CIO

AUGUST 31, 2022

I can’t help but think of open banking in the United States — it’s not here, and, at the same time, it’s very much here. In essence, they’re not waiting for the kind of regulatory open banking mandates that have been handed down in other parts of the world. They’re building their own open banking environment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

That’s because they’re on the hook for interchange fees, or transaction fees a merchant’s bank must pay whenever a customer uses a card to make a purchase. to enable customers to make online payments using their bank accounts. Customers sign up with their bank account information and pay within the flow. .”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Jakarta-based fintech Akulaku has raised $200 million from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the largest bank in Japan. This is part of a strategic investment, with startup and MUFG planning to expand into new markets and product together in 2023.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Copper Banking , a digital banking service aimed at teens, announced today it has raised a total of $13.3 Copper Banking CEO and co-founder Eddie Behringer believes the startup has a few competitive advantages. One of the first things we noticed is that banks have set the bar extremely low for pre-18 banking.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s hard to believe that fintech startup Revolut doesn’t have a proper banking license in its home country. But this is about to change as the company has applied for a banking license in the U.K. Revolut already has a banking license in the European Union. It is slowly starting to offer its own banking products in Europe.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

The San Mateo-based company works with fintech and vertical SaaS companies and offers banking, payments, cards and cryptocurrency products via easy-to-integrate APIs. Arjun Thyagarajan, co-founder and CEO at Solid, told TechCrunch that the company spent the last 18 months working with early customers on product-market fit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Banked is a fintech startup that offers an alternative to card schemes. It’s now raised a $20 million Series A funding round led by Bank of America and Edenred Capital Partners. This means Banked has raised a total investment to date of more than $30 million. Back in 2020, the London-based fintech raised £2.35 ”

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2022

How has banking evolved during the rapid digitisation of recent years? Banks are no longer the key players in the market, with fintech companies, digital-first start-ups, and tech giants delivering their own brand of financial services. One example is Banking-as-a-Service, with the market expected to reach US$3.6

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

How has banking evolved during the rapid digitisation of recent years? Banks are no longer the key players in the market, with fintech companies, digital-first start-ups, and tech giants delivering their own brand of financial services. One example is Banking-as-a-Service, with the market expected to reach US$3.6

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Malvern, Pennsylvania–based Savana, a company building financial software products for legacy banks, today announced that it raised $45 million. CEO Michael Sanchez told TechCrunch that the proceeds will be put toward general growth and supporting Savana’s go-to-market and product development projects.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Digital bank Chime confirmed today that it is laying off 12% of its workforce, or about 160 people. According to an internal memo obtained by TechCrunch, Chime co-founder Chris Britt described that the move was one of many that would help the company thrive “regardless of market conditions.” This is a developing story.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Co-founded in 2019 by João Pedro Thompson, Thiago Achatz, Mateus Craveiro and Sophie Secaf, Z1 developed a digital bank app aimed at helping Brazilian and Latin American teenagers become more financially independent. Homebrew leads Z1’s effort to bring digital banking to Latin America’s teens.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Long before the pandemic, the way in which banks were regulated was changing. Initiatives like Open Banking and the Revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) were being proposed as a way to promote competition in the banking industry — allowing smaller challenger firms to break into a market that has long been dominated by corporate titans.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Based in Hong Kong, Finverse ’s ambitious goal is to enable open banking throughout the Asia-Pacific region. million in seed funding, and is now live in four markets (Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam) with connections to 30 banks. market because it was reliable and developer-friendly, Lesaffre said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Northmill Bank , the Sweden-based challenger that has around 200,000 customers across three European countries, has raised around $30 million in new funding. The injection of cash will be used for continued geographical expansion and to accelerate the development of new products. I see great growth potential in the bank.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Challenger banks continue to see huge infusions of cash from investors bullish on the opportunity for smaller and faster-moving tech-based banking startups to woo customers from their larger rivals. In the latest development, U.K.-based The bank is already profitable. billion) post-money. The trend in the U.K.

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Perficient

APRIL 20, 2023

The Landscape According to Forbes Advisor: 2022 Digital Banking Survey , as of 2022, 78% of adults in the U.S. prefer to bank via a mobile app or website. blockchain​, digital wallets​, money center banks​, emerging payment solutions, digital lending​, economic turmoil​, and fintech disintermediation).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Tala , an emerging markets digital lender that offers loans between $10 to $500 to consumers and small business owners, has raised $145 million in Series E funding. In 2011, Shivani Siroya founded Tala after leaving her job as an investment banking analyst. And Tala could change that; and so far, it has (to an extent). .

