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Investing can provide you with another source of income, here are investment options that will return a percentage of the vested value.
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B2B PaymentsLogistics, Supply Chain Tech Lead B2B Funding This Week
Taulia, a B2B FinTech startup, made headlines this week thanks to reports that the company is raising funds from Ping An Insurance...
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InvestmentsMore Business Brewing For Joe Coffee Amid New $1.3M Investment
Joe Coffee has crafted an online ordering platform for independent java shops. Now the Seattle-based startup has landed another infusion of venture capital to...
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IPOGoHealth Ready To Launch $750M IPO
Chicago-based GoHealth has filed to raise $750 million in an initial public offering (IPO) of its Class A common stock, according to...
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IPOAlibaba’s Ant Group Plans Hong Kong IPO At $200B+
Ant Group, the online payment service affiliate of China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, is looking to go public as early as this...
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IPORocket Cos., Quicken Loans Parent, Files IPO
Rocket Companies, one of the nation’s largest mortgage lenders and parent of Quicken Loans, filed its initial public offering (IPO) late Tuesday...
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IPOCloud-based FI Software Provider nCino Goes Public
Two weeks after nCino, the software provider for financial institutions (FIs), announced plans to go public, the North Carolina-based company is offering...
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IPOBig Data Firm Palantir Prepares For IPO
Palantir Technologies is the latest in a recent flurry of tech companies to signal plans for an IPO. Known as the oldest...
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Markets‘Down’ Rounds And Investor Caution — Blip Or Trend?
The stock market swings can be confusing. Public (retail) investors have been, generally speaking, bidding up shares, seemingly shrugging off the lingering...
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InvestmentsGoogle Parent Alphabet Joins Amazon, Microsoft And Apple With $1T Market Cap
The four largest tech companies have regained their trillion-dollar status as the stock market continues its surprising rebound following a big slide...
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InvestmentsIndonesia’s Payfazz Raises $53M In New Round
Indonesian payment processor Payfazz has secured $53 million in Series B funding, numerous media outlets reported Monday (July 6). Jakarta-based Payfazz operates...
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InvestmentsIntel Pays $253.4M Into Jio Platforms For A 0.39 Pct Stake
Intel Capital Corp. wants a piece of Jio Platforms, India’s largest mobile network operator, LiveMint.com reported. The investment division of Intel plans to...
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InvestmentsGoogle Eyes Investing In Indonesia’s eCommerce Hub Tokopedia
Google and Temasek Holdings Private Ltd., an investment company owned by the Singapore government, are in talks to invest as much as...
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InvestmentsPalantir Technologies Seeks Nearly $1B From Investors
Palantir Technologies has a lot of irons in the fire as it reportedly gets ready for an initial public offering (IPO), including...
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Security & FraudSoftBank Wants Out Of Wirecard Partnership After Last Year’s $1B Investment
SoftBank is looking to put distance between itself and Wirecard due to the German payments company’s ongoing scandal involving missing money and...
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InvestmentsSingapore’s Temasek Holdings To Invest $100M In Zomato
The Singapore government’s Temasek Holdings Ltd. is in talks to invest up to $100 million in Zomato, the Indian food delivery service...
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InvestmentsFacebook Co-Founder On Hunt For Startups With $820M Fund
Billionaire Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin’s budding venture capital firm has raised a new $820 million fund for investments in startups, a move...
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B2B PaymentsWEX Gets $400M From Warburg Pincus To Boost Operations
WEX has reported a $400 million investment from a partner of Warburg Pincus, which the financial services tech firm will use to...
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IPOInsurance Marketplace GoHealth Seeks $100M In Potential IPO
GoHealth, Inc. is seeking to raise $100 million in Class A common stock during a proposed upcoming initial public offering (IPO), according...
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NewsToday In Payments: Wirecard Forces German Accounting Regs Reboot; Consumers Sour On Travel Rewards Cards
In today’s top news, Germany’s deputy finance minister wants to restructure accounting firm regulations, and consumers are turning away from travel rewards...
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InvestmentsTencent, Primavera Staking $300M On Chinese Grocery Delivery Startup
A Chinese startup is landing hundreds of millions in additional financing as a group of investors – which includes Tencent – eyes...
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InvestmentsPE Firms Shun Investments In Older Firms Hard Hit By Pandemic
Companies owned by private equity firms are not seeing the money for protection that those firms ostensibly have saved up, The Wall...
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B2B PaymentsSpiff Raises $10M For Automated Commission Payments
Spiff, which works in sales commission and software, has come off a funding round with $10 million, which it intends to use...
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InvestmentsSE Asia’s East Ventures Looks To Back Startups With $88M Fund
Singapore-based early stage tech investment firm East Ventures has targeted a new fund intending on benefiting businesses hurting from the coronavirus pandemic,...
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InvestmentsVolcker Rule Revision Inspires Hope For Startups, But Also Stirs Debate
The FDIC’s decision to ease the Volcker Rule could prove to be a boon for some startups, freeing up banks to invest...
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Real EstatePlatforms And AI Are Powering Real Estate Investing’s Digital 3.0 Shift
Stock markets are whipsawing. Bond yields, gyrating. Crypto? Bouncing around, to put it mildly. The pandemic has sent any number of investments...
