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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

San Francisco-based Chipper got its start building a base in the P2P payments sector in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Uganda and Ghana. The startup has since expanded into eCommerce with a service targeted at retailers and other online merchants, Chipper Checkout. Ribbit Capital, a VC firm in the U.S.

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MAY 18, 2018

The San Francisco-based challenger bank just crossed the one-million accounts mark, Britt told Bank Innovation, over a span of less than […]. Neobanks, better established across the Atlantic in Europe, are starting to grow up in the U.S.

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JUNE 22, 2016

San Francisco-based Ripple announced that seven global banks have joined its network to improve their cross-border payments experience. Real-time international payments are not far over the horizon anymore. Among the banks are Santander, UniCredit, UBS, ReiseBank, CIBC, National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), and ATB Financial.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

EXCLUSIVE— Shares of San Francisco-based online lender, LendingClub, fell as much as 11% yesterday after the company missed profit estimates and more than doubled its losses in its fourth quarter. The lender also grew its originations from last year, though its growth in that area remained flat from 3Q17.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

This makes sense, since the San Francisco-based digital bank’s mobile app is currently only available on iOS. EXCLUSIVE- SME banking app, Seed, is gearing up to roll out a tool that supports Apple iPhone X’s new Face ID feature, Bank Innovation learned.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Citizens Bank is generating one-third of its mortgage applications online, thanks to a suite of tools the company rolled early this year and a partnership with San Francisco-based fintech firm Blend.

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MARCH 7, 2018

EXCLUSIVE (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Welcome back to the fintech boom. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck. But the fintech market has rebounded.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

The San Francisco-based fintech used to charge its customers $9 per month, but after conducting a survey, CEO Brian Merritt told Bank Innovation that he realized Seed could serve customers better by being free. EXLUSIVE – SME-focused digital bank Seed is nixing its monthly fee and will now be free for customers.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

The new capability works through an integration with TD Ameritrade Institutional’s Self-Directed Plan Services platform, which should expand the long-term value of the San Francisco- based Lively’s HSA offering. Healthcare Savings Account provider Lively Inc. has raised $4.2 The feature […].

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

A battle royale will take place in San Francisco next week that could change the way that gig , online and ride-sharing entities do business, according to Bloomberg. The fees that sharing-economy firms charge online are under attack. San Francisco has a housing crisis. Communications Decency Act.

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MAY 17, 2016

SigFig, a San Francisco-based robo advisor, partnered with UBS Wealth Management to create and customize digital tools for WMA’s 7,000 advisors, it was announced today. The tools will “complement” the existing expertise of UBS advisors, and not form a separate automated platform, SigFig said.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

But there are plans to expand it across Seattle, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, the company said. Instead, he said, the palm images are encrypted and stored online. If it’s a hit with users, Amazon plans to bring it to other retailers as well as performance venues and the nation’s offices.

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JUNE 28, 2016

Yesterday, a Danish bank introduced a bot for simple queries (and soon, transactions) and earlier this month, San Francisco-based startup Dyme, a member of the Spring 2016 Bank Innovation INV class, released a prototype of a Facebook messenger bot whose functionality mirrors that of Dyme’s SMS-based Read More.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 28, 2018

EXCLUSIVE— San Francisco-based startup Denizen wants to create a new way of banking, by providing users with a “borderless” bank account that doesn’t come with all of the hassle and pain points of international finance, co-founder and CEO Joaquin Ayuso de Paul told Bank Innovation.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Power research shows that the number of customers doing their credit applications online has kicked into high gear. Consumers and Banks Both Like Online Auto Loans. Consumers are apparently so glad to dump the back-office haggle between dealer and bank that roughly one-third of car buyers are now doing the loan process online, J.D.

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MARCH 2, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – Anand Talwar, deposits and consumer strategy executive at Ally Bank has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation 2018, taking place next week March 5 to 6 in San Francisco. He also is responsible for.Read More.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The San Francisco-based company processed $13.7 Mobile payments company Square grew its gross payment volume 34% over last year, and its loans through Square Capital were up twice that — 68%. billion in payments in the fourth quarter of 2016, compared with $10.2 billion in the same quarter last year. Read More.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 17, 2017

After a tumultuous few weeks, online student lender Social Finance, or SoFi as it is better known, is withdrawing its bank license application. A few weeks […].

