Bank Innovation

JULY 5, 2018

Bank of America has Erica, Capital One has Eno, Bank of Montreal has Bolt. Safe to say that most major banks are at least exploring the possibility of a virtual assistant, if they don’t already have one. And there is more to this virtual assistant than just the cool factor, for banks these chatbots improve […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2020

We have deep dives on open banking adoption, subscription features, and news that Wirecard North America Inc. Wirecard North America Business Entity Up For Sale. Wirecard North America Inc., is up for sale. which is a separate firm from Germany’s Wirecard AG , is for sale , the firm announced Monday (June 29).

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AUGUST 6, 2019

billion, with investors like Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Google’s venture outfit Capital G, Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins and other notable names in the space. There’s a very rich ecosystem for us in Latin America.”. It’s a popular choice for venture capitalists, and it has a valuation of $22.5

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2020

Equifund CFP CEO and Founder Jordan Gillissie said the capital raising is being done to help the industry come into the new digital age. “We’re proud Drop Delivery has chosen to open its doors to early-stage investors with Equifund CFP.”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

Greensill, which provides working capital finance for customers around the world, has acquired Latin America-based lender Omni, a lender to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). trillion market for working capital finance.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2020

Latin America-based AlphaCredit has signed up for a funding round to raise $125 million, led by SoftBank’s Latin America fund. Alcanza Capital and Bontu. There will be other leading venture capital firms from international waters also joining with SoftBank, though the press release does not list them.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The round was led by venture capital firm Dawn and The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund. Established in 2011, iZettle enables small business merchants across Europe and Latin America to accept card payments. Swedish payment company iZettle today announced it raised €40 million ($47.05 million) in funding to accelerate growth.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

Bank of America reported Thursday (July 16) that that the number of customers using the firm’s mobile and digital platforms grew during the second quarter even as the pandemic raged. Bank of America also reported that sales and trading revenue rose 35 percent to $4.4 BofA said its provision for credit losses hit $5.1 billion for U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

German food delivery platform Delivery Hero is launching its own early-stage venture capital (VC) firm — DX Ventures — that will be managed independently to focus on advancing founder-led startups. Delivery Hero operates in 50 countries in over 700 cities across Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2020

Anil brings 25-plus years of global banking experience across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In addition, Monzo hired former Visa executive TS Anil as CEO of its U.S. operations, reporting to Bloomfield. He is charged with regulatory engagement and hiring to drive Monzo’s U.S. staff total to 20.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Santander InnoVentures, the venture capital arm of Santander Bank, has invested $6 million in Mexican fintech ePesos. This investment marks the first Santander’s venture fund has ever made in Latin America. InnoVentures was the leader in the round, though VilCap Investments, Finlab, and Pomona Impact also invested.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

SoftBank will add $1 billion this year to its $5 billion Latin America Fund introduced in 2019, adding to last year’s $1.6 Its investment in Latin America this year will target eCommerce, healthcare, FinTech and other industries, as it looks at about 650 firms in the region. billion, Bloomberg reported on Friday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

GoExpedi , an eCommerce, supply chain and analytics startup, has raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Top Tier Capital Partners. CSL Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Bowery Capital, Blue Bear Capital and other current investors also participated in the round. managing director at Top Tier Capital Partners. “In

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

7) that it was merging with publicly-traded Social Capital in an $8.6 The SoFi deal marks at least the third such transaction done by the Social Capital SPAC, Palihapitiya said in a televised interview on CNBC, adding that the deal was driven by the fact that banking infrastructure isn't currently meeting the needs of U.S. consumers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

We know that value is extremely important to our guests, especially now," Ellie Doty , chief marketing officer at Burger King North America, said in the release. Burger King's use of marketing efforts that capitalize on a keen sense of social media has won the Miami-based company kudos.

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Payments Dive

APRIL 20, 2022

Miami-based NovoPayment, the banking-as-a-service provider of digital payments and other services, is collecting capital for an expansion move in the U.S., just as its key business territory in Latin America is heating up as a destination for international fintech expansion.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 6, 2020

Loan production takes inputs such as capital, analysis, and documents and combines them in a standardized process to produce an end product. After three days of manufacturing credit, we have honed ten essential concepts that may help your bank do more than its fair share of getting America going again.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

To get a sense of the new frontiers in cybercrime, and how cryptocurrency helps fraudsters cover their tracks or finance their schemes … look, perhaps, to Latin America. The tailwinds for cybercrime? IntSights reported that there were 453.7 Each time a trade is made, it further distances that original payment from its source account.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2020

