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

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Brexit may dominate the headlines when it comes to the United Kingdom, but FinTech funding proceeds apace, and financial backers show a continued sanguine attitude about the space. based FinTechs said they have garnered more than 200 million pounds. Tim Levene, the CEO of Augmentum Capital, told Yahoo Finance that the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

Everyone in a modern society needs to know how to read, so America spends an awful lot of time, treasure and talent developing literacy curricula for kids. Lusardi said the problem is especially acute here in America. FinTech Is A Tool, Not A Replacement For Knowledge. Clearing The Hurdles.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

Santander InnoVentures, Santander Group’s global corporate venture capital fund, announced Tuesday (March 19) its appointment of Chris Gottschalk as a senior adviser to lead the $200M fund’s strategic direction in the U.S. portfolio companies a stronger entrance into North America. It also gives the fund’s non-U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

General Electric ‘s divestiture of GE Capital assets continues as MUFG Union Bank announced plans to acquire GE Capital’s Trade Payable Services (TPS) operations. 16), MUFG Americas and GE Capital said MUFG Union Bank will acquire GE Capital’s supply chain finance platform for an undisclosed sum.

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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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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

OCTOBER 13, 2019

The largest FinTech startup in Latin America — Brazil’s Nubank — is reporting a 25 percent increase in the number of clients since August, Reuters reported on Friday (Oct. The FinTech has expanded beyond fee-free credit cards and now offers bank accounts and associated services for both businesses and individuals.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

Business-to-Business FinTech-as-a-Service (FaaS) startup Rapyd has notched $300 million in a Series D funding round led by Coatue and including both new and existing investors. The London-headquartered FinTech is striving to enable businesses across the globe to quickly onboard and start tapping the platform’s full capabilities.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2018

China’s Tencent Holdings paid $180 million for an undisclosed minority stake in Brazilian FinTech Nu Pagamentos SA (known as Nubank). As a result of the investment, Nubank is now worth $4 billion, making it one of the most highly valued, privately held startups in Latin America.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

B2B FinTech startups have stepped into 2021 with a bang, as industry players raised more than $910 million in combined funding. 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.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

EXCLUSIVE — With government-backed initiatives and a finite business of copper export, Nathan Lustig, co-founder and managing partner at Magma Partners, saw huge potential in the Chilean fintech market. Additionally, […].

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2020

SoftBank has been looking at European FinTech startups, the source told The Telegraph. SoftBank’s future FinTech funding will likely come by way of its second Vision Fund, which started making investments last year. No deal was struck yet, and the talks are still in the beginning phase, sources said. staff total to 20.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

InstaReM, the Singapore FinTech startup that enables banks and consumers to send money across borders , raised $41 million in venture funding. In November it raised $20 million in capital from investors. Proceeds from the funding round are slated for expansion into Latin America, where the firm plans to open an office.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Bank of America today announced new features to the billpay functionality of its mobile app, including allowing users to search payment history from up to two years ago. In an email this morning to its customers prompting them to download the mobile app (which the bank does on a regular basis), BofA also revealed a set […].

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

Brazil’s unicorn FinTech and payments startup EBANX is trialing a digital wallet, called Ebanx Go, with 10,000 consumers on a test basis, the company announced on Wednesday (Jan. The digital wallet offering is intended to solidify the FinTech’s reach in the Brazilian payments market.

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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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Celent Banking

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

It is amazing how the ecosystem continues to grow and how fintech start-ups are booming. In Europa the winners were Everledger , specialized in anti-fraud technology for financial services and insurance; and Origin an electronic platform that facilitates bond issuing in the capital markets. Discover the finalists of all regions here.

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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

JUNE 3, 2020

Bank-FinTech collaboration continues to proliferate in markets around the world. and Europe embracing FinTechs in Open Banking efforts. Elsewhere, FinTechs are taking the initiative to work with financial institutions and offer their technologies in an effort to augment corporate services. An agreement with the U.K.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

MiddleGame Ventures has launched a new €150MM fund targeting FinTech investments in Europe and North America. We are pleased to have new capital from substantial investors to support great, transformational businesses across Europe and the US with our highly focused fund.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2021

Online FinTech startup SoFi announced Thursday (Jan. 7) that it was merging with publicly-traded Social Capital in an $8.6 The FinTech IPO Market. billion deal that brings it instant liquidity and avoids the uncertainty of the initial public offering (IPO) process, while leaving it better positioned to take on legacy banks.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

and Tata Capital has rolled out a new lending platform in India. In other news, India’s Tata Capital has rolled out an online working capital platform for its customers, the company said. Tata Capital’s platform is developed in partnership with U.S. FinTech company Biz2Credit. Coverage includes U.K.-based

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

Jenny Lefcourt of Freestyle Capital, for instance, said that consumers are an increasingly difficult sales target because they “became fickle with the proliferation of VC-backed, consumer-focused startups over the past few years.” Take a look at how more than $198 million in fresh funding landed in the B2B FinTech space below.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Banks and FinTechs continue to discover new opportunities in unlocking corporate clients’ financial data, with banks embracing data integration for their own product development initiatives, and FinTechs finding new ways to collaborate with each other. Mastercard Taps FinTech for Biz Card Boost.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

So, access to capital isn’t just essential for these companies to survive — it’s critical for the economy to thrive. “We all know banks are a key source of capital for small and medium businesses,” Phelan told PYMNTS in a recent interview. Yet, the small business lending gap remains.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

London-based FinTech startup Rapyd has secured an additional $20 million in funding, bringing its valuation to $1.2 This latest round of funding comes from new investment firm Durable Capital Partners. Other investors included Tiger Global, Coatue, General Catalyst, Target Global and Entrée Capital.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2017

It was a fairly quiet week for B2B startups on the venture capital front: Just three companies landed funding, all of which in the U.S., And investment plans are looking up, with two venture capital funds announcing their own latest raises headed toward the B2B FinTech space in the future. Nauta Capital. Notion Capital.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 4, 2022

These fintech and banking trends should be on financial institutions’ radar in the year ahead. This list of top banking and fintech trends for 2022 won’t tell anyone anything they haven’t already heard about. Anyone who’s paid attention to the banking and fintech space in 2021 knows how hot embedded finance is. This is nonsense.

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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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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2020

As a potential recession lurks, FinTechs, traditional banks and other financial institutions (FIs) are tightening the reins on loans to small businesses and households with shaky credit, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday (March 28). Square and On Deck Capital are among the FinTechs planning to follow suit in the coming days.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

One of the biggest shifts in banking that FinTech newcomers ushered into the market is the demand among customers for advisory services. What some financial institutions have come to realize is that collaborating with FinTechs can enable them to offer cutting-edge solutions while reserving resources to invest in meeting those advisory needs.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 2, 2019

The bank wants to increase its representation in entry-level analysts and associates in the Americas to 50% for women, 11% for black employees and 14% for Latino employees, based on an email to employees from CEO David Solomon, President John Waldron and […].

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 3, 2019

Acquisitions, partnerships and the roll-out of various new products and services made 2018 a very active year in banking and fintech. But was it all just setting the scene for an even busier 2019? Here are Bank Innovation's 5 companies to watch this year, selected by editors' choice, in no particular order: PayPal This payments […].

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 3, 2018

In fact, a new report showed that technology company IBM has five times more fintech patents than the world’s 15 largest banks combined. Many large banks describe themselves as equal parts technology firms as they are financial services companies, but then shouldn’t they have relevant patents backing that notion? Well, they don’t.

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