Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In 2023, the lab honed its focus to concentrate on startups between seed and Series A funding stages. The lab, which had previously nurtured 76 startups, invested 500,000 Brazilian reais (approximately $91,000) in each of the six startups accelerated last year. Thus far, 64 startups have graduated from the lab.

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Beacon CFO Plus

MARCH 12, 2024

Lay the Foundation for Stability and Growth Are you a startup or a small- to medium-sized company without a chief financial officer in place? Here are three ways that you can improve your financial management today. Evaluate your company’s current financial systems and identify areas for improvement and automation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Mastercard is teaming up with FinTech startup Juvo to help the “underbanked” in Latin America and the Caribbean to build credit histories so they can engage in a wider range of financial services. Juvo was a participant in Mastercard’s FinTech startup program, Start Path.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2020

Meenavalli , CEO of the cryptocurrency firm Longfin, has agreed to settle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and pay $400,000 in disgorgement and penalties, the SEC announced on Friday (Jan. 2) to force the encrypted instant messaging app Telegram to turn over financials and explain how it spent $1.7

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2016

“With this latest funding announcement, we’re extremely excited to continue our work in tackling the issues associated with identity fraud, while continuing to improve access to the financial system for the unbanked and underbanked, whether in established economies or emerging markets,” Sunil Madhu , founder and CEO of Socure, explained.

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Global Finance

JULY 29, 2024

Higher interest rates have given banks some relief over the past few years, increasing their net interest income while hampering competitors—particularly fintech startups dependent on equity financing. Banks inject trust into the financial system,” says Sandeep Vishnu, a partner at industry consultant Capco.

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CFO Plans

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

However, with the advent of scalable accounting solutions, businesses of all sizes can streamline their financial operations and focus on growth. Imagine having a seamless financial system that not only saves you time but also propels your business forward.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2019

Circle , the payments startup backed by Goldman Sachs, announced on Monday (March 4) it closed on its acquisition of SeedInvest , an equity crowdfunding platform that operates a registered broker-dealer. The completion of the deal comes as talk abounds that the company wants to raise $250 million in fresh capital.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

It’s a merging of capabilities with three primary goals: 1) to build new commerce experiences; 2) to expand financial participation in the digital ecosystem globally; and 3) to drive startup innovation to push those goals forward worldwide. And that eye toward expansion is also relevant in Mastercard’s collaboration with startups.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Blockchain startup contests. With €15,000 in prize money ready to be handed out, BlockchainHub Graz and industry partners have announced a Blockchain Startup Contest. That money will be awarded through two categories: software and hardware startups. The Blockchain Startup Contest is the very thing that the industry needs.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Micro-merchants, such as grocers and “mom and pop” stores, operate largely in cash rather than through safe, secure and swift, digitally enabled transactions. They will also facilitate a FinTech acceleration program to support startups that work to optimize the digital ecosystem for micro-merchants.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

That’s one of the main messages of a new PYMNTS interview with Regio Martins, CEO and founder of nobli , which aims to enable businesses to offer more forms of collateral when seeking loans — the company’s personal loans are secured by financial collateral. We expand that to include almost every type of financial asset.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2018

B2B payments startup Candex announced $3.5 A press release issued Friday (March 23) said Candex secured the funding from Edenred Capital Partners, Partech Ventures, Advisors.fund, Camp One Ventures, NFX, Tekton Ventures, Big Sur Ventures and angel investor Mark Goines. million in new funding late last week.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

Trend Lab, a startup developing artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for the FinTech market, has revealed it secured new funding. We … translate current financial systems into smart systems, exploring the unseen values and opportunities for businesses.”. In a press release issued Tuesday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In today’s payments news, British FinTech startup Revolut is teaming with Mastercard to help it expand into the U.S. SoftBank is reportedly in advanced discussions to take over WeWork, which was once one of the hottest startups until it fizzled amid talks of a canceled IPO and internal strife. by the end of this year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Specifically, enhanced fraud and security was favored by nearly 80 percent of respondents, with attributes including instant funds, 24/7 availability and improved reconciliation with enhanced data all popular with over three-quarters of executives surveyed. Banks, FinTechs Race to RTP Glory.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The banks “failed as a result of a combination of unrealized interest rate losses from their long-term, fixed-rate assets and the loss of the low-rate deposits that had funded these assets,” Larry Wall, research center executive director of the Atlanta Fed’s Center for Financial Innovation and Stability, explained in a blog post.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

