PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

“I was surprised by the opportunity of monetization in 2020 during the pandemic, not just by our wealth accounts but also by lending.”. Paytm offers a wide array of digital products throughout India, including a merchant payment platform, money transfers, and bill payments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Kakao Bank Corp. , a South Korean digital bank, has chosen Credit Suisse and KB Investment & Securities as its advisors for its upcoming initial public offering (IPO), Reuters reported. The bank's most current valuation is estimated to be around 10 trillion won ($9.1 billion).

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BankUnderground

JANUARY 12, 2021

Understanding gross capital flows is crucial for both macroeconomic and financial stability policy. However, theory is lagging behind empirical work , as much of the literature continues to rely on net capital flow models developed many decades ago. Gross capital inflows and outflows of individual economies are highly correlated.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

The Financial Times said on Tuesday (June 18) that RBS picked Marieke Flament, Circle ‘s CMO and European managing director, to serve as CEO of the digital bank, Mettle. lender to launch a separate digital bank, reports noted, with plans to debut the Mettle app in August. RBS is the first top U.K.

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Digital Banking Operations Lending Report 122

PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

Backers zeroed-in on a range of industries, including SMB banking and lending. With plans to launch a new small business lending bank in the U.K., million in "bridge" funding, with the company planning to close a $27 million Series A investment round that will enable it to secure its banking license.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

This week's look at the most recent initiatives in partnerships and open banking reveals a focus on SMB lending and finance, while Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) also gains traction to allow non-banks to offer their own banking services to corporate customers. Allied Irish Bank Embraces LendScape Receivables Finance.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

Soon after Lending Club revealed its ex-CEO may have artificially inflated the company’s lending volumes, the U.S. Find out which alt lenders secured $77 million in venture capital, as well as the other startups across the U.S., Commercial Banking. D3 Banking. Alternative Lending. Lendingkart.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Welcome to the unchartered territory for the lending landscape – at least for those who were born and came of age in the new Millennium, in the digital age…. Alt Lending Too. The FinTechs take in capital, the capital makes loans, which, though well above benchmark rates, is below credit card rates.

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Digital Banking Lending Capital Fintech 130

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The FinTech Capify has pulled in an additional $10 million in an equity round of funding and is banking on continued support from the Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division for its lending platform, which is geared to small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). and Australia market,” said Goldin in the release.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 21, 2017

The reason why they have gained such a valuation is that they have taken something the banks make difficult – setting up online payment services – and made it incredibly easy. Similarly, there are companies that do similar things in lending, savings, investments and other specific areas of financial services based upon internet technologies.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The round was led by Blockchain Capital, Standard Crypto, Blockchain.com Ventures and more. Aave recently announced its governance model to help the community access more participation, with old Aave token LEND now able to be swapped for the new Aave token at a ratio of 100 LEND to 1 Aave.

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Bitcoin Compliance Lending Regulation 261

Gonzobanker

MAY 31, 2019

Financial institutions that want to play in the small business lending sandbox need to bring their digital toys. article , former Small Business Administration administrator Karen Mills said community banks with strong small business customer bases that don’t find new ways to serve them digitally are going to face a “reckoning.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

With social distancing and an economic downturn the new reality for many markets around the world, venture capital is expected to slow significantly. Yet demand for contactless payments and digital, automated financial solutions means FinTech funding may not take as hard of a hit as other startup segments. AvidXchange.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2016

The mobile payments firm now offers an eCommerce platform and small business lending services. The latter is its most recent venture, having announced last July that it would begin lending to its small business clients as part of an effort to expand into a digital bank. Paytm is run by parent company One97 Communications.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Lending Tech With Almost Steady Grades (Even With Rough Semesters). Mortgage services provider ICE acquired mortgage services provider Black Knight bringing together the two largest providers in the space.

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Fintech Lending Software Compliance 192

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

New Jersey-based financial institution Investors Bank has announced a collaboration with online small business lending firm OnDeck to digitize its own small to medium-sized business (SMB) lending operations. The companies announced their collaboration in a press release Monday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

As consumers flock to banking apps, succeeding in the world of digital banking is not as easy as it used to be when mobile apps emerged a decade ago. Around the Digital Banking World. China isn’t the only nation where consumers have their pick of banking options, though. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

JPMorgan Chase plans to launch a digital bank in the United Kingdom early next year, Sky News reported Friday (Aug. The move “will enable it to capitalize on the accelerating transition of millions of bank customers from branch-based activity to digital services during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the news outlet said.

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Report Digital Banking Technology Lending 173

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Lending decisions under the bounce-back loan scheme are fully delegated to the accredited lenders. Tide was founded by banker George Bevis in 2015; London venture capitalist Eileen Burbidge serves as the bank's chair. The FinTech doesn’t qualify for the Bank of England’s term funding scheme aimed at small business lending.

