Pulse Of Fintech (Video)

H2 2024 - Pulse of Fintech latest edition

2024 proved to be another challenging year for the global fintech market as both total investment ($95.6 billion) and the volume of deals (4,639) fell to seven-year lows. Ongoing macroeconomic challenges, geopolitical conflicts and tensions, and a number of high-profile elections in major jurisdictions around the world kept the level of uncertainty very high, leading to a pullback in fintech investment particularly on the M&A and PE fronts.

H2'24 was more subdued than H1'24 by a fair margin. Total global investment fell from $51.7 billion to $43.9 billion between the first and second halves of the year, driven by M&A deal value and VC investment falling from $28.1 billion to $21.6 billion and from $22.5 billion to $20.9 billion, respectively. But these numbers only tell a part of the story, as Q3'24 and Q4'24 saw wildly different results; M&A deal value nearly doubled from $7.4 billion to $14.2 billion