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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.

Fintech investment grows by 222% in Q1 2017

In the first quarter of 2017, European startups in the fintech sector received 667M from venture capital, which is now almost 60% of the amount raised in the whole of 2016. Among the reasons for this growth are the support being given to early-stage fintech companies in the UK and changes to online payments across the EU.

BBVA continues its commitment to Fintech, invests in Hixme Inc.

BBVA continues to believe that a technological renovation of the banking industry is necessary to be able to face the new business models in the financial sector, although for the moment the results of its investees are not being satisfactory. Proof of this is that in February this year it expanded its fund to invest in fintech to $250M, has carried out 4 operations so far this year and has announced that it intends to invest in Latin America in a short period of time.