FinTech

Financial technology, often shortened to fintech, is the technology and innovation that aims to compete with traditional financial methods in the delivery of financial services. It is an emerging industry that uses technology to improve activities in finance.

FinTechIPO™ Index Shows Continued Weakness vs Broader Markets
FinTechIPO™ Index Shows Continued Weakness vs Broader Markets
March 04, 2022  |  IPO

Continuing a trend seen in the past few weeks since we launched the FinTech IPO tracker, the group of 45 companies we’ve surveyed have, on...

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Pyypl CEO Makes Case for Blockchain When Sending Cross-Border Payments
Pyypl CEO Makes Case for Blockchain When Sending Cross-Border Payments
March 04, 2022  |  Blockchain

Millions remain excluded from mainstream formal financial markets in emerging and developing markets, but the rapid rise in internet and smartphone adoption in the last...

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Today in FinTech: Grasshopper Bank Leaps Forward; FinTech Weavr Aims for Simplicity; CaixaBank Talks Ethics, Regs; Airwallex Partners with Plum
Today in FinTech: Grasshopper Bank Leaps Forward; FinTech Weavr Aims for Simplicity; CaixaBank Talks Ethics,...
March 03, 2022  |  Banking

In today’s FinTech news, digital business bank Grasshopper has lined up a new executive team as it launches innovative products and shifts its focus to...

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FinTech Airwallex, Plum Partner to Offer Stock Investing
FinTech Airwallex, Plum Partner to Offer Stock Investing
March 03, 2022  |  Partnerships

Global FinTech platform Airwallex has partnered with investing app Plum to support its cross-border payments and foreign exchange (FX) needs, according to a Thursday (March...

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CaixaBank Chair Advocates Consumer-Centric Tech, Consistent FI Regs
CaixaBank Chair Advocates Consumer-Centric Tech, Consistent FI Regs
March 03, 2022  |  Digital Banking

The chairman of Spanish global financial services company CaixaBank told an audience that changing customer habits are one of the most complex issues facing banks...

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Lynx Lays FinTech Tracks to Help Providers Integrate Healthcare, Finance Flows
Lynx Lays FinTech Tracks to Help Providers Integrate Healthcare, Finance Flows
March 03, 2022  |  Healthcare Financing

Untold amounts of planning are now being devoted to ideas around the consumerization of healthcare, particularly as it relates to engagement, affordability and optionality. Where...

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Weavr CEO: Banking as a Service Solutions Create Complexity, Cost for Online Businesses
Weavr CEO: Banking as a Service Solutions Create Complexity, Cost for Online Businesses
March 03, 2022  |  Digital Banking

Banking application programming interfaces (APIs) are becoming more and more common on the market as more and more banks look to APIs to help digitize...

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Virtual Debit Cards Top List of FI B2B Payments Priorities
Virtual Debit Cards Top List of FI B2B Payments Priorities
March 03, 2022  |  Payment Methods

The achievement gap for financial institutions (FIs) seeking to solve their clients’ business-to-business (B2B) payments frictions is glaring.  Although 66% of FIs perceive the ability...

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Montreal FinTech Mobi724 to Buy B2B eMarketplace Avenida+
Montreal FinTech Mobi724 to Buy B2B eMarketplace Avenida+
March 02, 2022  |  Acquisitions

Mobi724 Global Solutions, which offers real-time artificial intelligence (AI)-powered payment card solutions, has entered into a $4 million agreement to buy Avenida+, a white label...

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