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Bento for Business Sets Big Goals with $9 Million in Funding

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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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Razer Gaming Company Teams With Visa For Online Payments

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The region is also the home to more than 213 million millennials. Together, Visa and Razer FinTech have the opportunity to transform the payments experience for not only the gaming community, but many of Southeast Asia’s unbanked and underserved consumers as well,” said Chris Clark, Visa’s regional president for Asia Pacific.

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Credit Card Disruptor Affirm Is Going Public. Here’s What It Means For The Future Of Consumer Credit

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San Francisco-based Affirm , an installment financing platform for online commerce run by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin , filed its S-1 in preparation for going public in November. Where Top US Banks Are Betting On Fintech. Affirm wants to disrupt the credit card business, a notoriously opaque realm of consumer finance.

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SoFi Sees Investor Accounts Double Thanks To Fractional Shares

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The CEO of SoFi, the digital personal finance company based in San Francisco, said its investor accounts have doubled this year, mostly due to fractional shares. CEO Anthony Noto told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” that the FinTech company’s investing platform has seen a significant uptick in user numbers since January.

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Fintech And Financial Institutions – Bridging the Gap

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The expansion of new fintech apps started a trend of eroding revenue and profits from banks and credit unions, generating a sense of competition with app developers. Meanwhile, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, said : “I don’t buy that fintech is completely different. Why Are Financial Institutions Adopting New Fintech Apps?

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B2B FinTech Investment Not A Total Bust

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The company announced on Wednesday (May 4) that it secured $11 million for its freight procurement solution, which allows commodity traders across the globe to book freight and logistics services via an online portal. Canada-based Bench stands as this week’s sole B2B FinTech company that secured venture capital this week. Hockeystick.

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Seeking Banking Balance Between Physical And Digital

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But, while closing physical bank branches might appear to be a wise cost-saving measure, the move comes with risks that could hurt banks’ relations with new millennial customers. Armistead also spoke to the lesson the bank is learning from smartphone apps to better serve its customers online and in brick-and-mortar locations.