Online platforms – connecting buyers and sellers, and payments flows, across a variety of use cases and verticals – dominated planned announcements and debuts on public exchanges this past week. That brought the payments-related announcements to 28 and the shopping segment to 15, year to...
Reddit is considering hiring a team of lawyers and investment bankers to go public, Reuters reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily...
The platform economy is taking shape around the globe — it has wheels, you might say. To that end, Cazoo, the U.K.-based online platform focused on buying and selling cars, went public at the end of last week on the NYSE, having completed its business combination...
In the consumer realm, we’re increasingly headed toward super-apps and devices that can manage a slew of activities, some of them simultaneously. Fragmentation, you might say, is anathema. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
Sustainable shoemaker Allbirds said on Tuesday (Aug. 31) that it plans to move forward with its initial public offering (IPO) of Class A common stock on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol BIRD, despite the fact that it’s lost money since its inception and...
South Korean payments startup Kakao Pay filed an updated prospectus and will move forward with an initial public offering (IPO), making its debut on the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) exchange on Oct. 14. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
Toast is made to order, perhaps, for the parade of initial public offerings (IPOs) on Wall Street that in recent months have trained a spotlight on digital payments and on platforms. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
The Indian technology company providing functionality for McDonald’s McDelivery service and Avis car rental in India may submit an initial public offering (IPO) this week, according to a recent Bloomberg report. MapmyIndia could focus on an IPO of approximately $175 million, pushing the 26-year-old company’s...
The point-of-sale (POS) restaurant technology (ResTech) payments platform Toast is filing for an estimated $100 million initial public offering (IPO) at a rough valuation of $20 billion, Bloomberg and other news outlets reported on Friday (Aug. 27). Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
