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Why fintechs appeal to international investors

2021-12-20T20:48:20.873Z


DECRYPTION - Investors are betting more and more on the French market. The young shoots of finance (or fintechs) are the queens of the year 2021. Many of them have in fact raised record amounts, which sometimes make you dizzy. In the lead the Swedish Klarna, specialist in payment in several installments: in the space of three months, she raised a total of 1.46 billion dollars. This allowed it to become the best valued start-up in Europe with a capitalization of 46 b


The young shoots of finance (or fintechs) are the queens of the year 2021. Many of them have in fact raised record amounts, which sometimes make you dizzy.

In the lead the Swedish Klarna, specialist in payment in several installments: in the space of three months, she raised a total of 1.46 billion dollars.

This allowed it to become the best valued start-up in Europe with a capitalization of 46 billion dollars.

Mobile banks (or neobanks) N26 and Revolut have also panicked the counters, although they are not yet making any money.

The German N26 has thus raised 900 million dollars and is now valued at 9 billion dollars, and the British Revolut, 800 million dollars.

Six years after its launch, its valuation has reached 33 billion dollars and exceeds that of certain historic banks of the Old Continent.

Tripling of fundraising

Like the entire tech sector, the stars of fintech are taking advantage of the very abundant liquidity present ...

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Source: lefigaro

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