Next year Syndey will open a new fintech co-working space, which will be modeled off of London's Level 39. A consortium comprising...

While the S.E.C. dawdles, states are rushing to adopt their own crowdfunding rules. Ironically, it might be the one thing that saves...

It looks like Apple Pay will soon face some competition in the mobile payments space from its biggest competitor, Android. Android Pay...

More Americans own and operate a cellphone (90%) than have a bank account (80%).The underbanked market is a vast with a buying power of...

Much derided mobile payments startup Clinkle has unveiled its customer acquisition strategy: bribing students with $20 bills from a...

Michael Dell wrote a great article for the WSJ. Dell gave his opinion on the importance of investing in the future and believing in...

eToro enables retail traders to invest and share their trades, performance and strategies online. Social traders can “follow” each...

Kensho wants to replace equity analyst with software. The cloud-based software can answer more than 65 million question combinations by...

Congrats to Mirador on their $2m raise. Earlier this year, FinTech Collective spent time looking at this Portland based startup. ...

British tech start-ups like WorldRemit, TransferWise and Azimo are focused on cracking the multibillion-dollar global remittances market

During the disruption in 2012 caused by a faulty batch processing scheduler customers could not:

• Use online banking facilities to...

He's definitely keen! Tim Draper admits to having personally backed 17 bitcoin start-ups so far. VentureBeat could only find 16 of them...

Chicago fintech got a boost this week with two firms based in the city joining forces. OptionsCity Software, a global provider of...

Hedge funds managed $2.82 trillion as of the end of Q3 2014 but some investors are pulling back. due to high expenses and lower returns...

The interim chief executive of troubled UK payday lender Wonga, who was appointed to bring stability while the firm searched for a...

This video explains the service with all the pizzazz and panache of a 1950s musical.. Square and Snapchat are however going to have to...

Estimates point to $5.2bn of peer-to-peer transfers this year and possiby $12bn by 2017.Snapchat, the disappearing photo app popular...

China is Australia’s largest two-way trading partner and it looks like Alibaba is going to capitalize on that. In a single day this...

OneName are building a password-less authentication process that doesn't require any particular third party e.g. facebook, linkedin or...

Fidelity Labs has launched "StockCity", an Oculus Rift powered virtual-reality view of an investor's portfolio. StockCity turns...

As noted by Gizmodo this slightly awkward solution to get rid of your financial plastic comes courtesy of PayPal and Pebble, provided...

Tech vendors at the T3 conference in Atlanta last week saw a slew of robo-advisor-fighting tools for human advisors.

One panelist...

All too true that, with the Wealthfront, Betterment, and Personal Capitals of the world, we are only seeing the beginning...

Do you want an advanced degree in fintech? Accenture and the Stevens Institute of Technology have initiated a research and education...

Our portfolio company NextCapital is busy bringing the personalization of a managed account to the $700 billion defined contribution...

Now that is scale! On Tuesday (11/11/14) aka Singles Day, people visiting Web sites run by Alibaba in China, spent 3 x the amount of...

More great press for our portfolio company Openfolio. This time from the Guardian newspaper in the UK! Some good pictures of Warren B...

Congrats to our portfolio company NextCapital, who announced that a defined contribution plan advisory firm is using NextCapital’s...

Mike did a great job today presenting the Slide story in front of a large group of folks at the MasterCard offices. After his panel and...

This week OnDeck Capital filed its S-1. This summer the P2P leader, LendingClub, filed as well. The S-1s are rich with information...

Images are increasingly supplanting words as consumers embrace images over text. Firms like Amazon, Slyce, The Hunt and Depop are...

In 2006, the government calculated that about 30 percent of the U.S. workforce were contractors. By 2020, that number will rise to 40...

Vikram Pandit notes, in this recent Quartz article he penned, that while American ingenuity is part of the answer to financial inclusion

Mr. Marty Chavez is pulling out all the stops to attract tech talent back to his Wall Street firm - Google Hangouts, a hip new website...

OnDeck’s Big Data pitch has investors panting. The lender has raised $180 million in capital from elite investors, including Google...

Citi and JPM both paid over $1.0B in the largely unregulated $5 Trillion a day market.

Low income levels and high debt are just two of the factors.

Crowdfunding hits in this space have included intelligent coolers and customizable smartwatches. However this Techcrunch report seems...

Machine-to-Machine ("M2M") aka the Internet of Things ("IoT") is making car insurance more affordable by truely enabling real-time risk...

This sounds (and the looks) a bit like a science project at present, but biometrics are definitely making their way into banking and...

Opportunity: US slows down and UK takes the lead in setting the regulatory agenda, globally.

Risk: overly restrictive regulation...

A great WIRED read on how messaging is a modern version of the social graph and that FB's future depends on that. Also read how...

Our portfolio company Openfolio just announced their integration with Coinbase. Now you can see who’s investing in Bitcoin.

As reported by the FT - 3yr old TransferWise which lets people send money to one another internationally in 39 different countries is...

This report by Corporate Insight reviews the innovative approaches firms like SigFig, Betterment, Wealthfront and others are taking to...

The Money 20/20 Hackathon had 50% of the 104 participating developers submit projects built on Bitcoin APIs like Blockchain's who...

If you didn't attend Money 20/20, the conference's 86 page brochure provides great information on the latest news and trends for the...

More than 450 developers participated in the 24 hour hackathon. The hackers completed over 100 projects, with the top 5 projects...

The identity wearables company Bionym (Mastercard portfolio company) have launched a pilot with Royal Bank of Canada. The device uses...

As an example - ARMLife Plc in Nigeria and Bima, offers insurance that can be bought on a mobile phone. Location aware cell phone...

Great piece of insight here.. We know that Apple gets 0.15 percent of the transaction amount, but they also get a half-penny for every...

25 FreeATMs have rolled out in coffee shops, delis and bars in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. The processing fees are paid for by...

IFTTT CEO Linden Tibbets predicts his service will become more mainstream and ultimately help automate things like getting your bank to

Anil Aggarwal and Jonathan Weiner do it again..

The flotation of Virgin Money, part-owned by Sir Richard Branson, is back on after being delayed from last month.

One billion is certainly a milestone after only 5 years in business. But to put it into perspective PayPal processes nearly 10 million...

The UK Govt. are leading the charge again - this time issuing a 'Call for Information' on digital currencies in order to weigh the...

TIME magazine looks at five apps for iPhone, iPad and Android that stand out and are worth a shot. Our portfolio company Openfolio...

Our portfolio company Openfolio opened up their data room today to show that on average, users working in tech earned a 12.7% return on...

Osama Bedier announced at Money20/20 that he had signed up some big name launch partners including Chase Paymentech and Vantiv.

TradeBlock’s XBX index is an institutional-quality reference rate for the USD-denominated price of bitcoin. TradeBlock draws from a...

According to a new Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation report 25 million Americans were unbanked in 2013 — they had no bank account...

Backed by Richard Branson and PayPal’s Peter Thiel, TransferWise laments what it considers to be the passing of traditional FX bank...