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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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599B2B PaymentsAustralian B2B FinTech Tyro Is Bright Spot In IPO Debut
Australian B2B FinTech Tyro Payments recently listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and saw its share price increase 29 percent above...
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980B2B PaymentsOn-Demand Payroll Leads B2B FinTech Funding
This week saw B2B FinTechs targeting a range of pain points for business customers around the world, as investors put nearly $462...
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1.4KInvestmentsShipium Lands $2M; Aims To Offer Universal Two-Day Shipping
Shipium, a logistics startup founded by former Amazon and Zulily employees Jason Murray and Mac Brown, has raised $2 million in seed funding in...
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1.2KInvestmentsFigure Technologies Raises $103M To Continue Blockchain-Based Lending
Blockchain lending firm Figure Technologies announced that it has closed a $103 million series C funding round led by Morgan Creek Digital....
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2.4KInvestmentsBrazilian FinTech Rebel Lands $10M For Affordable Loan Products
Rebel, a Brazilian FinTech that offers unsecured credit to middle-class citizens in the country, has raised $10 million in new equity funding,...
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2.6KInvestmentsRapyd FinTech Picks Up $20M; Eyes Big Acquisitions
London-based FinTech startup Rapyd has secured an additional $20 million in funding, bringing its valuation to $1.2 billion. This latest round of...
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1.8KDigital BankingLumin Digital To Power Banking, Bill Pay For University Of Illinois Credit Union
Lumin Digital has signed a multi-year contract with the University of Illinois Community Credit Union (UICCU) that will have Lumin’s cloud-based platform...
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4.9KB2B PaymentsSoftBank Leads $100M Investment In Mexico’s Konfio
SoftBank Group has made another investment in Mexico, leading a $100 million funding round for small business (SMB) lender Konfio. This marks...
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3.3KInvestmentsPostscript Gets $4.5M To Help eComm Firms Leverage SMS
To help Shopify shops keep in touch with consumers through SMS, Postscript notched $4.5 million in funding. Accomplice led the investment round, which...
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2.0KB2B PaymentsOn-Demand Payment FinTech Hastee Helps Cos Pay Workers On Demand
A FinTech payday startup called Hastee has received a $270 million investment from Umbra Capital Partners, with participation from IDC Ventures and...
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1.3KInvestmentsPaytm Backs Bus Ticketing Firm Infinity With Estimated $1.4M
Paytm parent company One97 Communications has made a strategic investment in the travel software provider Infinity Transoft Solutions, Times of India reported...
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1.7KInvestmentsSingapore’s FinAccel FinTech Lands $90M To Grow Credit Lending App
Singapore-based FinAccel has raised $90 million in a funding round led by Asia Growth Fund (a joint venture between Mirae Asset and...
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2.5KInvestmentsThe Venture Investing Road Less Traveled: Funding Enablers, Not Challengers
High-flying tech unicorns have been brought to earth. Venture capital dollars chase Neobanks and alternative credit companies. Commerce Ventures Founder Dan Rosen tells...
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3.8KInvestmentsSoFi Founder Mike Cagney Notches Near-$103M For New FinTech
Silicon Valley’s Figure Technologies, co-founded by SoFi Founder Mike Cagney, has raised $103 million in a Series C funding round, reports said...
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2.8KInvestmentsShort Sellers Bet Against Physical Retailers Pre-Holiday
Short sellers have been betting against brick-and-mortar retailers ahead of the holiday shopping season. According to The Wall Street Journal, these investors...
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2.3KInvestmentsZopa P2P Lender To Land 12th-Hour Investment To Become Bank
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Zopa will secure a £130 million ($1.67 million USD) investment that it needs to become a challenger bank. The...
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4.1KBankingRobinhood Bags Bank Charter
Robinhood has announced that it giving up on its plans to become a federally insured bank. The stock-trading startup is voluntarily pulling...
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1.5KNewsTop News In Payments: Alexa Can Now Help Manage Medications, Facebook Bid Against Google For Fitbit
In today’s top payments news, Amazon Alexa users can now receive medication reminders and make voice requests for refills. Also, Facebook has reportedly been...
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2.4KFintech InvestmentsAnt Financial Ramps Up SEA Capital With $1B Fund
China’s Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial is drumming up $1 billion to fund startups in Southeast Asia and India, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday...
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2.7KInvestmentsSilicon Valley Braces As VCs Pump The Brakes
Profits are being pushed over progress as Silicon Valley investors start reeling in the billions that startups have come to expect, The...
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Leavy App Raises $14M To Help Millennials Raise Travel Funds
Paris-based startup Leavy.co, which offers a travel app to help millennials finance their travel plans, has raised $14 million. Leavy kept the...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsMiddlegame Launches €150m FinTech Fund
MiddleGame Ventures has launched a new €150MM fund targeting FinTech investments in Europe and North America. MGV’s Venture Fund I has already...
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1.4KInvestmentsIndia’s Shuttl Lands $36M To Expand App-Driven Bus Service
India’s Shuttl, a startup that runs an app-based bus aggregator service, announced that it has raised $36 million in new funding. Toyota...
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2.7KInvestmentsGoExpedi Closes $25M Funding Round Led By Top Tier
GoExpedi, an eCommerce, supply chain and analytics startup, has raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Top Tier Capital Partners....
