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RegTech, AI Fuel Strong B2B FinTech Numbers

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venture capital sphere this week: VC funding for FinTech startups in Q1 alone hit $1.2 Analysts said the industry has seen its highest venture capital activity since Q1 of 2016, fueled by focus on late-stage investment rounds. Good news emerged from the U.S. billion, found a new report from KPMG. million, according to reports.

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Small Banks Essential To Faster Payments Ubiquity

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Several years later, the initiative has made big strides as other markets around the globe look to the U.K. to launch their own faster payments efforts. But there is still a long ways to go, and in the several years since the Faster Payments initiative first began, it’s also morphed to evolve along with the technology available.

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What Industry Players Really Expect From 2017

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Analysts continue to flesh out their predictions for payments and FinTech in 2017, but one can never truly know the exact direction an industry will take. As growth equity investors in payments for nearly two decades, we’re seeing the already-massive payments industry experiencing an unprecedented period of rapid, disruptive change.

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The Fluid Faster Payments Conversation

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Estep believes that it’s really the innovators who create the robustness of the ACH Network — innovations that can, in some instances, remove the friction out of payments, or allow the industry to collectively keep the Network safe and secure, or create added value between parties. . Faster payments innovators. The next six months.