Top tier industry veterans from Wall Street continue to take jobs with startups. Blackstone's CFO, Laurence Tosi, is the latest example...

The SF based payments startup continues to make waves. The company secured its latest round of financing at a $5b valuation. That is a...

Symphony Communications is trying to replace Bloomberg's messaging system. The startup's last round of financing of $66m was a consortium...

Seedrs has closed a £10 million Series A round led by Woodford Patient Capital Trust, valuing the company at a £30 million on a...

Behalf, a lending startup that originated in Israel and is now based in New York, has closed a $119 million Series B round led by...

Wells Fargo is looking to implement biometrics as a security feature and services by the end of 2016. It's expected that nearly one-third...

Why is the insurance industry consolidating and why should we care? Foremost, heavily regulated industries tend to thrive when they can...

A&M Best believes that an influx of alternative capital into the market, low interest rates, and a desire for geographic expansion...

Google already has a patch out for it's most recent vulnerability, but most phone-makers are lagging behind pushing the update out. This l

Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson "may be biting off more than a rival’s ear" as it appears he's been scammed into supporting a...

“Buy buttons” and in-app purchases aren’t new. Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest have all been testing them. Facebook just went a step further

Square filed to IPO this week, but the press focused less on Squares opaque performance and more on the ability of it's co-founder, Jack...

Mobile security firm Zimperium this week uncovered a computer bug called "Stagefright", one of the worst Android security holes...

3yrs after it was announced by Wal-Mart, Target and Best Buy, CurrentC (MCX) is finally getting off the ground, but there are plenty of...

Twitter erupted last week when Kara Swisher (Re/Code) told Marc Andreessen (a16z) to get his "overpaid kids" to clean up after...

In another merger of health insurance giants, Anthem has agreed to acquire Cigna in a $54 billion deal, leaving only three major...

David Cameron is taking an aggressive stance in order to make the fintech industry in the UK a world leader. The $8 billion increase of...

Expensify, the world's fastest growing expense reporting software provider, is going to try its hand at venture capital. The company has...

NAB's fintech "innovation fund" plans to invest $50 million over the next three years in mobile platforms, payments, and data analytics...

With an astounding $8 billion of investment into fintech in the last six months alone, the sector certainly is hot. Venture Beat's...

China Rapid Finance, China's largest online consumer lending marketplace, has closed a $35 million Series C round led by Broadline...

Onevest, a New York-based online network and crowdfunding platform, has raised $2 million of Series A fundraising. And they carried it...

ShopKeep has raised $60 million in Series D funding, led by Activant Capital---this brings total funding raised to date to $97.2 million.

The European region is still waiting for its first homegrown tech giant as tech investment in the region still lags the U.S. The FT...

This week, Wall Street banks officially became exposed to the Volcker rule. Auditors will be checking in with the banks to make sure they...

First Data, the Atlanta-based company filed for an IPO, many of the details were not disclosed, but many expect the offering to be the...

The Austin, Texas based Banker's Toolbox, is the leading provider of Bank Secrecy Act anti-money laundering compliance and fraud...

Palantir's new valuation of $20b makes the company the fourth highest valued startup. Palantir was formed 11 year's ago out of...

eBay's separation from PayPal after 13 years together is a story of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and a cautionary tale for...

Five years ago, there were more Bank of America branches in the US than Walmart stores. But in an effort to cut costs, 1,400 branches...

ADP has hired Kroll, the risk consultants, to assess the technical issues at the heart of the Zenefits dispute and will push ahead with...

The NY regulator has reached out to Symphony, the Wall Street consortia led messaging platform, to find out how banks would ensure that...

Activist investor Jana Partners is behind the pressure to split its chip business – which produces most of its revenue – from its...

DataFox the online research platform that allows anyone to track information about private tech companies, has raised $5 million of...

Revolut is a mobile based currency exchange and transfer system which holds funds itself in various denominations, consequently...

New York based Vroom has raised $54 million of Series B funding to cut out auto dealers and make the car buying experience as easy as...

Five years after the passing of Dodd-Frank, Wall Street is once again thriving-----the banks recorded $19.5bn in totals fees in the...

Shareholder activism is on the rise recently, especially within the technology sector which has been traditionally immune to this type...

As a teenager in Hawaii, Mr. Obama “smoked reefer” and snorted “maybe a little blow when you could afford it,” but ultimately ended up at...

It has been five years since the Dodd-Frank regulations were signed into law. Fortune explores some of the impacts and believes the...

A fake "Bloomberg" website claimed that Twitter is the target in a $31bn acquisition by Google. The dubious report and subsequent stock...

Google is still the source of all the information you need to know, but currently you need to search for it. Google Now wants to surface...

The $20 million Series B round follows a $7 million Series A exactly a year ago, and was led by new investor Balderton Capital with...

App indexing is something Google and Apple are both looking to get perfect. This article dives deep into the specifics of how Apple's...

Online lending platform Upstart secured $35 million in Series C funding and announced it will use the capital to grow its...

New York-based crowd-sourced estimates provider Estimize has secured $6 million of Series B funding to develop new datasets in...

In September of last year, Blackrock warned the fixed income trading model is broken and liquidity is drying up. As of last week, the...

Singapore based b2b payments provider Fastacash announced today it has raised US$15 million in a series B funding round, one of the...

Realty Mogul, a two-year old startup that helps investors fund real estate projects, has raised $35 million in Series B funding led by...

Some great examples of how glossing over the cultural differences between regions can cost you big.

Ireland based Fenergo, which specializes in providing Client Lifecycle Management software, will use the new capital to grow its global...

What is your net worth? Before applying for that new mortgage take a leaf out of Donald's book. This week Trump’s campaign announced...

This year, hackers have accessed 100,000 tax accounts after breaking into systems at the Internal Revenue Service. A hack of the US...

Carl Icahn thinks investors are headed over a cliff in a “party bus” driven by BlackRock. He made the comments whilst sat next to Larry...

Both the US govt. and Hillary Clinton highlighted their concerns this week about the Gig (on-demand) economy. The Department of Labor...

While consumers wade through the ever-ballooning list of brands wanting to wash their clothes, clean their homes, park their cars and...

Apple Pay launched in the UK this week and caused confusion on the London Underground. People touching in with an Apple Watch and out...

Credit Benchmark, the independent source of consensus credit risk information, has closed a $20m in Series B funding round led by...

As of day one, Apple Pay will be accepted at 250,000 locations in the UK. That's the same number of acceptance locations at launch in the...

UK based FlyPay has raised $10.7m in Series A funding led by Time Out Magazine. Flypay is an app that aims to transform the restaurant...

As a society, we are growing old. A new analysis of census data by the Pew Research Center looks at how this plays out geographically,...

The common perception is that technology and the elderly do not mix. But the 2015 White House Conference on Aging, the once-a-decade...

There's an interesting corporate counter-narrative to the "traditional" anti-establishment narrative bitcoin propagandists like to tell....

Wedbush Securities performed a fairly simplistic analysis to estimate bitcoin's price in the next year, presuming among other things a...

On Friday, Chancellor George Osborne announced the appointment of Eilen Burbidge as the UK's Treasury "special envoy" to fintech. Her...

Algomi has won the “FinTech Innovation of the Year” in the 2015 Euromoney’s Global Awards for Excellence. Launched in 2012, Algomi has...

ClassWallet has raised a $1.9 million seed funding round from NewSchools Ventures, Kaplan Ventures, William Guttman and several other...

More or less keeping to schedule, Factom has now released its Release Candidate One for developers to begin working with--and that...

TradeBlock is partnering with FinTech Sandbox to provide access to digital currency and block chain data including: Trading & Index...

If software is eating the world, lets hope the software isn't held together by duct tape. With all of the chat about cyber security...

BitFury secured another $20 million in funding, announced on the heels of a record setting 2014 for investments they received. The...

