FINTECH LANDSCAPETHE MONTHLY BRIEFINGTHE MONTHLY BRIEFINGMARCH 2017
1329COMPANIES
59BILLION $ COMPANIES
$138BFUNDING
$455BVALUE GENERATED
STATE OF THE MARKET
Uber's Senior VP of Engineering Resigns a Month After Hiring read more
Global Supply Chains Are About to Get Better, Thanks to Blockchain read more
N26 now has 300,000 customers and adds 1,000 users per day read more
Snapdeal appoints Jason Kothari as FreeCharge CEO read more
Rental platform Goodlord raises £7.2M from Rocket Internet’s GFC, LocalGlobe, and Ribbit Capital read more
Bitstamp Partners with Banking Giant for Bitcoin Investment On-Ramp - CoinDesk read more
New mobile payment app Mazzuma gets Bawumia thumbs-up read more
German fintech solarisBank raises €26.3 million to take on Asia read more
Chinese Lender CreditEase Launches Blockchain Supply Chain Service. read more
HSBC partners with fintech Tradeshift on financing product read more
Apple Pay mobile payment service goes live in Ireland read more
Credit Suisse Asia Pacific partners fintech firm Mesitis to offer aggregation platform read more
FinancialForce names NetSuite's former marketing chief as its first CMO read more
Commercial Real-Estate Prices Climb in France Ahead of Election read more
Poland's mBank sets up EUR50 million fintech fund read more
DBS and Visa top Singapore fintech lab ranking read more
Chinese Fintech Firms Launch Blockchain Supply Chain Finance Platform read more
Freecharge elevates Snapdeal veteran Ankit Khanna as COO read more
TOP EMERGING TRENDS AND CONVERSATIONS
Starling Bank, a digital-only UK challenger bank, launches beta read more
Coinbase has added margin trading to its bitcoin exchange read more
Equifax rolls out suite of 3 advanced analytics tools read more
Mobikwik launches employee reimbursement management product read more
Fintech app Revolut launches peer-to-peer loans, property ISA, plans more products read more
Social Trading Network eToro Launches Ethereum ETH Market read more
LendingHome Launches New Product read more
Coinbase Launches Margin Trading on GDAX for Institutional Traders. read more
BizEquity Announces Launch of ’Bring Your Own Data,’ BYOD™ read more
App bank Revolut launches first investment product read more
Housing.com launches new platform for real estate developers read more
Fiserv Launches Tool To Provide Credit Scores | read more
AccessPay launches online resource centre read more
Craft Silicon has launched a new Interbank transfer system between Centenary Bank and Finance Trust Bank read more
Pepperstone Launches Forex Auto Trading Platform Tradency’s MirrorTrader read more
ClearScore launches credit advisors in the form of “chatbots” read more
Wealthfront Introduces Path Automated Financial Planning Tool read more
Cloud Lending Solutions Announces Product Advancements to its Suite of Lending Solutions on the Salesforce AppExchange, the World's… read more
INNOVATION AND NEW PRODUCTS
Ching-Ho Fung
Co-FounderTravelBank
Duke Chung
Co-Founder & CEOTravelBank
Ian Sigalow
Board ObserverVerse
Albert Lozano
CMO & Head of GrowthVerse
Dario Nieuwenhuis
Co Founder and CTOVerse
Eugene Hertz
Co-founder, Chief TechnologyOfficerVerifly
Jay Bregman
Founder / CEOVerifly
Marcos Sainz
CTOReturnly
Ariel Poler
Returnly
Eduardo Vilar
Founder & CEOReturnly
Mogens Elsberg
Chief Executive Officere-conomic
Marla Blow
Board of DirectorFactorTrust
Andrew Newcomb
FactorTrust
Michael Heller
PresidentFactorTrust
Richard J. Daly
Chief Executive OfficerBroadridge Financial Solutions
Timothy C. Gokey
Chief Operating OfficerBroadridge Financial Solutions
Robert N. Duelks
Broadridge Financial Solutions
Yuval Shachar
Sourcery
Na'ama Moran
Co-founder and CEOSourcery
George Ng
Co-Founder & Chief TechnologyOfficerCyence
Arvind Parthasarathi
CEOCyence
THE NEW MOVERS AND SHAKERS
Mar 2017 * Atom Bank Growth $102M
Participants: BBVA Ventures
Mar 2017 * LendUp Debt $100M
Participants: Victory Park Capital
Mar 2017 * Viva Republica Growth C $48M
Participants: Bessemer Venture Partners, Altos Ventures, Partech Ventures, Goodwater Capital (lead), PayPal
Mar 2017 * Upstart Growth D $32.5M
Participants: Third Point Ventures , Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Rakuten (lead)
Mar 2017 * solarisBank Early A $27M
Participants: UniCredit, FinLeap, Yabeo Capital, SBI Group, Arvato
Mar 2017 * Currency Cloud Growth D $25M
Participants: Sapphire Ventures, Notion Capital, Rakuten FinTech Fund, Anthemis Group, GV (lead)
Mar 2017 * Veem Early B $24M
Participants: KPCB, Silicon Valley Bank, SBI Investment, GV, National Australia Bank Ventures (lead)
Mar 2017 * Canopy Tax Growth B $20M
Participants: EPIC Ventures, Deep Fork Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Pelion Venture Partners (lead)
Mar 2017 * Sensibill Early A $17.3M
Participants: Operative Capital, Mistral Venture Partners, Impression Ventures, Information Venture Partners (lead), OpenText Enterprise Apps Fund (lead)
Mar 2017 * Qapital Early A $12M
Participants: Anthemis Exponential Ventures, Rocketship VC, NorthZone Ventures , Industrifonden
Mar 2017 * Clarity Money Early A $11M
Participants: Citi Ventures, RRE Ventures
NEW FUNDING AND ACQUISITIONS
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