Fintech
Fintech
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Marqeta, a payments startup backed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Visa Inc., hired underwriters for a planned 2021 initial public offering, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
November 25 -
Stripe Inc. is in talks to raise a new funding round valuing it higher than its last private valuation of $36 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
November 25 -
For years, business models based around micropayments have been touted as an alternative to advertising, offering a new form of revenue for all kinds of content creators, enabling users to pay for the exact quantity of services they consume. They have even been suggested as a way to create alternative insurance products, for example forms of car insurance where drivers pay per journey.
November 25 -
CEO Wendy Cai-Lee says Piermont Bank can do it all for financial technology firms: be their commercial banker, be their banking-as-a-service provider and develop APIs and other cutting-edge products for them.
November 24 -
Many countries are positioning themselves as a destination for fintechs seeking EU-wide licenses as the U.K. leaves the EU. Following Brexit, U.K. electronic money and payments institution licenses across the EU won’t be passportable across the EU.
November 24 -
In an open letter, industry veteran Thomas Vartanian outlines the steps the administration can take to encourage innovation, better detect cyber threats and modernize regulation.
November 23 -
While digital pay innovation was once seen as a “nice-to-have” benefit, it's quickly becoming integral to business survival, says LendingFront's Jorge Sun.
November 23 -
Within the payments industry, Wirecard as a brand has become almost like Enron — but an exec at Railsbank says the German processor's fall from grace masks talent and innovation that can thrive elsewhere and help forge new paths to financial services.
November 19 -
The success of some fintechs in getting bank charters this year only underscores how onerous the process remains for many others. That’s unlikely to change unless policymakers reconsider what it means to be a bank.
November 18 -
The complaint charges the fintech startup with misleading customers about the interest they'd receive on deposits and the level of access to their money. It seeks an unspecified amount of consumer relief in addition to other remedies.
November 18 -
PCI has issued guidelines that are helpful, says PXP Financial's Koen Vanpraet.
November 18 -
The accelerator has enabled Los Angeles-based fintech Be Money to relaunch itself as Daylight and bring to market a transgender-inclusive preferred name card.
November 18 -
The Trump administration said it has picked Brian Brooks, who has led the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in an acting capacity, to be considered by the Senate for a five-year term. But it is unclear whether he would stay on during the incoming administration of Joe Biden.
November 17 -
Italian technology firm Nexi has dedicated about $15 billion over the past two months to shore up its position in the European payment processing market, a local burst of consolidation that exists inside a larger wave of similar mergers globally.
November 17 -
Jobs will be harder to find for graduates, and there are new underwriting platforms that can better predict students' future income in their chosen field.
November 16 -
Mastercard says it has been notified the Department of Justice has approved its planned acquisition of data aggregator Finicity, putting the card brand on track to close the deal before the end of the year.
November 16 -
As futuristic as real-time digital payments can be, the concept is almost like a blast from the past for FIS’ Raja Gopalakrishnan.
November 16 -
The forthcoming measure could override staff opinions that helped certain deposit-gathering companies partner with banks.
November 13 -
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The fintech startup, which originally helped users cancel duplicate subscriptions, now wants to encourage healthier financial practices.
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