FINTECH LANDSCAPETHE MONTHLY BRIEFINGTHE MONTHLY BRIEFINGMARCH 2017

1329COMPANIES

59BILLION $ COMPANIES

$138BFUNDING

$455BVALUE GENERATED

STATE OF THE MARKET

Uber's Senior VP of Engineering Resigns a Month After Hiring read more

Global Supply Chains Are About to Get Better, Thanks to Blockchain read more

N26 now has 300,000 customers and adds 1,000 users per day read more

Snapdeal appoints Jason Kothari as FreeCharge CEO read more

Rental platform Goodlord raises £7.2M from Rocket Internet’s GFC, LocalGlobe, and Ribbit Capital read more

Bitstamp Partners with Banking Giant for Bitcoin Investment On-Ramp - CoinDesk read more

New mobile payment app Mazzuma gets Bawumia thumbs-up read more

German fintech solarisBank raises €26.3 million to take on Asia read more

Chinese Lender CreditEase Launches Blockchain Supply Chain Service. read more

HSBC partners with fintech Tradeshift on financing product read more

Apple Pay mobile payment service goes live in Ireland read more

Credit Suisse Asia Pacific partners fintech firm Mesitis to offer aggregation platform read more

FinancialForce names NetSuite's former marketing chief as its first CMO read more

Commercial Real-Estate Prices Climb in France Ahead of Election read more

Poland's mBank sets up EUR50 million fintech fund read more

DBS and Visa top Singapore fintech lab ranking read more

Chinese Fintech Firms Launch Blockchain Supply Chain Finance Platform read more

Freecharge elevates Snapdeal veteran Ankit Khanna as COO read more

TOP EMERGING TRENDS AND CONVERSATIONS

Starling Bank, a digital-only UK challenger bank, launches beta read more

Coinbase has added margin trading to its bitcoin exchange read more

Equifax rolls out suite of 3 advanced analytics tools read more

Mobikwik launches employee reimbursement management product read more

Fintech app Revolut launches peer-to-peer loans, property ISA, plans more products read more

Social Trading Network eToro Launches Ethereum ETH Market read more

LendingHome Launches New Product read more

Coinbase Launches Margin Trading on GDAX for Institutional Traders. read more

BizEquity Announces Launch of ’Bring Your Own Data,’ BYOD™ read more

App bank Revolut launches first investment product read more

Housing.com launches new platform for real estate developers read more

Fiserv Launches Tool To Provide Credit Scores | read more

AccessPay launches online resource centre read more

Craft Silicon has launched a new Interbank transfer system between Centenary Bank and Finance Trust Bank read more

Pepperstone Launches Forex Auto Trading Platform Tradency’s MirrorTrader read more

ClearScore launches credit advisors in the form of “chatbots” read more

Wealthfront Introduces Path Automated Financial Planning Tool read more

Cloud Lending Solutions Announces Product Advancements to its Suite of Lending Solutions on the Salesforce AppExchange, the World's… read more

INNOVATION AND NEW PRODUCTS

Ching-Ho Fung

Co-FounderTravelBank

Duke Chung

Co-Founder & CEOTravelBank

Ian Sigalow

Board ObserverVerse

Albert Lozano

CMO & Head of GrowthVerse

Dario Nieuwenhuis

Co Founder and CTOVerse

Eugene Hertz

Co-founder, Chief TechnologyOfficerVerifly

Jay Bregman

Founder / CEOVerifly

Marcos Sainz

CTOReturnly

Ariel Poler

Returnly

Eduardo Vilar

Founder & CEOReturnly

Mogens Elsberg

Chief Executive Officere-conomic

Marla Blow

Board of DirectorFactorTrust

Andrew Newcomb

FactorTrust

Michael Heller

PresidentFactorTrust

Richard J. Daly

Chief Executive OfficerBroadridge Financial Solutions

Timothy C. Gokey

Chief Operating OfficerBroadridge Financial Solutions

Robert N. Duelks

Broadridge Financial Solutions

Yuval Shachar

Sourcery

Na'ama Moran

Co-founder and CEOSourcery

George Ng

Co-Founder & Chief TechnologyOfficerCyence

Arvind Parthasarathi

CEOCyence

THE NEW MOVERS AND SHAKERS

Mar 2017 * Atom Bank Growth $102M

Participants: BBVA Ventures

Mar 2017 * LendUp Debt $100M

Participants: Victory Park Capital

Mar 2017 * Viva Republica Growth C $48M

Participants: Bessemer Venture Partners, Altos Ventures, Partech Ventures, Goodwater Capital (lead), PayPal

Mar 2017 * Upstart Growth D $32.5M

Participants: Third Point Ventures , Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Rakuten (lead)

Mar 2017 * solarisBank Early A $27M

Participants: UniCredit, FinLeap, Yabeo Capital, SBI Group, Arvato

Mar 2017 * Currency Cloud Growth D $25M

Participants: Sapphire Ventures, Notion Capital, Rakuten FinTech Fund, Anthemis Group, GV (lead)

Mar 2017 * Veem Early B $24M

Participants: KPCB, Silicon Valley Bank, SBI Investment, GV, National Australia Bank Ventures (lead)

Mar 2017 * Canopy Tax Growth B $20M

Participants: EPIC Ventures, Deep Fork Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Pelion Venture Partners (lead)

Mar 2017 * Sensibill Early A $17.3M

Participants: Operative Capital, Mistral Venture Partners, Impression Ventures, Information Venture Partners (lead), OpenText Enterprise Apps Fund (lead)

Mar 2017 * Qapital Early A $12M

Participants: Anthemis Exponential Ventures, Rocketship VC, NorthZone Ventures , Industrifonden

Mar 2017 * Clarity Money Early A $11M

Participants: Citi Ventures, RRE Ventures

NEW FUNDING AND ACQUISITIONS

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