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2.8KEconomyUS Businesses Tap The Brakes On Spending
Economic uncertainty and fear of the unknown have prompted big businesses to pull the plug on investments and reduce spending, The Wall...
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2.8KInvestmentsSoftBank Leads $140M Investment In eComm Company VTEX
VTEX, an eCommerce company that has helped companies like Walmart sell online, has raised $140 million in a funding round led by...
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2.3KB2B PaymentsB2B FinTechs Diversify Funding Strategies With M&A, IPOs
Talk of a decelerating FinTech venture capital market continued to mount this week with reports that digital banking startup Aspiration is struggling...
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1.7KInvestmentsRoute Package Tracker Raises $12M For AI Enhancements
Package tracking platform Route raised $12 million in seed funding that includes $500,000 from a January pre-seed round, TechCrunch reported on Thursday (Nov....
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1.8KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Fidelity’s Crypto Business Gets License; Bitcoin.com Launches $200M Fund
Fidelity Digital Asset Services (FDAS) has been granted a charter by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) under New...
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1.4KRetailDigital Retail Investments Are Paying Off In Q3
As the year winds down – and holiday shopping picks up – clarity is emerging about which retail investments might pay off in...
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1.6KB2B PaymentsBlueVine Secures $102M To Build Out SMB Banking Services
Small business online lending platform BlueVine announced a $102.5 million funding round and plans to expand its presence in the small and...
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1.4KInvestmentsOhi Lands $2.75M To Enable Quick Delivery For Smaller Brands
Ohi, an eCommerce startup, announced that it has closed a $2.75 million Seed funding round led by Flybridge Capital Partners. Founded last...
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2.2KFintech InvestmentsAfrica Gains Global FinTech Investor Favor
The potential to bring electronic payments to the continent of Africa, home to 1.2 billion unbanked and underbanked individuals, has been enough...
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1.8KInvestmentsDadeSystems Gets $9M To Expand Integrated Receivables Offering
FinTech receivables firm DadeSystems has raised $9 million in a Series D growth funding round led by Napier Park Financial Partners, DadeSystems said in...
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3.6KInvestmentsInvestors Raise Billions To Invest In Later-Stage Companies
Later-stage tech startups are getting cash infusions from big investors eager to make deals, The Financial Times (FT) reported on Wednesday (Nov....
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1.7KInvestmentsAfrica’s PalmPay Debuts In Nigeria On Heels Of $40M Funding
After a $40 million Seed funding round, payment startup PalmPay has officially launched in Nigeria. The funding round was led by Chinese...
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2.6KInvestmentsAustralia’s Afterpay Lands $200M From US Tech Investor Coatue
Australian buy-now, pay-later platform Afterpay Touch notched $200 million from U.S. technology investor Coatue Management, Afterpay announced in a press release on...
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3.3KInvestmentsLoop Raises $10M To Enhance eCommerce Returns Process
Ohio-based startup Loop closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by FirstMark Capital with participation by Lerer Hippeau and Ridge...
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2.0KFintech InvestmentsIn India, Digital Payments Firms, Digital Lenders Grab VC Dollars
FinTech investment in India proceeds apace through the last few weeks of the year, with funding rounds extended to digital payments firms...
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2.8KInvestmentsEx-Uber CEO Kalanick Offloads $540M In Co Stock
Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber who was ousted from the ridesharing company after a series of scandals, has offloaded about...
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1.5KInvestmentsChina Powers Up Strategy To Entice Tech Startups
China is looking to coax tech listings, following a failed attempt with mainland investors, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Thursday...
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3.0KDebtWeWork Reveals 90-Day Plan To Turn Company Around
WeWork, the embattled office space company, has revealed a “90-day game plan” that includes huge changes to the company, including the divestiture...
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1.8KMarketsThe Lockup Unicorn Lockstep Of Uber And Post-IPO Peers
When it comes to lockups — look down. That’s the general trend of stocks after an initial public offering (IPO) when insiders...
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1.5KSizzle/FizzleBig Fizzles For Once High-Flying Unicorn Investors
The problem with large investments – the type that run into the billions of dollars – is that just as gains can...
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2.2KDeliveryAlibaba Boosts Stake In Cainiao With $3.33B Investment
Two years after acquiring a majority stake in the firm, Alibaba plans an additional investment of roughly $3.33 billion in logistics affiliate...
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2.2KEarningsGig Economy Co Upwork Reports Revenue Gain, New Enterprise Push
Gig economy platform Upwork plans to focus more on larger companies in the coming months, as the company seeks to increase its...
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3.3KPayments InnovationFinding Payments’ 2020 Hidden Value Today
One of the themes of the coming decade — we’ve sprung for a top-shelf crystal ball here at PYMNTS, so we can...
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3.1KInvestmentsFinTech Startup Digits Notches $10.5M
FinTech startup Digits has announced the close of a $10.5 million Series A funding round, led by Benchmark. There was also participation...
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2.2KEarningsFiserv Payments Revs Up 6 Pct, While eComm Gains Double Digits
Fiserv reported results for the third quarter that, in the wake of its acquisition of First Data, showed progress on realizing revenue...
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3.2KRetailIKEA, H&M Funding Tech Startups To Sidestep Retail Disruption
IKEA and Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) are putting money into technology startups as a way to help them sidestep retail disruption, the...
