“What should I make for dinner?” It is a deceptively simple question. One that has a variety of answers – all of which are now much easier today, thanks to mobile devices, apps, data and the cloud. For instance, on one end of the spectrum,...
2014 will go down as the most lucrative year for venture capital since 2000, largely because of a greater emphasis on late-stage funding of tech firms that choose to stay private longer than their predecessors did during the dot-com bubble at the beginning of the last...
The problem with a financial crisis is that the climb out has been particularly arduous for consumers and retailers. Even though spending and wages have recovered (albeit slowly and at a lesser rate than many would like) spending continues to frustrate. Consumers may be returning...
While B2C payments players often snap up most of the headlines, B2B players are often lurking in the background, gaining ground, making moves and quietly innovating away, though often is in a less flashy manner. Taulia is one such quiet payments players that steadily gained...
Click here to see this week’s breakdown of investments There’s a group of college students whose biggest problem isn’t actually paying for tuition, it’s getting the funds they have for that tuition to the institution of higher learning that they’ll attend for two, four (or...
The 2014 Year in FinTech Investment | The PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker The 11 Things You Need To Know About FinTech Investments in 2014 • $102 Billion in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding, private placements, IPOs, acquisitions,...
For American venture capitalists, particularly those headquartered in Silicon Valley, 2014 was a go big, or go home kind of year. And they didn’t go home very often, betting pretty big on some yet to be seen big bets across all of the FinTech space....
Adyen And The Changing Face Of Cross-Border Payment Christmas, it seems, has come early for global payments technology company Adyen this year. The Amsterdam-based business announced a $250 million funding round Tuesday (December 16), led by global growth equity investor General Atlantic, (with participation from...
Banking Focus Talk about topping the charts. 2014 was a very active year for the banking sector that drove a little more than $25B in deal activity so far this year. Of the total $25.2B investment in the banking sector, 48 percent was driven by...