Ian Connatty, Managing Director of British Patient Capital, comments on PitchBook data that highlights record heights within the Venture Capital market in 2021:

“The UK venture capital industry is going from strength to strength. The increasing size of funding rounds and the increase in later stage capital are key milestones and a testament to the increasing maturing of the UK and European ecosystem. As access to growth capital through multiple funding rounds increases, we should expect to see innovation across the country accelerate.

Focused on European warehouses, Elite Logistics Fund I benefited from a significant increase in investor demand for logistics and e-commerce assets

Worldwide 3-D Secure transaction volume accelerates further, increasing 50% year-over-year

Outseer, the leader in payment authentication and monitoring solutions, has published its latest quarterly Fraud & Payments report, confirming a troubling and massive spike in worldwide brand abuse attacks. The Q4 instalment of the report features insights from July through September of 2021 as captured through the Outseer Global Data Network™, and collected while authenticating consumer transactions and investigating threats on behalf of Outseer customers.

VC Digital Horizon launches new ‘Fintech Trends for 2022’ report

Digital Horizon, one of the fastest growing European venture capital funds and venture builders specialising in fintech and SaaS companies, has released its annual ‘Fintech Trends for 2022’ report. It predicts the rise of fintech supporting micro-entrepreneurs, metaverse and “second reality” digital payments and green fintech, will be among the major trends driving fintech forward this year.

Personetics received an $85 million investment from Thoma Bravo 

The two companies have come together to:

·   Co-invent industry-specific technical and operations solutions for Digital Assets, DeFi, cryptocurrencies and Web 3.0

·   Co-create innovative, future ready blockchain based solutions to overcome the current challenges in public and private industries across multiple verticals globally

Babel Finance's financial services announced in December 2021 its partnership with Chainalysis. This will offer our institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals worldwide top in class risk controls and management to its crypto financial services, including crypto lending and crypto financing.

• Operation reinforces the company's presence in the crypto universe, boosting its development and adoption in the region.
• Paxos powers the Mercado Pago cryptocurrency transaction experience for its Brazilian users.

Jifiti, a leading fintech company, launches its white-labeled, off-the-shelf Split Payment solution, enabling any entity, whether bank, lender, merchant, wallet or payment solution provider, to offer split payments directly to consumers.