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FT Partners Quarterly FinTech Insights and Annual Almanac

FT Partners is the only data source for comprehensive, global FinTech deal activity covering M&A, Financing and IPO statistics and trends

FT Partners’ FinTech Insights Reports are published on a quarterly basis, along with a comprehensive year-end Almanac. All information included in the reports is sourced from FT Partners’ Proprietary Transaction Database, which is compiled by the FT Partners Research Team through primary research and data analysis. The reports feature M&A, financing and IPO statistics and trends as well as breakdowns by FinTech vertical, geography, investor-type and much more.

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2024 FinTech Almanac

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Report Features:

  • 2024 and historical FinTech financing and M&A volume and deal count statistics
  • Largest FinTech financings and M&A transactions in 2024
  • Average / median round size and valuations over time
  • Most active FinTech investors including strategic investor participation
  • Breakdowns by geography and deal type
  • FinTech sector and sub-sector highlights

Key Highlights:

  • When excluding $1 billion+ capital raises from both 2023 and 2024, private company financing volume rose a modest 13% year-over-year.
  • Seed and Series A funding volume was nearly 2x higher than 2020, largely driven by a surge of investments in Crypto & Blockchain.
  • With a total of eleven global IPOs in 2024, IPO activity during the year made small gains over 2023, which had just six international IPOs and no US IPOs.
  • M&A activity strengthened in 2024 with deal count growing 25% and announced dollar volume rising 80% year-over-year.
  • M&A volume was prominently boosted by the pending $35 billion Capital One / Discover merger as well as 28 $1 billion+ private equity buyouts, ten of which were take-privates.