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...
Click here to see this week’s breakdown of investments Podcast Headline Rebooting The Gift Card Experience Tis the season for gift card buying. According to National Retail Federation, Americans will spend over $31 billionon Gift Cards this holiday season – and spending is on...
A New Take On Commercial Lending Picks Up In the wake of the financial meltdown and resulting credit crackdown lending slowed, and in some cases ground to a screeching halt. Among the hardest hit were small business. The Small Business Administration reports that...
Click here to see this week’s breakdown of investments Will Long Distance Travel Be The Next Ridesharing Victory? There’s nothing like being home for the holidays, or so the song says anyway. And given the 46 million or so travelers AAA predicts will be...
Click here to see this week’s breakdown of investments Weekly Breakdown Tis’ the season for shopping. Well almost anyway. The first week of November saw an investment community gearing up of the holiday shopping season, with $571 million in investments all in, about half of...
Click here to see this week’s breakdown of investments Interview One might be tempted to look at bitcoin as so 2013. It started the year strong – but a string of scandals, run-ins with regulators and now Apple Pay seems to have knocked bitcoin, and...
Click here to see this week’s graph Beacons are the darling of commerce, with estimates of something like 30,000 of them in stores in the U.S. alone. The Beacon ecosystem ignited last year when Apple launched iBeacon, and ever since there has been a stampede...