PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The mobile payments firm announced plans last week to open up a physical branch in Utah, to be called Square Financial Services. The company had an investor day last week during which management said that, as noted by Barron’s , the firm’s total addressable market is four times larger than some observers estimate.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2018

According to the report in the Wall Street Journal , Whole Foods Market aims to have stores in more suburban areas where it has been gaining customers since Amazon bought it. Prior to the acquisition, Whole Foods was in layoff mode as store growth was slowing.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

The Securities & Exchange Commission ( SEC ) has moved to freeze the assets of a $12 million cryptocurrency mining and multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme, Coindesk reports. The defendant in the case is Utah resident Daniel F. The group managed to get $12 million from 2,000 investors, Coindesk reports.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2020

Focused on mitigating third-party risk for B2B buyers and suppliers, Utah-based Whistic recently announced a $12 million Series A investment round, FinNSMEs reported. The company offers businesses a platform to manage their third-party partners, connecting users to its Trust Catalog of corporate profiles. The company raised $17.25

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Alphabet-owned Google could be hit by a third lawsuit by state attorneys general, this time over its management of the Play Store, Reuters reported on Friday (Jan. This latest Google probe will be headed by the attorneys general of Utah, North Carolina and New York, one of the sources said. 15), citing sources. . and abroad. .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2017

The action comes a week after the FDIC announced that digital lender SoFi had applied to the state of Utah for a special banking charter known as an ILC. Ten years ago Walmart to launch in Utah, where many ILCs are based, and was shut down.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

Upgrade said in the report that other investors include CreditEase, the Chinese lender, and Noah Holdings, an investment management company. Fortune noted that when Laplanche, who founded LendingClub and took it public, left abruptly, it created turmoil in the online lending market that has been suffering from slow loan growth.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

But the system has not yet managed its long-touted national expansion — and the issue at hand seems to be data processing. I think it’s safe to say it’s pretty important for us to launch payments in India,” said one person close to the company of the current stalemate of WhatsApp’s delayed entry into the market.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2019

MX, a Utah-based technology startup offering a data cleansing and analytics platform for the finance sector, has just announced a $100 million investment. The company plans to deploy the latest funding to focus on sales, marketing and growing its current customer base of about 2,000 businesses.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Through gpi, SWIFT and its community have managed to radically innovate the very core of correspondent banking,” said Chief Marketing Officer Luc Meurant in a press release providing the business update, and where universal update is being targeted for 2020. The application is for a special industrial loan company license.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

The biggest individual cut will be a Utah office dedicated to lending for medical procedures, but 14 percent of Prosper’s San Francisco- and Phoenix-based workforce is also on its way out the door. Changing market conditions (and some higher-than-expected default rates) have changed the math and softened investor interest some.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Many fast food, fast casual and quick service restaurants (QSRs) in the industry are realizing that using technology to deliver a seamless ordering experience is essential to remaining competitive in a $273 billion market. Fast casual chain Panera Bread , for example, recently made its digital ordering service available at two U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2017

Officially SoFi is looking for an industrial loan charter under the name SoFi Bank in Utah. SoFi specializes in marketing financial and loan products for millennial consumers who tend to prefer the firm’s online-only approach to finserve. SoFi has confirmed the news. The bank will offer no other products and services.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2017

The meal kit startup, an alternative to visits to grocery stores, has hired Steve Robinson, former head of global logistics and supply chain at Starbucks, and Brian McEvoy, former assistant general manager at meal kit competitor Blue Apron, to lead its scalability efforts. According to the numbers, the strategy works.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

Corporate travel and expense (T&E) management solutions provider TripActions led this week’s B2B venture capital roundup with its announcement of new funding that propelled its valuation to $4 billion. Prime Venture Partners provided the investment, reports said.

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2021

Bill.com , a cloud-based billing, accounting, and payments platform, has acquired Divvy , a spend management platform, in a stock and cash deal valued at $2.5B. Divvy: Utah-based Divvy is a spend management platform that integrates expense management and smart corporate cards into a single platform for enterprises.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2020

That alternative method of paying for purchases “on credit” got a boost with news this week that Visa Installments , a new point-of-sale (POS) credit solution, is being rolled out in pilot markets across the U.S. This follows a pilot rollout in Russia last month.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The firm went public in 2014 and had just managed its first quarter of profitability in early 2016 when scandal rocked the business and it found itself without its found CEO, facing a lot of investor doubt and being investigated by the DoJ. The last few years have been an exciting ride for LendingClub watchers.

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Bobsguide

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The TCS BaNCS deployment provides Zions a parameterized, US market compliant, real-time solution, sets up Zions to go Digital, be nimble & efficient and shift to a customer centric approach. It’s a significant landmark not just for TCS and for Zions, but for the banking industry in North America.

