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By Terry Kades, BlueWave Forecasting If AI is not the magic wand, what is? Where to invest, what to expect, when to enter and exit? And...

For our latest Fintech Luminaries feature, we'd like you to meet rising fintech star Nick Kim of Vestigo Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that invests in companies within the FinTech industry.

Jack Dorsey is shaking things up at Twitter. Ready or not the holiday season has kicked off, and the threat of yet another COVID variant coupled with the supply chain disaster has American shoppers shifting gears. BNPL firms are enjoying the spotlight, and Mark Cuban shares how he sees crypto maturing.   

Four of the top 5 deals this week come out of foreign markets - Mexico, Sweden, France and Germany. We also have two deals in the blockchain sector - Solana Labs and Ledger. Big numbers again, this week, too. The smallest deal in the Top 5 came in at $180M with the "winner" - Swedish payments firm Klarna - topping out at $639M USD.

If these persistently low interest rates have got you down, you’re not alone. Big investors are fed up too. They are scouring the markets for the next big score and are increasingly turning their attention to fintech. Based on the market conditions, it is easy to see why.

The global market for Artificial Intelligence (AI) is projected to reach US$312.4 billion by the year 2027, trailing a post COVID-19 CAGR of 32.7% over the analysis period 2020 through 2027. Globally, over 567 AI start-up companies received investments in the first five months of the year 2020.