Moreover, 2018 was a year in which Fintech investment, including Venture Capitals (VC), Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and Private Equities (PE), recorded a series of peaks. Emerging Fintech subsectors have seen the number of new startups rise rapidly, while highly mature sectors such as payments experienced a certain degree of consolidation.
2  BIS Review 17/2009  Looking at the immediate future, monetary and fiscal measures have been and are being implemented swiftly and on a large scale. Indeed, the ECB was one of the first authorities to react through appropriate monitoring of the money market when the first signs of turmoil emerged in the summer of 2007.