article thumbnail

Turkey’s PayCore Snags New Majority Investor Amid Digital Payments Boom

PYMNTS

Mediterra Capital is expanding its portfolio with a big new investment that will give the top Turkish private equity firm a stake in the country’s fast-growing digital payments sector. PayCore has been pushing to expand globally from its home base in Turkey, having acquired Mastercard Payment Transaction Services Turkey Bili?im

Payments 141
article thumbnail

Solve This Problem with Your Strategic Horizon

South State Correspondent

Strategic Horizon and Capital As mentioned, the problem that bank’s often run into when it comes to strategic planning is their time horizon is too short. The fundamental problem is a bank’s implied average life of capital is long, some 18+ years, but their strategic horizon is too short – likely under three years.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

PingPong To Enter Europe Via $113M Investment

PYMNTS

PingPong collects payments from exporters selling through eCommerce platforms like Amazon , Newegg and Shopee, and the clearance of potential regulatory roadblocks is an important part of its business. Luxembourg had already passed a bill to legally issue “dematerialized securities” in April 2013 through an amendment to a 2001 securities law.

article thumbnail

Billtrust’s First Institutional Investor Sells Stake

PYMNTS

Edison Partners , the first institutional investor in business payments firm Billtrust , has exited the company. A press release issued Monday (May 14) said Edison sold its stake in Billtrust to private equity firm W Capital Partners.

article thumbnail

B2B FinTechs Diversify Funding Strategies With M&A, IPOs

PYMNTS

Talk of a decelerating FinTech venture capital market continued to mount this week with reports that digital banking startup Aspiration is struggling to raise money. Venture Capital Funding. raised $10 million from SEB Bank and Seed Capital for its commercial card technology. Cardlay, based in the U.K.,

Strategy 109
article thumbnail

Bain MD On New $1B Fund And Why Seed Rounds Are Sprouting           

PYMNTS

Bain Capital Ventures said Wednesday (November 14) that it has raised $1 billion in investment capital that will be geared toward targeting startup companies spanning seed rounds to growth-stage financing. Bain Capital Ventures traces its genesis back to 2001, and has invested more than $3.6 billion across 240 companies.

Capital 139
article thumbnail

Barclays Corporate Banking Chief Resigns

PYMNTS

According to reports, Winter has been at the bank since 2001, previously serving at Deutsche Bank. While at Deutsche Bank, Winter served as head of European debt capital markets. The company has introduced new corporate banking products in recent weeks, most notably its B2B mobile payment solution.