The campaign insists it is not a joke - So far it has raised €120,302 from 7,550 and when we visited the site it was down due to "

Last week, the CFPB announced that it is considering a proposal that would require payday lenders to take additional steps to ensure...

While the benefits of e-invoicing are vast, they are not equally attractive to every nation. The reasons for adopting – or not adopting...

E-commerce giant, Amazon, is set to expand its loan program for small sellers into seven more countries, including the UK and China....

Mumbai based financial planning startup raised $1.5m of Series A funding, led by ASK Group. MyCFO is working to create packaged...

A startup can now post a Twitter message about its stock or debt offering to gauge interest among potential investors. The SEC's latest...

Amidst intense hyperinflation, Zimbabwe eliminated their currency in 2009. Now

at least 5 milllion Zimbabweans now use mobile payment...

BankDirector.com highlights the importance of community banks need to focus on improving efficiencies and enhancing organic growth...

Openfolio data shows that investors buy companies in sectors that dominate their region of America.

Deutsche Bank released "Fintech Reloaded," a research paper outlining the opportunity and challenges for banks to transform themselves...

Although Basel rules weren't intended for community banks, they are having a disproportionate effect on these hometown institutions. The...

DAH unveiled itself at the Fintech Innovation Lab's demo day this week and announced that it had acqui-hired two other blockchain...

Applications are currently open and will close on Friday, July 31. The winners will be chosen by a panel of industry leaders, which...

While markets are not yet in bubble territory, Jeremy Grantham warns that they are getting closer. He does not believe that imminent...

Few events will be as significant for the world in the next 15 years as China opening its capital borders. The nation’s surfeit of...

ZestFinance has partnered with China’s second largest e-commerce company JD.com to create a joint venture that will provide credit risk...

If A.T. Kearney are right assets under management by robo advisers will increase 68% annually over the next 5 years to about $2.2 trillion.

If your babysitter only accepts payment via a P2P payment app this Re/Code article will help you understand how they work. The article...

The informal economy covers huge stretches of Egyptian society and raising money through group events (rather than banks) comes from the...

At the fifth annual New York FinTech Innovation Lab Demo Day, their products and services to dozens of top bank, venture-capital and...

At this year's In|Vest 2015 Wealth Management conference, our very own Gareth Jones sat on a panel moderated by Rob Foregger (founder of...

Data discovery and analytics provider Engima has received $28.2 million in Series B funding. New Enterprise Associates led the round with...

Proof that you can successfully build and exit a startup exit without raising massive amounts of capital. The two founders of the...

The Australian based company, PromisePay, helps online marketplaces ditch an in-house payment solution, essentially outsourcing the...

Some financial institutions have already opted in to a web stack for their internal tools, but the major complaint is that programming...

A good way to understand the state of payments is to consider the evolution of electronic communications technology.

Despite inherent risks, community banks are continuing to enter into partnership agreements with Lending Club as they battle to remain...

Dan O'Malley's Eastern Bank Labs announced that it is deploying voice recognition software from Nuance to authenticate Eastern Bank...

Alibaba is set to launch MyBank, an online lender that will tap into Chinese savers’ record $7.8 trillion of deposits. MyBank will join...

Growing regulatory costs are causing some UK wealth managers to fire clients with less than £500,000 of investable assets. One...

Congratulations Lowell and the Quovo team. We know you hate PDF's but didnt know you had two cats called Ivan and Franklin!

Currency Cloud, a fast and secure payment network for businesses, has landed $18mm in Series C funding led by Sapphire Venture.

Indonesian FinTech startups have attracted global venture capital giants, such as the Japan-based venture capital firm CyberAgent...

Credit Karma, the platform that allows users to check their personal credit score and apply for loans, has raised a round of funding as...

The SEC are out hunting hackers who are propagating a new method of unlawful insider trading - hacking into corporate email accounts!...

LoanHero, a San Diego fintech startup, has received $1.7 million in seed funding and secured $20 million in debt financing for its...

Faced with the choice of losing business or collaborating, incumbent Australian banks are now looking to harness what the newcomers are...

The Asia-Pacific region led by China is quickly catching up to the West in terms of wealth. With the accelerating pace of innovation in...

PYMNTS.com interviews Ripple Lab's CEO and founder Chris Larsen. The company's leaders provide their thoughts on everything from the...

