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Company update/Findex
London Stock Exchange Group is publishing interim results for the three months ended 30 June 2014 (Q1), to provide latest financial information in connection with the Group's proposed acquisition of Frank Russell Company and associated fully underwritten rights issue.
22 August 2014
Today, we’re pleased to announce that Chain has closed a $9.5M round of funding led by Khosla Ventures, who are joined by return backers RRE Ventures, Thrive Capital, and SV Angel.
21 August 2014
SIX increases its results in the first half of 2014 thanks to significant operational progress.
20 August 2014
News/Findex
Square is ramping up its small business financing programme after securing investment from Victory Park Capital.
19 August 2014
European mPOS contender SumUp has closed a "double digit million dollar" series c financing round led by Russian fintech venture capital fund Life.Sreda.
15 August 2014
Payment processing giant Heartland Payment Systems has acquired Leaf, a Boston-based mPOS start-up with its own purpose-built tablet. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Financial data outfit Markit beat market estimates in its first set of reports as a public company, recording an 11% rise in second quarter revenues.
14 August 2014
ACI Worldwide (ACIW), a leading global provider of electronic payment and banking solutions, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Retail Decisions (ReD), a leader in fraud prevention solutions.
13 August 2014
German Internet-focused VC and incubator Rocket Internet has sold a 10% stake to Philippines-based telco PLDT for EUR333 million in a deal that will also see the two firms team on building online and mobile payments services in emerging markets.
07 August 2014
Payments firm Square is diversifying through the acquisition of San Francisco-based food delivery service Caviar. The deal is thought to be worth around $90 million in stock.
05 August 2014
Exchange operator CME Group has agreed a deal to buy the Trayport and Fenics trading technology units from GFI Group in a deal worth around $655 million.
30 July 2014
Fintech deal activity by the world's biggest venture capital firms has grown 61% from 2010 to 2013, according to data from CB Insights.
28 July 2014
AvantCredit, a Chicago-based online consumer lender, has raised $75 million in a series c funding round led by Tiger Global Management and secured a $200 million credit facility.
24 July 2014
Venture capital interest in payment industry startups appears to be on the wane as investors wise up to the difficulties of achieving scale in a complex, competitive market.
18 July 2014
Facebook has begun testing a 'buy' button which lets users purchase products advertised on the social network. Meanwhile, Twitter is also stepping up its commerce game, acquiring payments outfit CardSpring.
Funding Circle, a UK-based online marketplace for business loans, has raised $65 million in a series d financing round led by Index Ventures. In addition, the firm has added former Wachovia CEO Robert Steel to its board.
17 July 2014
Elliptic, a UK startup behind an insured bitcoin storage service, has raised $2 million in a seed funding round led by Octopus Investments.
16 July 2014
Bloomberg has acquired market connectivity and trading technology firm RTS Realtime Systems. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
09 July 2014
Shares in Monitise plunged by more than 15% in morning trading after the mobile money firm cut its full year revenue growth forecast for the second time.
08 July 2014
British digital banking startup Atom Bank has secured a six-figure investment from Newcastle-based Middleton Enterprises.
01 July 2014
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