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Company update/Findex
PAYFONT, the fledgling Cybersecurity firm that’s fast building an international reputation for its breakthrough personal online security innovation, launched its current round of fundraising on 8th September and today announced it has already received backing from private investors of over 1.1 million pounds.
15 October 2014
News/Findex
Liquidity Ventures, the strategic tech innovation fund set up by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, has completed its fourth transaction this year with an investment in big data company Powerlytics.
10 October 2014
Gresham, the leading software and services company that specialises in providing real-time financial transaction control software to the global matching and reconciliation market, reports its Interim Management Statement for the period 1 July 2014 to 8 October 2014.
09 October 2014
In January, Blockchain passed a million users. Since then, growth has only accelerated and we have recently celebrated 2.3 million consumer wallets.
07 October 2014
Square has raised $150 million in a funding round, led by the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, that values the payments firm at $6 billion, according to the New York Times.
06 October 2014
A group of Wall Street firms, led by Goldman Sachs, has acquired instant messaging outfit Perzo and set up a new company to help them break free of their reliance on Bloomberg.
01 October 2014
Credit Karma, a consumer finance and technology company, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved $75 million in new investments in an add-on growth round from existing investors Google Capital, Tiger Global Management and Susquehanna Growth Equity.
29 September 2014
Kabbage, Inc., the leading online provider of small business loans, announced today that it has attained a BBB rating on $136 million of class A notes that are part of its $270 million securitized credit facility.
26 September 2014
US-based risk analytics outfit Context Relevant has completed $13.5 million in Series B-1 funding and signed strategic partnerships with Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs.
Robinhood, the startup behind a no-commission stock trading app, has raised $13 million in a series a funding round led by Index Ventures and joined by celebs including Snoop Dogg.
24 September 2014
Heartbeat authentication firm Bionym has raised $14 million on the back of a pre-launch order book for 10,000 of its wearable bracelets.
B2B payments startup Traxpay has raised £15 million in a series B funding round led by the incubation unit of Germany's Commerzbank, and announced a four-year relationship with MasterCard as it bids to achieve global scale.
23 September 2014
Cross-border payments network Earthport has raised £26.6 million through the placing of 65 million shares with a mix of new and existing institutional investors.
18 September 2014
Shares in Monitise plummeted more than 25% in morning trading on news that Visa is "considering its options" on its 5.5% stake in the mobile money firm.
Monitise has posted a 31% rise in full year revenue but the mobile money firm's Ebitda losses widened as it took a short term hit on a decision to overhaul its business model.
15 September 2014
Swedish personal finance app outfit Tink has raised $4 million in Series A funding to expand internationally and recruit new staff.
12 September 2014
Barclaycard is boosting its capabilities in the lucrative rewards market through the acquisition of payments and loyalty specialist The Logic Group. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
08 September 2014
IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) has agreed a $350 million cash deal to acquire SuperDerivatives, a provider of risk management analytics, financial market data and valuation services.
05 September 2014
IEX, a rapidly growing equity trading venue dedicated to institutionalizing fairness in the financial markets, announced today it has completed a $75 million round of funding led by Spark Capital.
03 September 2014
Peer-to-peer loan specialist Lending Club has filed with US regulators for an initial public offering in which it hopes to raise $500 million.
28 August 2014
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