PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

TransferWise, one of Europe’s top five FinTech startups , announced profits for the third fiscal year in a row, with revenue after taxes 66 percent higher than last fiscal year, CNBC reported on Wednesday (Sept. The FinTech unicorn was valued at $3.5 Net profit was £10.3 million pounds ($12.8 billion during a May funding round. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2019

FinTech companies that offer new technology to help move cash and funds across borders are becoming increasingly popular and disruptive to traditional banking institutions. TransferWise was started in 2011 by two Estonians: Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Kaarmann. They’re also often more affordable.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

percent through the third quarter of 2019 and is on track to be the second-best year after 2011. The index measures startups worth over $500 million that are backed by venture capital (VC). New York-based FinTech startup Capital, an alternative financing company for startups, launched on Wednesday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Tribeca Venture Partners , which led the company’s Series A round in 2011, led the financing. The debt financing piece of the round was provided by ORIX Growth Capital and Square 1 Bank, which is a division of Pacific Western Bank.

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South State Correspondent

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The fintech life, cross-border payments, open banking (with a new emphasis on Section 1033), and of course, all forms of payments, including crypto, took center stage. If Apple can pull this off, then a host of use cases and operations would be born out of Siri, banking/fintech app, and task integration.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2018

According to Venture Beat , this latest round of funding was led by Manhattan-based VC firm Stripes Group, with participation from existing investors that include Union Square Ventures, Insight Venture Partners and Spark Capital.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

In 2011, Buffett made a $10 billion investment in the company in support of then-new CEO Ginni Rometty’s turnaround plans. Mashing up OnDeck’s quick credit-decisioning tech with Chase’s risk and underwriting models and capital pools gave Chase a way to expand its community of SMB borrowers without expanding its bad debt.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2015

FinTech, FinTech, FinTech! A banker told me yesterday that if I wanted headlines in American Banker , put FinTech in my copy. Firms started in the dorm room that have no employees, just an eager volunteer, no revenue, and no capital need not apply. That's all I'm hearing. It's like global warming.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2016

We began the Weekly Tech Center Roundup journey in London – Europe’s self-proclaimed startup capital. The “startup nation” is recognized for not just brimming with tech innovation, but also harboring more high-tech startups and a larger venture capital industry per capita than any other place in the world.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 1, 2017

This teardown features annotations & commentary by four Social Capital partners. Thanks to the Social Capital team for updating/confirming their portfolio data on the CB Insights Editor. Social Capital is a VC fund with a focus on healthcare and education. As in all teardowns, the data analyzed comes from CB Insights.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

MarketInvoice, the FinTech, announced on Monday (Jan. In a press release , MarketInvoice said the Series-B funding round was led by Barclays and FinTech fund Santander InnoVentures. According to MarketInvoice , since launching in 2011, the FinTech has funded invoices and business loans to U.K.

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FICO

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The guiding ethos of fintech (and really any industry portmanteau ending in ‘tech’) is move fast and break things. The most prominent villain for fintech companies is regulation. And when fintechs and challenger banks aren’t constrained by regulation (as they mostly are in the U.S. Generally this ethos is presented as a virtue.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2019

The company’s technology is reportedly used by many FinTechs, among other companies, according to reports. Following a Series A in 2011, Currencycloud was launched in a more widespread manner in 2012, and has created an infrastructure for business-to-business (B2B) cross-border payments.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 30, 2024

83,000 17 17 Credibly 28 2010 Detroit 82 97,000 18 19 IOU Financial 23 2011 Atlanta 132 40,000 19 18 Upright (was Fund that Flip) 15 2014 NYC 53 42,000 20t 21 BizFI 13 2005 NYC 160 0 20t 22 SMBX 13 2016 SF 15 30,000 22 23 HoneyComb Credit 12 2017 Pittsburgh 11.9 We are calling it the FAB score, standing for Fintech Attention Barometer.

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Tech and Finance

JUNE 8, 2017

Engle has more than 30 years of experience at AT&T, Lehman Brothers, Barclays Capital, DTCC and Bank of America. In her spare time, she mentors FinTech start-ups in London and the U.S., while pursuing a Ph.D. in blockchain/distributed ledger technology in relation to financial market infrastructures.

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The Paypers

MAY 20, 2016

(The Paypers) Ffintech startups number 4,000 companies, globally, with total estimated venture capital investment rising from about USD 2.4 billion in 2011 to more than USD 19 billion in 2015, a recent report reveals.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2017

Athens, Greece’s capital, has a population of just over 665,000. Its capital city of Athens is helping out Greece in particular with its various technology endeavors. Viva Payments is nowadays the major FinTech organization in Greece, holding an official license as an e-money institution on the basis of PSD and ECB rules.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 20, 2016

After its most recent capital raise in September, SoFi, a marketplace lender that focuses on millennials, has raised nearly $1.5 billion in equity capital since its founding in 2011. billion in equity capital, with a market capitalization close to book value. By comparison, over 100 year old and $7.7

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Celent Banking

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The lack of “just right” solutions for many small business financial problems has been a golden opportunity for FinTech firms. In the FinTech space, much of the focus is on consumer-oriented solutions like Mint for financial management, Venmo for P2P payments, and Prosper for social lending.

