Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

The top five IPOs by valuation in 2024 were Lineage on the Nasdaq ($5.1 Anthony Noto Africa : Rand Merchant Bank Dealmaking in Africa has rebounded, due to declining interest rates and inflation. The majority were in sustainable finance, where the bank has committed to facilitate $10.9 In Europe, IPOs are down 19%.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 28, 2025

It was an interesting year for interest rates in the United States, one in which we got more evidence on the limited power that central banks have to alter the trajectory of market interest rates. We started 2024 with the consensus wisdom that rates would drop during the year, driven by expectations of rate cuts from the Fed.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

bank Monzo , fresh off a round of layoffs, has taken a major hit from the coronavirus pandemic, as shown by a funding valuation that is 40 percent lower than its valuation last year. billion valuation a year ago, as reported by PYMNTS , while talks were in progress. Online U.K. billion, down from its $2.5

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CFO Dive

AUGUST 8, 2022

The slump in global technology stocks, rising inflation and a weaker yen led Japanese bank SoftBank to report a record $23 billion loss.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Cloud banking startup Mambu has raised €110 million (nearly $135 million) in a new funding round aimed at financing the company’s global expansion. The deal raises the valuation of Mambu and its software banking platform to more than €1.7 TCV's investments include Netflix, RELEX, Spotify and WorldRemit. .

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

Another sector that made a major jump is banking, which includes private equity. Van Oostende expects banking consolidation to continue, as more countries look for soft landings thanks to lowering interest and inflation rates. The GEM sectors wave of M&A was driven by the race for resource security. billion ($3.3 Morgan J.P.

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CFO News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As per the revised norms, banks will have to classify their entire investment portfolio under three categories -- Held to Maturity (HTM), Available for Sale (AFS) and Fair Value through Profit and Loss (FVTPL).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

challenger bank Monzo has closed a funding round with another 60 million pounds ($80.3 The company's valuation after this funding round is now 1.2 A down round, according to PYMNTS , is when a private company taps the market for fundraising, usually selling equity and coming back with lower valuations than before.

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VCFO

MARCH 30, 2023

Building Blocks and Best Practices for Driving Business Value Business valuation is not an original or uncommon topic. Access to Capital If one doesn’t have their own well of capital to tap into, having solid banking or equity relationships is a must. The post Building Blocks of Business Valuation appeared first on vcfo.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Morgan US Private Bank, discusses navigating rising rates, global tensions, and technological transformation. As the Federal Reserve embarks on a rate-cutting cycle, we anticipate a gradual decline in US Treasury rates, which could support equity valuations and enhance the appeal of income-oriented strategies. David Frame, CEO of J.P.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

The owner of TikTok , the Chinese video sharing social network, is expanding into financial services with the family that owns OCBC Bank , the global financial services corporation headquartered in Singapore. ByteDance does not operate a digital bank, the FT reported.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

challenger bank Current has raised $131 million in a Series C funding round, according to a press release. CEO and founder Stuart Sopp said the new round would help the company continue on its path toward providing for the customers in need of affordable banking. “We

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The bank is one of a few smaller lenders that has teamed up with FinTechs who need services only an FDIC-regulated institution can provide. This is the first time a FinTech has purchased an actual bank. Recently, Varo Money , a mobile bank, got FDIC approval to accept consumer deposits. million valuation.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

I spend most of my time in the far less rarefied air of corporate finance and valuation, where businesses try to decide what projects to invest in, and investors attempt to estimate business value.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

The 39 percent reduction came as investors rejected the company’s valuation, noting it should be priced as a consumer or financial company rather than a technology business, one of the sources said, according to Bloomberg. MarketWatch reported there are 20 banks underwriting the deal, led by Goldman Sachs. which is owned by Gilbert.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Kakao Bank Corp. , a South Korean digital bank, has chosen Credit Suisse and KB Investment & Securities as its advisors for its upcoming initial public offering (IPO), Reuters reported. The bank's most current valuation is estimated to be around 10 trillion won ($9.1 Kakao Pay , the FinTech arm of Kakao Corp.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Furthermore, inflation, though down from its peak in early 2022, remains above the Federal Reserve's long-term target of 2% despite the bank's attempts to tamp it down. What's driving many of the economic conditions today are higher interest rates resulting from the Fed's efforts to fight inflation.

