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Fintech

·May. 24, 2019

Announcements & Releases for May 24, 2019

Kaspersky Lab Sees Spike In Mobile Banking Cyberattacks Zero raises $20 million from NEA and others for a credit card...

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Fintech

·Dec. 23, 2021

FTC is Concerned About Big Tech and Payments

FTC is Concerned About Big Tech and Payments. | Crowdfund Insider: Global Fintech News, including Crowdfunding, Blockchain and more.

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Fintech

·Jan. 12, 2022

2021 US fintech IPO review in 4 charts: Most stocks are starting the year in the red

Last year was a busy year for the US fintech industry, which welcomed 15 new companies on the public markets. Investors were betting big on fintech startups, but this confidence seems to be dying out.

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Fintech News Roundup

·Feb. 21, 2017

The OCC Fintech Charter’s Positive Market Influence

Bob Kerrey highlights positive factors resulting from an OCC fintech charter in an American Banker opinion editorial; notes the regulatory perspective of both democrats and republicans; says the charter will lower prices and result in better products while also promoting competition; Kerrey also suggests a continuation of state and attorney general enforcement of civil and criminal laws against fraud and unfair and deceptive practices which would ensure the charter does not allow businesses to escape set standards. Source

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Fintech News Roundup

·Apr. 28, 2017

Q1 2017 Global Fintech Report from CB Insights

Fintech companies raised $2.7 billion from 226 deals in the first quarter of 2017; 22 fintech unicorns in the first quarter with a total value of $77 billion; top funding rounds included Atom and Funding Circle with $100 million each; fintech venture capital funding in Europe increased to $700 million from $200 million in the fourth quarter and is expected to increase from 2016 while the US is expected to report a decrease. Source

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Fintech

·Dec. 15, 2021

Vyne: 40% of Shoppers Abandon Carts With Poor Payment Process

A new report by payments platform Vyne suggests 40 per cent of shoppers are ditching websites with poor payments processes. Retail payments reinvented: how consumer demand is changing explores online payments preferences of 2,002 British consumers surveyed by Vyne following a 43 per cent rise

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Opinion

·Nov. 15, 2022

Mind the gap: How lenders can open the doors for the credit invisible

Being “credit visible” presents life-changing benefits for consumers across all life stages.

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Europe Fintech News Roundup USA

·Jan. 29, 2019

Cross River and Railsbank Form Partnership

Railsbank is a leading UK Based open banking/regtech technology services platform and Cross River is a provider of banking services...

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Fintech News Roundup

·Nov. 30, 2017

Regulation and Online Lending in China

Junheng Li, founder of an independent research firm focused on Chinese companies provides an update on lending in China with the recent news of tightening regulation. Source

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Europe Fintech News Roundup

·Jan. 3, 2018

Funding Circle’s Valuation

It has been a long time since OnDeck and LendingClub went public in the US; the shares of both companies are down significantly since that time; now Funding Circle is planning to go public as late autumn, but what is the right valuation for the company? Financial Times reviews Funding Circle’s business and the importance of whether investors value it as a finance or software business. Source

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