American Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Austin, Texas, bank and fintech says the Federal Reserve has proposed a consent order that would require it to strengthen compliance shortcomings, including anti-money-laundering controls.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

As part of Ripple ’s $50 million pledge for blockchain research, the crypto firm has said it will give $2 million over five years to the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas in Austin. Through the initiative, graduate students and faculty may potentially receive funding for projects, CoinDesk reported.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The company is calling it the “FinTech Roadshow.”. Emailage sees the FinTech industry as a critical sector for partnerships and growth. The company sees its upcoming FinTech Roadshow as an opportunity to forge new connections in some of those markets. The FinTech Roadshow concludes at Money20/20 in Las Vegas on Oct.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Reuters reported news on Tuesday that banking regulators from seven states across the United States are working to, as the newswire reported, “streamline” the FinTech reporting process, with an eye on those tech firms having an easier road toward offering their products and services across the nation.

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Payments Source

APRIL 12, 2021

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The Financial CHOICE Act, proposed by Texas Congressman Jeb Hensarling earlier this year, is a measure aimed at overturning or heavily modifying many of the regulations put in place after the 2008 financial crisis. The act has recently fallen under scrutiny from Wall Street as the president-elect championed a lessening of Read More.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 26, 2023

In January 2023, a federal district court in Texas dismissed Michael v.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 31, 2020

expansion; and Why a digital bank in Texas is awarding miles instead of interest. In this episode, editors discuss the following news developments: Venmo’s path to profitability; Berlin-based digital bank N26’s U.S. Listen to the Weekly […].

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

and India drove a surge in FinTech venture capital funding in 2017, and Accenture Financial Services Senior Managing Director Julian Skan pointed to the B2B business model as a significant presence in this trend. Total venture capital across the global FinTech market between 2010 and 2017 hit a combined $97.7 For markets like the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The funding will also go to support its effort to expand its software engineering and sales teams located in Austin, Texas. “We We firmly believe construction finance is going to be automated and brought out of its decades-old, paper-ridden process.

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William Mills

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

At the beginning of November, I attended VentureTech22 in Frisco, Texas.

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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.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

CB Insights revealed that Q3 2022 fintech investments in payments continue to dominate financial services, with early-stage deals reaching a record high even as overall funding begins to cool. Chris Doyle, Texas First Bank. billion-asset Texas First Bank in Texas City, Texas.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Trading FinTech Robinhood Markets Inc. At the time, Robinhood said it intended to bring “hundreds” of financial services personnel onboard in 2020 in Tempe, Arizona and Southlake, Texas. has grown the size of its newest investment round to $660 million, Fox Business reported, citing a representative from the firm.

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BankInovation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

City National Bank of Taylor has grown its eSign and digital document collection completion rates more than 90% since selecting fintech Lightico as its digitization partner. The $250 million Taylor, Texas-based bank began leveraging Lightico’s API-based, no-code, mobile-first digital completion cloud in May 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “We

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Through the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee and Washington are looking to standardize the ways firms across traditional financial services and FinTech upstarts apply for, and are granted, licenses. As was widely reported this past week, seven of them are trying to do so.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Here are my favorites: Franklin Barbecue, Austin, Texas. Recently, my community bank has developed strong relationships with fintech companies from ICBA’s ThinkTECH Accelerator. ICBA held two tech sprints with The Venture Center that featured more than 20 fintech solutions. They’re our friends and family. My Top Three.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Following our previous mapping of the most well funded startups in each state and most well funded food & beverage startups in each state , we used CB Insights database to identify the most well-funded private fintech startup in each state. FINTECH TRENDS Q3 2017 RESEARCH BRIEFING. Click on the image below to enlarge. Washington.

