CB Insights
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry. Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry. As with robo-advisors, the rise of micro-investing apps is closely tied to millennials’ financial coming-of-age. Payments: Mobile is replacing cash. As of 2018, the app had 3.7M
PYMNTS
APRIL 29, 2016
As is well known by now, Ant Financial , the Chinese micro-lending Internet player, has raised a whopping $4.5 The funding is a striking portrait of demand by investors with dry powder to gain entry into a nascent, technology driven market. billion in its latest financing round, a tidy sum above the $3.5
CB Insights
DECEMBER 4, 2019
However, this may be because the company is limited on how much capital it can lend without raising bank debt, or may be a strategic decision to keep a cap on growth to avoid regulatory pushback. Its first entry point in the market was in payments in October 2014. in 2017 and 2.6%
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 5, 2016
Now, retail — like banking — is being challenged by a new competitor: that small mom-and-pop online bookseller that, 20 years later, has become the world’s most valuable retailer (as measured by market cap). Amazon didn’t just ride the online wave; it created it and inspired a whole generation of online sellers to do the same.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 5, 2016
Now, retail — like banking — is being challenged by a new competitor: that small mom-and-pop online bookseller that, 20 years later, has become the world’s most valuable retailer (as measured by market cap). Amazon didn’t just ride the online wave; it created it and inspired a whole generation of online sellers to do the same.
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