Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 30, 2016

For the last episode of the year, Brett King hosts a group of Fintech all-stars — Chris Skinner, Jim Marous, Dave Birch, Ghela Boskovich, and Penny Crosman to review a bit of 2016 and talk about the trends and predictions for 2017. What’s Next?

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Chris Skinner

JULY 21, 2017

The problem is that old systems and legacy technologies stop the bank moving forward into the nimble and agile future on offer today, and this is exactly what FinTech start-ups believe they can exploit as it is clearly a weakness for the large banks. Some call them legacy, others call them handcuffs, but whatever they are is a problem.

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Chris Skinner

APRIL 6, 2017

I was listening to a financier talking about FinTech the other day, and claiming that they are all sustaining innovations and not disruptive. They were referring to Clayton Christensen’s innovator’s dilemma discussions, where Professor Christensen points to different markets that were destroyed by disruptors.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In a sign of the times in consumer lending, Auto Finance News today announced the launch of Auto Finance Innovation 2016, a new industry forum to explore the fintech revolution and how it is reshaping automotive lending and leasing.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 15, 2016

Bank Innovation Israel 2016 registration has officially opened today. The only Western fintech event in Startup Nation, the 2016 Bank Innovation Israel will take place 1-3 November at the Dan Tel Aviv. The event is presented by Bank Innovation, one of the world’s leading fintech blogs.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

If you had to put a pin on the map for a center of fintech innovation, London would certainly deserve one, and you’d do just as well to place it on One Canada Place in London’s Canary Wharf — specifically, on the 39th floor, the home base of Level 39. Read More.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 26, 2017

Innovate Finance has just published their report on the first half of 2017, and the investments made in FinTech. Global VC FinTech investment attracts $6.5 Billion in H1 2017 –with UK investment up 37% reveals Innovate Finance H1 2017 saw 787 deals globally, attracting $6.5 Global VC FinTech investment attracts $6.5

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Tom Blomfield, Monzo In this age of fintech-rules-it-all, nobody (hopefully) needs an explainer on what a neobank is. specifically has been an epicenter of the mobile-first banks, with Atom Bank, Starling Bank, Tandem Bank and Monzo as the main players. So why single out Monzo? Well, customer retention Read More.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

After a difficult deliberation, 10 early-stage fintech companies were selected by a team of judges to compete in this year’s DEMOvation Challenge, to take place in Seattle on March 1.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

China may have taken the top spot in 2016 fintech funding, but it wasn’t the one doing most of the investing. based Innovate Finance, the top fintech investor for the year Read More. While China claimed nearly $8 billion of the total $17.4 billion invested across the world, according to a report by U.K-based

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Venture capital-backed fintech companies in the U.S. Fintechs raised $5.5 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. billion across 422 deals, compared to $7.7

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2018

EXCLUSIVE- Anju Patwardhan, managing director at CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund, has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation 2018, which takes place March 5-6 in San Francisco.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

I was sent a nice list of the Top 50 FinTech firms selected by Forbes. billion poured into fintech startups in 2017, Accenture reports, up 18% from 2016. With so much in play, it’s not surprising that 22 companies are new on this, the … The post Who are the hottest FinTech firms and Influencers around the world?

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 17, 2017

And, according to the 2016 edition of PwC’s Employee Financial Wellness Survey , financial stress is on the rise, with Millennial’s typically in worse shape with regards to their personal finances than previous generations.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 15, 2016

Today Breaking Banks hails the world from the Innovate Finance Global Summit in London, where Liz Lumley hosts. FinTech is changing the nature of finance and money. Thus it’s no surprise that Innovate Finance, a phenomenon at the very heart of the UK fintech scene, gathered the most exquisite luminaries from Read More.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 23, 2016

Taavet Hinrikus, Co-Founder, TransferWise TransferWise is one of the UK’s few fintech unicorns (Funding Circle is the other), and has been a dominant player in an increasingly crowded space for years. That space is of course international money transfers, plagued by lack of transparency, slow transactions, and high fees.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

What is the state of banking innovation today? Fintech funding has grown tougher to raise though total volume, because of a few monster deals, may exceed the previous year. Each year, we poll the industry to find out. Finovate this year pursued many themes that would have been familiar in Read More.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 21, 2018

These are the three questions Comerica Inc’s EVP and CIO Sangy Vatsa asks himself before every major innovation project. Vatsa joined the Dallas-based Comerica as chief information officer a little over two years ago, in 2016. Since then the bank’s innovation team has consistently […].

