Companies
PayPal to Add 35M New Accounts Despite eBay Decline
While PayPal finished strong in 2019, beating analyst estimates in terms of revenue, active usership and total payments volume processed, the company is distancing itself from eBay and looking to the future with its recent acquisition of Honey Science. In Q4 of 2019, PayPal reported adjusted earnings per share of $.86, an increase from $.69 at the same time last year. Revenue stood at $4.96 billion, up from $4.22 billion, and total payments volume (TPV) was up 22 percent to $199 billion...
Capital
Policygenius Scales Revenue 10X, Looks Towards Further Expansion
Policygenius revealed that it will use its new funds to hire additional staff, as well as expand its products offerings in 2020.
Launched in 2014 by Jennifer Fitzgerald and Francois de Lame, the company helps consumers shop for a variety of insurance options, including life, home, auto, disability and renters via its online marketplace. It has $60 million in annual revenue, a 10x increase since its last capital raise in early 2017. In fact, it is the fastest-growing life insurance distributor, with $45 billion in life coverage issued to date...
Leaders
Robinhood Focuses On Young Investors, Hits Milestones
Robinhood’s Co-CEO said that the free stock trading app’s impressive growth leads back to its focus on attracting a younger generation of customers. At the end of 2019, the company revealed that it had reached more than 10 million accounts, growing its user based tenfold in about three years. Vladimir Tenev, who launched Robinhood with fellow CEO Baiju Bhatt in 2013, told CNBC that the company aimed to bring “disenfranchised” millennials into investing, adding that the milestone is “a testament to what we’ve been able to do...
Features
US Needs Federal Sandbox to Catch Up with EU FinTech Innovation
While the FinTech market is booming around the world, the United States has fallen behind when it comes to both consumer adoption and the regulation needed to boost innovation. European regulators have worked hard to create an environment that promotes growth in the FinTech sector while still protecting consumers. The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), for example, has operated a regulatory sandbox since 2015, working with 70 FinTech startups and seeing 90 percent of those bringing products to market...
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