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CFO News

JULY 19, 2023

"We think the bank's current valuation of 2.9x FY24E BVPS (pure bank) does little justice to its compounding potential and low balance-sheet risk," said BNP Paribas Securities in a note to clients.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

The rise of FinTech, the increasing globalization of finance — and even ravages of the coronavirus, which is making us all bank and transact across phones — all have pointed to one simple, urgent question: Just what is a bank, anyway? In a recent PYMNTS study , What is a Bank: What U.S. As many as 36.8 Our survey shows that 64.2

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

10), Apple moved relentlessly closer to becoming the first public company on the planet with a $2 trillion valuation – though whether the tech giant’s stock price can maintain its current blistering pace is being debated by industry analysts. While Deutsche Bank on Monday (Aug. On Monday (Aug. Shares of Apple edged up 1.16

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Michigan CFO

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Manufacturing business valuation is an important process that defines the value of a given manufacturing company. A company without an accurate and reliable business valuation is at a disadvantage in a competitive industry. A company without an accurate and reliable business valuation is at a disadvantage in a competitive industry.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Deutsche Bank has acquired a 4.9 percent stake in the German-based FinTech Deposit Solutions, according to a Deutsche Bank press release on Thursday (Sept. Deposit Solutions provides open banking technology that allows more than 100 banks across 18 countries to offer their customers products from third-party banks.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

And though valuations may be stretched, fundamentals are indeed sound. And as Hudson Executive Capital’s Bergeron said, valuations are high. Bergeron noted that such investments and markets are “hot until they’re not” and there could be an exogenous event that shocks public and private markets and reset valuations.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 11, 2024

I started in the MBA program at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1979, at the tail-end of its basketball glory days, fully expecting to move on to a career in consulting or investment banking, when I was done.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

While banks may be big, slow, lumbering elephants, when they operate as a herd, they can mow down a horse,” said Linville, a former CEO of global cards and consumer services at Citigroup. “I’m I’m very bullish on big banks’ ability to pivot.”. ” What Banks Should Do Here.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

Every interaction tells banks what customers actually want, meaning FIs just need the right tools to interpret this data. Big Data analytics reached a market valuation of $29.87 billion by 2025, with banks of all sizes leveraging such capabilities. This gives bank staff educated predictions regarding interactions’ risk factors.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 26, 2024

By automating exposure identification, valuation, and scenario planning, treasury teams gain the ability to model multiple outcomes in real time, providing clear insights into potential risks and opportunities. This interconnectedness ensures accurate, real-time financial insights. Connectivity goes beyond data aggregation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2020

The People's Bank of China criticized Ant on Sunday (Dec. The Chinese central bank's statement came after it had met with representatives of Ant and regulatory officials from the country's securities, banking and foreign exchange sectors, presented as a Q&A with PBOC vice governor Pan Gongsheng.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

DoorDash is reportedly seeing its estimated valuation rise to some $28 billion as the food delivery platform moves ahead with its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO). The company noted in a recent filing that it’s currently capturing just a tiny piece of the total U.S. market for food delivery.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Robinhood has announced that it giving up on its plans to become a federally insured bank. The stock-trading startup is voluntarily pulling its bank charter application with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which was submitted earlier this year.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Stockholm-based Klarna is believed to have a valuation of about $20 billion in advance of the IPO. Its status as a rising star in Europe’s fintech firmament took it to a valuation of $31 billion in March 2021, increasing to $45.6 billion in July of that year. billion in July 2022.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Starting in late January 2023, I will be back in the classroom, teaching valuation and corporate finance to the MBAs and valuation to the undergraduates, and these classes will continue through May 2023.

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Global Finance

AUGUST 13, 2023

Citi Private Bank has advised sports deals of all kinds for some 25 years. Ivo Voynov, who joined the firm in September from rival JPMorgan Chase & Co., talks to Global Finance about why the sector is attracting so much interest.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

As China's Ant Group readies for its IPO — the biggest ever — founder Jack Ma wanted to clarify that the company is a tech firm, not a bank, Reuters reports. The IPO is being led by tech teams at most of Ant's underwriter banks, rather than by finance teams, Reuters writes, meaning that the classification as a tech company has merit.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

Ten banks across three continents, including Monzo, N26, Bunq, and Aspire in Singapore, offer TransferWise’s service to their millions of customers, the company said. “We’ve been funded exclusively by our customers for the last few years and we didn’t need to raise external funding for the company.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In today’s top news in digital-first banking, Next Insurance is aiming to raise new capital that would value the FinTech startup at $2.25 Next Insurance Looks To Secure $250M Funding Round To Reach $2.25B Valuation. Plus, Nacha has announced the introduction of cybersecurity and voice payment resources.

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CFO News

MAY 2, 2023

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) administered Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) accepts valuation by a Sebi-registered Category 1 merchant banker using any internationally accepted pricing methodology applied on an arm’s length basis.

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