Bank Innovation

JUNE 28, 2018

Bento for Business wants to provide its customers with money management tools combined with banking solutions, similar to the personal financial management app for millennials, MoneyLion, according to company CEO Farhan Ahmad. For the task, San Francisco-based Bento raised $9 million in a new round of funding today.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Small business lending platform Kabbage has announced the acquisition of data analytics platform Radius Intelligence. The online lending platform pointed to Radius Intelligence’s capabilities in data acquisition and entity resolution, which enable its data analytics platform to analyze disparate and complex datasets, it said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

4) to buy its FinTech competitor, SIA , for about 4.6 This is not the first mega deal involving FinTech companies. billion) to acquire Ingenico Group , the Paris-based technology provider of secure electronic transactions to create a FinTech dynamo. the San Francisco-based financial services company.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2019

million fundraise, India-based FinTech BharatPe revealed new funding for its solution aimed at small businesses. 26) that the company raised $50 million in Series B funding led by Ribbit Capital, based in San Francisco, and Steadview Capital, based in London. Four months after announcing a $15.5 TechCrunch reported Monday (Aug.

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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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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 6, 2024

Take a close look now at our curated list of top fintech, banktech, payment tech and investech global conferences for 2024. These are the biggest and best events in the financial services space for technologists, product managers, developers, marketers and C-Suite execs at both financial institutions and fintech firms.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

Corporate travel and expense (T&E) management solutions provider TripActions led this week’s B2B venture capital roundup with its announcement of new funding that propelled its valuation to $4 billion. Small business lending startup Lulalend is driving alternative finance growth in South Africa, and just announced $6.5

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

It was another busy week for B2B FinTech startups, with globally and vertically diverse companies securing new funding for their enterprise-targeting tools. PYMNTS takes a look at the latest in B2B FinTech funding below. Working in the business management market is Scoro , an Estonia-based startup that just announced $5.2

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Gonzobanker

MARCH 25, 2020

I was comparing today’s situation with a previous disaster – the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco, where I was in charge of a bank’s disaster recovery plan. Digital Lending. An early survey of 93 banks done by Fintech Forge showed that 31% of respondents already had back-office employees working from home.

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FICO

APRIL 2, 2019

This April, the world’s leading event in financial services innovation kicks off – LendIt Fintech USA 2019 in San Francisco on April 8 and 9th. Sign up to attend LendIt Fintech USA 2019 , and connect with the FICO team in person at Booth #1315. Panel – Deep Dive into UltraFICO (April 9 at 11:15 a.m.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Companies in the asset management arena are assisting with or replacing traditional asset management divisions by providing software and services for businesses, institutional investors, and more. . Companies like Fount and Liqid are digital asset managers with robo-advising capabilities. SMB lending . First name.

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 31, 2019

Seeing other customers in the store raising their eyebrows, the store manager, a very amicable person in her 50s, walked up to the group and read the house rules from a placard. The teens scoffed at the manager’s dictation of how they’re supposed to behave, and amusingly grew annoyed for being deprived of some social media mobile device time.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 29, 2015

ICBA warns of risks of online marketplace lending models. Online marketplace lenders are a new form of nonbank specialty lending that uses technology platforms to allow Wall Street and individual investors to directly fund loans to consumers and small businesses. Lend exclusively over online peer-to-peer platforms.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

In India, where investors have shied away from alternative nonbank financial companies as of late, one small business (SMB) lender managed to secure an impressive funding round. Other investment targets included a Chinese B2B eCommerce platform with a niche focus, an InsurTech startup targeting gig workers and corporate spend management firm.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Their were 9 fintech companies and one healthtech. Description: Alternative credit scoring and lending in emerging markets. HQ: San Francisco & Bengaluru, India. Description: Digital banking and spend management platform for global NGOs. Description: Digital wealth manager connecting Africans to U.S.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A few years ago, very few people would have guessed that tens of billions of dollars would be invested in fintech vendors and solutions annually – except it happened. 2021 fintech investments, merger activities, and overall focus were off the charts. Best Fintech Acquisition by a Bank. Fintech Acquiring Bank.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Three ways millennials could accelerate FinTech trends in 2016. Thus, it’s not shocking that millennials are a driving factor in the growing financial technology, or FinTech, movement. The FinTech industry is continuing to grow and millennials are serving as a key driver, but what can we expect to see in 2016? By Eyal Fruchtman.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 18, 2016

Last week we observed an upsurge in collaborations between startups and financial institutions, but this week is all startup glory. There are some old pros still doing us proud with 9-figure rounds, like Affirm, but a major Korean vital force is not far behind, in the form of e-commerce and seriously chill Read More.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 16, 2017

Less than a month after announcing its new $105 million SoFi Prime Income Fund to help raise funds to issue loans, online lending innovator SoFi is making headlines again with the launch of SoFi Wealth. The new initiative, the company’s first digital wealth management offering, will allow investors in the U.S. Mike Cagney is CEO.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 16, 2016

