Brazil anticipated to become Ebury's main market by revenue
The Paypers
JANUARY 22, 2024
UK-based fintech company Ebury has started widening its operations in Brazil, which it reportedly sees as a potential main revenue market.
How Big Tech And FinTech Are Trying to Save Main Street SMBs
PYMNTS
MAY 20, 2020
Most businesses have been hit hard by the global pandemic, but perhaps no segment has been more crippled or left with a future more uncertain than the Main Street local establishments that rely on daily sales for traffic. Also looking to give Main Street merchants an easier way to set up digital shop online is OfferUp.
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Global Fintech M&A Deals Set to Outpace Last Year
Bank Innovation
AUGUST 2, 2018
Fintech M&A deals have sustained volume and value this quarter. During 2Q 18, fintech deals totaled $12.7 This boost in transaction volume is mainly due to the consolidation of sectors, according to KPMG’s biannual “Pulse of Fintech” report. billion, up from $7 billion in 2Q17. Major deals such as PayPal’s $2.2
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Main Street?s Digital Shift, ATM Innovation, PPP Loans Top This Week?s News
PYMNTS
MAY 29, 2020
We have deep dives on Main Street’s digital shift, ATM innovation and PPP loans. FIs Or FinTechs: Who Will Power Banking’s Big Digital Shift? NEW DATA: Inside Main Street SMBs’ Digital Shift. FinTechs Help Main Street Find Its Footing. The Flaw In Demonizing Big Tech. SBA reports show that $510.5
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PPP: Paycheck Protection or Main Street SMB Rescue Program?
PYMNTS
MAY 8, 2020
months of payroll (plus some expenses) if they could prove it necessary to continue to operate their business as the businesses were told to close their doors as a result of the pandemic. Treasury into the program would likely be fully depleted by the time the panel reassembled for the sixth conversation the next week.
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Europe Fintech Funding: ‘Unicorn’ Younited secures $63M
BankInovation
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Paris-based fintech Younited has reached unicorn status after breaking through the $1 billion valuation mark following a $63 million raise from its main shareholders including Goldman Sachs, Eurazeo and Bpifrance. The 13-year-old fintech, which operates in five European countries, provides a cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that (..)
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Why Larger Firms May Soon Face The Same (Cash) Pressures As Main Street SMBs
PYMNTS
MAY 11, 2020
The situation facing the smallest firms on Main Street is dire, even with funding from the Paycheck Protection Program in hand. When PPP forgivable loans were factored in, PYMNTS found, the companies said they would have enough funds to stay operating another 69 days. To a certain extent, that’s true. As many as 24.9
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Why community banks should partner with fintechs
Independent Banker
JANUARY 31, 2022
With consumer expectations seeming to evolve faster every year, community banks could consider partnering with a fintech to keep up with technological innovation. of bankers are either strongly interested in or already working with fintechs in digital account opening. The benefits of fintechs. By Elizabeth Judd. Quick Stat.
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Maine amends Consumer Credit Code to target loans made using bank partnership model
CFPB Monitor
AUGUST 5, 2021
Maine has amended its Consumer Credit Code to target loans made using a bank partnership model. The amendments include an anti-evasion provision under which a purported agent or service provider is deemed a “lender” subject to Title 9-A, Article 2 of Maine Revised Statutes.
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How 5G Will Shake Up Banking and FinTech?
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 12, 2018
Financial institutions are in the midst of becoming more mobile, with many of those legacy operations opting to — or at least considering — working more closely with FinTech providers to upgrade services, retain customers and acquire new ones. The debut of 5G promises to add another tool that can aid such efforts. Digital Demand.
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Boost efficiency through operational innovation in financial services
Insights on Business
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
Operational innovation is vital in a highly competitive financial services sector, with a new community of digital banks and other firms vying for market share. Drivers for Operational Innovation. Ongoing conversations between IBM and CFOs over the years have identified key activities that can help progress operational efficiency.
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Forging FinTech-FI Partnerships With mPOS?
PYMNTS
APRIL 12, 2019
But FinTechs and financial institutions are increasingly crafting partnerships designed to help them both thrive in this global world of digital payment and commerce. That was one of the main messages in a recent PYMNTS interview with David Budzevski, executive director, head of merchant acquiring products at Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
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FinTech Chipper Cash To Expand Into Nigeria
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
Alicia Levine, who works at BRCK, an internet hardware and service startup, will become the company’s chief operating officer. In addition to its main product, Chipper Cash also started Chipper Checkout, a fee-based mobile payments product that will also be available in Nigeria within several months.
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Why The Bank-FinTech Relationship Is More Complicated Than Conflicted
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
The ongoing struggle, supposedly existential in nature, that pits upstart, relatively young FinTech firms against arrogantly complacent banks for supremacy in this new and growing world of digital payments and commerce. Or, as a recent CNBC article put it, quoting a source, “a mass extinction event.”. The subject? Trust in Banks.