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The Financial Brand

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A small community institution breaks from the pack with a fresh fintech-powered digital-only banking model targeting a unique niche. The post Why a Small Texas Bank Is Betting Big on a New Digital-Only Brand appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2016

Electronic payments and FinTech can help businesses across the board improve time and cash management, but each industry is different in the types of solutions they need and the progress with which they adopt more sophisticated tools. The spotlight on company client Texas Rangers, released Thursday (March 31), is a promotional effort.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

TPG of Texas offers payment solutions to over 600 utility firms and governments. The announcement came after Paya’s decision to go public via a merger with special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) FinTech Acquisition Corp. Paya has inked a deal to buy The Payment Group (TPG). Terms of the arrangement were not made public.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

When the 2022/23 ICBA board of directors was introduced at ICBA LIVE in San Antonio, Texas, there was a palpable sense of excitement in the air. We must continue to fight increased regulation, specialty charter considerations and the potential for more fintech access to traditional rails without the same oversight. By Molly Bennett.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

Founded in 2005, the FinTech AffiniPay now processes over $6 billion annually on behalf of 150,000 professionals, according to a news release announcing the appointment. Porter nabbed the 2016 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Financial Technology category for the Central Texas region. For its part, Newton, Mass.-based

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

I thought one panel participant explained eloquently where the financial services industry is in the digital transformation journey when he put it in terms of the incumbent bank’s relationship with fintechs. He observed: We’re in what was described as “Phase 3” with fintechs.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

Reeves said he plans to pursue new products beyond payroll and HR as the company grows, adding FinTech features like its Flexible Pay, which allows wage advances for employees. Gusto began piloting its Flexible Pay system in Texas in 2018 and started rolling out the program across its U.S. customer base.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

TPG of Texas provides payment solutions to more than 600 utility companies and municipalities. 21) follows Paya’s decision to go public through a merger with FinTech Acquisition Corp. Paya , the Atlanta-based digital payment processor, has signed an agreement to acquire The Payment Group ( TPG ). Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

HighRadius, an enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) FinTech firm, and Genpact, a digital transformation company, have teamed up on improving enterprise accounts receivable and bringing digital automation solutions powered by both artificial intelligence and advanced machine learning, according to a release. .

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It’s still going under the stewardship of fintech famous Jim Marous, who modernized the name to Digital Banking Report (and recently opened the archives for free access).

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Denis Pitcher, chief FinTech advisor to the Premier of Bermuda, told CoinDesk on Sunday (Feb. Its crypto mining division was reportedly part of what could be the world’s biggest bitcoin mine under development in Texas. He said Bermuda, with just 60,000 residents, doesn’t have PayPal, Revolut or Square.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

A crowd of FinTechs and challenger banks entering the disbursements space isn’t accelerating adoption to the extent needed, because it’s hard to differentiate them. Texas shares that view, with Comptroller of Public Accounts spokesman Kevin Lyons saying Texas will stick to checks and ACH for the time being.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

We surveyed 3,098 consumers, 100 CU decision-makers and 50 FinTech executives from across the U.S. This is just one of many questions PYMNTS, in collaboration with PSCU , set out to answer in the Credit Union Innovation Playbook: Card Trends Edition. percent between February and May.

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BankInovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Tthe Austin, Texas-based company expanded its workforce following the launch of 40 products and software releases aimed at assisting customers in Latin American communities, along with financial institution […].

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2016

You know what they say, everything is bigger in Texas. That couldn’t ring truer for the state’s capital, which many consider to have a tech scene bursting with potential and growth. Though Austin may fall in the shadows of bigger U.S.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

billion-asset Texas First Bank in Texas City, Texas, a FedNow pilot participant. Everything we do, all the fintechs that we use—if you’re going to settle a payment, it has to go through your core provider to get through your system,” she says. “So,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Separately, Texas Trust Credit Union turned to a “Game of Thrones”-inspired loan offering in an effort to appeal to younger demographics. Of course, digital-only banks and FinTechs have been taking their place, competitively, against the traditional roster of brick-and-mortar firms. million in July.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2019

Bitcoin ATM company Coinme is partnering with Coinstar to allow bitcoin purchases through Coinstar kiosks at select Safeway or Albertsons stores in California, Texas and Washington state. While the details of the transaction were not revealed, it was reported that there will be no impact to Coins.ph

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