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Bitcoin IS in the news and probably everyone knows roughly where the price is, too (the ones that don't probably DO know all Tom Brady's career statistics, though).

Millions of people have started off the new year with a commitment to make 2021 different. This is the year that you and your clients are going to eat right, exercise, save more, and start that business.

Today we are focusing on how we help you monetize your business; and it comes as no surprise that SMB owner interest levels soar when we cover this topic — as does the value of becoming a Chalice member.

This week, we had some MAMMOTH deals in VC in the fintech sector, with three of the five based in the US, and the other two in London and Vietnam. Also, this week saw some VERY big funding rounds. If this is indicative of what 2021 holds in the fintech VC arena, now that we are officially back at work post-holiday season, we're in for some whopper deals. I wouldn't be surprised if we something at $1B or more at this point.

For this installment of the Fintech Luminaries series, we'd like you to meet Sanjeev Kumar, CEO and Co-Founder of Skience, a Herndon, Va.-based provider of digital workflow solutions and consulting services. The company enables financial services and wealth management firms to transform their core business operations and reach new levels of integration and efficiency, while unlocking new growth opportunities.

Just in case you haven't heard (amazing), the price of Bitcoin reached over $40,000 last week as more institutional investors have decided to gain exposure to the digital asset/currency.

Fintech venture deals surged in the first and second weeks of January, with several mega-deals occurring in the US offshore. India, Germany and the Philippines each saw deals closing in excess of $100M USD within the fintech sector and two US deals rounded out the top 5 for this past week.

London-based Computerweekly.com is reporting that fintech- and payment-sector related jobs bounced back significantly after a brief drop-off after the initial Covid 19 lockdowns.

Almost everyone has seen that cryptocurrencies have lately been.....well, a real moonshot. Bitcoin, ether and the lesser known digital currency names have had quite a blast off.

With the holidays, closings of deals the last week were a little "shy" but we did see activity the week leading up to Christmas, and since we did a 2020 trend piece on the fintech venture sector last week, we thought we'd reach back a little further than usual for this week's "weekly" report.