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Senate bill would let small businesses use SBA loans to cover fintech fees

Payments Dive

The Financial Technology Association is backing a bill that would clarify that loans made through the Small Business Administration’s flagship lending program can be used to pay for fintech services.

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The Impact of Technology on Banking: Revolution or Evolution?

Bank Innovation

All that is changing due to emerging technologies. The banking industry is facing many unprecedented challenges due to the rise of financial technology companies. For quite a long time, traditional brick and mortar banks only had to worry about making money and being profitable.

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The Financial Technologies SMEs Aren’t Using

PYMNTS

The average small business considers itself a “moderate” user of technology, according to the PYMNTS.com SMB Technology Adoption Index. sought external financing in 2016 , suggesting these firms simply aren’t interested in lending technologies or accessing, for instance, a loan from an alternative finance provider.

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Financial Technology Company Cross River Raises $100 Million In Funding

PYMNTS

Cross River, a provider of banking services for financial technology companies, has raised about $100 million in a funding round, according to a report by the company. A large portion of the money — $75 million — was from KKR, a global investment firm.

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Six Keys to Meaningful Evaluation of New Financial Technology

Jack Henry

The events of the last 18 months have reinforced the need for banks and credit unions to evaluate their digital delivery channels and to invest in technologies that will help them move forward. And, that was before the pandemic drove institutions to accommodate remote servicing demands in 2020 and 2021.

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Fintechs seek US government funds to help make business loans

Bank Innovation

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. government funding. and to permit the firms to […].

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BNY Mellon’s recent hires tasked with pursuing 3 key technology areas

Bank Innovation

BNY Mellon's three key financial technology executives added last month were given the directive to pursue investments and fintech partnerships in natural language processing, rule-based automation systems and robotic process automation (RPA), Bank Innovation has learned. The initiatives had previously not been disclosed.