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Payments 2016: The Year Of Partnership Via API. This gives a best-of-breed approach, which enables innovation and legacy services to coexist.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

A host of new speakers joined Bank Innovation Israel 2016 in recent days. We’ve also revised the agenda to provide a deeper understanding of the current fintech market. Specifically, we’ve added a session entitled “Corporate Innovation Strategies,” which will explore the intersection between fintech and traditional banking.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

26) that Enfuce — Finland’s largest FinTech startup — is implementing the Featurespace ARIC Risk Hub to protect its clients from cyberattacks. Founded in 2016 by Denise Koskinen and Monika Liikamaa, Enfuce offers payment and open banking services to more than 8 million banks, FinTechs, financial operators, and merchants. .

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 8, 2017

Fintech venture capitals cooled on lending startups in 2016, and turned their attention to two new budding areas — insurtech and regtech, which even made it into the budget speech of UK chancellor George Osborne last year.

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Gonzobanker

MARCH 27, 2025

Which constituent wins: consumers, large banks, small banks/credit unions, or the fintechs? But Fintechs? Fintechs could become even stronger versus banks. Without CFPB oversight, fintechs will have next to nothing stopping them from even more aggressively developing products and services to beat the banks.

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 19, 2016

This week’s news was a summary of the White House Fintech Summit that took place in Washington on June 10.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 15, 2016

It is Africa’s premier FinTech event, drawing people from all over the countries of sub-Sahara Africa. What struck me as I listened to lots of keynotes about mobile innovation and … The post The Finanser’s Week: 9th May – 15th May 2016 appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Innovation is a word we hear a lot in fintech. It’s a bit easier to measure innovation in startups — as that’s really the primary focus of one — than in incumbent or traditional banks, but one way to quantify the level of focus and attention banks are giving to Read More.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Fintech Deals in Q2 this year are on a rise compared to Q1 and an overall slow 2016, according to recent report by KPMG. billion in global investment in fintechs, a number that is nearly double the amount in the […]. According to the latest KPMG Pulse report, the second quarter saw a total of $8.4

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 26, 2016

Image source We looked at the 30 biggest VC deals in Fintech for 2016 (courtesy of CB Insights Pulse of Fintech Report) to see where the InsurTech puck is going to. The answer is blindingly obvious when you look at the 3 out of 30 that we tagged as primarily Read More.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Blockchain—possibly the buzziest of buzzwords in 2016. The world saw the rise of new enterprise blockchains, how the technology might be used to transport gold, to safely move perishable items like pork through a supply chain, and most importantly for those of us in the fintech trenches, we saw banks, Read More.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2017

The B2B payments industry is finally beginning to hustle when it comes to technological innovation. And as traditional financial institutions (FI) begin to recognize the value of collaborating with FinTechs, these banks can similarly shake their reputation for being innovation laggards and promote B2B payments progress while they’re at it. .

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Bank Innovation

JULY 24, 2018

In 2Q18, the Chinese fintech raised the largest amount for fintech invest ever. According to CB Insights’ 2Q fintech report, Ant Financial’s fundraising accounted for 69% of total global fintech funding. Back in 2016, Ant Financial took […]. Ant Financial has done it again.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

New York was rocking the fintech this week, from Next Money and BBVA Open Talent to Finovate Fall. Tune in to Brett King and company below to hear the fintech insider perspective.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2017

Canadian financial technology companies backed by venture capitalists reached a level not seen in nearly two decades, despite a slowdown of investment dollars flowing into FinTechs in the U.S. According to a report by Reuters , while FinTechs may not be red hot in the U.S., million in 2016. million in 2016. and the U.K.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 11, 2017

The transportation sector enjoyed VC spotlight throughout 2016, while the fintech sector was left in the shadow, according to Global Innovation Investment Report release by Crunchbase. When it comes to venture funding, the grass is (sometimes) greener in the other sector.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Here is the response from Florin Arghirescu, SVP of business relationships and innovation at Synchrony Financial ….

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We are proud fintech nerds, and for five years we have marked the Coolest Brands in Banking on Bank Innovation based not on the type of sunglasses worn by a CEO, but on the Read More. When we think of cool, James Dean doesn’t immediately come to mind. The app Songsterr does.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Singapore-based FinTech platform Nium is expanding into the Middle East, the company announced on Monday (Oct. FinTech across the Middle East is also set to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 30 percent, and expected to raise over $2 billion in venture capital funding by 2020.".

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