European FinTech M&A 2016-17
21 Jun 2017The Payments Sector was by far the most active sector within European FinTech M&A deals, the pace of exits is no surprise given the weight of funding that has gone into the sector. RegTech deals…
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To Beat Them, Join them
09 May 2017M&A is reshaping the FinTech Landscape as the sector matures and key players - established and emergent- realise their limitations.Entrepreneurs have to make a big call as to whether they just…
Read moreICON’s Eddie Harding shortlisted for prestigious Finance Monthly M&A Award
05 May 2017We are delighted to announce that Eddie Harding, Partner at ICON Corporate Finance has been shortlisted for Deal Maker of the Year 2017.Alan Bristow, Founder and CEO of ICON, commented: “We are…
Read moreTo Beat them, join them. Grant Murgatroyd explains how M&A is reshaping the FinTech landscape
04 May 2017Specialist or Generalist? Institutional investors sit somewhere on a range from embedded specialists to generalists. LTP, a US news service for FinTechs, identified 61 venture capital firms with…
Read moreAberdeen set to pay £55.4m for Parmenion as platform 'exceeds expectations'
03 May 2017Aberdeen Asset Management expects the total price of buying Parmenion to rise to £55.4 million after the platform 'exceeded expectations'.In a half-year report published today, Aberdeen said it has…
Read moreDoctor Care Anywhere partners with Aetna International
30 Mar 2017Doctor Care Anywhere partners with Aetna International to make its virtual doctor service available 24 hours a day to international patients.Doctor Care Anywhere, the doctor-founded digital…
Read moreThe Future of Banking - Monetising the Opportunity of Digital
29 Mar 2017In a survey release by Mysis and Finextra, Banks clearly ranked FinTech collaboration through open banking, APIs, cloud and apps as the technology that will have the biggest impact on the value added…
Read moreICON advises PleaseTech on its sale to management software provider Ideagen Plc.
24 Mar 2017ICON Corporate Finance, specialists in M&A for tech companies, has advised PleaseTech on its sale to management software provider Ideagen Plc.UK-based PleaseTech specialises in the development of…
Read moreCorporate venture capital: the big new attraction for fintech start-ups?
21 Mar 2017There has never even been a richer, more varied environment for FinTech entrepreneurs to access funding and with latest research showing Corporate VC accounted for a quarter of all deals across the…
Read moreCEOs and Founders of 10 FinTech50 companies all tackle a universal challenge: how to scale and grow a FinTech.
02 Mar 2017For this first FinTech leaders dinner, we invited the CEOs and Founders of ten FinTech-50 listed FinTechs to discuss a universal challenge: how to scale and grow their business.Guests included…
Read moreGrowing Pains, Jason Sinclair takes a look at the trends and challenges for the UK's growing businesses
14 Feb 2017In the current UK economy, there are considerable challenges for SMEs. One major issue is the skills shortage, and this is something many growth company experts try to wrap their heads around.…
Read more2017 & Vive la Tech Révolution
11 Jan 20172017 and the pace of the technology revolution that is happening all around us is accelerating FAST and...we ain’t seen nothing yet!Digital transformation is changing every industry and the…
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