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DECEMBER 1, 2019

Lenders are hoping to stave off mobile competition by expanding retail banking. FinTech is helping to transform daily consumer life in Nigeria and other developing markets. FairMoney , a consumer micro-lending technology company that operates in Nigeria, raised $11 million in September in a Series A round.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Singapore-based FinTech Grab is mulling a U.S. Sources told Reuters that Grab is looking to take advantage of the red-hot IPO market in the U.S. If the company chooses to proceed, the IPO could be the largest market debut ever made by a Southeast Asian company on a foreign exchange.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

During the Summit, we’ll seek to socialize and discuss how the adoption of real-time payments services like FedNow and RTP in the US will bring a new dimension of change for banks, fintechs, retailers, large corporations, and other stakeholders. Ultimately, change equals risk.

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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. The firm said it plans to focus on scaling up and product innovation, building out its staff, and strengthening marketing initiatives. Flutterwave. AvidXchange.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 27, 2019

SigFig, a San Francisco fintech specializing in robo advice, today unveiled SigFig Atlas, an interactive platform for financial advice and software-guided sales that faces both retail banks and their customers.

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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. These terms look good on paper, but what do they mean in practice for operational innovation?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The ascent of eCommerce and the digital tools that support it have made it easier — in both theory and practice — for retailers to not only see how consumers browse and what they buy (to analyze the entire path to purchase), but to get to know them in the same ways as those old-time general store operators who served small towns.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Envoy operates a blockchain platform built with R3’s Corda, with a focus on streamlining financial processes in the global trade space — including facilitating payments via tokenization technology. The company plans to use the new funding to further build out its CDX Platform, a continual-learning portal to drive logistics improvements.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2019

s robust marketing strategy for its retail bank has paid off, as the bank today reported that half of its new retail customers were millennials. Of Ally Financial’s 230,000 new retail deposit customers via its retail side, Ally Bank, 126,500 were millennials, according to bank’s earnings report released today.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Digital payments FinTech startup Sezzle announced on Monday (Feb. “One million active users is a huge operational achievement, and a testament to the value our users see in our product. Sezzle’s payments platform expedites quick, safe and simple payments among consumers and retailers. and Canada and is quickly growing.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Established fintechs, startups, banks and tech giants alike are pulling out all the stops to attract and retain the same pool of tech talent. Some firms move operations to where the people are, others acquire the companies with the talent they’re looking for, and others simply loosen their purse strings.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 5, 2019

Growth is the name of the game for this month's notable hires in digital banking and fintech. On one hand, a major FI like Spanish bank Santander hired a former Google executive to create new products, while smaller fintechs are opening up shop in new markets to drive growth. Nordea Bank CEO Casper von Koskull […].

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

European wealth management FinTech Raisin is planning to roll out in the U.S. Banks will be able to offer the new solutions directly to their own customers or use Raisin’s platform to reach all potential retail consumers. Raisin will license Choice FS’ software to banks in the U.S., platform,” said Raisin U.S. CEO Paul Knodel.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

But the same technology that enables those transactions also can bring the benefits of consumer intimacy to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that are often struggling to win more market share in a retail world dominated by the likes of Amazon, Walmart and other large retailers. That might sound obvious.

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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

N26, the FinTech startup, is gearing up to enter the Brazilian market. 27) that it will soon launch its retail banking business in the country. market next, with that expected to happen during the first half of this year. market next, with that expected to happen during the first half of this year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With more than $1 billion raised — and more to come — this week became the most lucrative for B2B FinTech venture capital funding. B2B eCommerce startup Sokowatch scored a win for Kenya’s B2B FinTech community after raising $14 million in Series A funding, reports in TechCrunch said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Funding can often be a sign of confirmation for FinTech startups. To help further its mission, the Texas-based FinTech startup recently notched $13 million in Series A financing to bring its total amount of funding to more than $16 million.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

Providing robust services via mobile channels is especially important now, as the COVID-19 pandemic has caused businesses to operate remotely and consumers to stay at home as much as possible. Such vigilant security means FinTechs must vet new customers and continually review existing ones for changes in their money laundering risk, he said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

The corporate expense management market doesn’t look like it once did. The commercial card and expense management market is yet another space in which collaboration between FIs and FinTechs has proved key to driving innovative tools – especially as corporates grow weary with the traditional legacy services their banks provide.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are teaming with logistics firms to test drones for delivery — and making progress on their experimental flights. Hourican continued, “CVS is exploring many types of delivery options for urban, suburban and rural markets. A remote operator monitored them and could step in if needed.)

