PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

One of the key reasons for the complicated relationship – the term “frenemies” comes to mind – is that FinTech newcomers are demonstrating innovative approaches to traditional banking practices, including financial management services and money transfers, while older banks tend to be wedded to older systems. contact-form-7] About the Tracker.

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Abrigo

APRIL 14, 2017

A credit risk manager at one bank with $900 million in total assets estimated that her team received approximately 8,220 tax returns in the 2015 calendar year. Last week, Barlow Research, the foremost authority on commercial banking, announced that Sageworks won top honors in its 2017 Monarch Innovation Awards. Enter Sageworks.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2016

Over the past eight weeks PYMNTS has cast a weekly global spotlight on one of the many tech hubs fostering innovation and tech advancements across the world. We began the Weekly Tech Center Roundup journey in London – Europe’s self-proclaimed startup capital. In 2015, U.K. s Technology ‘Hotbed’ Picks Up Steam.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2016

Capital One, Wells Fargo, Fifth Third, PNC and TD, along with Safeguard Scientifics, each contributed equally to the $30 million investment round, announced on Sunday (April 17), bringing Transactis’ total funding up to $70 million. are electronic. PNC Executive Vice President for Treasury Management James G.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Here are a few things that accountants can do to capitalize on this opportunity that tax season provides. An innovative way to save time and provide proactive advice is with Sageworks’ new Electronic Tax Reader. Craft a game plan for adding value to your tax season engagements.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

Automakers that want in on ridesharing, self-driving cars or innovative car financing options aren’t always developing their own technologies or starting their own ventures. As such, automakers are hitting the venture capital highway in droves. What’s next for automaker-backed venture capital firms? Ridesharing. What’s New.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 6, 2017

As the buzz around blockchain fades, so does the venture capital investment in the sector. Blockchain VC investment plateaued last year, nearing $500 million at yearend 2016 — only a 1% improvement, compared to 2015, according to State of Blockchain 2017 report published by Coindesk today.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Among initial investors are Capital One Growth Ventures and BB&T. The fintech last raised funds in a Series B round in 2015. Data analytics company Enigma celebrated a $95 million dollar Series C raise earlier this week. The […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

billion) in venture capital and the market has been estimated to have grown by nearly 70 percent since 2015. The UK government said FinTech’s success is key to ensure the country rebounds from COVID-19 and to remain at the center of financial innovation. The sector has an estimated worth of 7 billion pounds ($8.9

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 7, 2019

which will also serve as its entry into the country, Bank Innovation has learned. Founded in 2015, OakNorth is a digital-based SME […]. Fresh off a $400 million funding led by SoftBank, fintech lender OakNorth is close to establishing its first bank partnership in the U.S.,

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Venture capital-backed fintech companies in the U.S. billion (and 459 deals) in 2015 – a 29% drop, according to the Global Fintech Read More. Venture capitalists were not buying it last year. saw a drop in both deals and funding volume last year. Fintechs raised $5.5 billion across 422 deals, compared to $7.7

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

In this week’s edition of PYMNTS’ Weekly Tech Center Roundup , we head back to Europe to explore Germany’s “startup capital” and learn about the thriving ecosystem where a new startup is born every 20 minutes. . In 2015, Deutsche Startup Monitor found that a third of startups in Germany reside in Berlin.

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2017

It is no longer quite a mom-and-pop operation anymore — in 2015 Cha sold a controlling interest in the company to Richmond-based Boxwood Capital Partners. So how did the company manage to innovate something as simple as frozen yogurt? Over the past decade, it might just have been the most innovative dessert.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Well, what do we say about 2015? And, give or take a stumble or two, we snuck through it and did a reasonable job on 2015 objectives, in our humble opinion. So, it seems we’re good with only one outstanding item—digest the 2015 GonzoBanker Awards! 2015 Executive Call-out. ” – Tom Armstrong. Bravo OZRK!

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Financial services company SWIFT announced today that it has mitigated four additional capital depositories onto its Target2 Securities, or T2S, network. The four CSDs, which will start live operations on SWIFT T2S, marks the last four to move to the network since the migration plan first begun in June 2015.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

InsurTech group Hippo Enterprises has announced a capital investment of $350 million from Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company , a press release says. homeowners population in the next year, as well as providing additional capital for its insurance and reinsurance companies,” the release says.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