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MAY 2, 2019

s downtown San Francisco headquarters once featured many of the lavish perks booming tech companies use to attract workers and keep them happy once they’re hired: kitchens stocked with snacks, mini-golf, a Foosball table, an in-house spa. Now the online-lending pioneer is cutting back on the amenities, and the workforce too.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

CoverHound, the online property and casualty insurance platform operator, announced Tuesday (Feb. In a press release , the San Francisco startup that has sold more than 200,000 policies online said the Series D funding round was led by global insurer Hiscox and included participation from Chubb, Aflac Ventures, MS&AD of Japan.

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JUNE 18, 2019

San Francisco-based corporate card startup Brex today launched a corporate card specifically tailored to companies in the life sciences industry.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

“As we respond to the urgent challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and look forward to our economic recovery, we can’t lose sight of our long-term financial situation,” said San Francisco Mayor London Breed in a press release. The New York Times reported that remote work has meant many San Franciscans have fled the Bay area.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

The San Francisco-based bank disclosed the plan in a job posting today. Wells Fargo & Co. will add additional enterprise-level digital capabilities, APIs, and SDKs to its Home Lending platform. The additional APIs and SDKs should allow more integrations with other technology services and applications.

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APRIL 30, 2020

The startup Flutterwave , which picked up $35 million last year in venture funding, has launched an online portal that will enable African businesses to set up online shops. The company told TechCrunch that its newly launched product, called Flutterwave Store, is not a shift away from the company’s core online payments business.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company, Reuters reported, to help it debut on the stock market. The news reveals CEO Anthony Noto 's aspirations to go public after he succeeded SoFi Co-Founder Mike Cagney in 2018.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Adyen , a FinTech whose payments platform is used by merchants and retailers around the world, is teaming up with San Francisco-based installment payment company Affirm in a new partnership, the companies announced on Tuesday (Nov. This can be done either online or in-store using a QR code, the companies said.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The digital bank’s German customers will now, using the Revolut app, be able to make some money transfers — such as with family and friends — without logging into the online banking systems of other FIs. Revolut said the open banking service is free of charge for all Revolut users. Meanwhile, Revolut is close to applying for a U.S.

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APRIL 12, 2016

Paymentwall, a San Francisco online payments company, announced today that it has integrated its payment services into the Shetab, which is Iran’s “unified, electronic clearance system for the entire Iranian banking operations that allows it to facilitate transactions from Read More.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Aura, a San Francisco-based fintech offering affordable loans to low to moderate-income households, wants to partner with banks to offer those loans to consumers who have traditionally been unable to secure them from larger institutions.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The San Francisco-based financial services giant’s decision to launch the checkless account, which has a monthly fee of $5, comes as Wells Fargo looks to reshape an image badly tarnished after 2016 revelations that bank employees opened millions of phony accounts in order to meet sales quotas.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

But consolidation looms, according to some observers, and online food delivery services will eventually have to shift more focus away from consumers and toward restaurant operators in order to thrive in a crowded marketplace. Testing was set for early 2019 in the San Francisco area. Postmates Funding. Food Delivery Pivot?

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The launch of Visa Developer transformed the San Francisco-based Visa’s payments network to an open platform, allowing access to online and mobile person-to-person capabilities, accountholder identification and Visa Checkout.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For Aura, an online lending platform for low-income families, reaching underbanked borrowers means going beyond the bank setting and working with retailers to reach customers who may be overlooked by traditional lenders.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Via online and mobile it has introduced artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology in pricing cars as well as qualifying for financing. If the seller is still interested Shift personnel will pick up the car from one of its hubs (San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento and Portland) and pay the seller via ACH transfer.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

Bolt was founded in 2014 in San Francisco and works on tools to streamline web transactions. The round was led by General Atlantic and WestCap , and existing investors Activant Capital and Tribe Capital also participated.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 11, 2016

That trend continues this week, with some San Francisco-grown AI thrown into the mix. Last week this space saw much of the largest fintech funding rounds taking place outside the U.S. This week we witnessed a major push forward in the process of collaboration between financial institutions (FIs) and startups. This Read More.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

revved a little higher Monday (June 29) as online car sales platform Shift announced it will go public in the third quarter via a complicated reverse merger arrangement. A spokesperson for Shift indicated that the company expects the move will make online auto sales a three-horse race between Shift, Vroom and Carvana.

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