Incubator dedicated to early stage companies in the payments industry, supported by leading payment firms MasterCard and The Bancorp. The...

a look at three differentiated FinTech startups: a commercial real estate lending company, a "Bloomberg for the Consumer" company, and...

An entrepreneur's guide to thinking through some of the benefits and challengs of launching a FinTech startup

India based wealth managementstartupraised $11mm in Series C funding from Faering Capital, Foundation Capital, and Inventus Capital...

Alipay, the "crown Jewel' in the Ant financial group, has been a driving force in Alibaba’s eCommerce growth too. Alipay is China’s most...

The pairing seems odd, given that Frank has frequently worked for more banking regulations often opposed by the industry.

On Tuesday, Techstars announced the acquisition of Seattle-based UP Global, which runs startup events such as Startup Weekend in cities...

It's a murky area the FTC has stepped into, with hopes of stopping unscrupulous project creators who take backers' money but don't hold...

Brooklyn based insurance startup has raised $5.3mm in Series A funding from co-led by Karlin Ventures and Susa Ventures.

Bond Street is the latest lending company to emerge that is trying to tackle the huge market for small business loans.

Chinese technology company Beijing Kunlun just invested £22 million ($34.2 million) in peer-to-peer mortgage lender LendInvest in the...

The wealth management discovery platform raised $5mm in Series B funding led by Highland Capital Management.

Goldman is hiring a team to build a consumer and small business lending platform. The move is part of a broader shift on Wall Street as...

The WSJ compares apps that are helping people manage their savings. Startups such as Digit, Acorns, and Level Money are just a few...

For Alibaba, an investment in Snapdeal (competes with Flipkart) could speed up the Chinese company’s expansion in India’s booming...

Innovative as they are, financial solutions often overlook a key market: the 2 billion people worldwide who don’t have credit cards or...

International fund managers are exploring partnerships with Chinese internet firms such as Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu. These funds have...

More than £250m has been spent on holidays and cars by savers cashing in their pension pots since new rules were introduced two months...

Dan O'Malley, Head of Eastern Bank Labs and former the founder of Perk Street, talks about his approach to building and incubating...

Europe now has 40 unicorns, with the UK contributing 17, eight of which were founded in the last 12 months largely due to the explosive...

The normal vitriol that emerges from a vendor forcing a new technology on their developers hasn't been as present with Apple's Swift. ...

Boston FinTech startup, Quantopian, is open-sourcing its application to coders interested in researching and testing financial...

UK based mobile payments startup raised $20mm led by Frog Capital, with participation from MCI Investments and existing investors...

The fintech startup scene in Europe is in the midst of an identity crisis as it wrestles with U.S. influence. As failure still carries a...

Fintech startups are preparing to move into the middle and back office, a multibillion dollar opportunity to help reboot financial...

Symbiont has raised $1.25 million in funding from prominent U.S. financial professionals, including ex-NYSE EuroNext CEO Duncan Niederauer

Steve Schwarzman, Blackstone's CEO, wrote a great op-ed for the WSJ. In the article he argues that the implementation of Dodd-Frank, as...

Miura Systems, the leading provider of mPOS devices, announced it has closed a $16 million round of funding to accelerate growth.

It's cool to see the stuff that you built being used at scale.. Thank you TSYS for believing in this back in the day and pushing what we...

The suit filed by ADP is strange enough, but the even weirder part is that it was proceeded by a threatening phone call from Carlos...

Chris Dixon at a16z riffs on one of the hardest concepts to internalize for those new to VC - the “Babe Ruth effect”: The home runs for...

SumUp, based in Berlin and competing with the likes of iZettle and Rocket Internet’s Payleven, has raised an undisclosed amount led by...

Thus far in 2015, the bitcoin network has realized an average of roughly 1.2 Transactions Per Second.

In this piece TradeBlock explore...

Mr Harrison, former chief of staff to George Osborne, was one of the most influential figures in the previous government. At his leaving...

In July Brits will be able to pay for good and services via their iPhone 6. Launch partners include: Boots, M&S, Lidl, Waitrose,...

The battle between ADP and HR software platform Zenefits heated up a notch when 1) ADP filed a lawsuit against Zenefits in federal...

A number of prominent tech companies have been subject to questioning from the SEC about how they record their revenues. Some worry that...

