A New Take On Commercial Lending Picks Up In the wake of the financial meltdown and resulting credit crackdown lending slowed, and in some cases ground to a screeching halt. Among the hardest hit were small business. The Small Business Administration reports that...
Click here to see this week’s breakdown of investments Will Long Distance Travel Be The Next Ridesharing Victory? There’s nothing like being home for the holidays, or so the song says anyway. And given the 46 million or so travelers AAA predicts will be...
Click here to see this week’s breakdown of investments Weekly Breakdown Tis’ the season for shopping. Well almost anyway. The first week of November saw an investment community gearing up of the holiday shopping season, with $571 million in investments all in, about half of...
Click here to see this week’s breakdown of investments Interview One might be tempted to look at bitcoin as so 2013. It started the year strong – but a string of scandals, run-ins with regulators and now Apple Pay seems to have knocked bitcoin, and...
Click here to see this week’s graph Beacons are the darling of commerce, with estimates of something like 30,000 of them in stores in the U.S. alone. The Beacon ecosystem ignited last year when Apple launched iBeacon, and ever since there has been a stampede...
Click here to see this week’s investment tracker. Interview With Spreedly Tokenization is not a new idea, but since the announcement of Apple Pay and its much-praised tokenized security protocol, it is a hot idea. Lately it seems a consensus is emerging amongst payment...
$130M in financial activity. Included an array of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc. Of that total, almost all was driven by strategic or venture –backed investments. Deem ran with the leading investment. A round for the San Francisco based company, was $30...
PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker Here’s what happened in the first week of September: The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $638.4 Million in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc. Of that total, $628.4 M was...
Here’s what happened in the third week of August: The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $1.3 Billion in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc. Of that total, $856 M was the driven by strategic...
