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Sizzle Or Fizzle: The Ant Financial IPO?

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As is well known by now, Ant Financial , the Chinese micro-lending Internet player, has raised a whopping $4.5 The funding is a striking portrait of demand by investors with dry powder to gain entry into a nascent, technology driven market. billion in its latest financing round, a tidy sum above the $3.5

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

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Webpay failed to gain user traction and was shut down in 2014, unlike up-start Venmo (now a part of rival payments processor PayPal). Although Bill Me Later was quickly scooped up by PayPal in 2008, Amazon has remained focused on reducing payment friction for customers. It’s likely that Amazon was too early to P2P payments.