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The fintech VC spigot continues to burst, with all five deals in our listing this week, again continuing to exceed $100M. This seems to be an ongoing trend for the sector, as the money continues to flow.

Drip Capital has reached a major company milestone; financing over US$ 1B of cross-border trade through its platform. The global fintech company provides working capital solutions to small and medium-sized importers (SMBs) in the United States and exporters in emerging markets like India and Mexico.

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.

The mainstream emergence of Special Purpose Accquisition Companies (SPAC for short) has became one of the hottest market stories of 2020 and the trend appears to be continuing into the new year.

Walmart issued a late day press release on Monday, 1/11/21, in tandem with Ribbit Capital, that the two firms were announcing the creation - or should I say co-creation - of a new fintech start up. The new firm, which is yet unnamed (the fintech formerly known as symbol?), will be "designed to develop and offer modern, innovative and affordable financial solutions", according to the announcement.

INX Limited, the blockchain-based platform for trading digital securities and cryptocurrencies in accordance with SEC, FINRA and EU regulations, announced the appointment of Itai Avneri as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Jon Rios as Chief Compliance Officer (CCO).

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.

Welcome to our latest edition of Digital Wealth News™! We thought we'd have some fun this week and pop you with an amusing and unexpected twist (and photo) with our Publisher's Notes for the New Year!

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.