Circle is a consumer financial services company founded by internet pioneer Jeremy Allaire to “transform the world economy with secure, simple, and less costly technology for storing and using money.” Allaire’s and Circle’s vision harkens back to the 1990s when the internet was a brand...
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...
By all accounts, 2014 was the year of the “on-demand” economy. Ride-sharing service Uber recently closed out a $1.2 billion funding round, placing the start-up’s total valuation at $41 billion. That represents an almost tripling of the company’s value – a half a year ago Uber...
PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. This week’s bitcoin trivia: How much value has bitcoin lost over the last 12 months? Answer. 51 percent. This time last year, the price of bitcoin was 629.18. Today it is 310.15. The bitcoin world awaited word from...
PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 51 Bitcoin is sitting around the same as it was before Thanksgiving at 367.21 from 357.64, according to the PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price index. PYMNTS.com caught up with Purse CEO and co-founder, Andrew Lee. This week’s...
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...
The big bitcoin crash of 2014. That was last weekend and this week. Economist David Evans wrote a piece that put it in context. After 6 years, Bitcoin transactions remain flat, flat, flat. No other payments innovation on the face of the earth would continue...
$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...