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Beyond Spare Change: Debt Payment Startup Qoins Wins Country's Largest Fintech Prize

Qoins, an Atlanta-based startup that rounds up users' spare change to help them pay off their debt, took home the largest equity-free cash prize for startups in the country as the winner of the Fintech Innovation Award Challenge at this week’s FinTech South conference. The audience

James Chou

Amidst Acquisition, Kabbage Brings In CTO With Deep Scaling History

Last week, fintech unicorn Kabbage announced the hiring of a new CTO, their first since 2016. James Chou, formerly of Shutterstock and WorkMarket, has a long history of growing scaling technology companies’ product portfolio and capabilities. Chou most recently served as CTO at WorkMarket, a cloud-based workforce management solution

MaxRewards Simplifies Education Debt Repayment By Condensing Content and Auto-Pay In One Platform

MaxRewards Simplifies Education Debt Repayment By Condensing Content and Auto-Pay In One Platform

By the end of 2017, the education debt in the U.S. rose to nearly $1.38 trillion, with 11 percent of borrowers 90 days or more delinquent. Many borrowers are having a hard time finding effective resources that will help them deal with the financial burden of their student

Atlanta's Most Valuable Fintech Company Files for IPO

Atlanta's Most Valuable Fintech Company Files for IPO

GreenSky, an Atlanta-based online lending technology provider, has filed documents to go public with an initial offering of $100 million in shares. The fintech company is currently the third most valuable in the U.S. after Stripe and SoFi. GreenSky last took in outside capital in 2016, raising $50

InComm

InComm, the Fintech Company That Powers Prepaid Gift Cards, Commits to Georgia With Further Expansion

InComm, a global fintech and payments company based in Atlanta, will be investing $20 million to create 150 new jobs in Georgia. About two-thirds of these jobs will be at their downtown Atlanta headquarters, with the remaining in the company’s office in Columbus. The announcement was made Tuesday

AvidXchange

Southern Payments Unicorn Brings In Chief Growth Officer From Fiserv to “Double Revenue”

Payments technology platform AvidXchange, one of the few southeastern companies valued at over a billion dollars, has pulled in a Chief Growth Officer with 25+ years experience growing fintech revenue streams and sales. Dan Drees, most recently of Fiserv, will be responsible for the go-to market of AvidXchange’s

CEO Of Newly-Funded RoadSync On Their Rebrand Revitalization

CEO Of Newly-Funded RoadSync On Their Rebrand Revitalization

Last summer, Robin Gregg came on board a growing payment startup, geared towards the freight industry, as their new CEO. With a background of 15+ years in the payments industry, including most recently SVP of Product and Growth Strategy at commercial payments solution company Fleetcor, Gregg brought scaling experience to