“At PayPal, we believe that everyone should have access to transparent, convenient and secure financial services,” said Mark Britto, senior vice president and general manager of global credit for PayPal , in the press release announcing the investment.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2018

financial system improve the ability of small businesses (SMBs) to get financing, driven in part by a decline in startup formation in recent decades. She said the “pragmatic recommendations” included in the report would make the financial system work better for entrepreneurs, no matter their business size or geographic location.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

Alphabet-Backed Healthcare Startup, One Medical, To IPO. The San Francisco-headquartered startup runs membership-based healthcare clinics and was launched by internal medicine doctor Tom Lee, who served as the company’s CEO until 2017. Having held numerous strategic positions at the third-largest bank in the U.S., may get hit hard.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2019

Adam Goldman, founder and president of Canadian trading platform Bitbuy, explained how the company has focused on security as it helps its user base purchase, sell and trade cryptocurrencies. “A The anonymous nature of cryptocurrency, coupled with its irreversible transactions, is especially attractive to scammers and fraudsters.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

financial system around a set of core principles, offered guidance and recommendations that have long bounced around the FinTech space, and which no doubt already command the support of many executives. FinTech Improvements. The report , released in support of President Trump’s call to regulate the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

banking system is built for stability and security — not speed — particularly in the aftermath of that last financial crisis when the entire financial system learned simultaneously the importance of being careful when lending money. The United States of America is the greatest startup in the history of startups.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

billion citizens outside the financial system. But when it comes to accessing credit, tools for planning or managing a financial future, the accounts come up short. billion into lending startups. And even among India’s newly banked, the accounts themselves are in somewhat limited use.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2020

You also have the option to go out into the legal system and figure out how to get some leverage, and actually compel them to treat you like a human being.”. From the botched trip came the idea for a startup called Radvocate, born in 2017. Most cases take four to eight weeks. We want to level that out.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2016

Of course, that’s where the blockchain comes into the conversation, as the chatter on Wall Street has been about how, if and when the blockchain’s tech could be used to transform the financial system that many have suggested is outdated and clunky. Pfizer and others.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

As we reported just a few months back, this technology is set to disrupt the financial industry because it enables secure cross-border money transfers. Among his reasoning for this, he highlighted the complexities of the banking system.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2016

It announced an investment in Digital Currency Group, a bitcoin/blockchain startup-focused investment firm, which includes former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who is serving as an advisor and also put money up. That included security reviews and audits. Western Union just put its toe in the bitcoin/blockchain waters.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

According to a Crunchbase article published in February of 2018, investments in blockchain and blockchain-related startups (excluding initial coin offerings, or ICOs) were already 40 percent of what they were in 2017. trillion; on security-related hardware, software and services at 10 percent a year from a 2018 base of $91.4

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

Plaid Technologies announced Monday (June 20) that it had secured $44 million in funding courtesy of a round led by Goldman Sachs Investment Partners. And if Plaid gets its way, that list is about to get longer, as the firm has just snapped some some new funding that is earmarked for further expansion.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

It’s secure, it’s cheap, it’s faster than a speeding bullet. Is it a stealth startup from Silicon Valley? Many of the most dynamic public companies, from Alibaba to Visa, and many of the most valuable startups, like Uber, are multisided platforms. The Next Big Fizzle: Blockchain Startups.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

And so the thing we were doing was sort of solving like often securities law or tax or accounting problems for people with like derivatives. Everything is securities fraud. Whereas if the stock goes down by a billion dollars, then like some securities lawyer will say, well, the shareholders lost a billion dollars.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I then was doing journalism for Breakingviews, which was the sort of dot-com startup, FX FT people known by Reuters, and started doing some — and then I did some research for Crispin Odey, London hedge fund guy. But he said — he says that you need positive carry for the financial system to carry on making loans.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Headlines hyping its threat to existing financial systems abound, including one recently that somewhat distorts the threat that bankers feel about all FinTech startups that suggests that nearly 90 percent of bankers say they fear losing money to bitcoin startups. tell a very interesting story.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

Some of that money — supplied by investors such as Andreessen Horowitz , Nyca Partners and Max Levchin, founder and CEO of alternative lending startup Affirm — will go toward building an identity bureau, which will help lenders and financial firms verify identities.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Innovators also find new use cases for these new currencies, including Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), to raise money to fund innovation outside of the realm of existing securities regulation. Bitcoin’s core principle of anonymity is anathema to operating a safe and secure global financial system. At least I hope so.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

There is significant room for improvement in the cross-border payments space,” said Scott Hendry, Bank of Canada’s senior special director of financial technology, in another statement. Major changes are being proposed by current service providers, as well as startups that regulators need to research to better understand.”.

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