The Palo Alto startup is launching a platform that helps small business owners get immediate payment for invoices regardless of when...

Not as much content on Financial Services this year as in years gone by, but a good slide on "are we in a bubble"? If we are then she...

A Crunchbase blog post that highlights (using their database) some of the more significant venture rounds in FinTech.

Banking services provider Simple was purchased by BBVA, the second largest bank in Spain, for $117 million a few months ago, but new...

Great news David Jegen - one of our lovely co-investors!! Well done for starting to stitch this together..

700 mobile payments start-ups on Angel List, ISIS adding 20,000 new customers per day in April, Apple rumours of NFC in the next iPhone.....

Swipely (a Square competitor) just raised $20M to expand product and marketing. Swipely offers merchants a simple way to understand...

This edition is the first in a series by JWT that looks to understand digital consumers in Latin America. Banking gets looked at in...

We are yet to meet Mark (the Founder of DemystData), but have heard good things from several people. He's an Antipodean now based in NYC....

7,000 "Digital Eagles".....oh dear! The twitter-sphere disagrees with me and thinks they are FAB...

We've blogged a lot about this, but there are some good charts and some easy to digest stats in this well writen Washington Post article.

Forbes notes that Financial Services reform makes it onto Modi's to-do-list..

Seems like yesterday.. Hilarious reading this today and seeing quotes like "updates will be refreshed periodically" and "will provide...

Mr. Brin was right, but sadly the Troll's had a win this week with the news that the bi-partisan patent reform bill won’t be moving...

Having been sued by a patent troll I couldn't agree more with Mr. Brin..

"Intuit said Tuesday morning that it had acquired Check, a company that makes a mobile app that lets its customers track and pay for all...

Happy Memorial Day! I had to post this inspirational commencement speech from Naval Adm. William H. McRaven, ninth commander of the...

Credit Suisse will have to let an independent monitor keep an eye on it, but that's a minor inconvenience at worst. No wonder the share...

Another headline on rate fixing this time on Euribor. Euribor is a cousin to Libor, which is used to set trillions of dollars of...

BNP has alerted the French government that the fine related to their breaking sanction controls with countries like Iran and Sudan may...

Such cases can be hard to prove, as companies often recruit people who have family connections to politics – in the US as well as in...

The depth and complexity of all the "Know Your Customer" (KYC) and "anti-money laundering" (AML) rules, regulations, and compliance...

A big financial firm pleads guilty to a criminal charge and lives to tell the tale.. The prevailing wisdom has been that no financial...

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I have been involved in PlayRugbyUSA for some time and so I was extremely proud of the write-up they got this week in the NY Times!...

"The investor and Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen thinks we'll all look back in 20 years and conclude that Bitcoin was as influential...

With all the chat around cryptocurrencies, debit and credit cards, it's often easy to forget about CASH!

This report makes for...

These guys are on a tear!! This article builds on our blog post "On the Wings of Eagles". Interestingly Eaglewood were the first...

More conversation in this podcast around the "internet for value exchange". The CEO of Ripple, another math-based currency...

It's been so interesting getting educated on what is happening in China, India and Brazil.. Some of the numbers are extremely...

Just like our portfolio companies: Reonomy, Quovo, Reorg-Research and TradeBlock - Kensho are bringing transparency to traditionally...

This week saw more celebs pile into a platform that, along with kickstarter, is helping to educate the broader population about crowdfunding

Reid Hoffman gets his typewriter out and pens an interesting piece on crowdfunding along with his friend and Chairperson of Kiva.org...

The Crowd Data Center (a new data aggregator for crowd funding) has released a report on this nascent industry. Interestingly they say...

At the Mobile-First Summit in New York, Ken Chenault explained why mobile wallets failed, the Uber impact and the future for American...

In addition to many other bulge bracket banks, HSBC and UBS are the latest to dedicate resources for developing and investing in the next...

Great primer on iBeacons from the founder of Onswipe, Jason Baptiste. There is a bunch of interest around iBeacons and the impact they...

Sir Alex Ferguson was the manager of the soccer team Manchester United for 27 years, but now he is a savvy fintech angel investor. He...

The term "Showrooming" describes consumers who price shop online after visiting physical stores. "Webrooming" refers to the process of...

According to Deep Knowledge Ventures, Vital (the algorithm) has already approved two investment decisions.

I wonder how the...

Some interesting, and seemingly simple, mechanics are pointed out in this short article on how the top hedge fund managers shelter...

Circle has now raised a total of $26M from an impressive group of investors. They are Boston based and are focused on making online...

Amid all the hype over Alibaba's planned IPO, one detail has been overlooked. The blockbuster deal, which could be the biggest Internet...

Great piece by the Economist on Shadow Banking after the financial crisis. Most notably the retreat of large traditional banks from the...

Square removed the Square Wallet app from the Apple and Google app stores, but the company is launching several new services as it...

Eaglewood Capital was the first leveraged fund in the P2P space and the first to securitize P2P loans.

UK-based $18B Manager, Marshall...

Could this phenomenon be heading to the US and the UK? The Nesta Report on the Rise of Future Finance (December 2013) showed that the...

In response to the NY Times article we blogged about last week Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche responds to the accusation that high...

We had heard whispers of this... Her Majesty's Treasury has announced that as of July 1st, 2014 peer-to-peer lending is being given tax...

Liam Collins of Nesta, Richard Swart from the University of California and Bryan Zhang from the University of Cambridge pulled together a

Shanghai's free trade covers an area of 29 km2, and offers financial firms a streamlined registration process by cancelling out a...

This article was brought to our attention by Collective Member David Stewart.. Stories like these can't be good.

"For Bank of...

That is a lot of jobs gone...probably never to return! The most telling quote was that "the trading boom was not just a cyclical ebb...

Fred Wilson and Brad Feld (two well respected US based VC's) have mobilized a group of investors and entrepreneurs to sign a letter to...

Glad to see the Governor and his mates aren't just worried about bitcoin.. You can get your hands on the report here

Here is a really interesting example of a tool that has been built on top of the bitcoin "rails". Monegraph allows digital artists to...

Card Manufacturers love these security breaches.. Of the 1 billion cards issued in the U.S., only about 2 percent have EMV chips..

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Proud, humble and excited to be working with Stephane and team.. What a great opportunity!

It's been a big week for the alternative lending platforms here in the US..

Great buzz from Finovate about disrupting the slow moving traditional banking industry. "If banks don’t start paying attention soon,...

JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs invest in an upstart online broker, in total Motif has raised over $86 million.

These guys are on fire..

Lending Club continues to explore new avenues for growth. In April it announced the acquisition of Springstone Financial. Yesterday...

Celebrating Cinco de Mayo will be slightly different today. This article from CNN explains why there will be a lemon and not a lime in...

Three charts which show the velocity of change on (1) analog photographs (2) music industry (3) Windows operating system

When did you last sign your name? Can you correlate any benefit or outcome based on actually signing YOUR NAME.

My daughters are still...

Makes you think about how dramatically (and quickly) financial products - and the marketing and communication around them - and their fee...

A great NY Times article sent in by Rob Foregger over the w/e. There is even a whiff of High Frequency Trading in there too with some...

...according to Udayan Goyal who cited Fidor Bank's use of Ripple to move money between countries, saving money and circumventing Swift...

Nothing earth shattering here, but interesting to see the big players starting to get themselves educated.

Dan (in the fabulous picture below) and I go way back and so it was great to catch up with him last week in NYC and hear about some of...

2007 was the peak of the last LBO boom and TXU was one of the last and most aggressive transactions of that year. At the time, yield...