 years of payments and digital security experience. .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In addition, MineralTree acquired Inspyrus , a Silicon Valley FinTech that specializes in AP, and Regal Software , the Atlanta-based provider of B2B disbursement software. Regal Software, founded in 2008 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, provides ERP (enterprise resource planning) connectors to more than 160 systems.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

BlockCard, a digital currency FinTech platform by Ternio, is teaming with peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin marketplace Paxful to debut a new digital currency debit card, which lets users take out money from an automated teller machine (ATM), among other features.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2017

Created in 2017, the API Standardization Industry Group has begun developing an application program interface (API) standardization “playbook” to help enhance support for payments and the business needs of financial institutions, companies, FinTechs and other industry stakeholders and participants.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Goldman Sachs , a financial services firm, acquired GreenSky, a fintech company, for $2.24B in an all-stock transaction. GreenSky: Georgia-based GreenSky is a fintech company that provides buy now, pay later (BNPL) solutions to merchants, enabling them to expand payment options for their customers and increase sales.

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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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American Banker

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The Paycheck Protection Program and encouraging digital innovation are top priorities for James Edwards, CEO of United Bank in Georgia. He also expects the American Bankers Association to promote diversity and regulatory reform in the next year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Montana-based FinTech Payouts Network announced a partnership with Georgia-based Priority Commercial Payments in a press release Tuesday (Oct. The partnership enables instant payouts instead of using checks or ACH to provide payments to consumers, employees and businesses.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

The challenges that led FinTechs to enter this space after the 2008 financial crisis still persist, however, motivating SMBs to demand their loans from these entities be quick and digital. Facilitating this support has become critical for lenders during the pandemic, notably those providing access to the U.S. The Speed and Security Balance.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

an enterprise lead management solutions provider, is aiming to tackle this in partnership with FinTech CuneXus Solutions by providing an automated lending solution that keeps the process swift while screening applicants, ensuring that loans only go to eligible candidates. Rollick Inc. ,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

First Volunteer Bank has 24 branches through Tennessee and Georgia. The integration is going to let banks automate some of the last manual processes of AR financing to improve efficiency and transparency. The bank has been using Jack Henry’s AR financing processes for over 20 years, and it recently leveraged it with its core platform.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

Entersekt , the push-based authentication and app security company, announced Tuesday (June 12) that it has opened a new office in Atlanta, Georgia, aimed at supporting the company’s growth and serving as the headquarters in North America.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

As the financial crisis unfolded in 2008, they met to discuss what they saw as the rise of FinTech and the increasing availability of financial software and data. such as Zopa and Lending Club, they saw an opportunity in emerging markets that had been ignored by the big banks, such as Russia, Georgia and Kazakhstan.

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Let's Talk Payments

APRIL 16, 2016

million in funding ATLANTA (April, 11, 2016): A year after launching an accelerator program focused on helping entrepreneurs in Georgia’s growing financial. 8 startups in program have already raised $16.8

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William Mills

JUNE 1, 2017

Wilkerson earned a bachelor of business administration degree in marketing from the University of Georgia. Chiasson holds a bachelor of science degree in mass communications from the University of West Georgia. Russo is a graduate of the University of Georgia, where she earned a bachelor of arts degree in English.

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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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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In the past 5 years, FIS’s accelerator has helped 57 startups find product/market fit in the difficult-to-get-started fintech world. Cirrus Secure 7-minute demo @FIS Fintech Accelerator Demo Day. Award: MVP of the FIS 2020 Fintech Accelerator. LeapXL 6-minute demo @FIS Fintech Accelerator Demo Day. Cirrus Secure.

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