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Javelin Strategy & Research

JUNE 3, 2015

Unfortunately, a lot of Fintech players and financial institutions have integrated gamification on a very shallow level (this was the word of the year circa 2011 ). They have delivered on this and two other insights that the rest of the Fintech world would be wise to consider. Dealing with money is an emotional experience.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The UK-based independent fintech industry group attracted 100 entries resulting in 22 finalists across 8 categories, 8 category winners and one overall champion. Founded: 2011. Capital Markets & WealthTech. Fintech Startup of the Week: Challenger Jiko Buys a $100M U.S. Digital Assets. Winner: QuoteVine. Founded: 2017.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 16, 2022

Startups looking to raise capital have more options today thanks to evolving technology, regulation and market behavior. only seeing deals that could not raise elsewhere), but now that it has matured, it’s becoming an option to other sources of early capital (eg. First Round Capital blog post. 1,800,000. 8 Mar 2022. 8 Mar 2022.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 12, 2021

2007 to 2011 >>> 8. CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. We are calling it the FAB score, standing for Fintech Attention Barometer. The 171 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (April 2021 update). The 171 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (April 2021 update). Digital Lenders: Year Founded.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

A FinTech Sector On The Rise. law firm, the Israeli FinTech industry has skyrocketed since 2009. The country’s growing FinTech market is quickly catching the eye of major companies from around the world. According to Special Counsel, Adv. Roy Keidar of Yigal Arnon & Co.

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Accenture

MAY 22, 2019

It found that from 2011 to 2017, net interest income for digital leaders shifted away from fee income, down 7 percent, to interest net income, up 7 percent, while the rest saw the exact opposite effect with fee income increasing and net income decreasing. 2 Accenture Research on S&P Capital IQ data. percent between 2014 and 2016.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2018

It seems Sears may be getting yet another shot at life, if recent reports are accurate that the hedge fund Cyrus Capital Partners, which is run by Sears Chairman and former CEO Eddie Lampert, is preparing a potential joint takeover bid that would keep the bankrupt chain an ongoing concern. iZettle and PayPal’s Merger Hiccup.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 27, 2016

.” The statistic that stood out to me was 430 : the number of fintech startups headquartered in Israel. With that in mind, here’s a look at some recent Israel-based Finovate alums who are helping make the country one of the world’s key locations for fintech innovation. Founded in 2011. Founded in 2011.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The Toronto-based company brought on Ian Hanning from Capital One Canada as its new Chief Financial Officer. Hanning comes to Financeit having served for 5 years as Capital One Canada’s CFO and has 20 years of experience in managing finance teams across the U.K. Since it was founded in 2011, Financeit has received more than $1.5

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The preponderance of activity, of course, stood within FinTech, and with roughly 93 percent of that amount. Last week, Helpshift announced that Cisco Investments had joined its Series B funding round, following previous investors Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures and Salesforce Ventures.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 19, 2015

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Planwise demoed its technology as part of FinovateFall 2011 in New York. The post Planwise Raises $750,000, Nearly Doubling Total Capital appeared first on Finovate.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

In an effort to capture more of that growth, Personal Capital is lowering its minimum investment from $100,000 to $25,000. Lowering the minimum will also help Personal Capital compete with Wealthfront , which requires a minimum of $500, and Betterment which does not have a minimum investment requirement. Personal Capital.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

Between 2011 and 2015, the government allocated $16 billion to help accelerate Singapore’s research, innovation and enterprise landscape. Earlier this year, PYMNTS reported that Singapore’s mobile payments landscape has become a prime target for players looking to capitalize on the mobile penetration and adoption throughout the country.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Lighter Capital made a two-fold funding announcement last week. Investors include: Voyager Capital. Summit Capital. Individual investors, including Lighter Capital’s Chairman, Jeff Seely. Lighter Capital plans to use the funds to advance its platform and double its 23-person team.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 6, 2015

A $15 million Series D round led by FTV Capital has boosted the total capital of prepaid solutions provider, CashStar , to $50 million. New investor Mosaik Partners and current investors, Passport Capital, Intel Capital, and North Hill Ventures also participated.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 15, 2016

Last night in Amsterdam the 2016 European Fintech Awards celebrated innovators shaping the future of finance. Four of the winners are Finovate and FinDEVr alums, including BehavioSec, who won the overall award of Best European Fintech Company of 2016: BehavioSec. Founded: 2011. Scalable Capital. Xpenditure.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 9, 2015

There’s more to the Forbes Fintech 50 list than just an awesome logo featuring George Washington wearing wrap-around shades. FinovateFall 2011 demo. Personal Capital. FinovateFall 2011 demo (under former name BankSimple). The post 20 Alums Make the First Forbes Fintech 50 appeared first on Finovate.

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Insights on Business

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Algo FIRST was acquired by IBM as part of the Algorithmics acquisition which took place in October 2011. Provide support for Operational Risk Capital Modelling by providing tail event information to extrapolate trends or curves. During its time at IBM, FIRST has become closely aligned and integrated with IBM OpenPages.

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