ION Investment to acquire majority stake in financial information provider Acuris
ION Investment Group has agreed to purchase a majority interest in financial information provider Acuris from BC Partners…
PayU acquires Californian fintech Wibmo for $70m
PayU, a provider of online payment services and the fintech arm of Naspers, has acquired Wibmo, a California-based…
PayPal to invest $750m in Latin American e-commerce firm MercadoLibre
Online payments provider PayPal has agreed to invest $750m in Latin American e-commerce technology firm MercadoLibre.
Nomura invests in venture with Brevan Howard to build AI-solutions for the finance industry
Nomura, Asia’s global investment bank, has today announced it is investing in a venture established by Brevan Howard,…
Compelo Banking Fintech Watch: Latest fintech investments in January 2019
The latest fintech investments for January 2019 including backing for companies including MarketInvoice, Nutmeg, Acorns, Loot, Mimiro, Groww…
Financial crime detection platform Mimiro secures $30m in Series B funding
Mimiro, a machine learning platform to detect financial crime, has secured $30m in financing led by Index Ventures…
What is MarketInvoice? The fintech helping start-ups boost their cash flow
Both Barclays and Santander are among the investors that pledged £26m into the UK-based alternative finance provider as…
Monerium raises $2m via seed fund for e-money on blockchain
Iceland-based fintech firm Monerium has raised $2m in seed round from ConsenSys, Crowberry Capital, and Hof Holdings to…
ING, Unicredit invest in Italian AI start-up Axyon AI
ING Ventures and Unicredit have both invested €1.3m in Italian fintech start-up Axyon AI to leverage artificial intelligence…
CMA says PayPal-iZettle merger threatens competition
The UK competition watchdog Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has raised its concerns over PayPal’s $2.2bn takeover of…