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Fintech Lending Digital Banking Capital 177

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 8, 2021

. #267 on the list is Thought Machine , a company started only six years ago that recently announced signed core system deals with Chase and Arvest Bank. Bank CEOs are looking at fintech investment rounds. Mark Cuban is tweeting about Jill Castilla’s fintech efforts with lending system startup Teslar. OK, me neither.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

Open banking initiatives and bank-FinTech collaborations continue to expand in an effort to improve financial services offerings for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Varengold Bank, an FI focused on FinTech financing, recently announced a new collaboration with Wirecard to further enhance financial services for FinTechs.

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Fintech Compliance Risk Management Lending 173

Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The company, which has been outspoken about its pursuit of a bank charter, is trying to move beyond loans and become a digital bank for small businesses. Small business lender OnDeck is making a pitch to Main Street.

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Maine Digital Banking Company Customer Experience 312

Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The digital banking software provider Q2 Holdings announced yesterday it had acquired Atlanta-based digital sales platform Gro Solutions. This acquisition, the second of the year for Austin, Texas-based Q2, came about through a shared investor, Gro CEO David Eads told Bank Innovation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2019

A source told the Financial Times that Zopa will receive the funds from an entity linked to IAG Capital Partners, a U.S.-based Launched in 2005, Zopa is considered one of the world’s first P2P lenders, lending almost £4 billion to consumers in the U.K. based fund, and its U.K. investment vehicle Silverstripe. since its inception.

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Digital Banking Capital Regulation Lending 142

PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

Holdaway, who has an MBA from Harvard Business School, joins Barclays after 15 years at Capital One , where he held a variety of senior leadership roles in new business initiatives, internet acquisitions and partnership finance. customers with innovative card, digital banking and payments solutions.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

British digital bank Monzo , expanding fast, wants to hire up to 500 people and (hopefully) reach 5.5 The bank is also preparing to try charging customers again to turn a profit. Yet, it’s had no problem raising capital — it’s valued at more than £2 billion ($2.6 million users this year.

Digital Banking 192

Digital Banking Survey Lending Capital 192

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Small businesses continue to embrace digital banking. At the same time, digital banks are looking to capitalize on their growing small and medium-sized business (SMB) customer base, with open banking and bank-FinTech collaborations an important part of that strategy. As part of the U.K.’s

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

million) to become a challenger bank. The news of the funding it had struggled for came days before its conditional banking license was set to expire. Zopa received those funds from a group linked to IAG Capital Partners, a U.S.-based Capital One was one of the earlier disrupters,” Janardana said. based fund, and its U.K.

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Security Capital Cards Report 215

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Many SMEs, he said, will fail because of a lack of access to working capital or other support in the current economy, which will lead to those companies’ “ambition, energy & creativity extinguished, along with reduced consumer choice and countless jobs,” AltFi wrote.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

million) over the past year developing this digital bank. In its earnings call today, Virgin Money said it will begin testing these products later this year and has already spent £38.3 million ($53.3 According.Read More.

Digital Banking 284

Digital Banking Capital Fintech Lending 284

PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

Gaming company Razer is going after a Singapore digital banking license, along with China’s largest online monetary platform Ant Financial , according to reports on Wednesday (Jan. Razer FinTech will own a 60 percent majority stake Razer Youth Bank, which will be headquartered in Singapore. . Google and Temasek Holdings. .

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Digital Banking Capital Google Cards 130

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

After Metro Bank recently pulled back from plans to expand and decided to move away from lending for mortgages, the bank said it will return £50 million from the RBS bailout fund, according to a report. The bank had to reconfigure its strategy after fourth-quarter results showed a pre-tax loss of £130.8

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Last week, Grab announced that its Grab Financial Group had raised $300 million in a Series A funding round led by Hanwha Asset Management and joined by K3 Ventures , GGV Capital , Arbor Ventures and Flourish Ventures. Last month, Grab and Singtel announced they had received a license to set up a digital bank in Singapore.

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Fintech US Groups Management 198

Bank Innovation

JANUARY 26, 2018

launched its Marcus digital bank in late 2016, the conventional wisdom was the investment bank wanted to expand into retail banking. EXCLUSIVE— When Goldman Sachs & Co. But, apparently, that’s not the whole story. Marcus, it seems, is an asset pricing play, Goldman’s CEO implied yesterday.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 17, 2020

One, a digital banking platform targeting middle-class families, launched its private beta today and announced a $17 million Series A fundraising round.?With With its credit products and shared accounts, One aims to create deep relationships with middle-class families that have finances too complex for other neobanks. “The

Digital Banking 259

Digital Banking Customer Experience Capital Management 259

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The interview happened during a time of expansion and aggressive future planning for the company, a small business and consumer micro-lending technology company that operates in Nigeria. Nigerian banks don’t like to lend,” Hainy said. There is no Pan-African digital bank,” Hainy said. “So That’s not all.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

A summer lull in B2B venture capital appears to have given way to an impressive start to the fall season. Colombian alternative small business lending platform Sempli announced $8 million in funding this week from Oikocredit and Incofin CVSO, according to a press release. said this week. ZenBusiness.

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