With February already underway, many of us have made resolutions for the new year. Common goals include getting into shape or reaching out to an old friend. Another popular resolution is to do better financially. However, keeping these resolutions often proves harder than expected. Because your financial well-being is so important, you should ensure to set goals
Apollo and Mubadala Investment Company today announced the expansion of their global partnership, which currently includes a number of strategic initiatives across Apollo’s integrated platform. The expansion of the partnership supports Apollo’s Capital Solutions business to originate transactions across various asset classes and grow product capabilities. It is designed to benefit a wide range of
It’s not part of Marketing 101, but the next uptick in your firm’s sales could be in the days after its earnings announcement. In the 10 days after an earnings announcement, publicly held firms see an average increase of 1.1% in consumer footfalls at their brick-and-mortar stores and in online sales, according to a recent
Vinci Partners Investments Ltd., the controlling company of a leading alternative investment platform in Brazil, announced today that “Vinci Impacto e Retorno IV”, or “VIR IV” (“the Fund”), the Impact family of funds managed by Vinci Partners’ Private Equity strategy, entered an agreement to invest a R$ 100 million in an investment round for the
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Credit Suisse was plunged into a dirty money scandal on Monday after media outlets reported the Swiss bank had managed accounts for human rights abusers, fraudsters and businessmen who had been placed under sanctions. One person leaked information on the accounts, which were held in decades ranging from the 1940s to 2010s, to Germany’s Sueddeutsche
In Europe, financial services companies and banks are embracing biometrics, actively partnering with tech vendors and software developers to improve digital onboarding experiences, strengthen compliance functions, and enhance fraud prevention. Biometric authentication techniques, which use a person’s unique biological characteristics such as their fingerprints, facial features and voice, to verify they are who they say
Amidst a backdrop of economic uncertainty, the global Fintech ecosystem experienced unprecedented growth in 2020. Then, in 2021, the space reached new heights of innovation, with Fintech companies raising more than $140 billion, three times higher than that of 2020, setting an all-time record. The record-setting trends of 2021 were also mirrored in Israel’s rapidly
Credit Suisse bank, still reeling from losing billions of dollars last year, faced a fresh challenge Sunday: allegations from an international investigation that it had handled dirty money for decades. A cross-border media investigation broke Sunday claiming that Switzerland’s second-largest bank had held tens of billions of dollars of ill-gotten funds, claims based on an
Off the back of another record breaking year of deals, both in size and volume, the resilience of the fund finance market is likely to continue throughout 2022. With larger funds being raised, there is a corresponding increase in the scale of financing as new entrants to the market, on both the borrower and lender
Transact365, a UK-based fintech, has launched its global payments platform in Latin America (LATAM), making it one of the largest alternative payments platforms in the region. The move enables cross border and local e-commerce transactions through bank transfers and local payment methods such as PIX and Boleto, ensuring consumers in the region can make online transactions and
Trace Finance, a Brazilian FinTech startup that enables faster and more streamlined cross-border banking for startups, has announced a $4.3 million seed funding round. The investment was led by HOF Capital (investors in Dapper Labs, Terra, Flutterwave, and SpaceX) with participation from Circle Ventures (the company behind USDC – a leading USD-pegged stablecoin with a $50 billion fully diluted market cap), The Chainsmokers (via their fund Mantis
