El sector FinTech se ha visto sumergido en una oleada de adquisiciones estratégicas, impulsadas por la creciente demanda de servicios financieros digitales sin fisuras y soluciones tecnológicas avanzadas. Las recientes adquisiciones, como la compra de Aion Bank por...
GTreasury - CashAnalytics: Impact and strategy of the acquisition of CashAnalytics in the FinTech sector
Si por algo destaca la adquisición de CashAnalytics por parte de GTreasury es por su impacto en el sector FinTech. En concreto, ha incidido notablemente en el ámbito de la gestión de tesorería y el análisis de flujo de caja. Asímismo, esta operación subraya el interés...
Afterpay buys Pagantis: financial and strategic details of the transaction
"Afterpay buys Pagantis" was a headline that several financial media opened with at the time due to the characteristics of this transaction. The acquisition of Pagantis by Afterpay marked an important milestone in the European fintech sector. This...
Top 5: Biggest investors in the Fintech world
The increasingly popular FinTech sector is attracting the attention of a growing number of investors, as can be seen in the Investment Analysis 2021 carried out by our specialists. In this article, we will focus on identifying and analysing...
FinTech investment: Techstars, the biggest investor in 2020
Techstars, 235 FinTech investment deals The famous US Venture Capital is the investor with the most companies invested in the FinTech sector, no less than 235 companies. Techstars is a global platform that offers...
Check out the 9 best FinTech companies in the industry
In this post we will describe the most relevant FinTech companies in a sector that is becoming increasingly active, as can be seen in the 2021 Investment Analysis developed by Baker Tilly analyst, experts in the sector. Throughout this...
NEC buys banking software company Avaloq
Japanese technology company NEC acquires Swiss company Avaloq for around 2.05 billion Swiss francs (1.92 billion euros/2.23 billion dollars). NEC buys banking software company Avaloq ABOUT NEC...
Verse, the fintech of young people, raises €7M
Verse, a Spanish social payment tool, has recently closed a round of funding that we analyse from the perspective of corporate finance in the following post.
Latest capital increases in Fintech companies
Below, we analyse the example of the company Bizum, which demonstrates the vialbility of the Fintech sector, as well as the latest capital increases carried out in Fintech companies, such as Verse or PLeo.
FinTech sales transactions for SMEs
Spain's Besepa, a company that offers solutions to automate banking management for small and large companies, has been sold to Enxendra Technologies. We note that financial technology continues to gain market share and more and more companies are specialising in this sector. To support this statement, we have conducted an analysis of the sales of companies in the FinTech sector for SMEs globally.
Goldman Sachs' buyout of FinTech companies
From the corporate finance perspective, we analyse the purchases and investments made by Goldman Sachs in financial technology or FinTech companies. The multinational financial company makes several acquisitions of companies and rounds throughout the year, but we are going to focus on talking about the companies that are dedicated to the development of financial technology and in which Goldman has made a move. We will first discuss the two acquisitions made in 2018 and then the three latest confirmed investments.
Acquisition of companies in the payment platforms sector
We analyse the €1.6 million capital injection received by Infraspeak from the funds Firstminute Capital, Tencent, Innovation Nest, Construtech Ventures, 500Startups and Caixa Capital. With the injection, Infraspeak will aim to strengthen its bid to expand its team across borders. In the coming months, the company plans to reach the UK, Spain and France and hire 10 new employees.