Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Wave Payments (HR Block). Wave (acquired by H&R Block) FAB Score = 863. – Exit: Acquired by H&R Block for US$400M in June 2019. Market Cap: $26B (12 Dec 2021, NYSE:Bill). Market cap: $3.2B (13 Dec 2021); NASDAQ: AVDX. Founded: 2017. 10 to 14 years >>> 3 startups. FAB Score*. 7 Dec 2021.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

In August of 2017 Ghana’s government announced that it was going to clean house in its financial services sector — particularly among lenders and second-level financial institutions. And by all accounts they were entirely serious, as it has been an expensive and comprehensive journey.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2017

The past few days have seen bitcoin rising at a similar rate seen in late December and into early 2017. Bitcoin’s current estimated market cap is over $14.5 Berns filed a motion in federal court to block the IRS from accessing Coinbase users’ personal, transactional and security data. percent from the day’s open of $884.25.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

As of this writing in mid-November 2017, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies hovers around $220B (with a single bitcoin trading for upwards of $8,000). Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have exploded in popularity, closing on $3B+ in funding in 2017 alone. Everyone’s talking about them, but what do these terms really mean?

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Nanonets

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

​ ViTamin trains a vision tower that is a concatenation of Convolution and Transformer blocks to get the best of both worlds. POPE is a curious dataset that exemplifies how one can create complexity using simple building blocks. PT (2024) 558k Yet another dataset that was genereated by calling GPT4 on images.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

Amazon’s market cap is over $800 billion while Walmart’s is at $290 million, making one Amazon worth approximately 2.5 And because the news comes quickly – and often in large blocks – PYMNTS will keep you posted each week on how Amazon and Walmart are moving, and counter moving, to grow their share of retail and consumer spend.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

The Fed reported that in 2017 about half of all people with bank accounts used their bank’s mobile app to conduct transactions. The token has been in existence since December 2017, when it launched a presale and reported taking orders for more than $100 million in tokens in its first 12 hours. Putting Caps on Innovative Companies.

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