Bitcoin invades college football! Last week the University of Central Florida played North Carolina State in the inaugural St....

Openfolio open their data set again to provide more interesting insights into investor trends. This time they pair off younger vs....

Jeff's primary responsibility will be the optimization of human-computer interactions on the TradeBlock Professional platform. Jeff has...

Alternative lending platforms are catering to Millennials. This generations trusts and understands the power of social platforms. A

Last week LendingClub was the first online lending platform to go public. The industry is growing rapidly and aggressively trying to...

When OnDeck raised a Series A in 2006 the company was valued at $2.5 million today it is valued at more than $1.7 billion. Many...

UBS is tackling its big data problem and using some Silicon Valley tactics to do it. The Swiss bank launched a hackathon ("The...

RIABiz provides some interesting insights on the culture, business model and growth strategies for the robo-advisor, Betterment. With...

BankInnovation highlights 8 fintech focused accelerators and identifies what makes each one good, bad and different.

The recent slide of Russia's currency has led to a large spike in the Ruble-to-Bitcoin volume with the number of trades growing a...

WeWork is about to close a round of private equity financing between $300-400 million that will value the startup at around $6 billion....

FinTech Collective was added to CBinsights' Periodic Table of Fintech. The table provides a great visulaziation of 178 companies,...

NextCapital's EVP, Rob Foregger, compares the digitalization of client advice to the advent of online banks. NextCapital believes there...

Good overview of the big brand name fintech startups of 2014. KPMG Australia, the Financial Services Council (FSC) and AWI ventures,...

Charitweet is a new platform that is facilitating small donations to any charity on Twitter. Twitter users simply create a new tweet...

Medigo is a Berlin-based company that helps users plan medical tourism trips. The company recently secured EUR 5 million in funding...

UBS Group, facing the threat of competition from non-bank players, has turned to Sqreem Technologies, a Singapore-based technology...

It’s been 16 years since Stan Wallis led a similar inquiry and 32 years since Sir Keith Campbell undertook the first major...

Assets in Vanguard Personal Advisor Services grew to $4.2 billion at the end of the third quarter, At the end of 2013, the pilot...

Many technology companies are now focused on a new kind of method for making sense of data: artificial intelligence, machine learning,...

If LendingClub is primarily a technology company, then its projected valuation of $4.3 billion to $5 billion seems entirely plausible.

How it works - Customers who buy health insurance through Oscar (available in NJ/NY), are given a free Misfit step tracker. The tracker...

As Blockchain.info, the world’s most popular web-based Bitcoin wallet, suffered a security lapse that resulted in the theft of about...

A good bit of publicity this week for FinTech Collective and Openfolio.

Wealth management is increasingly seen as a profitable new arena for non-wealth firms. Media companies in the UK that are known for...

Brokerage giant ICAP shook up its electronic-trading business this week with Gil Mandelzis being tapped to run the combined ICAP...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has partnered with MasterCard to open a lab for financial inclusions in Nairobi, Kenya to...

The Electronic Payments Association formally sought feedback on Same Day ACH. acknowledging that “In today’s environment, everyone...

Used by some of Europe’s largest financial institutions and millions of consumers every day, BehavioSec’s technology supports secure...

The latest example of bankers fleeing Wall Street to join tech companies comes via Snapchat's hire of Imran Khan. Khan, a...

This article makes interesting comparisons between the popularity of securities based lending and the credit crisis. Wall Street's...

There are die-hard advocates of bitcoin, alt coins, colored coins, sidechains and alternative blockchain applications. This article...

A security vulnerability was found by hackers during an update to Blockchain.info's wallet service. Luckily, these hackers, who stole...

Oscar is the tech-based health insurance company founded by Josh Kushner (Thrive Capital). The company raised a healthy $80 million...

Airbnb has an amazingly engaged community. This article highlights three practical ways that banks can learn from Airbnb and better...

Segmint builds products to help banks better understand their customers. Segmint raised $9m to take advantage of the banks ever...

Zenefits’ software helps small businesses manage all of their human resources functions in one place, such as health insurance,...

Uber’s ascent is one of the most rapid by a start-up in years. Five years ago, Uber was just an app that allowed customers to summon a...

AvantCredit, which offers installment loans and lines of credit to borrowers just below prime at higher interest than ordinary rates,...

The Javascript community has been a buzz with criticism of Joyent, the benevolent dictator of Node.js. Five of the top seven...

Lowell Putnam from Quovo provides advice to investment advisers on how to communicate and attract millennial clients. He's a natural in...