PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

As cloud technologies emerge to help financial institutions (FIs) drive digital innovation, Finastra has introduced its Fusion Payments To Go offering for small and medium-sized banks. Linear Capital served as the head investor, while additional help originated from KZM & Company Group.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Gulf Capital Bank, Houston’s first new bank to launch since 2009, will open its doors by early next year. Ed Jones, chairman and CEO, told Bank Innovation that the new institution will focus on […].

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has announced Michael Mosier as its new digital innovation officer and deputy director. In the digital innovation officer role, he will work to engage with new financial innovations and technologies. Michael is the right person, with the right skills, at exactly the right time.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

There’s a huge opportunity [in B2B payments] for businesses that have traditionally focused on the consumer,” David Disque , president of Corporate Spending Innovations (CSI), said in an interview with Karen Webster. While an attractive proposition, the shift into the B2B world can’t happen at the flip of a switch.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For Personal Capital, the path to scale is go broad. The company this month hit a milestone of $12 billion in assets under management, which it sees as evidence its digital and human approach is yielding results.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

EXCLUSIVE- With mobile banking, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and other modern banking tools on the rise, the emergence of new players in the fintech space is a daily occurrence With that in mind, here are five startups to keep an eye on this week: Templum ICOs, or Initial Coin Offerings, are growing more and more popular […].

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Rick Winslow, chief experience officer at small business lending company Kabbage, will join Bank Innovation Ignite this March 2-3 in Seattle as panelist for a session entitled “The future of banking customer experience.” The discussion will dive into new products and services that can help improve customers’ digital journeys.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 11, 2020

WSFS Bank is working with Intain, a blockchain firm based in Chennai, India, to help automate capital markets transactions. The Wilmington, Del.-based based bank, a subsidiary of WSFS Financial, said it’s using Intain’s blockchain-based tool to facilitate trustee reporting for asset-backed securities transactions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Despite the pandemic, venture capital dollars are flowing freely to nascent firms in Asia that are tackling the need for contactless interactions and platforms that match supply and demand — setting the stage for innovation on the other side of the public health crisis.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 7, 2017

The world’s first venture capital fund raised with digital coin offering has gained its first round of investors, including executives from Bloq and Civic. Blockchain Capital, the first venture capital firm to focus exclusively on DLT technology is offering digital tokens that represent a stake in the firm’s third fund.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Through the WorldPay Working Capital Solution, Liberis and Worldpay are able to reach small businesses that may find it difficult to get credit from […]. -based small business finance provider Liberis has teamed up with FIS-owned payments company Worldpay to offer cash advance products to small businesses in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

The company also set up a multi-million-dollar subsidy program to reduce operating costs and capital risks for their merchants, in an effort to help them get back to work safely and efficiently. An Opportunity for Innovation . As the situation evolves, Wang told Webster, the innovative responses are doing the same.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Fresh on the heels of an $80 million capital injection last month, Davenstrott said the recent fundraising is really about supporting Cooler Screens’ expansions. “I And so it's a fairly capital intensive investment for us to make upfront, to manufacture and then install doors at that scale,” he said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Payment innovators are embracing the opportunities to mix payment rails old and new in search of business-to-business (B2B) solutions that can tackle longstanding friction. Corporate buyers continue to drive commercial card adoption in order to take advantage of capital float and rewards programs.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Roady, who has been on MoneyLion’s board of directors since 2016, was previously a founding partner at GAIN Capital and president of its global retail brokerage business. She told Bank Innovation that her […].

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The round was led by General Atlantic and WestCap , and existing investors Activant Capital and Tribe Capital also participated. Bolt also saw a tenfold increase in the size of its shopper network, along with 250,000 added shoppers to its network per month. The round saw the company's valuation hit over $215 million.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

INV Fintech, Bank Innovation’s sister accelerator, has announced its sixth accelerator class, which begins this week with six unique startups seeking to revolutionize financial services.

