Investments

Investment Tracker, October 15
October 15, 2014

Click here to see this week’s investment tracker. Interview With Spreedly   Tokenization is not a new idea, but since the announcement of Apple Pay and its much-praised tokenized security protocol, it is a hot idea. Lately it seems a consensus is emerging amongst payment...

Investments in Retail Payments Rocks October
October 08, 2014

$130M in financial activity. Included an array of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc. Of that total, almost all was driven by strategic or venture –backed investments. Deem ran with the leading investment. A round for the San Francisco based company, was $30...

In Depth
PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker
September 07, 2014

PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker Here’s what happened in the first week of September: The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $638.4 Million in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc. Of that total, $628.4 M was...

PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker
August 26, 2014

Here’s what happened in the third week of August: The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $1.3 Billion in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc. Of that total, $856 M was the driven by strategic...

B2B Payments
PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker
August 18, 2014

Here’s what happened in the first week of August:   The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $1.2 Billion in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc.  Of that total, $1,053.6 M was the driven by...

B2B Payments
PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker
August 04, 2014

There’s lots of stuff published on who’s funding what across all technology sectors worldwide. We thought it would be useful to provide you with a weekly update on who’s investing what in the retail and commercial payments and financial services sectors. Retail was king during...

Controversial
Payments Innovation Investment Tracker | Week of July 25
July 30, 2014

Oh where oh where have the investments in Fintech gone? Well, last week, $8.9 billion of it went to a bunch of players in payments with acquisitions in the processing and security sectors leading the way.

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Innovation Investment Tracker | Week of July 21
July 21, 2014

An acquisition and an auction drove the bulk of investment activity last week. Of the venture  back moves, alternative lending and electronification of documents paved the way. The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $5.7 Billion in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding,...

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Innovation Investment Tracker | Week of July 11
July 11, 2014

Retail payments dominate this week, and data analytics and security, in particular, seemed to tickle the fancy of investors. Here’s what happened the week ending July 11th The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $329 Million in financial activity was observed across a variety of...