Payments

On Our Radar: Deals we are paying attention to for their impact on industry. The cloud-based payments platform Bill.com has raised $88 million in a funding round led by Franklin Templeton. That puts the company’s overall valuation at above $1 billion, according to Forbes. Other funders in the round...

Strategic Investors: Profiles of investors with strategies to consider. Everyone involved in the busy, volatile space of blockchain and crypto can remember where they were when JP Morgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon derided cryptocurrencies as a “fraud” in 2017. And they tend to have the...

On Our Radar: Deals we are paying attention to for their impact on industry. MineralTree, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based provider of accounts payable and payment automation services, closed a $50 million equity investment to allow the company to add new capabilities to its “invoice-to-pay” system and...

Sound Businesses: Profiles of companies and business models we are keeping an eye on. At its core, Truepic is a free, consumer-facing app that allows anyone, anywhere to authenticate images. Recently celebrated by Fast Company magazine as the top startup in the social good category, Truepic certainly received a...

On Our Radar: Deals we are paying attention to for their impact on industry. Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (FIS), a Florida-based fintech giant, announced its purchase of payment processing and technology provider Worldpay Inc. in a statement on Monday as the two companies pursue scale, synergies...

Sound Businesses: Profiles of companies and business models we are keeping an eye on. U.K.-based digital bank OakNorth Holdings Ltd. received a total of $440 million last month, including a $390 million investment from the Vision Fund of Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. and the rest from the...