{"id":4445,"date":"2019-02-06T21:04:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T21:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paymentfacilitator.com\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2022-02-24T22:18:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T22:18:14","slug":"pfs-make-showing-on-forbes-fintech-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/archive\/pfs-make-showing-on-forbes-fintech-50\/","title":{"rendered":"PFs Make Showing on Forbes Fintech 50"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>This week, Forbes\nmagazine announced its 2019 listing of the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/fintech\/2019\/#323c26f62b4c\"><strong>Fintech 50<\/strong><\/a><strong> \u2013 a group it\ndescribes as \u201cinnovators who are changing how people save, spend and invest.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>According to the\npublication, the 2019 list includes more payments companies than ever, and\npayment facilitators made a distinct showing on the list. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an introduction to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jeffkauflin\/2019\/02\/04\/top-payment-fintech-companies\/?ss=fintech#6e2ca26776c9\">payments\nsegment<\/a> of the list, the publication noted an increase in global funding\nfor payments companies from $8 billion in 2017 to $12 billion last year. It\ncited CB Insights research saying that payments consumed 15% of fintech funding\nin 2018, more than any other category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo, it\u2019s no surprise that we had more payments companies on\nthis year\u2019s Fintech 50 list than we\u2019ve ever had in our four years of running it,\u201d\nthe article said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the 12 payments companies on the list, three of them are\nlisted as registered payment facilitators. That number is up from just two\n(Adyen and Stripe) last year. PFs\u2019 inclusion demonstrates the growing role of\nintegrated payments and the ability of technology and data to solve payments\nproblems across verticals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PF innovators who made the list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Bolt<\/strong>\nprovides checkout software for ecommerce sites. Bolt touts its integrated fraud\ndetection and a streamlined checkout interface as differentiators for its\nplatform. Forbes notes Bolt\u2019s rapid growth, expanding from 10 to 75 employees\nsince it was launched early last year. <\/li><li><strong>Stripe<\/strong>\nprovides technology for online commerce and, according to Forbes, it is the\nmost highly valued financial technology company in the U.S. Just last week, it\nwas reported\nthat the company had raised another $100 million, bringing its overall\nvaluation to $22.5 billion.<\/li><li><strong>Toast<\/strong>\nis focused on POS technology for restaurants, offering a platform that combines\nsoftware and hardware specifically tailored to the needs of the restaurant\nindustry. Forbes called out its ability to perform restaurant-specific tasks\nbeyond the POS, such as managing food inventory. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Bolt and Toast are newcomers to the list, while Stripe has made\nit on every list since the publication begin it in 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forbes said that it compiles its list by looking for\ncompanies making industry-changing innovation. It does not include public\ncompanies, and the companies must have operations or customers in the U.S., it\nsaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Forbes magazine announced its 2019 listing of the Fintech 50 \u2013 a group it describes as \u201cinnovators who are changing how people save, spend and invest.\u201d \ufeffSee which payment facilitators made the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1015],"tags":[24,111,304,846,877,889],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-adyen","tag-bolt","tag-fintech-50","tag-stripe","tag-the-payment-facilitator-model","tag-toast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8334,"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions\/8334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}