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

Retail Banking Satisfaction Study , retail banking was declared to have bounced back reputation-wise over the past decade, due to improvements in customer service spurred by innovations like mobile banking. In 2018, it took longer to bring new features to market than in prior years. For example, in the newly released J.D.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

As legal cannabis spreads, the industry is a big opportunity for FinTech, as industry players struggle to manage intense compliance requirements and limited access to traditional financial services. INDUS said it will move forward with the new capital to focus on expansion and expand its staff. Cloud Elements. Shape Security.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 4, 2019

Lisa Shields, founder and CEO of FI.SPAN, a cloud-based API services management platform, says banks don’t necessarily need to cede ground to fintechs to stay ahead of the curve, particularly in business banking.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

The investors were led by Apis Partners LLP and FinTech investor Crossfin Technology Holdings. However, all three entities will operate separately. A group of investors has acquired Sureswipe , a South African payments company, for an undisclosed amount. We believe each provides a distinctive client solution.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It was a busy week for B2B venture capitalists who spread their wealth amongst a wide range of B2B FinTechs, with investments totaling more than $164 million. Reports in TechCrunch said Better Tomorrow Ventures, Aleph, Flourish Ventures , Operator Partners and TLV Partners all participated, as did 30 angel investors.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 23, 2017

INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to this site, announced its third cohort of startups today. Here are the five companies of Class 3 of INV Fintech: CoverHero is an intelligent insurance roboadvisor that helps users manage, understand, and buy […].

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

This year has been big for retail — big on change, innovation and some surprises along the way. Consumers flocked to online and mobile commerce , robots rose in food and consumer goods , and brick-and-mortar stayed relevant with retail experimentation — pop – ups , flash sales , store-in-store and showrooms.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 26, 2018

The global professional services company PwC announced via email it will shutter its DeNovo platform, which delivered insights and analysis on fintech startups, at the end of June. The email reads, in part: At the end of June we will retire DeNovo in its current form. Going forward, we are shifting our resources to specific […].

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NCR

APRIL 6, 2018

Is it possible that some banks could become ‘wholesalers’, looking after the core regulated banking functions, while others take on the role of ‘retailer’? One of the primary goals of PSD2 and open banking is to facilitate increased competition in financial services, particularly within the payments market.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 24, 2016

In a stunning vote, British citizens decided to leave the European Union, and the so-called Brexit has not just profound implications for fintech, but creates massive uncertainty for global financial services. tweeted Eileen Burbidge, a partner at Passion Capital and FinTech Envoy of HM Read More. How can we be so stupid?”

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In this episode, Suman Bhattacharyya, deputy editor, and Angely Mercado, associate editor, discuss the following news developments: How MoneyLion’s appointment of a chief operating officer will help fuel its growth plans; The debate among banks and […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2018

As digital technology keeps bringing new efficiencies to transactions, and more consumers around the world turn to eCommerce for retail and other purchases, an accompanying trend is making life interesting for merchants and payment providers. Much of North America remains anchored to major-brand credit cards. The numbers back that up.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

InstaReM currently holds regulatory licenses in eight markets across 40 countries, reaching 3.2 InstaReM started preparing in August to apply for one of five (two retail, three wholesale) digital banking licenses that the city-state of Singapore announced it would be issuing. billion people in developed and developing countries. .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

N26 , the FinTech bank startup, is upgrading its N26 Metal card, with a launch happening Wednesday (June 13). In April, as it builds a retail bank from the ground up, N26 has notched $160 million in a Series C funding round led by Allianz and Tencent. TechCrunch noted the name of the customer will be on the back of the card.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

The legal cannabis market continues to reach new milestones, the latest being the launch of the industry’s first commodity trading desk — with the latest service provider highlighting the opportunity in addressing the more nuanced challenges of an unfamiliar, emerging market.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

KPMG had some bad news for the FinTech world this week. Along with CB Insights, KPMG researchers found in their latest quarterly analysis that FinTech investment by venture capitalists declined across the globe in Q3 of this year. Their “ Pulse of Fintech “ report found $2.4 Alternative Lending. P2Bi nvestor.

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