BF CAPITAL

Reuters | March 23, 2020

Central banks have offered trillions of dollars of support to markets in recent days to keep them from freezing up, as investors worried about the economic damage from the coronavirus and made a chaotic dash for the exits. While the intervention helped bring back some order to markets, policymakers may need to do more. Investors, economists and bank strategists said they expect policymakers will have to step in with more support in the coming days to prop up both markets and the real economy - c...

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Scrypt AI | March 23, 2021

Scrypt AI, a machine learning and artificial intelligence-driven Treasury Management-as-a-Service platform startup, has announced that its Integrated Payables and Receivables platform has now processed thousands of invoices worth more than $1B to its clients, saving its clients 10 to 15 times the previous cost of manual accounts payable workflows. The greater part of all invoices got by businesses in the U.S. today are paper, while the greater part of business-to-business payments...

FUNDING

Circle | June 01, 2021

Circle has today announced that it has secured $440 million in funding from major institutional and strategic investors, a worldwide financial technology company offering payments and treasury infrastructure for Internet businesses. The funding is the source of continuous growth, organisational development and expansion potential for the firm among the top ten in private fintech investments. As a Chief Strategy Officer, and Head of Global Policy (CSO), Jeremy Fox-Geen, Chief Finan...

INVESTMENTS

Wealthbox | March 10, 2022

Wealthbox, a leading CRM software platform for financial advisors, announced today that Frontier Growth, a growth equity firm focused on fast-growing software businesses, has taken a minority stake in the company with a $31M equity investment. Founded by serial entrepreneurs John Rourke and Dan Ferranti, Wealthbox is a purpose-built CRM technology for financial advisors at wealth management firms and broker-dealers to track client relationships, collaborate as a team, and streamli...