Sweden’s fintech scene has come a long way in recent years and has proved to be one of Europe’s best...
[Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Ryan Weeks, formerly with Dow Jones and AltFi, covering fintech. This is...
Tink just closed a €90 million funding round; now Tink is working with BNP Paribas on account aggregation, payment initiation...
Tink raised €56 million in new funding in February and today it announced a further investment of €1o million from...
I have been reading Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built this week, something everyone interested in understanding the future of Google, Goldman, Uber, or Amazon should do. The narrative starts with China's small business explosion, and Ma's genius is to tap into global demand for the products of those businesses through an online marketplace and associated financial services. But I am getting ahead of myself. Let's pause to acknowledge a massive, systemic transaction that was announced this week: payments processing company Global Payments acquiring TSYS (Total Payments Systems) for $21.5 billion.
This week I discuss SpaceX, and its Dragon rocket carrying American astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time in 9 years. The 20 year old company is a testament to the incredible iron will and absolute insanity of the most visionary capitalist alive -- Elon Musk. We walk through various attributes of the company and recent launch to derive lessons for the financial industry and the entrepreneurs rebuilding it.
PayPal participated in Tink’s $90 million funding round which was announced back in January; to go along with the investment,...
Swedish open banking platform Tink, undeterred by the evolving financial crisis, has acquired the Spanish account aggregator platform Eurobits Technologies;...
Tink is an open banking platform enabling connections between banks and other institutions; the new financing comes after a €56...