TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

This creates increased regulatory scrutiny, with the risk of massive fines for non-compliance. The urge to reduce costs imperils continued investment in innovative financial products and services, while at the same time customers have higher expectations than ever for easy, effective, and great experiences. Why focus on onboarding?

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

AI and Machine Learning will drive innovation across the government, healthcare, and banking/financial services sectors, strongly focusing on generative AI and ethical regulation. Adopting multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions will enhance flexibility and compliance, deepening partnerships with global providers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Over the years, there has been a growing trend of fintech infrastructure players around the world. Stitch , a South African fintech startup, is one of them and today, it is coming out of stealth and announcing its seed round of $4 million. This makes it the largest round raised by any API fintech startup in Africa at the moment.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Synctera , which aims to serve as a matchmaker for community banks and fintechs, has raised $33 million in a Series A round of funding led by Fin VC. The raise comes just under six months after the fintech raised $12.4 Fellow fintech Finix led the initiative earlier this year before forming this coalition, but more on that later.).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The move comes just days after the payment card issuing company reportedly filed confidentially for an initial public offering, making it the latest fintech to make a move to the public markets. Providing card services to fintech companies around the world gives Marqeta a $4.3 billion valuation. Image Credits: Marqeta.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Alloy, which has built an identity operating system for banks and fintechs, announced Thursday that it has raised $100 million at a $1.35 Put simply, the startup’ s initial mission was to help banks and fintechs make better identity and risk decisions using its single API service and SaaS platform. . billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It’s no secret that banks and fintech companies must meet compliance and regulatory standards that are much stricter than what traditional tech companies are forced to comply with. The question becomes: How do you meet strict regulatory and compliance standards while keeping up with the rapid pace of innovation in technology?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. I’m not going to lie — upon learning this, my fintech-loving ears perked up. And fintech represented nearly a quarter of the firm’s deals. More than a quarter (28%) of a16z’s fintech investments in 2022 went to the payments category.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

Integrating student loans into the GradJoy app turned out to be a patchwork of brittle, insecure screen-scraping APIs, physical check mailing and compliance hurdles, according to Shah. “We provide fintechs the ability to innovate faster and compete with larger banks with our turnkey real time data and payment operations.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

According to the survey, the city is strong in sectors such as fintech, agritech, hospitality tech, emerging tech, cybersecurity, SaaS and medtech. We’re strong in cybersecurity and (to an arguably lesser extent) fintech. Cybersecurity, fintech, digital — strong medtech — needs building. What are you most excited by?

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2023

The financial services sector is undergoing rapid change as fintechs develop convenient, consumer-focused services that were once the province of traditional banks. These organizations have two choices: They can modernize their architecture and develop the technology they need in-house or collaborate with fintechs to do it for them.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

In addition to the equity raise, the San Francisco-based fintech said it has also closed on a new $100 million debt facility for lending to its loan customers, bringing its total raised to $375 million in equity and debt financing since its 2015 inception. My weekly fintech newsletter is launching soon! ” Image Credits: Stilt.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Welcome to The Interchange, a take on this week’s fintech news and trends. Rather than rehash all that here, I’ll point you to some of our recent articles on the topic and just summarize: The two fintech startups have recently grown (much) more competitive. ” But not all fintechs are laying off. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

After working together for nearly one decade, three former managing directors of Amex Ventures in early 2022 branched out to form their own fintech-focused venture firm, Vesey Ventures. The trio had made early investments in more than 50 fintech companies, including the likes of Stripe, Plaid, Melio and Trulioo.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

CEO Karkal has a long history in the fintech space, co-founding Simple, an app unifying various accounts into one accessible bank card, in 2009. He thought consumers expected a different level of service, which is why many flock to fintechs. In the process, you end up having to also be compliance experts just to be able to do it.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The raise is another example of how infrastructure companies in the fintech world continue to be resilient despite an apparent slowdown in global funding overall. And then we expose that through a modern API for other developers to innovate on top of.”. Just look at the wave of innovation in expense management right now.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Before starting Beam in October of 2022, Adam Eagle had spent five and a half years as a software engineer at the fintech company, building core APIs and infrastructure for Stripe billing, invoicing, commerce, and payments. Both the startup’s founder and lead investor previously spent years working at payments giant Stripe.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