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191 The Finanser’s Week: 13th January – 20th January 2019
Chris Skinner
JANUARY 19, 2019
The main blog headlines are … The new FinTech bank For years, I’ve been wondering why people in business operations couldn’t align their needs with the people delivering technology in the organisation. The CIO would sit outside the business, watching and responding to requests.
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How FinTech Apps Can Ace Security
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
In this month’s feature story Nicolas Dinh, chief operating officer of a year-old money management and payment app provider STACK explained how startups can keep customers safe and prove their security abilities. Deep Dive: How FinTechs, FIs Can Arm Up Against Fraud. To read the full story, download the Tracker.
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The year in IBM FinTech
Insights on Business
DECEMBER 27, 2017
As we wrap up an unpredictable and sometimes tumultuous year in both the fintech industry and the world, we’re looking back at the last 12 months of IBM FinTech blogs to pick out some of the more popular and insightful posts of 2017. Some even say that blockchain will be the most influential FinTech technology of 2018.
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P2P lending makes it to main street?
Celent Banking
JANUARY 22, 2015
Peer to Peer (P2P) lending is one of those situations and banks have started to experiment with it, taking P2P lending to main street. For example in Argentina it was the first P2P lender to operate with the approval of the regulator, under a trust structure where Afluenta administers the trust and the money is out of its estate.
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Africa is leap-frogging the financial world with mobile
Chris Skinner
MAY 30, 2017
Here is how he saw things … Fintech in Rwanda: the place where Telcos are surpassing Banks in the financial sector Telcos dominate in the financial sector of Rwanda Last week I participated in the leading fintech conference in Africa “Dot Finance”, which took place in Kigali, capital of Rwanda.
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WEX Reorganizes With New Team For B2B Payments
PYMNTS
APRIL 13, 2020
Payments FinTech WEX is introducing a new corporate payment solutions team as it moves to reorganize its business, the company said in a statement on Monday (April 13). Aquilina previously spent almost eight years working in commercial card products at Mastercard prior to joining the Portland, Maine-based WEX.
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Standard Chartered Plans to Create a Series of Challenger Banks in Emerging Markets
Bank Innovation
AUGUST 24, 2018
billion in assets and operates mainly in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, announced in June that it would begin work on developing a disruptive new business model for the Hong […]. Standard Chartered, headquartered in London, is expanding its global digital footprint from Hong Kong to the west coast of Africa.
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FinTech Step Aims To Create The Concept Of ‘Family Banking’
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 23, 2020
I got my first bank account at 14 from Wells Fargo, and it's still my main account today,” MacDonald said. More than a half-million users signed on within the first six weeks of operation. And more importantly, teens grow into adults who age into their prime spending years. Creating A Balance.
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Today In Payments: $50B In Crypto Moved Out Of China; Uber Health To Deliver Meds
PYMNTS
AUGUST 21, 2020
Plus, Amazon has put some hiring on hold for its Alexa operation. Amazon has put some hiring on hold in its Alexa operation amid the pandemic. Jim Cunha, senior vice president of secure payments and FinTech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, tells Karen Webster why the Fed is working with MIT to explore digital dollars.
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What The UAE Is Teaching Global FinTechs About SMB Banking
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
The story he told PYMNTS was one of FinTech’s global impact, and how the contributions of SMBs are being recognized for their importance. The government, for instance, has set up funding meant to guarantee and encourage more lending to those smaller operations. However, that’s changing.
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Banks Tap FinTechs For Remittance Overhaul
PYMNTS
AUGUST 14, 2019
A group of Nordic banks have selected Mastercard to overhaul its financial services operations for the region. In Southeast Asia, FinTech InstaReM recently released a new platform of its own. Financial institutions (FIs) that use the platform can also access data that can be used to pursue new revenue opportunities.
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168 ASEAN’s FinTech Reputation Rubs Off On SMBs
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Southeast Asia is now front and center on the world’s FinTech stage, and it’s no accident. Regulatory efforts to promote FinTech innovation, a bustling climate for blockchain and interest from other markets eyeing the region for expansion have all led to Southeast Asia’s impressive standing in this space.
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FinTech Niyo Eyes Financial Inclusion With India Payroll Tech
PYMNTS
MARCH 1, 2020
NPCI will assist workers with using the local payment network Rupay, which operates with ATMs, point of sales (POS) devices and eCommerce sites. Our main objective is to provide digital salary management, impart education on essential labor laws and provide secure financial solution opportunities to blue-collar workers.
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PYMNTS
JANUARY 11, 2018
While the data included business loans, Magilla noted that mortgages are the main driver behind this trend. The report noted no correlation between banks’ implantation of digitized solutions in their trade finance operations and rejection rates of providing trade finance to businesses. So while lending volume in the U.S. ”
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Why Banks Need FinTech To Address Their Own Complicated Treasuries
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
Banks are finding it more difficult than ever to ignore potential FinTech partnerships that could better serve their corporate customers. When it comes to corporate treasury, business clients demand robust solutions and services from their banks, and FinTech players are stepping in to help.
