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.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Follow 303 Cryptocurrencies here: http://coinmarketcap.com/ . Bitcoin Tracker | Week 39 School’s back in session and bitcoin is on the syllabus for students at MIT, NYU Law and Switzerland’s University of Zurich. Students can even pay for notebooks and...
Follow 303 Cryptocurrencies here. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 37 What goes down must come up. After a crash earlier in the week, Bitcoin eeked past the $500 to end the week, closing at $522.92 according to PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price index. The Bitcoin Sentiment Index launched...
Bitcoin Tracker | Week 36 As summer wanes, the news about bitcoin is starting to heat back up, but not in a good way. The price of bitcoin is dropping a bit and the CFPB is warning consumers against its use in a big way....
News broke yesterday about Amazon’s plans to sell a branded dongle at Staples, making it the 123rd player to enter this very croweded space. But while a giant player could become a powerful new entrant, SMBs are starting to show a change of heart towards...
Bitcoin Tracker | Week 35 “If bitcoin could help us be more efficient, we’d use it” said John Kunze, the CEO of Xoom who is in the money transfer business. PYMNTScaught up with him on a variety of things, and bitcoin came up. Interview is...
As former Square COO Keith Rabois launches one more “stellar” currency, Kanye West wins a lawsuit that shutters Coinye Bitcoin. Life in the land of the bitcoins and crypto-currencies is never dull.
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.