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InvestmentsAye Finance Raises Another $27.5M Amid Pandemic
Bucking the coronavirus-driven economic downturn, Indian FinTech Aye Finance on Wednesday (June 24) said it had raised $27.5 million from a group...
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ANTITRUSTAmazon Deliveroo Deal Cleared By UK Authorities
A year-long investigation into Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo, the U.K. food delivery service, has ended in favor of the world’s largest online marketplace. The...
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InvestmentsCredit Suisse Eyes Its Supply Chain Finance Funds Amid Investor Scrutiny
Credit Suisse Group has started to look into funds invested in loans arranged by billionaire Lex Greensill and backed by Masayoshi Son’s...
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Digital PaymentsHow Online Platforms Are ‘Gamifing’ Mobile Bill Payments
The best way to get us to pay attention might be through that little screen in the palms of our hands. The...
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B2B PaymentsCorporate Benefits App Swile Notches $78.7M In Series C Funding
Swile notched $78.7 million in an Index Ventures-led Series C funding round held a few months prior, which it will use to...
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IPOBlank Check Companies Set Sights On Unicorns
Amid Wall Street’s gyrations and the search for the next great tech unicorn: Blank checks for blank check companies? On Monday (June...
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InvestmentsCedar Raises $102M For Simplified Patient Medical Payments
Cedar, a provider of technology focused on fostering smooth financial interactions between healthcare providers and patients, announced $102 million in new venture...
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NewsToday In Payments: Wirecard Says $2.1B Likely Didn’t Exist; Checkout.com Raises $150M On $5B Valuation
In today’s top news, Wirecard says the missing $2.1 billion from its Philippines accounts probably never existed, and checkout.com raised $150 million....
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Travel PaymentsAirbnb CEO Sees Potential For 2020 IPO Amid Bookings Rebound
Airbnb’s big rebound from its short but sharp pandemic-induced slump has the CEO of one of the world’s most successful startups talking...
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InvestmentsIndia’s Morning Grocery Service Milkbasket Eyes Profitability In 2020, Raises $5.5M
Online grocery delivery service Milkbasket has landed $5.5 million in venture capital in a round led by Inflection Point Ventures. That brings...
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AuthenticationIntellicheck Prices Secondary Stock Sale at $6.50 Per Share
Intellicheck, the Melville, N.Y., company that develops technology to stop identity theft, has announced it will have a secondary public offering of...
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IPODraftKings To Sell More Shares in $1.6B IPO
While questions linger over the 2020 sports season, that hasn’t stopped DraftKings from upping its previously announced initial public offering (IPO) to...
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B2B PaymentsLatin America Entices B2B FinTech Investors
It was a big week for B2B FinTech startups in Latin America. Supply chain financing company Greensill revealed its acquisition of Colombia-based...
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InvestmentsSaudi Oil Money To Help Power India’s Digital Revolution
Jio Platforms has reeled in another big investor, with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund agreeing to pump $1.5 billion into India’s largest...
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InvestmentsDoorDash Raising $400M On $16B Valuation
DoorDash said it is raising roughly $400 million in Series H financing led by new investors Fidelity Management & Research Co. as...
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B2B PaymentsBanks Embrace Real-Time Data Connectivity With Third-Party FinTechs
With a focus on expanding functionality for business customers, financial institutions (FIs) this week turned to FinTechs that could facilitate real-time data...
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InvestmentsFinTech Pagaya Notches $102M In Funding Round
Pagaya, a U.S. and Israeli FinTech collaboration, announced a Series D funding round in which it raised $102 million, according to a...
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InvestmentsUpgrade Closes $40M Santander-Led Funding Round
Mobile bank Upgrade Inc. has received a $40 million investment as part of its Series D round led by Santander InnoVentures, a...
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EconomyWall Street Fears Rise As Coronavirus Resurges
As the nation reopens in phases, Wall Street’s “fear gauge” surged Thursday (June 11) as fears of a second economic shutdown in...
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B2B PaymentsFraud, Global Payments Catch B2B VC Attention
As more organizations migrate to an online business model, their needs from FinTechs and other third-party service providers are in flux. This...
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InvestmentsNew Funding To Make DoorDash A $15B Company
DoorDash Inc. is expected to receive new funding that would value the nation’s largest on demand meal delivery company at $15 billion...
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InvestmentsInstacart Raises $225M At $14B Valuation
Instacart‘s valuation is now almost $14 billion after a new funding round, the company announced in a press release. The round raised...
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InvestmentsPayPal Commits $530M To Minority-Owned Businesses
San Jose-based PayPal Holdings said it is making a $530 million commitment to support black- and minority-owned businesses and communities. The move...
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InvestmentsIndonesian Wholesale Marketplace Ula Secures $10.5M In Seed Funding
Indonesian wholesale eCommerce market Ula has announced that it has secured $10.5 million in a new seed funding round, according to an...
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MarketsLemonade, Vroom And Shift4 Payments IPOs Show Wall Street Is Embracing The Digital Leap
It would have been inconceivable just a few weeks ago to think that U.S. stocks would rebound the way they have, with...
