PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Qwil, which is based in San Francisco, said it was going to use the funding to expand, and hire new employees, while increasing the breadth of the people and businesses it lends to. CEO Johnny Reinsch co-founded the company in 2015.

Lending 130

Lending San Francisco Groups Company 130

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Qwil, which is based in San Francisco, said it was going to use the funding to expand, and hire new employees, while increasing the breadth of the people and businesses it lends to. CEO Johnny Reinsch co-founded the company in 2015.

Lending 130

Lending San Francisco Groups Company 130

Bank Innovation

JUNE 20, 2019

Citizens Bank is generating one-third of its mortgage applications online, thanks to a suite of tools the company rolled early this year and a partnership with San Francisco-based fintech firm Blend.

San Francisco 199

San Francisco Tools User Experience Fintech 199

BankInovation

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fintech Blend Labs is integrating a title and escrow company it acquired June 30 into its platform as part of a push to automate the mortgage process, the company said on Thursday’s earnings call.

San Francisco 98

San Francisco Lending Fintech Company 98

American Banker

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The San Francisco fintech, which is buying Radius Bancorp, will discontinue peer-to-peer lending and instead offer new products, like high-yield savings accounts, to its retail investors.

San Francisco 92

San Francisco Lending Fintech Retail 92

Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2017

The San Francisco-based fintech used to charge its customers $9 per month, but after conducting a survey, CEO Brian Merritt told Bank Innovation that he realized Seed could serve customers better by being free. EXLUSIVE – SME-focused digital bank Seed is nixing its monthly fee and will now be free for customers.

San Francisco 236

San Francisco Survey Digital Banking Innovation 236

Bank Innovation

MARCH 21, 2019

The San Francisco-based fintech startup also announced it has surpassed $1 billion in bookings through its platform, which enables small businesses and freelancers to streamline processes from capturing leads and delivering proposals to sending invoices and […].

San Francisco 170

San Francisco Management Fintech Company 170

PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

One of the nation’s biggest names in mortgage lending has put the brakes on home equity lines of credit (HELOC) as the economic turmoil caused by COVID-19 is making the U.S. Also in March, PYMNTS reported on Noah, a FinTech startup that offers a novel approach to tapping home equity in this time of uncertainty. Wells Fargo & Co.

San Francisco 154

San Francisco Marketing Lending Report 154

American Banker

MARCH 28, 2016

San Francisco Fed President John Williams discusses the potential for new fintech products to make predatory lending easier, whether big banks need to be broken up, and the likelihood of another recession.

San Francisco 28

San Francisco Lending Fintech Technology 28

PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Movement to foster collaboration between FinTech firms and traditional financial firms continues to gather steam across the globe, aided by government encouragement and initiatives. FinTech Alliance debuted this week, with a roster that tops 500 members. The main thing that will be removed is lending. banking charter. …

Fintech 108

Fintech Los Angeles San Francisco Examples 108

PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

venture capital sphere this week: VC funding for FinTech startups in Q1 alone hit $1.2 leads the rest of the world in the total value of FinTech investment due to the large amount of funds available to invest in the market, with investors focusing on late-stage, clear front-runner FinTech companies,” said KMPG U.S. “The

Fintech 192

Fintech San Francisco Capital Software 192

Bank Innovation

APRIL 12, 2016

Last week Money 20/20 lent its fintech passion to #Copenhagen, whose reach surpassed a staggering 3.2 million in a three-day period last week, surpassing other fintech satellite cities #NewYork and #London, the latter of which barely broke one million during the same three-day period.

Lending 150

Lending Fintech San Francisco Online 150

PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2016

Lending Club, which has been struggling to recover from loan errors and the departure of its Chief Executive (among other issues), has named Patrick Dunne, a veteran of BlackRock, as its new chief capital officer. Dunne is well known in financial circles and his appointment is seen as a boon to the beleaguered Lending Club.

Lending 100

Lending Capital San Francisco Fintech 100

Bank Innovation

MAY 13, 2016

Fear of fintech disruption is still common in banking, but for Bank of the West, “fintech” means opportunity. The San Francisco-based bank is working on deepening its links with Silicon Valley neighbors, and has a hackathon planned for June 17-19 in concert with parent BNP Paribas.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Fintech Operations Lending 150

PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

FinTech Revolut is working with Decision Tech , a price-comparison technology company, to launch a new service to help users compare — and switch — providers of gas, electricity, broadband, mobile and TV. For one, the digital bank startup said it had landed $80 million in venture funding from San Francisco-based TSG Consumer Partners.