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2023

Today’s consumers are accustomed to smooth, frictionless online shopping – and they increasingly expect the same kind of digital experiences from their banks. consumers use mobile banking channels, and 70% said mobile banking is now their primary way of accessing their accounts. “Most people do not want to go into a bank to do banking.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

The company, co-founded by Manuel Alemán, Rodolfo Lazo and Paul Cattólica in 2022, is developing a vertical SaaS product for institutions, like banks and credit unions, that want to launch and operate their own credit products. Kala will also continue to focus on Colombia and Mexico this year. Anonymity requests will be respected.

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Mobilunity

APRIL 25, 2024

Banking apps face numerous other problems besides complex onboarding. Just imagine a banking app with simple navigation and personalized experiences — the qualities valued by 94% and 72% of users, respectively. Look at N26, a fully digital bank known for its intuitive, secure, and seamless experience, boasting over 8 million customers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Founded by Pedro Moura and Jessica Eting, the startup offers an “engagement and financial wellness” solution for banks, fintechs and credit unions with the goal of helping them engage and retain clients. Bolivia and Brazil, Flourish has developed a solution that features three main modules: . With clients in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

The adoption of financial apps is surging in Southeast Asian markets like Indonesia , the region’s most populous country. Founded by fintech veterans last year, Brick develops APIs that make it easier for tech companies to add identity verification and access financial data from their users.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Enter Deposits , a Dallas-based finance startup offering a cloud-based, plug-and-play feature to simplify the implementation of digital banking tools for companies like credit unions, community banks, insurers, retailers and brands. For example, only the biggest of banks could really offer modern experiences.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Treasury Prime co-founder and CEO Chris Dean believes that the best outcomes for consumers will result from traditional banks and fintechs working together. The banking-as-a-service startup has worked to build relationships with both banks and fintechs. As we had more fintechs, it became easier to add more banks.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Better.com finally went public The biggest fintech news of the week centered around Better.com’s no good, very bad public market debut. But I’m not sure anyone expected it to be hovering at a share price that gave Better.com a market cap of just $19.14 To sum it up, digital mortgage lender Better.com made its public debut on August 24.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The murder of George Floyd last May ignited many things in the United States last year — one of which that was perhaps unexpected: a rise in the number of digital banks targeting the Black community. Some members of the Black community took their belief that big banks are not meeting their needs and turned them into startup concepts.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Customers are able to spend their crypto or cash using the startup’s Mastercard-powered debit card, make bill payments and easily move funds to and from traditional banks if they so desire. “Crypto natives in the US are finding existing banks completely inadequate for everyday use of crypto.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late. The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. Here are the top cloud market trends and how they are impacting CIO’s cloud strategies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, it differentiated itself by committing to payments on social media platforms, which Nigerian digital bank Carbon was interested in when it acquired the startup in 2019. As such, banking-as-a-service platforms see an opportunity to provide more personalized services and flexibility at less cost.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Frost & Sullivan, a global research and consulting firm, recently released the Emerging Asia-Pacific Hybrid Cloud Market Report 2022 report. In this report, Huawei Cloud was named a “Leader” and positioned ahead of all other providers in terms of market performance, technical innovation, and customer services.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

TrueLayer , the London startup that offers a developer-friendly platform for companies, including other fintechs, to utilise open banking, is disclosing $70 million in new funding. In the past 12 months, the fintech has expanded its services across 12 European markets. The Series D round is led by new investor Addition.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Railsbank , the London-headquartered Banking-as-a-Service platform, has raised $37 million in new growth funding. Nigel Verdon, co-founder and CEO of Railsbank, tells me the injection of capital will be used to continue expanding the fintech’s global footprint and for further product development.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Automation Anywhere, one of the best-funded RPA providers with over $1 billion capital raised to date, went the debt route this week, securing a $200 million loan from Silicon Valley Bank, SVB Capital and Hercules Capital. Gartner predicts that while the RPA market will reach $2.9 Is the RPA market in trouble? Assuming the $2.9

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

that creates digital banks in emerging markets, confirmed to TechCrunch today that it has raised $7.4 Digital banks, neobanks, challenger banks or whatever you may call them, are among the biggest recipients of VC investments in fintech. In November 2021, Fintech Farm launched in its first market, Azerbaijan.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Bank transfer or payment fraud amounted to $1.6 Vernier explained that banks and fintechs need to first have controls in place to mitigate risk. Banks and fintechs manually sample a tiny percentage of accounts to try and see if those controls are working. People in the U.S. reported $8.8 million versus 2.9 billion in 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Datanomik’s goal is to connect financial institutions across LatAm through its B2B open finance API, which gathers a company’s banking information on one platform, Strauss told TechCrunch. “There was no easy way of interacting with our bank accounts. Datanomik co-founders Sergio Fogel and Gonzalo Strauss.

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