Sector focus: Financial Services
Over the past 12 months, GCV has tracked 439 deals involving corporate investors from the financial services sector. The majority took place in the US (241), China (43), Japan (31), the UK (17) and India (14). Commitments went to a wide array of emerging enterprises from various sectors – most notably IT (136), health (89), financial services (87), consumer (43), services (32), transport (22) and media (19).
While some of these investments may have been made with financial rather than…