For instance: Regulatory compliance, security and data privacy. With stringent laws like GDPR and PCI DSS, technology leaders must ensure serverless providers support compliance requirements. Maintaining and upgrading outdated systems can be resource-intensive and hinder innovation. Legacy infrastructure. Vendor lock-in.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Laura Spiekerman is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of Alloy , an identity-decisioning platform for banks and fintech companies. We’ve all seen the headlines: Fintech is struggling. But fintech is resilient. What does a fintech company do when it’s under a fraud attack? mean for their business?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance and open banking are among the hottest topics in fintech today. In a session called “Making Money Move with Embedded Finance,” our panel will talk about how a new breed of finance infrastructure companies have the potential to turn any company into a fintech company. The promise?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Merritt Hummer is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where she invests in the fintech, e-commerce and proptech sectors. Those that innovate now to introduce adjacent services will emerge as winners in the next few years, with some inevitably becoming billion-dollar companies. Merritt Hummer. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Innovation has a different meaning for every organization. Innovation is about modernization, it’s about optimization,” said Dan Gisolfi, Distinguished Engineer, Head of Innovation and Intellectual Property at Discover Financial Services. With built-in resources that nurture innovation and push the industry forward.

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CIO

JULY 25, 2022

The 2020s is set to see a rapid growth of fintech and neobanking offerings in Australia. Riccardo Galbiati, cyber advisor, Office of the CSO at Palo Alto Networks, says the biggest advantage fintechs and noebanks have over traditional, larger financial services firms in the sector is their agility.

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Xebia

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Middle East payments industry is rapidly evolving, driven by several key innovations. These innovations are paving the way for a more efficient, secure, and integrated payments ecosystem in the Middle East, with significant implications for businesses and consumers across the region.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The fintech startup has slowly been evolving its offerings beyond its core product of account linking. There has been so much innovation on POS [point of sale] in the last 10 years, but purely digital — no physical interaction — experiences for payments is still nascent,” he said. This is where we are focused.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

And I can’t highlight that enough, because this category is considered high risk by regulators and by compliance officers,” Palmer told TechCrunch. . One of the big things that we learned is that a lot of it is actually a compliance problem, more than a movement of money problem, when it comes to cross border payments.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

It plans to use the funding to bring the tools it has already built to a wider set of verticals that have some of the same needs to manage risk, compliance and other factors as finance — healthcare and manufacturing are two examples — as well as to continue building more into the stack. .

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CIO

JULY 20, 2023

Workflow automation and data analytics are streamlining document management, cross-checking data, assessing for risk, ensuring regulatory compliance, and so on. Source: “Innovation Digital Listening Research.” Since then, automation has filled the gap in improving customer experience and security.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Slowing the progression of AI may be impossible, but approaching AI in a thoughtful, intentional, and security-focused manner is imperative for fintech companies to nullify potential threats and maintain customer trust while still taking advantage of its power.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Fintechs make up a significant portion of its client base, and in 2020, the company saw its revenue from clients in the financial industry alone climb by 588% compared to 2019. The company said its APIs verify personal documents and information by searching in public and private databases “quickly and pursuant to the compliance rules.”

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2022

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. Refining the balancing act of innovation and risk. However, this is also dependent on institutions meeting their regulatory compliance. trillion by 2030.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

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. Refining the balancing act of innovation and risk. However, this is also dependent on institutions meeting their regulatory compliance. trillion by 2030.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

TrustLayer says that companies that use its platform can automate the verification of insurance, licenses and compliance documents of business partners such as vendors, subcontractors, suppliers, borrowers, tenants, ridesharing and franchisees. (By The need for insurance is only increasing.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

That includes analyzing over 1,300 layers of data from multiple sources to provide information on what is happening with suppliers and customers across a certain rural territory to bring about competition and environmental, social and governance factors compliance.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines. PawaPay handles local operations, compliance, regulatory cover and bank accounts, making it simple to receive payments in a new market. The company is led by CEO Nikolai Barnwell , betPawa’s former head of New Markets, Africa. He also sits on the board of 88mph.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Others in this wider space that includes payments and other fintech services include the likes of Rapyd , Mambu , Thought Machine , Temenos , Edera , Adyen, Stripe and newer players like Unit , with many of these raising large amounts of money in recent times in particular to double down on what is currently a rapidly expanding market.

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