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CFPB Monitor

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

” At the American Bar Association’s Consumer Financial Services Committee meeting last month in Park City, Utah, Bryce Stephens and Jeffrey Langer from the CFPB provided insight as to how the CFPB treats the use of big data by creditors.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 10, 2019

According to the complaint , Kabbage entered into the scheme with Celtic Bank, a foreign state-chartered bank in Utah, which has no maximum rate limit for commercial loans. Kabbage “in economic reality” markets, underwrites, prices, approves, funds, and collects upon 100% of the loans and bears 100% risk of loss.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Hughes, Senior Vice President of Card Marketing, Discover Financial Services, Deerfield, Ill. Allen, Chief Compliance Officer, Bank of American Fork, American Fork, Utah. DeBery, Senior Vice President, Internal Audit and Risk Management, Bath Savings Institution, Bath, Maine. Christopher G. Kathleen J.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010 in an attempt to gain share in online payments, a then-nascent market with seemingly boundless growth opportunity. Market opportunity. Stripe Connect and billing services help companies manage marketplaces, subscriptions. Expansion into emerging markets.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 22, 2013

I first became aware of Marlin at the Utah Bankers Association Executive Development Program, where a Marlin Business Bank officer was attending. Nasdaq: EGBN) EagleBank, founded in 1998, is a traditional community-based business bank, serving the metro Washington DC market. But why exclude niche players? Well done! #4.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the world of asset management, the biggest players are now dedicated firms like Vanguard. Total assets under management (AUM) at the top asset managers now dwarfs total AUM at the top banks. The disruption of asset management. When Facebook went public in 2012, the stock fell 15% in its first few days on the market.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

It has implications for everything from regulatory compliance and risk management to a bank’s ability to engender trust in its customers. Those banks that have rigorous in-house vulnerability management programs in place could comment on that to provide customers a higher level of comfort,” Hickok says. By Katie Kuehner-Hebert.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

billion-asset Sunwest Bank in Sandy, Utah. We can see customers who are paying loans at other institutions, estimate loan balances and generate a shortlist by relationship manager,” says Lappetito. AI can quickly manage repetitive, monotonous tasks. “My accounts are scattered at different banks.”. Did I get the loan or not?”. “We

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

To the extent it pipes people to banking product, that goes to a $500 million market capitalization public company that makes prepaid cards. It doesn’t have an ILC charter from Utah, or a crypto bank charter from Wyoming, or a straight-up bank charter like Varo, nor has it acquired any banks like Lending Club or Jiko. No shenanigans.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 18, 2023

Founded in late 2016 by Blake Murray and Alex Bean, the Lehi, Utah-based startup went from founding to a $2.3 The exit occurred in mid-2021 when Bill.com was looking to expand its offerings in the corporate card and expense management space. billion exit in just 4.5 billion in a cash ($665 million) and stock ($1.65

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 9, 2023

Founded in late 2016 by Blake Murray and Alex Bean, the Lehi, Utah-based startup went from founding to a $2.5 The exit occurred in late 2021 when Bill.com came knocking at just the right time as Bill was looking to expand its offerings in the corporate card and expense management space. billion exit in just 4.5 Primary Pros & Cons.

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FICO

JUNE 14, 2021

For these reasons, BNPL loans, which are convenient and fast, can be an excellent spend management tool. Separately, research released in September 2020 by youth marketing firm YPulse said that 22% of 13-39-year-olds say they have used a BNPL or payment installment service, and 29% say they haven’t but are interested in using them. .

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CB Insights

AUGUST 31, 2017

Shanghai-based NIO (蔚来汽车, formerly NextEV), a manufacturer of smart, electronic, and autonomous vehicles, is aiming for Tesla-style success in the Chinese market. Advertising/Marketing AI. That round, financed by Baidu for an undisclosed sum, was strategically focused on the Chinese market. in total funding. Company: Taboola.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 30, 2024

Lendio FAB Score = 124 (up 16) – HQ: Salt Lake City, Utah – Founded: 2011 (originally founded in 2006 as FundingUtah). IOU Financial FAB Score = 23 (up 7) – HQ: Atlanta – Founded: 2011 – Raised: $132M (including $200k in 2021) ( Crunchbase ) – Market cap: $22M (19 July 2023), up $9M since 16 May 2023 (taken private in Sep 2023) – $1.5B

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In the last eight years, the corporate charge card market ( see definition below ) has seen the launch of 3 major digital players ( Ramp in 2019, Brex in 2017, and Divvy in 2016) that are already multi-unicorns. Challenger of the Month* Meet BILL. Your financial operations platform. 2,030 reviews, up 60 since July) 2.

Cards 29

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 8, 2016

Financial Guard will become a part of Legg Mason’s alternative distribution strategies business which specializes in helping the global asset manager’s investment affiliates leverage financial technology to serve customers better. Terms were not disclosed.

Utah 15

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 31, 2023

These are the largest events in the financial services industry geared towards payments and card technologists, program managers, marketers, developers and C-Suite execs at both legacy financial institutions and upstart payments firms and card issuers.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 26, 2016

MX appointed Don MacDonald to lead marketing and branding efforts and develop marketing strategies to help bank clients enhance the account holder experience. He has the skills, experience and proven track record to continue to evolve our marketing organization, build the MX brand and drive accelerated growth for the company.”.

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