Fintech Continues Its Rise In Europe And Worldwide

The quality, and perhaps the maturity, of the fintechs competing in the Fintech Awards Luxembourg 2018 has us convinced: these companies are slowly, but deeply, recoding the norms of the financial sector. And the new Pulse of Fintech, a biannual report highlighting activities and trends in fintech, supports this conclusion with numbers.

2018 at a glance

According to the report, two large deals in particular have sparked the fintech market in 2018: Ant Financial raising $14 billion and WorldPay's acquisition for $12.9 billion.

In the first six months of 2018, global investment in fintech companies hit $57.9 billion across 875 deals.

Our colleagues, the fintech experts who compiled the report, arrived to three big conclusions: