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NewsToday In Payments: Wirecard Forces German Accounting Regs Reboot; Consumers...
In today’s top news, Germany’s deputy finance minister wants to restructure accounting firm regulations,...
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InvestmentsPE Firms Shun Investments In Older Firms Hard Hit By...
Companies owned by private equity firms are not seeing the money for protection that...
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EconomyBlackrock, Pimco Tapped By Fed To Help Invest Relief Funds
The Federal Reserve is turning to money managers BlackRock and Pacific Investment Management Co....
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InvestmentsIDnow Lands $40M To Grow Online Identity Verification Service
ID verification startup IDnow has received a $40 million growth equity investment from private...
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InvestmentsBain Capital Raising $1B Fund For Software, Cybersecurity
Sources have revealed that long-standing private equity firm Bain Capital is trying to raise...
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B2B PaymentsKyriba Investment Lands Bridgepoint With Majority Stake
Private equity firm Bridgepoint is reportedly readying an acquisition of treasury management technology firm...
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Fintech InvestmentsUK FinTechs Garnered Record VC, PE Investments In 2018
The U.K. FinTech market had a strong showing in 2018, with venture capital and...
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RetailInvestors Say eBay’s More Valuable As Part Of Google, Walmart
Some investors believe that Walmart, Google or several private equity firms might buy eBay — as...
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Digital BankingN26 Has $2.7B Valuation After Latest Funding Round
N26, the European mobile bank operator, announced Thursday (January 10) that it has raised $300 million...
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InvestmentstZERO Investment Boosts Overstock’s Shares
Overstock shares jumped as much as 21 percent after the retailer announced that Hong...
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RetailPret A Manger’s New Management
British coffee and sandwich chain Pret A Manger has found a new majority stakeholder: JAB...
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Alternative FinancesBanks Feeling The Heat From Nonbanks When It Comes To...
With competition increasing from the likes of hedge funds and private equity firms that...
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InvestmentsSoftBank Might Invest $1B In China’s Manbang Group
Japan’s SoftBank might be looking to invest $1 billion in Chinese truck-hailing company Manbang...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsDigital Asset Lands $40M For Blockchain Platform
Blockchain startup Digital Asset has brought in another $40 million in funding, bringing its...
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RetailPrivate Equity Firm Acquires Ruby Tuesday
According to CNBC news reports published on Monday (Oct. 16), Beall, Illinois-based food service...
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Consumer FinanceP2P Lending Sites Not Quite Wooing UK Customers
Although U.K.-based peer-to-peer lending sites have attracted millions in venture capital funding, consumers have...
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RetailLuxury Retailer Nordstrom To Go Private?
Shares of luxury retailer department store Nordstrom jumped more than 10 percent Thursday after the...
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InvestmentsLine-Busting Biometric Startup Sees $15M In Private Equity
A biometric security startup with a fast growing membership-based secure identification program just recently...
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RetailStruggling Staples Is In Talks With PE Firms About A...
Staples, the office supplier retailer, is reportedly looking to sell itself. According to a...
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Investments$100B SoftBank Fund Gearing Up For Launch
Just a few weeks after the election of Donald Trump to the United States...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsConcardis About To Get Final Buyout Offers
Concardis, the German payments group, is about to receive final bids from buyout groups,...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsBlue Nile Goes Private In $500 Million Sale To Bain,...
Blue Nile, the online jewelry eStore, announced Monday (Nov. 7) it is going private...
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Slow Go For IPOs In 2016
There’s been a dearth of IPOs this year — so much so that 2016...
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InternationalBrexit A Private Investment Blip In The UK?
Who’s afraid of the Brexit vote? It may not be U.K. tech companies and...
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Security & FraudDarktrace Cybersecurity Firm Now Worth $400M
Cybersecurity firm Darktrace has garnered $65 million in equity funding through a consortium of...
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InvestmentsIs The IPO Market Finally Heating Back Up?
The IPO market is getting back to normal. Or not. Maybe it’s all in...
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Payment MethodsWings And Lots Of Prayers
The frozen tech IPO market has been a subject that frequents the news, in tandem...
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InvestmentsVCs Raising More, Faster — But Not Dishing Out
The venture capital arena has been raising money at a furious pace, but VC...
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Payment MethodsAmid Regulatory Scrutiny of Unicorns, Caveat Emptor
When the Feds come knocking and want to look under the proverbial hood, the...
- B2B Payments
VCs To Hunt In Barren Fields?
Money is pouring into the venture capital space like there’s no tomorrow, but that...
- Fintech Investments
VC-Backed FinTech Doubled In 2015 — Despite Q4 Slump
The FinTech world can be divided between public and private companies. Publicly traded companies...
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InternationalNordic Payments Firm Nets Heading For IPO?
Another payments processor may be coming to the public equity markets. Bloomberg reported that...
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Payment MethodsPrivate Equity Dry Powder May Not Deserve Lighting
In the private equity world, just as is the case in the public equity...
- Fintech Investments
The Year That Will Be: What To Watch In 2016
2015, with respect to FinTech investments, came in like a lion with big funding...
- International
Tencent's WeBank’s Billion Dollar Lending Business
WeBank, the online finance operation that is owned and operated by Chinese tech giant...
- News
TransFirst Takes Second Stab At IPO
TransFirst Holdings has filed for an initial public offering, marking the second attempt by...