Comparison 141

Comparison San Francisco Fintech Groups 141

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.

Company 151

Company San Francisco Payments Fintech 151

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Plus, online lending startup SoFi is looking to go public through a SPAC. Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company to debut on the stock market. Synctera Brings 'FinTech As A Service' To Community Banks.

San Francisco 130

San Francisco Community Bank Video Capital 130

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.

Analytics 137

Analytics Data San Francisco Lending 137

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.

San Francisco 116

San Francisco Capital Lending Fintech 116

Bank Innovation

JUNE 28, 2018

For the task, San Francisco-based Bento raised $9 million in a new round of funding today. 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.

San Francisco 170

San Francisco Millennials Tools Management 170

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The San Francisco-based digital mortgage and loan platform on Wednesday (Sept. based early growth, FinTech-focused venture capital firm. The advantage of digital data collection lies with having a more accurate view of the customer and provides the ability to make better lending decisions in real time, Ghamsari said.

San Francisco 180

San Francisco Washington Survey Data 180

BankInovation

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Flowcast, a San Francisco-based credit-scoring startup, is working with banks to give a fintech advantage to large incumbents while also aiming to reach small businesses. Banks have been using very […].

San Francisco 75

San Francisco Tools Fintech Lending 75

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.

United States 72

United States Fintech North Carolina Rhode Island 72

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Modulr helps digital businesses in fields like lending, banking, travel, FinTech, employment services and accounting to build new payment products for customers, the release stated. The San Francisco-based company said in a Thursday (Nov. Intesa Sanpaolo, Kyriba Partner For Dynamic Discount Service.

Cards 196

Cards Payments San Francisco Tools 196

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

San Francisco-based FinTech company Square, known for its white card readers, has once again decided to become a banking establishment, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. billion in cash advances and loans through Square Capital , its digital lending subsidiary.

San Francisco 165

San Francisco Utah Capital Regulation 165

PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

The company is headquartered in San Francisco. He said Guzy “brings more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur and FinTech venture investor” and a deep experience with Asian businesses. Shinar added that Fundbox today is better-positioned than any other FinTech out there “to reach the next level.”.

San Francisco 130

San Francisco Strategy Fintech Operations 130

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.

Conference 15

Conference Fintech San Francisco Lending 15

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

San Francisco-based Chime launched in 2013, offering debit cards, savings accounts and checking accounts to consumers without any fees. “Our payment processor has been experiencing issues today, resulting in our app + website being down,” Chime said in a tweet on Thursday (Oct. Earlier this year, it reached a valuation of $1.5

Digital Banking 107

Digital Banking San Francisco Leadership Cards 107

Let's Talk Payments

APRIL 9, 2016

San Francisco (April 11, 2016) – National Funding, one of the largest private lenders of small business loans, today announced that Torrie Inouye has been named the company’s president.

San Francisco 40

San Francisco National Industry Lending 40

FICO

MAY 16, 2016

Last month the President of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank addressed the LendIt USA conference here in San Francisco. But for fintech’s potential to be met, we need to make sure we don’t reinvent or exacerbate shortcomings that have plagued our financial system thus far.

Fintech 40

Fintech San Francisco Regulation Lending 40

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.

San Francisco 134

San Francisco Phoenix Meeting Training 134

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.

Innovation 40

Innovation San Francisco Analytics Lending 40

PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

It wasn’t the only corporate T&E firm that secured new funding, though, nor was it the only B2B FinTech that raised venture capital. Reports in KFGO did not disclose the nature or value of the investment, though noted it is part of HSBC’s broader effort to invest in FinTech.

Capital 108

Capital Analytics San Francisco Lending 108

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.

San Francisco 70

San Francisco Lending New York City Online 70

American Banker

JUNE 8, 2016

With its very survival at stake, the San Francisco-based marketplace lender is balancing key priorities that are sometimes in conflict with each other.

San Francisco 28

San Francisco Lending Digital Banking Fintech 28

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Ford Motor Company, for one, is on track to bring car buying into the digital age by leveraging software developed by San Francisco-based automotive FinTech startup AutoFi Inc. Ford’s lending arm also recently took an equity stake in AutoFi, said The Wall Street Journal , for an undisclosed amount.

San Francisco 100

San Francisco Innovation Industry Lending 100

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. Based in Germany, Fraugster raised more than $13.9 million for its anti-fraud solutions designed for retailers.

Software 158

Software North Carolina Capital San Francisco 158