The tallies are in: Innovate Finance has calculated the state of investment in FinTech for 2015, and we have the numbers. Innovate Finance released The 2015 FinTech Investment Landscape this month, a report that offers a snapshot at how investors are placing their money among financial innovators.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Innovate Finance, which represents 300 UK fintech companies, says venture capital investment fell from $1.2bn (£970m) in 2015, to $783m last year. “Our members tell us Brexit has had a chilling effect on investment,” Innovate Finance chief executive Lawrence Wintermeyer told the BBC.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. We put together a list of healthcare innovation labs from new entries to the field, as well as some of the oldest — and most familiar — names in health. Sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong , and we’ve written about corporate innovation theater before.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Fintech is on pace to best venture capital 2015 fundraising by 36% this year as startups focus on transparency and ease-of-use to disrupt the incumbents. billion into the sector, Bruce Taragin, managing partner, Blumberg Capital, said at a recent gathering at Columbia Law School in Read More. Last year, VCs poured $11.9

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Innovation Lab Name: HP Labs.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The firm, which closed a $250 million fund in 2015, primarily invests in business-to-business technology companies. Centana Growth Partners, a New York and Palo Alto, Calif.-based based growth equity firm, closed its second fintech valued at $375 million this week.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2020

Founded in 2015 by Jie Zhao, WiMi Hologram Cloud specializes in augmented reality for the advertising industry. The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the stock market, causing 20 firms to postpone IPOs, according to Renaissance Capital. It debuted on Friday (April 3) with an opening price of $18 per share and closed at $23.20.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2019

million investment round led by Lead Edge Capital, with participation from Global Founders Capital and other investors. million, with investors also including Sugar Mountain Capital, Fire & Vine Hospitality and Canlis Restaurant. There is a lot of innovation in food right now, capturing a lot of publicity,” she said. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

million shares of its common stock, and private equity backer Parthenon Capital Partners is selling 5.59 Founder and CEO Anthony Hsieh said in a letter with the filing that the company, founded 11 years ago, has been “committed to providing honest products with great value, and committed to delivering them in an innovative, delightful way.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2016

6) a new round of equity financing led by new investors, including Pritzker family business interests advised by The Pritzker Organization and DNS Capital. The capital raise, which follows the close of a minority equity financing round led by Goldman Sachs in Oct. The round also included existing investors.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

In 2015, the tech media was gaga over Snap and its ability to corral the so-called most valuable eyeballs in media: the millennial. It’s an inspiring story — and one that gets many an innovator out of bed to fight the good startup fight, even in the face of insurmountable odds. What a difference two years makes.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

According to “Digital Disruption — Revisited: What FinTech VC Investments Tells Us About A Changing Industry,” Citi expects an influx in venture capital across the FinTech startup scape. The nation’s current market climate is ideal to fostering FinTech growth and innovation, and investors will fuel that growth through 2017.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Freshly is an innovative, fast-growing, food-tech startup, and adding them to the portfolio accelerates our ability to capitalize on the new realities in the U.S. Freshly, which was established in 2015, provides a collection of chef-cooked, fresh meals to customers across the nation. 30), according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

Mobvoi was previously valued at $300 million in a financing round that Google led in 2015. This will enable the capital markets to support the development of China’s core technologies and innovative capabilities,” the regulator said in a statement posted on its website. curbs on Chinese tech companies and developments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In 2015, the company mulled going public again but instead was acquired by CVC Capital Partners and Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board for $4.6 Founded in 1965, Petco was last publicly traded in 2006. Americans spent $95.6 billion last year on their pets.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Venture capital has hit a plateau, according to some analysts. “After $100M+ checks flowed freely to VC-backed companies through much of 2015, the mega-round trend has settled into a lower range through 2016,” concluded KPMG and CB Insights in their Q3 2016 venture capital report.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Founded in 2015 by Brad Birnbaum, chief executive officer, and Jeremy Suriel, chief technology officer, Kustomer is an omnichannel software-as-a-service (SaaS) and customer relationship management (CRM) firm that specializes in chatbot technology. Some fear that innovation could suffer if regulators come down on mergers and acquisitions.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

We held our breath for nearly 9 months after the $13m Sequoia Capital Seed round for Lemonade was announced at the end of 2015. Image source The Daily Fintech founders are at SIBOS in Geneva; reporting every day, snippets of insights on the Fintech Genome. Stay tuned on all SIBOS Insights conversations. Release Read More.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2017

in Canada , they are breathing new life into the startup market and have drawn in a new crop of venture capital funds in Canada that are looking for young FinTech companies. Citing data from PitchBook, Reuters reported venture capital financing of Canadian FinTechs was $137.7 million in 2016. In 2000, it was $7.3 and the U.K.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Niccol, who came to Taco Bell in 2011, became CEO in 2015 after holding the position of president. That announcement came three years after the company said it would offer delivery through DoorDash in 2015. He also said his own efforts would be tied to innovation once the company found a replacement. “As

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

InsurTech moved into the limelight on 8th December 2015 when it was announced that Sequoia Capital had done a $13m seed investment into a stealthy venture called Lemonade. Call it the Sequoia effect. Could this be another WhatsApp story (with a $19 billion exit only 3.5 years after Sequoia invested in Read More.

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