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Call It Alt-Credit Or POS Lending, ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Just Got Bigger

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Silicon Valley FinTech Affirm is also a regular in the top 5 this year. In addition to its core POS lending business, Affirm branched out into financial services in June, debuting a high-yield savings account called Affirm Savings. Leveraging Risk the Right Way. The account comes with 1.30

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

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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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Fintech Fundings: 21 Companies Raise $440 Million Week Ending July 23

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While not a pure fintech play, we included it here because its primary customers are the big insurers, including the U.S. CircleBack Lending. Consumer lending P2P marketplace. Fortress Risk Management. Enterprise risk management services for financial institutions. Argos Risk. government.

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Fintech Fundings: 38 Companies Raised $300 Million First Week of June

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With 38 deals reported – one shy of the weekly record – fintech companies raised $303 million worldwide the first week of June. Fintech deals by size from May 28 to 3 June, 2016: Partners Life. Alt-lending. Tags: Consumer, lending, peer-to-peer, P2P, credit, underwriting, investing. Online insurance. Latest round: $134.5

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

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There is an understanding that technology and fintech are going to cause radical change, but the how, how big and when are still very unclear. If you think of teams that take early system adoption risk, manage it well and get an edge on the competition as a result, you probably don’t think first of a $1 billion credit union in Kalamazoo.

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Fintech Fundings: 21 Companies Raise $215 Million Week Ending Feb 19

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Although we saw one high-flying fintech unicorn crash to earth this week , the fintech sector continued to attract significant capital with 21 companies raising $214.8 Seven weeks into the new year, fintech companies have raised $4.7 Here are the fintech deals by size from 13 Feb to 19 Feb 2016: StoneEagle Services (VPay).

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Fintech Fundings: 26 Companies Raise $280 Million in 4th Week of June

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It was a huge week in German fintech funding, coinciding with, but too soon to be caused by, Brexit. All told, 26 fintech companies worldwide raised $281 million during the third week of June including five Finovate alums: Plaid landed $44 million from Goldman Sachs. Fintech deals by size from 18 June to 24 June, 2016: Circle.