Funding Circle, the U.K.-based startup company that operates an online lending platform, has received an investment of £40 million from British Business Bank, the state-owned bank, but the money comes with strings. According to a report, Funding Circle has to use the funds to lend to...
This is the way the Investment Tracker ends the year — not with a bang or a whimper, but something in between. The week saw $320 million in activity, which is nothing to sneeze at, given the past weeks of comparatively anemic fund flow of...
Unicorns had some fluttering of wings into the end of 2016, more a soft rustling than might be termed full flight. What’s the one thing unicorn watchers watch for the most? IPOs, of course. And there was indeed an IPO filing this past week. AppDynamics,...
Economic growth may pick up a bit during the Trump era, but don’t count on a rocket-fueled rally in GDP acceleration. That’s the consensus of the recent meeting of the Federal Reserve, detailed in minutes from that December huddle released this week and reported on...
Open-source eCommerce platform provider Magento Commerce recently snagged a whopping $250 million in new funding from one of China’s largest investment firms, Hillhouse. This latest fundraising puts Magento Commerce’s valuation at more than $700 million, according to a person familiar with the deal. In a...
Apple confirmed on Wednesday (Jan. 4) that it will invest $1 billion in SoftBank’s new $100 billion technology fund. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Apple spokesman Kristin Huguet said: “We believe their new fund will speed the development of technologies which may...
Could the recent upheavals in the United States, played out largely on the political stage, serve as a deterrent to Saudi business intentions to list on local stock exchanges? The Wall Street Journal reported that that the Saudis’ multibillion-dollar U.S. investment strategy must be re-evaluated after two...
Welcome to 2017 and the start of a whole new trading year. And for bond investors, perhaps it’s not too early to start wishing for 2016 all over again? As of this writing, the first full market day of 2017 was seeing a stock rally...
Canadian financial technology companies backed by venture capitalists reached a level not seen in nearly two decades, despite a slowdown of investment dollars flowing into FinTechs in the U.S. According to a report by Reuters, while FinTechs may not be red hot in the U.S., in...
