PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Also seen in this week’s roundup of the latest in Bank-FinTech innovations was Alacriti teaming with The Clearing House on real-time payments (RTP), while Singapore Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) startup RootAnt concluded a seed round with $1.46 In addition, Monese adopted Thought Machine’s cloud banking platform.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

FinTech funding had already seen a dip in Q1 this year, but the pandemic may be further suppressing investor appetite. A new report provided by Buy Shares found global FinTech funding was less than $4 billion during Q2, compared to about $5.8 billion raised in the Q1, according to Forrester. Privacy.com. ’s Ravelin secured $20.6

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Southeast Asian FinTech Grab Financial Group announced in a press release that it has raised $300 million in a Series A funding round. Other investors in the round include K3 Ventures , GGV Capital , Arbor Ventures and Flourish Ventures , the release stated.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

Tokyo, Japan’s digital banking startup Kyash has closed a $45 million Series C funding deal co-led by Greenspring Associates and Goodwater Capital, Kyash said in a statement on Sunday (March 30). Goodwater Capital also invested in Kyash’s Series B Round. growth equity investment firm Greyhound Capital; U.S.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 23, 2020

Industry group Financial Innovation Now urged Congress in a letter to provide capital to online lenders including PayPal and Square Inc., Financial-technology firms including PayPal Holdings Inc. are lining up to help speed lending to small businesses during the coronavirus crisis — and are pushing for a slice of emergency U.S.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 28, 2016

Last week we looked at a group of fintech companies spanning the world with a suite of Series B rounds. Feeling out of place? The five startups below may have the frontier know-how you need. This week the common denominator lies in the oddball assistance needed by entrepreneurs, businesses, and investors Read More.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2020

AlphaCredit is a FinTech platform with a focus on consumer lending and finance solutions. 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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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

A high-powered slate of investors led by BlackRock is buying a stake in Trustly , the fast-growing Swedish FinTech, its new investment partners announced in a press release. The BlackRock-led group of institutional investors includes Aberdeen Standard Investments, funds managed by Neuberger Berman, Investment Corporation of Dubai and RSIC. “It

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Ant Group has won the nod from China's top security regulators for its Shanghai offering, the last hurdle to clear for the $35 billion dual listing, Reuters reports. Ant, the FinTech backed by China's Alibaba Group, plans to list simultaneously in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the next few weeks, according to sources quoted by Reuters.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In PYMNTS’ latest B2B venture capital roundup, which yielded $75 million in new funding, startups embraced distributed ledger technology for B2B payments and supply chain management, with 80 percent of total funding landing at blockchain companies. Envoy Group. The $13 million raised for U.K.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Capital One’s Treasury Management Group is already looking ahead to how corporate treasurers will face the most modern of challenges in 2017. For Capital One, approaching the future of treasury management means collaboration. “We’re

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Collaboration amid competition has been a hallmark of the financial services space, as traditional financial institutions (FIs) join forces with FinTech startups. The group, to be known as Alloy Labs Alliance, according to a press release , is being managed by FinTech Forge. Guidelines From The UK. and MarketInvoice.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

venture capital sphere this week: VC funding for FinTech startups in Q1 alone hit $1.2 Analysts said the industry has seen its highest venture capital activity since Q1 of 2016, fueled by focus on late-stage investment rounds. Financial Services FinTech Practice Co-Leader Anthony Rjeily in a statement.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

Ant Group, the online payment service affiliate of China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, is looking to go public as early as this year, Reuters reported. . Ant Group was launched in 2014 to provide global financial services. At the time, Credit Suisse and China International Capital Corp.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

Amsterdam-based startup Creative Group announced it has raised €22 million in funding from Prime Ventures. Founded in 2010, Creative Group enables customers to digitally buy or send prepaid credit to spend with their favorite brands, as well as to send cross-border credit remittances. We are excited to have Prime Ventures on board.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 17, 2018

Santander InnoVentures, the fintech venture capital arm of Spanish bank Santander Group, made an undisclosed investment in Brazilian fintech Creditas. The investment in Creditas, a digital online lending platform, marks Santander’s first venture into the Brazilian fintech landscape.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

Its new FinTech team could ultimately have more than 100 workers. The company’s push into FinTech will help broaden its lead over rival service Lyft, and its offerings will look to help increase customer engagement and loyalty. The company has reportedly been hiring numerous product managers and engineers.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 17, 2018

Under the heading ‘SC Ventures,’ the unit will focus on the bank’s existing “minority investments in fintech,” as reported by Reuters, while also searching for new fintech investments. The bank’s current fintech investments include companies such as […].