Subsidiaries of Cannae, Black Knight and CC Capital Partners will be investing $200 million, $100 million and $100 million respectively toward private placements of Dun & Bradstreet’s common stock, depending on whether the offering ends up being at least 98.5 percent of the initial public offering price, the release says.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 9, 2019

We are hiring in North America and raising growth capital at the moment,” Mitchell […]. Payments software provider Episode Six will launch in the U.S. soon, according to its co-founder and CEO John Mitchell.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

billion and gave it an implied market capitalization of $14 billion. The price range implied a lower market capitalization than some bankers had thought before, with the previous estimates having risen to $25 billion to $30 billion. Morgan Chase and Bank of America. This helped Wish raise $1.1 The company said it made over $1.7

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Morgan Chase and Bank of America. billion with an implied market capitalization of $14 billion, PYMNTS reported. But the price range forecasted a lower market capitalization than bankers had previously estimated, with some of them predicting Wish would see $25 billion to $30 billion.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Investors in the latest financing included Prospect Avenue Capital, Guiotai Junan International, and Nan Fung Group. Lighthouse Capital served as the exclusive financial adviser. That round was led by Tencent Holdings and joined by Tiantu Capital, Susquehanna International Group (SIG) and Kuaishou.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The cash flow challenges for small businesses have been in place for a while, in Latin America since well before the pandemic took root. In Latin America, the infrastructure mainly relies on banks to provide kind of these types of services to the SME segment. trillion globally, according to Shoihet.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Lionel van der Walt , president and CEO of the Americas for freight payments company PayCargo , told PYMNTS that shippers and freight forwarders had been affected by the cancellations of airline flights that they'd become used to as a way to do their jobs.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The company was founded in 2011 and has worked to capitalize on banks' reduced focus on lending after the late 2000s financial crisis, working on refinancing student loans early on and has since also worked on mortgages and personal loans, according to Reuters. SoFi was valued at $4.8

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Other investors included Sequoia Capital Global Equities and existing investors Insight Partners and Third Point Ventures, the release stated. Cyberattacks targeting corporate America increased in October. The new funding, led by Tiger Global Management, brings SentinelOne’s valuation to over $3 billion.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic unfolds across America, with the country moving toward reopening after months of shutdowns that roiled the economy, many Chuck E. And while some of the chain’s locations started to reopen last month, the company has been burning cash with the majority still closed, and it has to now look into raising more capital.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

trillion borrowed by corporate America last year. Capital spending is a second option, with some investors looking for companies to spend more to grow business, especially while companies are able to get long-term debt financing at low rates, according to FT. The numbers came out to $2.5 trillion, as well, FT reported.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2020

Bigger lenders — JPMorgan Chase , Bank of America , Capital One and Santander — are pouring over various borrowing rules and making revisions, informed sources told the WSJ. Square and On Deck Capital are among the FinTechs planning to follow suit in the coming days.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

London-based FinTech startup Curve has raised $95 million in Series C funding led by IDC Ventures, Fuel Venture Capital, and the investment division of Vulcan Capital, launched from the estate of Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. is being managed by Amanda Orson , vice president and head of North America.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

banks including Bank of America, Citi, and JPMorgan Chase have done the same. EXCLUSIVE – Add one more to the mix. Today Lloyds Banking Group confirmed it has banned customers from buying bitcoin with their credit cards. The move comes only days after U.S. For Lloyds, that ban includes card credits for all the banks […].

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FICO

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Forbes partnered with research company Statista for the America's Best Employers list, and respondents were asked to anonymously rate, on a scale of zero to 10, how likely they’d be to recommend their employer to others and to cite any other employers they’d also recommend. You can read the complete Forbes piece here.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

Iain McNicoll , VP of Americas/SMB for payments platform Payoneer , recently told PYMNTS that eCommerce’s market share has risen to 27 percent from just 16 percent when the pandemic began. Access to capital has been tough for everyone in this environment,” McNicoll said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2018

One of the new realities of augmented reality is this: the technology is attracting more investment from China than from sources in North America. According Digi-Capital , which tracks AR investments, China-based funding for augmented reality and computer vision technologies hit $3.9 Investment Shift.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Companies around the globe are making the leap to digital B2B payments adoption, with 82 percent of businesses in North America alone saying they have changed the way they make and receive payments from other businesses at home and abroad. . This can help cash-strapped companies operate, even with reduced capital in reserve. .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

India's BharatPe, which operates a B2B payments platform, is currently in the process of building credit solutions for its business users that will include short-term capital loans. million in debt funding raised from Innoven Capital, according to reports, which follows last year's $75 million Series C investment round.

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