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PAYMENTS

Paystand | July 26, 2021

Paystand, a blockchain-enabled payment network for businesses, announced today a $50 million Series C round of fundraising led by NewView Capital, with participation from SoftBank's Opportunity Fund, King River Capital, Industrious Ventures, and Transform Capital. This latest round nearly twice Paystand's previous fundraising and reflects the company's triple-digit growth as it leads the fight for an open commercial finance system. Paystand will invest this new cash in reinventing B2...

INVESTMENTS

Exabel | June 21, 2022

Data and analytics solution provider for investors, Exabel, announced that it has collaborated with Datayes to offer a smart, insight-driven platform for Datayes research clients. The platform will provide managers handling hedge funds and assets, with the curated visibility they need, generated from Datayes’ China data, such as employee recruitment data of Chinese workers. The solution will boast of simplified dashboards, KPI monitoring functionalities, data visualizations, as well as ide...

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Esquire | June 03, 2022

Esquire Bank’s financial holding company, Esquire Financial Holding, announced an exclusive partnership with the premier investment bank specializing in the litigation finance market, B.E. Blank and Company. The partnership aims to offer financing to commercial law firms across the U.S. It also leverages Esquire’s digital marketing stack and signature CRM platform to serve the combined clientele of the two companies. Ben Blank and his team are lea...

FINTECH

KPMG International | July 26, 2022

According to the Q2’22 edition of Venture Pulse — a quarterly report, published by KPMG Private Enterprise, that analyzes key VC deals and trends globally — fintech, cybersecurity, supply chain management and alternative energy and energy storage opportunities are continuing to attract significant interest from investors. This is despite global VC investment dropping to $120.2 billion across 8,420 deals in Q2’22. The Americas attracted $66.2 billion in VC i...