September 4, 2024
BILL Holdings Melio acquisition talks surfaced on November 8, 2023, when Bloomberg News reported the San Jose software firm was in advanced negotiations to acquire Israeli payments unicorn Melio for $1.95 billion. The next day, BILL issued a rare public denial. By the time the BILL Holdings Melio story closed in October 2025, Melio had
September 4, 2024
Ethereum ETF approval rumors lit a fire under crypto markets, sending traders back into the second-largest digital asset at speed. Santiment data shows futures activity spiking to record levels, and ETH price action followed quickly behind. As a result, Ethereum climbed to $3,759, a 2.5% lift that pushed total market cap toward $451 billion. Beyond
September 4, 2024
Paytm banking license risks took center stage as shares of parent One 97 Communications Ltd. fell for a third straight day. India's banking regulator is weighing revocation of the Paytm Payments Bank permit, adding to growing pressure on the once-celebrated fintech. The Reserve Bank of India is reviewing the matter following multiple regulatory lapses at
September 4, 2024
Paytm banking license risks took center stage as shares of parent One 97 Communications Ltd. fell for a third straight day. India's banking regulator is weighing revocation of the Paytm Payments Bank permit, adding to growing pressure on the once-celebrated fintech. The Reserve Bank of India is reviewing the matter following multiple regulatory lapses at
September 4, 2024
Plaid IPO 2026 timing remains the loudest question hanging over fintech's biggest pre-public infrastructure name. The data network powering Venmo, Robinhood and roughly half of US neobank rails has spent the past 18 months stacking executive hires, building governance muscle, and rewriting its revenue story. Yet management still refuses to call a date. In late
September 4, 2024
Plaid IPO readiness picked up another marker as the data aggregator named Cloudflare veteran Jen Taylor as its first president. CEO Zach Perret announced the appointment in a company blog post, calling Taylor a "phenomenal product leader" who will help scale the platform through its next chapter. The move adds a senior executive to a
September 4, 2024
Healthcare payment software provider Waystar has spent 24 months turning a 2024 Nasdaq listing into one of the cleaner growth stories in healthcare fintech. The company priced its IPO at the low end of guidance in May 2024, listed under the ticker WAY, and raised roughly $968 million against an initial market cap near $3.7
September 4, 2024
Fintech startups go public on different schedules than their boards predict, and 2024's most-watched IPO list proves the point. Of the dozen companies F-Prime Capital flagged as ready candidates in its State of Fintech 2024 report, only two have made the leap. The rest are still private, with mixed messaging on when (or whether) they
September 4, 2024
Envestnet stock jumps in early 2024 turned out to be the cleanest leading indicator the wealth-tech sector produced that year. The 9% pop on rumour of a private-equity sale, with shares trading near $61.31, preceded the formal Bain Capital announcement by months. Eighteen months later, Envestnet is a private company under a $4.5 billion take-private,
