{"id":16192,"date":"2021-07-27T11:18:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T11:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=16192"},"modified":"2021-07-27T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T11:18:40","slug":"state-of-fintech-in-the-2nd-quarter-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/state-of-fintech-in-the-2nd-quarter-of-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"State of FinTech in the 2nd Quarter of 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CB Insights continuously monitors the FinTech industry to provide useful, data-based observations on the most important FinTech trends. Their 2<sup>nd<\/sup> quarter report has some illuminating information. In particular, the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> quarter of 2021 turned out to be the largest on record for FinTech funding, with FinTechs raising USD 30.8 billion. The digital lending, banking and SMB FinTech sectors saw the most pronounced deal activity growth, and funding to South American-based FinTechs had the greatest growth in funding received (153%). The report also highlights the most important trends in the following key FinTech sectors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Payments \u2013 payment companies raised over USD 8 billion, a quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) increase of 25%.<\/li>\n<li>Banking \u2013 banking companies saw a 59% QoQ increase and a funding increase of 43%.<\/li>\n<li>Digital lending \u2013 deal activity to digital lending companies exploded to nearly USD 7 billion, a QoQ growth of 76%.<\/li>\n<li>Insurance \u2013 InsurTech funding surged by 79%, largely due to mega-round funding growth.<\/li>\n<li>SMB \u2013 funding to FinTechs focused on SMBs grew 37% to USD 5.9 billion, its strongest funding level in over a year.<\/li>\n<li>Real estate \u2013 despite a 20% decrease in number of deals, late-stage mega-rounds pushed real estate FinTech funding to USD 3.2 billion, a QoQ increase of 25%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-16192 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Where financial institutions need to look for personalization data'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/where-financial-institutions-need-to-look-for-personalization-data\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/where-financial-institutions-need-to-look-for-personalization-data-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-13996\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-13996'>\n\t\t\t\tWhere financial institutions need to look for personalization data\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='10 charts that explain IoT\u2019s growth'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/10-charts-that-explain-iot-s-growth\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/10-charts-that-explain-iot-s-growth-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-11982\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-11982'>\n\t\t\t\t10 charts that explain IoT\u2019s growth\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='The Impact of the War on Fintechs'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/the-impact-of-the-war-on-fintechs\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2c7f4534-4c36-eb53-405c-5c230e12cfeb1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-16698\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-16698'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Impact of the War on Fintechs\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CB Insights continuously monitors the FinTech industry to provide useful, data-based observations on the most important FinTech trends. Their 2nd quarter report has some illuminating information. In particular, the 2nd quarter of 2021 turned out to be the largest on record for FinTech funding, with FinTechs raising USD 30.8 billion. The digital lending, banking and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":16193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16195,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16192\/revisions\/16195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}