The Paypers

JUNE 18, 2025

The round included participation from Thrive Capital, D1 Capital Partners, General Catalyst, GIC, ICONIQ Growth, Khosla Ventures, Sands Capital, 8VC, Lux Capital, Stripes, 137 Ventures, Avenir Growth, and Definition Capital.

CBDC

The Paypers

JUNE 27, 2025

Market participants can choose between traditional or blockchain-based settlement processes while accessing a single, fungible security across both rails. Under the white-label agreement, Tokeny’s T-REX tokenization engine has been embedded within MTCM’s issuance infrastructure.

Security

The Paypers

JUNE 25, 2025

Aggregator groups such as Mortgage Choice, Finsure and Connective, along with lenders including CBA and Westpac Group, have reportedly participated in early phases of this integration.

Accreditation

Finextra

JULY 7, 2025

Instead of owning a paper share certificate or an entry in your broker’s database, you hold a cryptographic token in a digital wallet. However, robust liquidity will require big institutional participation too, and many institutions will wait for clearer regulations before diving in. How does this work in practice?

Blockchain

The Fintech Times

JULY 28, 2025

The continued broker research follows industry feedback from last year’s Smart Money People study, which found that while most brokers encounter vulnerable customers regularly, many still face uncertainty when it comes to knowing how to disclose. Last year’s project helped drive visible change.

Underwriting

CB Insights

AUGUST 10, 2021

Messari, a crypto analytics and research firm, has raised $21M in a Series A funding round. The round drew participation from Point72 Ventures, Uncork Capital, Tom Glocer, and Winklevoss Capital, among others. How’s the company performing? Become a CB Insights customer. If you’re already a customer, log in here.

Research

Fintech News

JULY 16, 2024

Global analytics software leader FICO unveiled its latest global consumer fraud research , highlighting that complex identity checks are stalling Singapore’s digital banking progress. This increase in identity checks by Singapore banks is a direct response to the significant issue of identity theft in the country.

Identity Theft

PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2016

MIT is pushing forward with its blockchain research — with the help of Ripple. What this involves is MIT running a validator for the Ripple Consensus Ledger — a distributed ledger that settles global transactions in real time and is the foundational ledger for the digital asset XRP.

Research

CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2017

In this analysis, we examine current research on brain-machine interfaces, the next hurdles to achieving AI-augmented brains, and existing and potential applications for this mind-altering technology, from gaming and education training to behavior modification. ” –IBM research study . Connected cortexes of the future.

Research

CB Insights

APRIL 12, 2018

FINTECH IN EUROPE RESEARCH BRIEFING. Spain-based Banco Santander (and its venture arm Santander InnoVentures) continues to lead as the most active Europe-based banks participating in fintech investments. ING is also an investor in WeLab and participated in its $160M Series B investment in Q1’16.

FinTech

CB Insights

JANUARY 31, 2018

Since 2012, the top 10 US banks by total assets have participated in 81 deals to fintech startups, totaling nearly $4.1B Visible Alpha helps research organizations — like the equity research arms of banks — produce more valuable content. in disclosed funding. Fintech: 2017 Year-in-Review & 2018 Trends.

FinTech

Fintech News

APRIL 3, 2024

Data from the World Bank’s Global Findex Database reveal that, in 2021, men were 6% points more likely than women to use digital payments, a gender gap that had remained consistent across developing economies since 2014 in part because of the broader gender gap in access to digital services.

Financial Inclusion

The Fintech Times

AUGUST 17, 2024

As technology continues to advance, these platforms are becoming indispensable for investors seeking to streamline their research, make informed decisions, and execute purchases with greater efficiency. Digital platforms allow investors to complete the entire buying process online, from initial research to closing the deal.

Consulting

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Research Briefing: Blockchain in Review. Anyone with bitcoin can participate in the network, send and receive bitcoin, and even hold a copy of this ledger if they want to. All participants must agree to the ledger’s rules in order to use it. One answer: use a database — a ledger. Bitcoin is a decentralized, public ledger.

Blockchain

Clearly Payments

OCTOBER 10, 2024

In fact, research from Accenture suggests that 57% of consumers are more likely to engage with a brand if they offer loyalty programs with higher-tier rewards. Coalition Loyalty Programs Coalition loyalty programs are shared between multiple merchants, allowing consumers to earn and redeem points across a network of participating businesses.

Processors

CB Insights

AUGUST 7, 2018

On top of that, not all patients diagnosed with untreatable cancer are eligible to participate — even finding out if they are eligible is a herculean task for many. For those that are eligible, participating in a trial is cost- and time-intensive, while rudimentary data collection methods compound the problem.

AI

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Digitized, secure, and tamper-proof blockchain ledgers are promising to disrupt the database as we know it. Many corporations still work using a web of fax machines, handwriting, and siloed databases spread across disparate countries and contractors. A distributed ledger could insulate climate data from political volatility.

Blockchain

CB Insights

AUGUST 31, 2017

The trend is poised to reach an all-time high in 2017: in the first half of this year, the venture capital arms of corporations participated in $1.8B RESEARCH BRIEFING: AI IN CYBERSECURITY. Largest Deal with CVC Participation: $600M, Series D, Q1’17. Largest Deal with CVC Participation: $117M Series E, Q1’15.

