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Innovation with techquisition: Getting it right

Accenture

The fintech revolution is here: Over $34 billion of venture-capital funding went to fintechs in the second quarter of 2021. The post Innovation with techquisition: Getting it right appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog.

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Dignari Capital Gives $50M To Sheng Ye Capital For SCF Innovation

PYMNTS

Dignari Capital has agreed to provide $50 million to Sheng Ye (SY) Capital in a strategic collaboration to explore new supply chain finance options for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), according to a press release. Tung Chi Fung , chairman of SY Capital, said there are already plans in the works.

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Capital One Adding Innovation Staff in New York

Bank Innovation

Capital One Financial Corp. but it’s adding significant innovation staff to its New York office. Job ads for more than a dozen positions in the Big Apple were recently posted, and quite a few of them directly relate to the bank’s innovation effort. may be based in McLean, Va., Here are just a Read More.

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Small Business Banking Catching Up in Innovation Race

Bank Innovation

There are quite a few lending solutions these days for small businesses -- Funding Circle, OnDeck, Kabbage, and Square Capital, to name a just a few -- but innovation and digitization are lagging in other areas, such as digital account opening. Enter Gro Solutions, a sales and marketing platform for financial institutions.

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Capital One Looks to the Cloud to Power Innovation Efforts

Bank Innovation

EXCLUSIVE—Cloud infrastructure and data analytics are becoming more and more integral to financial services, and Capital One is one bank ahead of the curve. “We We are a very data-driven company, we want to bring the bank to the customer,” Linda Apsley, vice president of data engineering at Capital One, said of the bank’s use of […].

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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

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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JPMC: Why Working-Capital Trade Finance Is On The Rise

PYMNTS

And according to Fraser, that means banks will be poised to support that cash flow collaboration through trade finance innovation. Many firms, particularly larger ones, find themselves in “a strong and stable position” from a cash and liquidity perspective as a result of their greater access to capital and credit markets.

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