London-based anti-fraud fintech startup has raised €6.5 million in a Series A round led by Orange Growth Capital. The company plans to...

The WSJ explains what is learned from the tech outages at the NYSE and UAL, meanwhile the WSJ failed to mention that it had its own...

Venture Beat provides three lessons from Wednesday's computer glitches: 1. Invest in security, 2. Outages are survivable and 3....

Karmic Lab's product, Dash, wants to deliver the future of expense management by allowing managers to control real-time spending of...

Lendingkart.com, an online working capital finance provider for startups and small and medium enterprises, has raised $10 million from...

While the eyes of the world have been set on the crisis in Greece, the Chinese market has been in a free fall of its own. The New York...

The U.S. stock market has changed dramatically over the years as a result of regulatory, technological, and competitive pressures.

The common denominator to the technical failures at the NYSE, Wall Street Journal, and United Airlines is a reliance on massive...

The evolution of the "Internet of Things" will fundamentally change how carriers issue policies, assess risk, and interact with policy...

It costs $24,000 a year, but yet no market data vendor has managed to worm itself quite so utterly into the fabric of finance as...

BNP added their voice to the bitcoin / blockchain argument this week with a report that laid out two scenarios (one revolutionary /...

Another sign pointing to the fact we are still in the early day of this technology. Was this the blocksize forking event that was...

In 2014 over 2,960 angels participated in a financing round, thats 3 x the 822 angels who did so in 2010! Founders are taking advantage...

Wences Casares, CEO of Xapo, a bitcoin wallet and storage start-up, is being sued by the firm that acquired his last company, Lemon. In...

Wealthfront has lowered its minimum investment from $5,000 to $500. In the process it also picked a fight with its competitor,...

By 2019, the market for big data software is expected to grow by 50%. Companies today horde data—whether it be sales, human resources,...

CFSI's recent study examines the component's of a borrower's credit score. The Consumer Financial Health Study questions the accuracy of...

Paris based direct payments company, SlimPay, has raised 15m Euro in venture funding from Prime Ventures.

The article explores how past techonology enabled disruptors, such as Uber and Airbnb, have targeted highly regulated industries and...

The Financial Times article outlines the history of the Greek crisis and explains why Bitcoin and digital currencies are not an...

Chrome River Technologies helps large corporations manage employee expenses. The company raised $100 million from Great Hill Partners.

Betting on India's e-commerce market, Amazon has made its second investment in an Indian startup. Amazon participated in Bankbazaar's...

If anyone doubted PayPal’s intention to move beyond its retail payments and merchant services roots and enable the seamless management...

PayPal Inc is going to buy digital money transfer provider Xoom Corp for $890 million as it muscles into a growing international...

“85 per cent of the world’s payments are still in cash" Ajay Banga, MasterCard’s CEO, told the FT. Transit payments make up a large part...

SimplyInsured, which helps small businesses compare and purchase employee health insurance plans, closed a Series A of $5.9 million led...

A truly fascinating article by the Wall Street Journal article into how phone-based services revolutionize the way people save and send...

GoCardless co-founder Tom Blomfield and his full stack start-up bank should be able to offer a full current account in the first half of...

The takeover, the biggest ever in the insurance sector, will create the world's largest property and casualty insurer by underwriting...

Another consulting report on the digital advice space this time from E&Y in Canada. In the report they explore how boomers and...

The current generation of tech entrepreneurs are shunning public markets for as long as they can. This long form FT article explores the...

Hedging these highly-valued but illiquid stocks is difficult and the only sure fire way is to build the short into the original...

The blockchain has been called “the future for financial services infrastructure”. Now banks, clearing houses and exchanges are becoming...

The World Economic Forum released their latest report on fintech. The report is titled "The Future of Financial Services: How...

Palo Alto based cloud corporate performance management (CPM) provider raised $75m of Series G funding.

UAE based health and insurance comparison service raised $1m in Series Seed funding, led by BECO Capital. The company seeks to simplify...