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Hot embers continue to glow in the fintech market that GonzoBanker mothership Cornerstone Advisors serves. According to CB Insights, US fintechs raised $14.6B Some perspective on how fast this fintech market is moving: Fintech Labs tracks 269 $1B+ valued fintech unicorns that have been founded in just the past two decades.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 24, 2018

While some banks and fintech view each other as competitors, that’s not always the case. In fact, there have been a number of significant bank-fintech partnerships this year. Lloyds Banking Group and Thought Machine Core overhauling is a […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Here are all the top B2B FinTech deals from the week. This week Oxx, which tends to focus on B2B software startups, led the $12 million funding round for the company, which also saw participation from Industrifonden, SEB Venture Capital and KTH Chalmers Capital, according to reports. Software-as-a-Service. The company raised $2.5

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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. Founder and Curve CEO Shachar Bialick said in a press release on Tuesday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Multinational investment bank UBS has launched the UBS Next platform in order to help invest in FinTechs and the "broader tech ecosystem," according to a press release. UBS Next will pursue direct investments in early stage FinTechs and other such companies.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

With more than $200 million in venture capital funding landing with B2B FinTechs this week, investors had their eyes set on a variety of pain points in corporate finance. Below, PYMNTS breaks down the latest in B2B FinTech funding. Meanwhile, logistics, data analytics, and business travel technologies also won over investors.

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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

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. SoftBank has so far earmarked $100 million to $150 million to fund 17 companies and two venture capital firms. . “We billion, Bloomberg reported on Friday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

The Banking & Payments Federation Ireland said it had established a FinTech Foresight Group — further evidence of collaborations between traditional financial institutions and tech upstarts. It is indeed imperative that banks capitalize on these technological advances and the associated business models. Sandbox In India.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

London FinTech startup DAG Global is going after the first merchant bank license in the U.K. The FCA awarded a payments license to London-based Clearbank and its partner BCB Group last month. that serves cryptocurrency businesses, multiple reports indicated on Monday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Singapore-based FinTech Grab is mulling a U.S. 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.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2020

SoftBank has been looking at European FinTech startups, the source told The Telegraph. The investment group also sat down with Monzo’s competitor Revolut, and recently funded London-based digital bank startup OakNorth with £297.7 No deal was struck yet, and the talks are still in the beginning phase, sources said.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

There may be talk of a venture capital slowdown, but B2B FinTech saw a busy week, with more than $280 million raised. Investors found promise in startups that target financial institutions (FIs) with software to improve their own services, as well as FinTechs that offer small business solutions by wielding their bank data.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With more than $1 billion raised — and more to come — this week became the most lucrative for B2B FinTech venture capital funding. said the company saw BHL Holdings lead the second Series A funding round, while Nire Capital and existing backers Concentric, Seedcamp and Beazley also participated. Reports in Verdict.co.uk

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Growth of FinTech funding seems unstoppable, with the latest analysis from Hampleton Partners finding enterprise financial services and integration, online financial services, enterprise financial software and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) risk management as some of the hottest spots for investors this year.

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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

MARCH 19, 2020

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) gave the green light to an application from the FinTech firm Square to create a de novo industrial bank in Utah, the agency said on Wednesday (March 18). The Utah Department of Financial Institutions still has to issues approvals to the San Francisco-based FinTech. Square, Inc.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

As legal cannabis spreads, the industry is a big opportunity for FinTech, as industry players struggle to manage intense compliance requirements and limited access to traditional financial services. The investors followed a Series C investment round closed by Veritas earlier this year, which was led by CDC, Pai and Lok Capital.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 12, 2017

Further to my recent trip to Pakistan Business Recorder (their version of The Financial Times) interviewed me in depth about what is happening in FinTech. BRR: How critical are the capital requirements? Below are edited transcripts of the transcription. We are seeing big changes to encourage innovation.

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