Along with the usual payment and lending startups, two insurtech companies raised substantial rounds: Embroker ($12.2 Finovate alums accounted for 40% of the week’s dollar volume including: Personal Capital raised $75 million for its digital wealth management service. HQ: San Francisco, California.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The total included mega-rounds of $30+ million to three lending plays: FundBox ($50 mil), CommonBond ($35 mil), Orchard Platform ($30 million) and one financial-institution-supported blockchain startup: Chain ($35 mil). The $208 million this week brings total 2015 YTD fintech fundings to $12.4 HQ: San Francisco, California.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 31, 2015

Another monster week in fintech. Depending on how much Stripe received in its round (at a $5 billion valuation), something north of $600 million flowed to 17 fintech companies worldwide. To put that in perspective, during all of 2014 our alums raised just over $1 billion (excludes IPOs (Yodlee, OnDeck, and Lending Club).

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 7, 2015

It’s another unicorn week in fintech, although “only” $750 million of the nearly $1 billion in new funding was equity. Affirm’s $275 million round was rumored to include about $200 million in debt to fund it’s alt-lending efforts. Trizic ($3 million) a new wealth management platform provider.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 19, 2016

Fintech deals by size from 23 April to 29 April 2016: Mosaic. HQ: San Francisco, California. Marketplace small business lending platform. HQ: San Francisco, California. Tags: SMB, factoring, accounts receivables, trade finance, lending, credit, underwriting, Citibank (investor), Finovate alum.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Fintech circles were abuzz this week as four massive fundings pushing several companies higher up the billion-dollar valuation ladder (yep, I can avoid the U-word if I really try). student loans, the worldwide fintech total surpassed one billion ($1.254 billion to be precise) thanks to Paytm ($675 million), Avant ($325 million) and 17 others.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 2, 2016

billion funding at Alipay’s Ant Financial , we just set the one-week record for fintech venture funding with $4.79 Here are the fintech deals by size from 16 April to 22 April 2016: Ant Financial. P2P lending platform. HQ: San Francisco, California. Land purchase & sales management platform.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 20, 2015

Fintech funding records continue to fall. HQ: San Francisco, California. Alt-consumer lending. HQ: San Francisco, California. HQ: San Mateo, California. Peer-to-peer lending marketplace for small businesses. Tags: Commercial lending, underwriting, SMB, credit report. Total raised: $1.75

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 18, 2015

Finovate alum, Azimo landed the biggest round outside the lending sector, $20 million at a $100 million valuation. All told, 12 fintech companies raised $205 million ($105 million equity, $100 million debt) this week. P2P mortgage lending. HQ: San Francisco, California. HQ: San Francisco, California.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 22, 2015

” Pictured (left to right): Miranda Lanzillotti, Marketing Communications Manager, and Pamela Rice, Senior Vice President of Technology, for OnDeck, discussing lending APIs at FinDEVr 2014. And last month, the company teamed up with Intuit to launch a $100 million lending fund for small businesses.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 15, 2015

Two FinovateSpring 2015 presenters landed big rounds: Credit Sesame raised $16 million to expand its debt management and credit tracking platform. Vouch landed $6 million to help put the “first P” back in P2P lending. HQ: San Francisco, California. Consumer credit management. Online lending ( Paidy ).

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The fintech sector attracted $266 million in new capital the second week of August. 5 million to CUneXus to expand its consumer lending platform. . $5 5 million to CUneXus to expand its consumer lending platform. Fintech deals by size from 6 Aug to 12 August 2016: Interactions. HQ: San Francisco, California.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The money flow into fintech continued unabated this week with more than a half-billion ($557 million) raised by 24 companies. Year-to-date fintech firms have raised $13 billion. HQ: San Francisco, California. HQ: San Mateo, California. HQ: San Francisco, California. Risk management for P2P lending.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Buoyed by 7 Startupbootcamp Insurance entrants each grabbing $17,000, a record 30 fintech companies raised money this week for a total of just under $100 million ($95.8 Trizic grabbed $2 million for its wealth management platform. With just two weeks remaining in the year, the total invested in private fintech companies YTD is $18.1

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Large swaths of cash flowed into the global fintech sector last week. HQ: San Francisco, California. HQ: San Francisco, California. Tags: Consumer, debit card, giftcard, payments, card management. Alt-personal & student lender. Latest round: $275 million ($75 million equity, $200 million debt).

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

P2P lending giant Prosper announced a deal in which a group of institutional investors has agreed to purchase up to $5 billion in loans on the San Francisco-based company’s platform over the next 24 months. Jefferies Group and Third Point, and an entity of which Soros Fund Management serves as principal investment manager.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Funding to the fintech sector maintained pace this week with another quarter-billion ($234.3 HQ: San Francisco, California. Auto lending marketplace lender. HQ: San Francisco, California. HQ: San Jose, California. Risk management. Mobile P2P lending platform. Total raised: $135 million.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 27, 2016

This week, small business lender Mayava Capital honored the most influential people in small business lending in its Marketplace Lending Power 20 awards. The recipients in order of rank: Lending Club CEO & Founder, Renaud Laplanche. Added a small business lending option in 2015. Took the company public in 2014.

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