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Finextra
APRIL 16, 2024
‘The Future of UK Fintech: 2015 –
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Fed Data: Non-Cash Payments Grow 6.7 Pct Per Year From 2015-2018
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 19, 2019
With the ongoing decline of checks, the growth of payments by debit and credit cards continued to speed up from 2015 to 2018, per Federal Reserve U.S. percent per year between 2015 and 2018. trillion since 2015. percent per year by number from 2015 to 2018, compared to 5.9 percent per year by number from 2012 to 2015.
2015 Marriott Breach: Prelude To 2018 Cyberattack?
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 3, 2018
In 2015, the Wall Street Journal reported Marriott had a smaller breach in which malware was installed on point of sale systems in hotel restaurants and gift shops. That was announced four days after Marriott announced it was buying Starwood Hotels & Resorts, noted the paper.
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Payments Acquisitions Dip in 2015: Report
Payments Source
MAY 11, 2016
The payments industry saw merger-and-acquisition volume decrease 21 percent in 2015, after rising 46% in 2014.
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PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: Fraud Losses Topped $21B In 2015
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 27, 2016
percent in 2015, outpacing the growing global card volume. 20.6% | The growth percentage of global fraud in 2015. According to The Nilson Report stated, this means that for every $100 in volume, 6.97 cents was fraudulent. The number doesn’t come at too much of a surprise considering fraud itself grew by 20.6 market accounted for.
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Bitcoin Approaches Worst Month Since 2015
PYMNTS
JANUARY 31, 2018
and South Korea clamp down on cryptocurrencies, and investors question the stability of digital coins, bitcoin may see its worst monthly decline in value since January 2015. That figure is approaching bitcoin’s approximately 30 percent dip from January 2015, the biggest monthly decline to date. As regulators in the U.S.
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FinovateFall 2024 Best of Show Winners Announced
Finovate
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
The six companies appearing on the highest percentage of submitted ballots were named “Best of Show.” Go here for a list of previous Best of Show winners through 2014.
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Mastercard Says Fraud Costs Dropped 54% Since (EMV) October 2015
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
In reference to fraud — the very activity that the cards are designed to thwart — Mastercard stated that fraud data shows a 54 percent decrease in counterfeit fraud costs at retailers who have either completed or are close to completing EMV transitions, as measured between April 2015 and April 2016. 1 of last year.
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Amazon Testing Drones In UK Since 2015
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
airspace since summer 2015. The FAA published rules in early 2015 that cut back on the use of autonomous drones and drones operated by an onboard camera for commercial use. Amazon has been in contact with the CAA since 2014 and has been testing drones in U.K. in summer of 2016.
Ransomware Infections Cost $1.6M In 2015
PYMNTS
MAY 31, 2016
Last week, the FBI published a report confirming the fact – the data noting that, in 2015, ransomware attacks left businesses and individuals feeling the burn of more than $1.6 In the “2015 Internet Crime Report,” Randall C. million in losses.
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Citi fined $25.9M over alleged discrimination
Payments Dive
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
The bank, between 2015 and 2021, denied certain credit card products to applicants with surnames ending in “ian” and “yan,” suffixes that Citi employees associated with Armenian national origin, the CFPB said.
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Toast CEO resigns
Payments Dive
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Chris Comparato, who has been CEO since 2015, told the restaurant payments company’s board on Friday that he’ll exit his leadership posts on Jan.
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Online Lending To Small Business Increases 50 Percent Between 2015 And 2017
PYMNTS
JUNE 1, 2018
Between 2015 and 2017, the amount of lending to small businesses by the five leading online lending providers increased 50 percent, according to a new report from NDP Analytics, a Washington, D.C.-based billion in 2015. based economic research firm. Collectively, the amount of those loans reached $3.9 billion in 2017 from $2.6
Customer protection: A regulatory ‘last stand’?
The Payments Association
JUNE 7, 2024
The Consumer Rights Act 2015 aimed to unify UK consumer protections, but rapid digital advances in banking have necessitated a stronger focus on fraud protection. Read more
Cybercrime goes up nearly 100% since 2015
The Paypers
AUGUST 16, 2017
(The Paypers) A report released by ThreatMetrix has revealed that cybercrime has gone up nearly 100% since 2015 given the rise of new account origination fraud, which has increased 30% since Q1 2016.
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Latin America saw small scale ecommerce in 2015
The Paypers
OCTOBER 31, 2016
(The Paypers) B2C ecommerce in Latin America, one of the smallest market in the world in terms of online sales, accounted for a tiny share of overall retail sales in 2015, according to a new report from yStats.com.