Participant

The Payments Association

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

According to Cifas, one in five suspected money muling cases filed to the Cifas National Fraud Database involves young people aged 21 and under. Cifas’ 2023 research indicates a growing concern about attitudes toward first-party fraud, with 1 in 8 adults admitting to committing some form of it in the past year. A comprehensive U.S.

Financial Literacy

CB Insights

MAY 6, 2020

Using the CB Insights database, we surfaced the top 25 VCs for fintech out of thousands of firms to create a “Fintech Smart Money” list. Investment categories are ranked by percentile within each calendar year, based on the number of deals with participating Fintech Smart Money investors.

Blockchain

CB Insights

AUGUST 29, 2017

This research briefing examines investments into IoT companies targeting enterprise and heavy industry. NVIDIA GPU Ventures and Intel Capital both participated in Element AI’s $102M Series A mega-round in Q2’17. Samsung and Qualcomm Ventures both invested in NoSQL database company ScyllaDB. Industrial IoT Webinar.

CHIPS

PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2018

A $5 million Series A funding round from Silverton Partners and March Capital Partners will help the company focus on product development, conduct broader security research and expand its asset database and team. Bow Capital, Alibaba Taiwan Entrepreneurs Fund, Heavybit and Ajay Shah also participated. Kenna Security.

B2B

PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

Data, of course, holds value throughout the commercial applications and research fields. He noted that within just two years, as estimated by IBM Research, the world will have more than 30 billion connected devices. Specifically, participants in the market system pre-deposit a certain amount of tokens into the blockchain.

Blocks

PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

Not-for-profit life sciences alliance, The Pistoia Alliance, published research late last year that found most pharmaceutical industry companies are already at least experimenting with blockchain, with the medical supply chain identified as having the greatest opportunities for distributed ledger tech (DLT) disruption. . ”

B2B

CB Insights

DECEMBER 6, 2017

RESEARCH BRIEFING: RISE OF ROBO-ADVISORS. The company says that creating a “brainwave database” can provide a school- or district-wide approach to quantitatively measuring student engagement in class. Above: Image from UCLA study using brain-imaging for CTE research on former NFL players. Marketing Science.

Research

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Vanel (D-33) is looking to encourage the state government’s research into the technology and introduce legal terminology for DLT. Blockchain technology can provide a ‘distributed ledger,’ or a database maintained not by a single actor, such as a bank, but collaboratively by a number of participants,” the filing stated. “As

Blockchain

CB Insights

JANUARY 4, 2018

Researchers. It has a resume pool of 100M applicants, from its own database as well as its network of job sites (excluding Linkedin). Notable companies include Palo Alto-based Casetext , which is developing an AI-based legal research assistant, CARA. RESEARCHERS & CONSULTANTS. Human Resources / Recruiting.

Automation

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Universities, research groups, and tech companies are sending these machines to space at an unprecedented pace. Using the CB Insights database, we surfaced 7 startups capitalizing on the potential for small-sats to transform space exploration and intelligence. (We First Name. SPACEFLIGHT INDUSTRIES. Total Funding: $85.9M.

Research

PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

Of the lenders analyzed – which primarily offer merchant cash advances – researchers calculated a 56 percent compound annual growth rate and a combined loan origination volume of $1.9 One driver behind the shifting reputation of merchant cash advances is the industry’s participation in technology adoption and innovation.

Small Business

PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

Banks have the customer and financial institution (FI) relationships needed to facilitate trade finance, while FinTech firms have the technology to digitize and accelerate the process for participating parties. However, both sides struggle with making trade finance profitable, and maintaining compliance.

Finance

PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2017

The 100 new accounts were pre-opened, which means once the iris scan took place (after roughly 10 seconds), the bank could pull the customer’s Aadhaar details (India’s national identification number) from a central government database and connect that information to a specific bank account within a day. About the Tracker.

Authentication

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Of interest to those who are observers and participants in the payments space, and as detailed in the report: The theft of $81 million from the Bangladeshi central bank could have been a lot worse — as much as $1 billion or more would have been pilfered if there had not been a spelling error (more on that in a moment).

SWIFT

PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2016

Gravity VC and angel investors also participated in the round. Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder and Maverick Ventures also participated, reports said. SafeBreach will use the funds to expand research and development, sales and marketing. On Thursday (July 28), PhishMe announced a $42.5

B2B

PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

million Series A round of venture funding led by FirstMark Capital with participation from Contour Ventures, Humanity United and Serious Change LP, among others. Outside of the data partnerships, HowGood has a team of researchers for cases when data may not be available — as can be the case when assessing smaller growers.

Product

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Reducing siloed databases: Real estate processes would benefit from secure and tamper-resistant shared databases that compile data and documents from various different stakeholders in one place. Blockchain technology can fix these problems by allowing a property listing to exist on a single decentralized database.

Blockchain

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

While the CPMI’s research highlights the challenges of consumer retail payments, the need to address friction in cross-border corporate payments is just as imminent, especially as B2B payments can involve a greater degree of complexity.

Cross-Border Payments

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

This research briefing analyzes the corporations working on auto tech initiatives, the startups looking to transform the future of transport, and the array of industries that face upheavals from these trends. Auto Tech Trends. Bosch’s activity includes Robert Bosch Venture Capital (RBVC), the company’s corporate venture arm.

Cybersecurity