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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

At a high level, P2P transfers to these economies can pull of a feat that other capital flows, namely through overseas development aid (ODA for short) and private direct investment cannot. They get money where it needs to go, most urgently, to individual recipients.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 31, 2018

Last year, was big for corporate venture capital?—?$37.4 That’s the total record amount of money invested by the corporate venture capital industry last year in 1,268 financing deals, according to a report from Pitchbook and the National Venture Capital Association released Friday. billion big.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 1, 2024

For inspiration in banking innovation, we often look to other industries. Instead of thinking traditionally, Gentle Monster pursued a strategy of innovation and creativity to become the hottest sunglass company globally, creating a company currently valued at $900 million. Honkook Kim and his Gentle Monster Brand is a perfect example.

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Perficient

MAY 26, 2021

In the session “Differentiating Your Brand for the Digital Era,” Scott will discuss how financial services companies can leverage digital technologies in new and innovative ways to create new value for consumers and businesses. The presentation will occur on June 10 at 4:00 p.m.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

A point arises, however, when firms have to choose the self-funding route and raise the needed capital or collaborate as well as partner with larger players that have the backing to make acquisitions part of their strategy for long-term growth. As a result, Praeger believes M&A activity will be similar to what was seen last year.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We are innovating the underlying infrastructure that financial institutions use to make transactions run even faster end-to-end, and at the same time further reducing costs for the community through industry-shared services in the areas of cyber, fraud and compliance," said Javier Pérez-Tasso , SWIFT’s CEO, in a statement. “We

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

billion in venture capital investments between January and September 2020, according to a press release from London & Partners emailed to PYMNTS. Global investments are below the levels of pre-pandemic days, but London FinTechs have surpassed their 2018 venture capital totals of $2.3 billion in investments.

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Perficient

MAY 28, 2020

Oracle’s suite of enterprise applications; ERP, SCM, EPM, and Data & Analytics all lead the industry to new fond levels of efficiency and innovation with special focus on the four desired areas of business outcome below; I. Steering Innovation and Agile Process with Oracle ERP & EPM Applications.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Scan recent headlines and you’ll see that Equifax bought Ansonia Credit Data; Corsair Capital bought B2B payments solution provider MSTS, and OnDeck was bought out. Against such resistance, good, innovative ideas died and continue to die quickly, he said. Western Union has been public about its desire for acquisitions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Stripe led the round, and existing investors Y Combinator and Global Founders Capital participated, alongside a new investor, Bedrock Capital. Stripe APAC Business Lead Noah Pepper said the support for PayMongo came from its innovation during the previous several months of the pandemic.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 19, 2020

What is the role of innovation in response to these rapidly unfolding events? For insights into these questions, Bank Innovation and INV Fintech, its sister banking innovation services platform, will present a special Zoom meeting on […]. How will banks and startups work together?

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 29, 2020

With nearly 200 startups, five major banks, 19 venture capital firms and representation from large tech companies like Google, Facebook, PayPal, Toronto is quickly becoming a center for fintech entrepreneurship.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In other news, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) is researching the potential for innovation, as well as the inherent risks, in virtual assets, the SECP said in a paper published on Nov. Meanwhile, Binance on Monday (Nov. 16) announced that it is discontinuing the trading pair BGBP/USDC.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Houston-based Gulf Capital Bank recently completed a capital raise of $93 million. Bank CEO Ed Jones wants Gulf Capital to model community banking relationships, in which […].

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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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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – If the future of banking is partnering with fintech startups, then finding the most innovative and efficient fintechs becomes crucial for banks’ success. This demand has led to the rise of third-party run accelerator programs. One such program is Little Rock, Ark.-based

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The fund will be managed by BNP Paribas’ Capital Partners, and will be taking minority stakes in financial services and insurance startups, the bank said. French bank BNP Paribas has launched a new fund to invest in fintech startups, the bank announced today. The amount of the fund was not disclosed. It will also be.Read More.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

Hong Kong’s travel and leisure booking platform Klook has closed a $200 million Series E funding round led by Aspex Management , with participation by Sequoia Capital China , SoftBank Vision Fund, Matrix Partners China and Boyu Capital , according to a press release.

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