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UK And India Lead International Exit Activity In 2015; US Still Ahead Overall
CB Insights
MARCH 8, 2016
Tech exit activity was up in 2015, with 14% more exits in the year than the previous year, according to our 2015 Global Tech Exits Report. But how did those exits break down geographically? The US saw more than 1800 … Continued.
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Meal Kit Dollars And Deals Down From 2015 High
CB Insights
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Deals to meal kit startups peaked in 2015, with 28 deals worth over $450M in aggregate. But this year, deal size has shrunk and deal count is down. However, deal count rose slightly in Q2’16 compared to the first quarter, … Continued.
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Meal Kit Dollars And Deals Down From 2015 High
CB Insights
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Deals to meal kit startups peaked in 2015, with 28 deals worth over $450M in aggregate. But this year, deal size has shrunk and deal count is down. However, deal count rose slightly in Q2’16 compared to the first quarter, … Continued.
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41 Emerging Markets Payment Index: Q4 2015
Payments Dive
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
The Emerging Markets Payment Index is intended to be used by digital media companies, web and game developers for benchmarking their revenue in markets with high smartphone growth and low credit card penetration.
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The Rise Of Fintech Mega-Rounds: $50M+ Deals Spike in 2015
CB Insights
MARCH 14, 2016
Download the free 85-page Pulse of FinTech Report: 2015 Year In Review. Spanning wealth management, savings, lending, payments, remittances and more, fintech funding and deals hit a new record high in 2015, according to the inaugural KPMG and CB Insights Pulse of … Continued.
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Mastercard and UniRush settle 2015 RushCard outage
The Paypers
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
(The Paypers) Mastercard and UniRush , the company that sells RushCard-brand prepaid debit cards, has to pay USD 13 million in fines and customer restitution over a 2015 RushCard outage.
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Ecommerce fraud attack rates up 215% during 2015
The Paypers
APRIL 20, 2016
(The Paypers) Global Fraud Attack Index research has revealed that attacks from fraudsters rose 215% over the course of 2015 and 11% between Q3 2015 and Q4 2015.
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FinovateFall 2015 Best of Show Winners Announced
Fintech Labs Insights
SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
The Best of Show votes for FinovateFall 2015 have been cast and counted! ” let’s meet the Best of Show winners of FinovateFall 2015 (in alphabetic order): Blockstack.io We had a great time at FinovateFall 2015 and hope you enjoyed the show, as well. Best of Show winners from FinovateEurope 2015 are here.
Construction Tech Funding Plunging After Record Year In 2015
CB Insights
JULY 12, 2016
After a record year in 2015, funding to construction tech startups in the first half of 2015 saw a 26% drop when compared to the first half of 2015. To get a better sense of activity in the space we … Continued.
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Deals To Medical Device Startups Rebound After Downturn In 2015
CB Insights
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Equity funding and deals to private medical device companies ticked up in 2016 following a downturn in 2015. Meanwhile, concerns over medical device cybersecurity risks continued to make headlines in the second half of the year, bringing increased uncertainty to … Continued.
Global Funding To Real Estate Tech Explodes, With Startups Raising $1.7B In 2015
CB Insights
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
Real estate tech startups raised a record high of $1.7B From commercial leasing and online brokerages to real estate analytics there are a slew of startups addressing the various pain points in the real estate industry. By definition, real … Continued.
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48 FinovateFall 2015 in the Press
Fintech Labs Insights
SEPTEMBER 22, 2015
Mobile, onboarding among dominant themes at FinovateFall 2015. Finovate Fall 2015: Day 1 Recap + 5 Highlights (and some interesting tidbits). Finovate Fall 2015: Day 2 Recap + 8 Winners. Finovate Fall 2015, Day One: Live Blog. Finovate Fall 2015, Day Two: Live Blog. FinovateFall 2015 Day 1 Video Recap.
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24 Greylock And Index Were Among The Top-Ranked VCs For Tech Exits In 2015
CB Insights
MARCH 1, 2016
There were 665 VC-backed tech exits in 2015. SV Angel, New Enterprise Associates, and Accel Partners were number one, two, and three respectively for VCs with most exited companies in 2015. But this is perhaps not surprising since NEA, SV Angel, … Continued.
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42 Corporate Deal Activity In Cancer Therapeutics Startups Nearly Doubles In 2015
CB Insights
MARCH 25, 2016
Funding to private cancer therapeutics companies grew by 153% from 2014 to 2015. Corporate-backed investments to these companies followed a similar trend, with deals nearly doubling and funding from these deals quadrupling in the last year. So far in 2016 … Continued.
