Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes BNP Paribas Asset Management’s new U.K. debt fund. In addition, a city in China is rolling out a new $1.5 billion blockchain fund, and the U.A.E’s Network International has launched a...
How to construct a payments platypus of sorts — you know, a mish-mosh of opposites that may not on the surface dovetail well but still get put together once in a while, less evolution than, perhaps, ever-amusing? Try being Samsung this past week, which had both a sizzle...
Newly launched CapitalFront is bringing working capital financing and other lending products to SMEs. CEO Brian Simon discusses the ways a tech-oriented firm can use experience (and follow-up) to serve smaller firms more efficiently than traditional lenders.
April 14, 2017
How to construct a payments platypus of sorts — you know, a mish-mosh of opposites that may not on the surface dovetail well but still get put together once in a while, less evolution than, perhaps, ever-amusing? Try being Samsung this past week, which had both a sizzle and a fizzle. Sizzle Lyft: Lyft got, well, a lift, in the past […]
November 02, 2018
In a Kakao Pay-led Series B round, peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform PeopleFund took in $11 million in funding. The South Korean company, which was started in 2015, matches borrowers with investors in a marketplace for lending, according to reports. PeopleFund CEO Joey Kim has said that personal and consumer loans comprise about 25 percent of […]