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FinTech Firms Show Banks The ‘Art Of The Possible’ In SMB Lending
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
” Banks have not invested in their small business lending operations to improve the process for the borrower, though. According to Phelan, even so, FinTech firms are playing an important role in this market by lighting the way for banks to understand what they need to compete and improve their SMB finance offerings.
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Bank Innovation
DECEMBER 24, 2018
In my career to date working for innovative fintechs – including my current role at Finastra – I have had great opportunities to create, build and structure high-performing teams, and have enjoyed every minute of it. One of the main lessons learned is that what really makes teams work is having not just the best […].
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Thai Fintech startup Omise Raises $25M Via A Coin Offering
PYMNTS
JULY 6, 2017
Omise, a fintech startup headquartered in Thailand, has raised $25 million in new financing via a coin offering. OMG token holders get the opportunity to make money by helping operate the network, noted the report. Currently its main business is enabling digital payments over the Internet in Thailand, Japan and Indonesia.
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Apple Pay, X-Border Invoices, Quick Accept Top This Week’s News
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Morgan Chase is banking on QuickAccept to edge out FinTech rivals Square and PayPal. JPMorgan Chase is banking on QuickAccept to edge out FinTech competitors PayPal and Square. Saving Main Street From Its Downward Pandemic Spiral. It was a busy week for commerce and payments, as Apple Pay turned six and J.P.
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The largest payments company in the world that most people have never heard of
Chris Skinner
MARCH 22, 2017
I blogged a year ago about TechFin, the incumbents’ view of applying technology to existing banking services, versus FinTech which seeks to transform the financial system. It is notable that Ascend may be based in Thailand, but also operates in Indonesia, The Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia.
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SMBs (And Their Lenders) Rethink Their Financing Strategy
PYMNTS
JANUARY 8, 2021
According to nonprofit Accion Opportunity Fund VP Adriana Eiriz , the uncertainty plaguing Main Street today is widespread. While these pivots reflect the resiliency of small business owners, they can also make it more challenging for lenders to understand how a business operates. Small business owners are so resilient," she said. "I
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Regional Banks Guide Corporates To Future-Proof Accounts Payable
PYMNTS
JULY 3, 2020
As many teams within businesses big and small had continued to rely on paper and manual processes, AP operations were tasked with migrating to a work-from-home environment quickly. Collaborating with FinTechs is a valuable strategy for banks, noted Sigovitch. ” Offering the Right Tools. . ” Offering the Right Tools.
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10 Top Banking Podcasts You Should be Listening to
Abrigo
MAY 5, 2022
Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers 8. Breaking Banks Breaking Banks , billed as the #1 global fintech podcast and radio show, began in 2013 and is hosted by media firm Provoke.fm. A quick look at top banking podcasts worth a listen, according to Abrigo : 1. Banking Transformed 2. BankTalk 3. Banking with Interest 4.
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Celent Banking
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
Fintech is booming. In 2013, according to a report by Accenture and CB Insights , total investment into Fintech was just less than $4 billion. Yet neither can institutions continue without any change to the operating model. They need to start looking at Fintech startups as an opportunity, not a threat.
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Payments app Curve Prepping for Its Consumer Rollout, Ops Chief Says
Bank Innovation
AUGUST 14, 2017
Between keeping business users happy, integrating new technologies into the app, and preparing for an upcoming consumer rollout, Curve’s new head of operations, Rona Ruthen, has a lot to do.
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199 Framing The FinTech Build Vs. Buy Debate
PYMNTS
AUGUST 14, 2018
No, not just in homeownership, but in business, too – and especially when it comes to upstart FinTech firms grappling with an ever-onerous compliance landscape. There also is the issue of dimension, stated Gafke, as FinTechs find demand, and secure presence, in multiple jurisdictions or geographies. Build vs. buy. The eternal debate.
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Crypto Businesses Overcome The Challenge Of Getting Banked
PYMNTS
APRIL 29, 2020
The volatility of cryptocurrencies and their existence in what’s often a grey area of regulatory compliance make businesses operating in this sector an unattractive target for traditional financial institutions. FIs themselves struggle with fully understanding how this industry operates, too. ”
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Today In Payments: MineralTree Raises $50M, Buys Two Companies; Robinhood Raises $460M
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
24) announced a $50 million Series D investment round and the purchase of two companies: Inspyrus, a Silicon Valley FinTech that specializes in AP, and Regal Software, the Atlanta-based provider of B2B disbursement software. Trading FinTech Robinhood Markets Inc. MineralTree Inc., Robinhood Raises $460M One Month After Raising $200M.
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PYMNTS
JANUARY 3, 2020
With a robust community of technological innovators, and a drive toward the digital economy, India currently stands as an exciting market in FinTech. According to Mittal, there are three main factors that small businesses in India need to succeed: a “strong network, access to finance and simplified business support functions.”
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FinTech Lenders Are Putting The Brakes On Customer Acquisitions
PYMNTS
APRIL 11, 2016
As the wave of FinTech lenders who stepped into the markets after the financial crisis pushed much of their mainstream banking competition out of the game are coming into a new era with rising interest rates and falling investor demand, their strategic approach to that market is changing.
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