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B2B FinTechs Diversify Funding Strategies With M&A, IPOs

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Talk of a decelerating FinTech venture capital market continued to mount this week with reports that digital banking startup Aspiration is struggling to raise money. Venture Capital Funding. raised $10 million from SEB Bank and Seed Capital for its commercial card technology. Cardlay, based in the U.K.,

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Searching for the Priceline of Fintech after Lending Market Meltdown Week

Bank Innovation

You could have bought Priceline stock below $10 in 2001. For many years you had little to show for it. From then until 2008, you had some appreciation, but not much. Then the stock shot up above $1,000 (as of writing it is $1,261). Yes that is 100x return from Read More.

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PingPong To Enter Europe Via $113M Investment

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According to a report , the Chinese startup PingPong, a FinTech company, will invest €100 million ($113 million) in Luxembourg. PingPong and Luxembourg’s relationship goes back to 2017, when the FinTech startup got a payments license in the region, which allowed it to operate between Chinese outfits and customers in Europe.

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Billtrust’s First Institutional Investor Sells Stake

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A press release issued Monday (May 14) said Edison sold its stake in Billtrust to private equity firm W Capital Partners. He saw the opportunity in this market before the FinTech ecosystem declared enterprise-focused FinTech a ‘cool’ sector.

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First New Community Bank In Decades Headed To US Market

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Reports in FinTech Futures on Wednesday (Jan. In an interview with American Banker earlier this month, Trustar CEO Shaza Andersen said the institution could open its doors as early as this June, with plans to raise up to $50 million in initial capital, the publication said. In a report published last year, the U.S. have emerged to do.

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Fintech Labs Launches Space for Small Businesses to Connect with Digital Financial Services (Banks, Lenders, Insurers, Payment Processors, Accounting)

Fintech Labs Insights

Since size is an obvious leading indicator, we’ve assigned the companies a score, Fintech Attention Barometer (FAB), that is a proxy of their size using publically available info (funding, website traffic, number of employees, and so on). Geographically, we are initially focused only on companies serving U.S. small businesses.

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Artificial Intelligence: FIs’ Friend Or Foe?

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It doesn’t mask murderous intentions with a calming voice like HAL of “2001: A Space Odyssey.” What will banks do with all that liberated capital? Artificial intelligence (AI) doesn’t walk and talk like C3P0 of “Star Wars” (many would say: “Thank God”). It’s not a beautiful but cunning killer like Ava of “Ex Machina.”.

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