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DECEMBER 2, 2020

Luxembourg regulators have given a thumbs-up to the FinTech PingPong , authorizing it to do business as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI). The B2B company has offices in New York, San Francisco, Japan, Hong Kong and Hangzhou, China. PingPong was founded in 2015 to enable eCommerce payments as online spending took off. “We

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Affirm , a San Francisco-based point-of-sale (POS), buy now, pay later (BNPL) lender, announced a $500 million series G round of funding Thursday (Sept. The privately-held FinTech was founded in 2012 as an installment loan provider for shoppers to finance a purchase.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 11, 2016

Last week this space saw much of the largest fintech funding rounds taking place outside the U.S. That trend continues this week, with some San Francisco-grown AI thrown into the mix. This week we witnessed a major push forward in the process of collaboration between financial institutions (FIs) and startups. This Read More.

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JULY 31, 2020

Colin Walsh got lots of laughs five years ago when he talked of his intention to launch a financial technology (FinTech) startup. the San Francisco-based online bank, had the last laugh. Varo is the first consumer FinTech to receive a new national bank charter from the U.S.

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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.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

San Francisco FinTech Brex announced a $200 million debt capital raise from Credit Suisse that will be used to expand its eCommerce business and credit offerings to new companies, Brex announced in a press release on Thursday (Dec. This new financing will help Brex grow its eCommerce business, which launched in February.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Arizona-based startup Emailage — the identity verification company delivering risk scores to financial institutions (FIs) and online merchants based on customers’ email addresses — announced news that it’s going on tour. The company is calling it the “FinTech Roadshow.”. First, on Oct. 11 through Oct. 23 through Oct.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Adyen , a FinTech whose payments platform is used by merchants and retailers around the world, is teaming up with San Francisco-based installment payment company Affirm in a new partnership, the companies announced on Tuesday (Nov. This can be done either online or in-store using a QR code, the companies said.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Revolut said its new open banking offer was developed with TrueLayer , a London-based financial technology (FinTech) company. The digital bank’s German customers will now, using the Revolut app, be able to make some money transfers — such as with family and friends — without logging into the online banking systems of other FIs.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Customized, well-thought-out interactions—especially in the online banking space—are integral to wooing new customers and retaining existing ones. We asked several banking leaders how they’ve employed fintech to ramp up their marketing campaigns, hone their analytic strategies and gain new patrons in the process.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

While businesses have more sources of capital than ever before, from bank loans to initial coin offerings to alternative online investments, experts are urging small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to take a strategic approach to their fundraising efforts — often by combining a variety of funding sources to mitigate risk. Flutterwave.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 28, 2018

EXCLUSIVE— San Francisco-based startup Denizen wants to create a new way of banking, by providing users with a “borderless” bank account that doesn’t come with all of the hassle and pain points of international finance, co-founder and CEO Joaquin Ayuso de Paul told Bank Innovation.

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JUNE 24, 2019

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. The region is also the home to more than 213 million millennials.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Monzo , an online bank out of London, has added loans to its menu of services, the Financial Times reported on Thursday (Aug. can apply for loans as the online bank advances its efforts toward profitability. . The eBank joins smaller rival Starling Bank on the lending front, becoming the second online bank in the U.K.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Revolut has launched an acquiring solution for its Revolut Business starter pack, which will allow businesses in 13 European countries to accept credit card payments online. Companies across Europe know that it’s now essential to their success to be able to do business online. The product will feature a 1.3 percent fee for U.K.

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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.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 13, 2018

San Francisco-based Wells Fargo saw a 13% increase year over year increase in its customers’ digital usage […]. EXCLUSIVE – Wells Fargo plans to shut down 300 branches this year and about 5,000 branches by 2020, as the bank sees a surge in digital adaption from its customers, CEO Tim Sloan said on today's earnings call.

