FISPAN News and Updates

FI.SPAN Raises $4m for UK and Australia Expansion

FI.SPAN earns some extra holiday spending cash, thanks to a new round of funding led by BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund, along with FinTop Capital, VFF, Panache Ventures and others.

Hoping to use the funds to expand FI.SPAN’s operations to the UK and Australia, FI.SPAN is looking to double it’s Vancouver headcount.

For more on the funding round, Read More.

Vancouver FinTech FI.SPAN Raises $4m, eyes international expansion

Further international expansion and a growing workforce are in the mix for a Vancouver-based financial technology startup that’s just raised $4 million in equity financing.

“We make banks as interconnected as other business applications.” – Lisa Shields, FI.SPAN CEO.

Read more on how FI.SPAN plans to double its Vancouver workforce and expand into the U.K. and Australia Read More.

A Vancouver entrepreneur whose previous business was acquired by PayPal Holdings Inc. for $400-million is set to announce a key partnership with JPMorgan Chase & Co. for her latest financial-technology venture

With comments from FI.SPAN CEO, Lisa Shields, and Jason Tiede, JPMorgan Chase’s head of treasury services innovation, find out more about the new partnership and the latest on FI.SPAN’s innovative product Read More.

“It’s an opportunity to make fintech a service, where banks can make use of innovative solutions that fintechs provide” [while still retaining the customer].” – Lisa Shields, FI.SPAN CEO

Head of Strategy & Product Joins Ep.16 of SOAR Payments Podcast

Episode 16 of PayPod: The Payments Industry Podcast showcased FI.SPAN Head of Strategy & Product, Clayton Weir, in an episode featured around the future of banks, including mid-market and larger banks, and their relationship to their business banking customers.
Clayton discusses why he thinks banks are ultimately going to win in financial services spaces, and what FI.SPAN does for banks and their customers.

“To bring FinTech’s into the bank domain, to bring FinTech white capabilities into the bank domain, and to use their capabilities to better serve the customers that they have,” said Weir on the ideologies for the inspiration of FI.SPAN.

To listen to the entire podcast Read More.

FI.SPAN Demos at FinovateFall 2018

FI.SPAN’s CEO, Lisa Shields, and Head of Strategy & Product, Clayton Weir, demo at FinovateFall 2018 for the second year in a row, during which Shields points out that “accounting and banking are often two phases of the same business process.”
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Episode 71 – The Tech Bringing B2B Fintech to the Mid-tier Bank – Lisa Shields, FI.SPAN

FI.SPAN CEO, Lisa Shields, sits down with GLENBROOK’s George Peabody to discuss the gap in the FinTech industry and how FI.SPAN is solving the problem. For the full interviewRead More.

“In other words, FI.SPAN proposes to be the glue that connects legacy code or a processor’s banking platform to the growing base of fintech point solutions in the market.”
– George Peabody, GLENBROOK  

How Banks Can Better Serve Businesses

FI.SPAN CEO, Lisa Shields, is at it again with another published article in PaymentsJournal, talking about how banks can better serve businesses. Read the full article Read More.

“Often competing for the same business customers, banks and fintech startups have been at odds for quite some time. But as it turns out, they may be better together. By working with fintech startups to populate and launch a solutions marketplace, banks can meet the needs and expectation of businesses, regardless of their size, industry or other unique needs.”
– Lisa Shields, FI.SPAN CEO 

How third parties are packaging fintechs into best-of-breed solutions post-PSD2

FI.SPAN CEO, Lisa Shields, sits down with bobsguide to talk about how she groups FinTechs into services and the ease with which banks can access them through APIs. Think Android app store but for banks. Read the entire interview Read More. ​

” How do I see PSD2 evolving? […] The reason I think it’s a good development for society is because it is forcing a discourse around what open banking looks like. In my view, it’s a necessary step to the ultimate end state that is beneficial for banks, customers and fintechs.”
​- Lisa Shields, FI.SPAN CEO