Magdalena GołębiewskaFeb 9, 20202 min Worldline is buying solutions provider Ingenico for $8.6 billionWorldline, a processor and payments solution provider, announced plans to acquire Ingenico, a fellow solutions provider that is...
Magdalena GołębiewskaJan 17, 20202 minAutenti unites polish banks in a joint investment of £3.4M :) Polish banks band together to invest in digital signature fintech Autenti! Alior Bank, BNP Paribas and PKO Bank Polski – banks...
Magdalena GołębiewskaJan 16, 20202 minM&A&Is in Fintech - JanuaryNew year, new deals. And I have to admit - it kicked off quite heavily! Big players, big number, big names! #Tencent, #Visa, #Google,...
Magdalena GołębiewskaJan 14, 20202 minVisa just spend $5.3B to acquire Plaid! (Plaid had ar. $150M revenue last year hmmm)Visa just spent $5.3 billion to acquire Plaid, the fintech company with an API that enables services for Venmo and other banking apps....
Magdalena GołębiewskaJan 10, 20202 minPayU buys PaySense (ok, majority stake not whole company :))My beloved (<3) PayU is acquiring a majority equity stake in PaySense, at a valuation of $185 million, with the intention of merging it...
Magdalena GołębiewskaDec 20, 20192 minRipple raises $200M Series C to boost XRP adoptionRipple has raised a whopping $200 million in Series C funding. The round was led by investment firm Tetragon, with participation from...
Magdalena GołębiewskaDec 20, 20192 min$360M for Interswitch! Big news for the whole continent <3 Recently I published summary of African FinTech investments in last 3 quarters. And.. 4th quarter will double the size of investments in...
Magdalena GołębiewskaNov 21, 20194 minPayPal just confirmed its biggest acquisition ever - $4B honey, honey, honey.. :D PayPal has agreed to acquire Honey Science Corporation, the makers of a deal-finding browser add-on and mobile application, for $4...
Magdalena GołębiewskaNov 6, 20193 minRapyd Raises $100MRapyd, a London-based startup that bills itself as a “fintech as a service” provider, has picked up $100 million, money it will use to...
Magdalena GołębiewskaNov 6, 20191 minBnext to Launch in Latin America with $25M Series ABnext Inc., a startup neobank based in Madrid, said it raised $25 million in Series A funds to expand its digital banking business in...
Magdalena GołębiewskaNov 1, 20192 minPayPal Among Investors In $143M Funding For Japan’s PaidyJapan’s instant credit startup Paidy raised $143 million in a Series C extension funding round, the company announced in a press release...
Magdalena GołębiewskaNov 1, 20191 minGoogle is after FitBitNot exactly payment company but couldn't miss it! Alphabet parent Google has offered (or plans to offer) to buy FitBit. The fitness...
Magdalena GołębiewskaOct 28, 20192 minSoftbank pumps £510m into finance firm Greensill that could kill off payday lenders thanks to FreeUpSoftbank’s Vision Fund has invested an additional $655m in Greensill Capital as the supply chain finance provider reveals it has acquired...
Magdalena GołębiewskaOct 23, 20191 minStarling Bank has raised £30m as part of an effort to ramp up its expansion into Europe.The British fintech Starling Bank, which claims to be on track to reach 1m accounts by the end of this year, has been tapping up fresh...
Magdalena GołębiewskaOct 8, 20191 minM&A&Is in FinTech - September 2019Kabbage acquires Radius Intelligence to expand its data library. More. DappRadar raises $2.33M seed round led by Naspers Ventures. More....
Magdalena GołębiewskaOct 8, 20191 minTide secures £44.1m in 'one of the largest ever' fintech series B funding roundsFintech company Tide has raised £44.1m in its first round of Series B equity funding in a bid to increase its business banking market...
Magdalena GołębiewskaOct 4, 20192 minBitGo Acquires Hedge, Unveils Cryptocurrency StakingThe leading digital asset financial services provider, BitGo, has acquired a startup company called Hedge, which operates in the staking...
Magdalena GołębiewskaOct 1, 20194 minRapyd raises $100M for its ‘fintech as a service’ API, now valued at nearly a $1B valuation!The digital payments market is forecast to balloon to $3 trillion by 2023, and today a startup that lets businesses implement not just...
Magdalena GołębiewskaSep 30, 20192 minPayPal granted Chinese payments licence as a first foreign company! This is huge! PayPal has become the first foreign company to acquire a payments licence in China, after buying a majority stake in a...
Magdalena GołębiewskaSep 25, 20191 minKreditech targets India after EUR20m funding boostNews close to my heart since had a pleasure to work in that company <3. Kreditech, a German-based online lender and POS financing...