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APRIL 21, 2020

The FinTech company SoFi is making its first leap to go global with a big move into Hong Kong. The opening of a Hong Kong outpost is part of SoFi’s bid to acquire online brokerage firm 8 Securities, while expanding its business and serving up commission-free trading there. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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JUNE 10, 2020

Uber reportedly will partner with FinTech Flutterwave to offer Uber Cash, a digital wallet feature, in Africa. Flutterwave, based in San Francisco and Nigeria, has been on a roll since it pulled in $35 million last year in venture funding, including from Worldpay. At the heart of Flutterwave is its online payments business.

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MARCH 3, 2020

After a two-year run on the job, Bindra decided to move back to San Francisco, although he will continue as an advisor for the company and support “strategic initiatives,” the company said Tuesday (March 3). Rau comes into the fold boasting more than two decades of experience in FinTech. He held that job from 2016 through 2019.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The San Francisco-based FinTech and the newsletter giant are teaming up to enable Mailchimp users – many of whom are small businesses – to add a “buy button” to their websites. The goal is to help Mailchimp users start selling from their websites, potentially boosting revenue by giving customers a “quick path to purchase.”.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

The FinTech is reportedly likely to seek a charter with California’s Division of Financial Institutions and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco within the next few weeks. FinTech N26 Mulls New Funding Round. Revolut , the European digital bank, is reportedly near applying for a U.S. banking license.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Jumio , known for its suite of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered identity verification and online know your customer (KYC) products, is beefing up its anti-money laundering (AML) powers. The Palo Alto-based firm on Tuesday (Sept. As part of the deal, Beam employees in the U.S. will move into Jumio’s Palo Alto headquarters.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The San Francisco-based digital mortgage and loan platform on Wednesday (Sept. based early growth, FinTech-focused venture capital firm. based early growth, FinTech-focused venture capital firm. The cash will be used to grow its online mortgage, consumer loan and deposit accounts, the company said.

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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.

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JUNE 13, 2019

The company said it will be signing up consumers for its cards through the next few weeks at events slated to be held in cities including Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. FinTechs looking to fly the nest, one major contrast will be the complexity of federal- and state-level laws, compared to the U.K.’s In the U.K.,

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

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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JUNE 10, 2020

Less than two years after Uber Eats leased kitchens in Paris to restaurateurs so they can prepare food for its online ordering and delivery platform, the San Francisco-based company has called it quits. Pandemic Leveling Playing Field Between Banks And FinTechs? Uber Eats Gets Out Of The Ghost Kitchen.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 23, 2023

Rewind to 2019 and there were more than 50 fintech/insurtech accelerators. And only 12 are fintech market specialists. Here is our curated list of accelerators actively looking for fintech startups. Ranked more or less by their total portfolio of fintech graduates. Missed any?

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

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. In a press release on Tuesday (Sept.

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MAY 27, 2020

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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AUGUST 6, 2019

This new valuation ranks Klarna as the biggest European private FinTech and one of the largest private FinTechs around the world, according to an announcement from the company. The funding round was led by San Francisco-based growth-oriented investor Dragoneer Investment Group. To further support massive U.S. consumer.”.

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MAY 26, 2020

Checkout.com faces competition from Stripe, a San Francisco technology company that allows businesses to make and receive payments over the internet, and Adyen, a Dutch payment company that provides businesses a way to accept eCommerce, mobile and point-of-sale payments.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 13, 2015

If you were at FinDEVr San Francisco last week, you experienced first-hand the high energy from 63 presenters and 500 other attendees. Not only was participation high at the presenter networking stations, some took time to publish thoughts online or through Twitter. FinDEVr San Francisco in the press: Cripto Noticias.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

The company is reportedly in talks with online used car site Kavak and FinTech Konfio, which aids small businesses in getting loans. . Roberto Charvel, an investor at MatterScale Ventures in San Francisco, said that it has traditionally been very hard for startups in Mexico to raise capital, but that SoftBank is changing that. .

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MAY 6, 2016

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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