Tagged: mergers and acquisitions

September 23, 2020 @ 7:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Thomas Gottstein, CEO at Credit Suisse Group AG, a global wealth manager, says that he expects business activity in the wealth management sector to slow down during the third quarter of this year. However, he believes that overall revenue and trading will continue at the… Read More

September 9, 2020 @ 11:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

While many business sectors in Ireland have seen a substantial decline in activity or revenue due to the COVID-19 crisis, that nation’s Fintech industry attracted significant investments of around $328.6 million during H1 2020. This, according to KPMG’s latest report on Fintech deals during the… Read More

September 2, 2020 @ 7:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Although global Fintech funding declined during the first half of this year, with $25.6 billion of total investment secured globally through 1,221 deals, corporate business deals are driving most of the VC activity. This, according to the Pulse of Fintech H1’20, which is a report… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore’s Fintech firms continue to attract substantial investments, despite the global COVID-19 outbreak and resulting socio-economic challenges. Singapore Fintechs have been able to secure a total of $650 million in capital so far this year, which notably includes a record high of $462 million in… Read More

April 7, 2020 @ 10:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Big Four auditing firm Pricewaterhousecoopers (PwC) reports that the majority of global digital asset fundraising and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals last year took place outside of the United States for the very first time. As noted in PwC’s report (released on April 6, 2020),… Read More

June 28, 2017 @ 12:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

KissKissBankBank, an early entrant in the French Fintech scene and an active platform for capital formation with both online lending and crowdfunding, has been sold to La Banque Postale. KissKissBankBank has helped to finance 27,000 projects to date having raised approximately €83 million from a community… Read More

January 22, 2016 @ 2:24 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

2015 was a great year for financial technology (fintech), as recently released stats from Berkery Noyes show. Among other findings, 2015 saw 427 fintech mergers and acquisitions, a total transaction volume increase by 14 percent over 2014, from 376.  Total transaction value in 2015 more than doubled over… Read More