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39 FinovateSpring 2015 in the Press
Fintech Labs Insights
MAY 18, 2015
2015 FinovateSpring Spree. Finovate Spring 2015: Fintech innovation for banking and wealth management. FinovateSpring 2015 Best of Show Winners Announced. Breaking: Finovate Announces The Winners For Its FinovateSpring 2015. Finovate Spring 2015 – 72 Startups Demonstrate New Fintech Products. American Banker.
FinovateFall 2015: A Week in Tweets
Fintech Labs Insights
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
And FinovateFall 2015 is no different. So let’s take a look at some of the more creative, colorful, and consequential tweets of the FinovateFall 2015 Week That Was. Pedro Gaspar (@pgaspar) September 17, 2015. Trak Lord (@traklord) September 16, 2015. .” Trak Lord (@traklord) September 16, 2015.
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25 B2C global ecommerce sees growth in 2015
The Paypers
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
(The Paypers) The global B2C ecommerce sales of products and services continued to grow in 2015, according to a recent study.
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28 Fintech startups hit 4.000 globally in 2015 – report
The Paypers
MAY 20, 2016
billion in 2011 to more than USD 19 billion in 2015, a recent report reveals. (The Paypers) Ffintech startups number 4,000 companies, globally, with total estimated venture capital investment rising from about USD 2.4
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500 Startups Leads Among The Most Active Early-Stage VC Investors Of 2015
CB Insights
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Despite more micro VCs and multistage funds investing at the seed-stage, seed investments fell to a 29% share of deals to VC-backed companies in Q4’15, a five-quarter low, according to our 2015 Venture Capital report. But despite the overall pullback, there … Continued
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44 Software Eats The Back Office: HR Tech Startups See Over 60% Funding Growth In 2015
CB Insights
MARCH 8, 2016
HR tech is a hot category, with both funding and deal activity leaping to new highs in 2015. However, when taking a closer look, $100M+ mega-rounds to Zenefits, OneSource Virtual, and FXiaoKe took a large portion of total funding in the year, making … Continued.
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49 FinovateSpring 2015 Best of Show Winners Announced
Fintech Labs Insights
MAY 13, 2015
Going into this year’s tally of FinovateSpring 2015 ballots, it was anybody’s guess which companies had won the hearts and minds of our attendees and would take home one of our coveted Best of Show awards. As always, thanks to everyone who attended and participated in FinvoateSpring 2015. We hope you enjoyed the show!
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33 Limonetik sees 290 percent increase in 2015
The Paypers
MAY 30, 2016
(The Paypers) Limonetik , a payment gateway, has seen an increase of over 290% of payment transaction volumes on its platform in 2015.
Robots R’ Us: Funding And Deal Activity To Robotics See New Highs In 2015
CB Insights
MARCH 23, 2016
Funding to private robotics companies nearly doubled in 2015, reaching a record high in deals and dollars. Already in 2016 (through 3/21/16), nearly 15 companies, including Restoration Robotics, Savioke, and 5D Robotics, have raised an aggregate of $89M in funding across 15 deals. … Continued.
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Nordea charged over Danish money laundering cases
Finextra
JULY 5, 2024
Denmark officially brought charges to Nordea in the country’s biggest money laundering case to date, stating the bank violated the Danish anti-money laundering act several times between 2012 and 2015.
Monzo, the UK challenger bank with 9 million customers, raises $430 million
TechCrunch Fintech
MARCH 5, 2024
Founded in 2015, Monzo provides UK current accounts, debit cards and several financial […] © 2024 TechCrunch. London-based fintech company Monzo raised a late stage funding round of $430 million (£340 million), confirming a report from the Financial Times from a few weeks ago. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Financing To Robotics Startups Climb Over 3X in 2015
CB Insights
AUGUST 10, 2016
Robotics startups reeled in over $350M in funding across over 80 deals in 2015 representing a 308% increase in funding over 2014. From UAV manufacturers to toy car robotic makers, the space has seen healthy growth in financing activity. Using … Continued
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28 12 New FinDEVr 2015 Presenters Announced
Fintech Labs Insights
JULY 7, 2015
FinDEVr San Francisco 2015 is partnered with BankersHub , BayPay Forum , California Bankers Association , Celent , CoinTelegraph , Mercator Advisory Group , and SF Fintech. The post 12 New FinDEVr 2015 Presenters Announced appeared first on Finovate.
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Investors Cool On Wearable Computing Startups, As Deals Crash By 20% In 2015
CB Insights
MARCH 21, 2016
The wearables market was once hot and Fitbit’s IPO in June 2015 generated enthusiasm for the space, but the recent funding trends tell another story. For much of 2015, funding to wearables startups was on track to fall to a five-year low. … Continued.
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