The FinTech landscape is being altered by the news this week of the Global Payments and FIS dealmaking. Tens of billions of dollars are attached to the transactions, focused on merchant services and embedded finance. The dollars are not flowing between the big guns in...
The FinTech IPO Index continued to gain ground, coming off of double-digit gains last week, adding 3.3% through the past five days. This time around, partnerships dominated the headlines, and earnings season has yet to make its presence felt in the space. From a macro...
The majority of names in the FinTech IPO Index traded lower through a tumultuous five sessions of stock market activity that was dominated by tariffs. But, when you have a company whose shares spike more than 820%, that’s enough to move the whole group upward....
There was nowhere to run this week for investors seeking to escape a market rout that came on like a tidal wave, crashing down Thursday. Tariffs, of course, dominated, and once they were real, as of Wednesday night, the stage was set for a...
FinTech IPO Index names were mostly in the red this past week, and the companies that did manage to post gains barely made it out of the low single-digit percentages. The majority of the headlines through the last several days were centered on partnerships tied...
The past five trading days have been a roller coaster, as interest rates and the Fed’s stance on cuts to those rates proved top of mind. Although comments from the central bank pointed to slowing growth and higher inflation, the FinTech IPO Index was up...
Markets were awash in a sea of red this past week, and the broader gauges, such as the Dow and the S&P 500 Stock Index, have touched correction territory, down at least 10% from their peaks. The FinTech IPO Index fared no better through the...
March’s dawn brings with it the last vestiges of earnings season — and for the FinTech IPO Index, key headlines were focused on quarterly reports and a few announcements of partnerships. So: It wasn’t all about tariffs this past week. Earnings Continue to Roll In...
When it comes to getting funded, FinTechs are having trouble competing with artificial intelligence. New data from S&P Global Market Intelligence released Monday (March 3) showed that the sector attracted $21.5 billion in venture capital (VC) investment last year, the lowest level of funding since...
