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Community banks a key resource for small businesses when crises arise

March 16, 2021 by David Edwards

The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, a stimulus package introduced by the Biden Administration, recently received Congress’ approval.

The stimulus package, like its two predecessors aimed at providing relief for individuals and businesses hindered by the Covid-19 pandemic, includes another round of funding for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

The American Rescue Plan includes $7.25 billion for PPP loans as well as a number of changes to make it easier for the smallest of businesses to gain access to the funding. [Read more…] about Community banks a key resource for small businesses when crises arise

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Venture capital investment in fintech more than doubles in second half of 2020 – expected to remain strong into 2021

February 26, 2021 by Abdul Montaqim

According to the Pulse of Fintech H2’20, a bi-annual report on global fintech investment trends published by KPMG, overall global fintech funding across M&A, PE and VC was US$105 billion across 2,861 deals in 2020: the third highest level of investment in fintech ever.

With the exception of M&A – which saw deal value drop over 50 percent (from $130 billion in 2019 to $61 billion in 2020) – the overall fintech market proved remarkably resilient in 2020 despite a broad array of uncertainties, from the global pandemic to the US presidential election. Following a short COVID-19 driven pause in H1’20, fintech investment bounced back strongly in H2’20, more than doubling from H1’20 ($33.4 billion) to H2’20 ($71.9 billion). The US was the dominant benefactor for fintech investment in 2020, while the payments space continued to dominate investment from a sector perspective.

Strong VC investment throughout the year helped buoy overall fintech investment. Global fintech-focused VC investment reached $42 billion in 2020, including $20.5 billion in H2. Both the Americas ($23 billion) and EMEA ($9.2 billion) regions saw record highs of annual fintech-focused VC investment. US-based wealthtech Robinhood raised the most VC funding in H2’20: $1.3 billion across two rounds ($600 million and $668 million). Several digital banks also raised funding rounds greater than $500 million, including Sweden-based digital bank Klarna ($650 million), UK-based Revolut ($580 million), and US-based Chime ($533 million). [Read more…] about Venture capital investment in fintech more than doubles in second half of 2020 – expected to remain strong into 2021

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Capital strategies being rewritten as C-Suite grapples with immediate impact of new reality

February 23, 2021 by David Edwards

Business leaders are focussing on navigating the immediate impact that COVID-19 has across supply chains, revenue and profitability, while reconfiguring capital allocation and M&A plans for the post-crisis world, according to the 22nd Edition of the EY Global Capital Confidence Barometer (CCB22).

Almost three-quarters (73%) of respondents to CCB22, a survey of more than 2,900 C-Suite executives globally, expect COVID-19 to have a severe impact on the global economy in the form of supply chain disruption, as well as declining consumption.

At the same time, executives are reviewing their operating models in response to the crisis. The increasing shutdown of activity in many parts of the world has exposed vulnerabilities in many companies’ supply chains, with over half (52%) taking steps to change their current set up and 41% investing in accelerating automation. [Read more…] about Capital strategies being rewritten as C-Suite grapples with immediate impact of new reality

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Future looks bright as Global VC funding soars to $300.5 billion in the second biggest year for VC funding in a decade

February 23, 2021 by David Edwards

Despite global uncertainty resulting from a number of ongoing events including the COVID 19 pandemic, the US presidential election, Brexit negotiations and trade tensions between the US and China, global VC investment remained very robust in Q4’20, with $80.8 billion in investment across 5,418 deals. According to the Q4’20 edition of the KPMG Private Enterprise Venture Pulse report, this strong performance helped drive annual global VC investment to $300.5 billion – the second highest level of global VC funding ever, next to 2018 ($329.7 billion).

The robust Q4’20 results were driven by a continued resurgence of investment activity in Asia – particularly in China, which attracted the five largest deals in the world, including a $1.7 billion raise by truck-hauling company Manbang Group, a $1.6 billion raise by edtech Zuoyabang, and a $1 billion raise by edtech Yuanfudao.

VC investment in the Americas and Europe was also strong during Q4’20, helping propel both jurisdictions to annual record levels of VC investment; the Americas attracted $164.3 billion in VC funding during 2020 – including a record $156.2 billion in the US, while Europe saw $49 billion during the year. [Read more…] about Future looks bright as Global VC funding soars to $300.5 billion in the second biggest year for VC funding in a decade

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