Melbourne fintech startup Moula has raised $30 million in Series A funding in a bid to accelerate growth and improve its product...

There is a real opportunity in Africa to fundamentally change how more than a billion people pay for goods and services. Fintech start-ups

Apple is moving closer to fully replacing your wallet. The mobile payment system is adding compatibility for retail store-branded payment...

Absent from yesterday's WWDC was chat surrounding the next iteration of Interaction Design. The conversational interface. We are...

DocSend recently partnered with Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann to look at the pitch decks of companies that had raised...

And Charles Schwabs: Wealthfront CEO Adam Nash posted a blog that may have reflected his personal tag line, “inevitably optimistic,...

Adam Nash riffs on what can lead a great company (Charles Schwab) so far astray from its founding values.

Classic start-up vs. incumbent battle.. As Ghandi once said.. "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you and...

HSBC is the latest example of a bulge bracket bank looking to cut cost, retreating from previously profitable markets/geographies and...

Two-year old human-resources startup Zenefits has gotten into a very public brawl with 60-year-old human resources company, ADP.

TechCrunch looks south to Latin America to understand why there aren't more $1b startups coming from the region. Latin America has over...

PayPal is is growing at 20% annually, owns Venmo and Briantree, but it only generated net income of 5% of revenues last year. This is...

What will happen to the auto insurance industry once we have self driving cars? Google is taking steps to figure this out via their...

Part III of TradeBlock's Bitcoin network capacity analysis. This time they explore Miner compensation and the incentive structures...

A new crop of companies, the follow ons from Kaching, Cake, eToro, and Covestor, are looking to capitalize on digital, social, mobile...

Fifteen years ago the Liberal Democrat MP Steve Webb called for the UK government to stop forcing pensioners to buy annuities at the age...

Institutional (Capital Markets) fintech start-ups are often ignored as the big bucks head into direct-to-consumer lending and wealth...

Mobile payment startup TabbedOut has raised $21.5 million in what its chief executive said will be its final funding round before going...

3 students at Stanford University and one YC alum and their collaborators distributed an online survey to 1,330 independent contractors....

UBS is setting up a technology innovation lab in Singapore to meet the changing demands of its wealth management clients. UBS is...

This is a continuation of TradeBlock’s block chain and network analysis to address the ongoing block size discussions.

Banks are trying to ditch their old school office spaces in order to recruit the best talent, foster innovation, and develop new...

A heated debate is currently in progress among bitcoin’s technical community. The debate centers on whether or not the community should...

McKinsey's new report, “The Virtual Financial Advisor: Delivering Personalized Advice in the Digital Age” argues that the prospects for...

Sungard, the financial software provider, filed for an IPO. The company provides trading and investment management software for more...

Another example of banks trying to cut costs. JPMorgan announced that its retail employees will no longer have voicemail. This will save...

Deutsche Bank joins the list of banks that are looking to incubate and invest in fintech startups. Deutsche Bank wants to partner and...

In may the fintech community gathered in San Jose, CA for the Finovate conference. This article provides a great summary of three trends...

The major focus behind creating the Smart2Go app was the ability to help drive conversations between advisors and their clients. By June...

The FT does a great job in this article of identifying the current market players that help "unicorns" raise funds and provide liquidity...

Mosaic develops enterprise software with a focus on corporate actions and post trade securities processing. The deal, which is set to...

San Francisco-based Mirror has said it will use the funds to hire engineers as it refocuses from being a bitcoin exchange (Vaurum).

Following Mary Meeker's Internet Trends Report, Fred Wilson, the NYC venture capitalist, blogged about the freelance economy. Fred...

In 2013, 23m Americans were self-employed, that's up more than 24% from 2003. It has becoming increasingly easier to become an...

Nubank, the Brazilian digital finance and payments company, announced a $30m Series B. The company has now raised $46.3m since its...

At their I/O conference last week, Google launched a dedicated website that outlines how customers at the checkout will soon be able to...

The number of start-ups who are trying to abstract the "payment' from the dining experience seems to grow week by week. Pymnts profiles...

So-called shadow banks such as Quicken Loans, PHH and loanDepot.com have overtaken US banks to grab a record slice of government-backed...

As a former “Coin-operated idiot” I took huge enjoyment from reading this article. The author states quite rightly that "Having a...