Fintech Collective portfolio company, Artivest, announced the new hire of 28-year financial services veteran - Tom Gatto, as head of...

TradeBlock now allows you to monitor live activity on the Ethereum network through an elegant Ethereum Block Chain explorer, giving...

First Round Capital looked at 300 companies and 600 founders to try and establish what the perfect talent recipe was in its best...

In October 2008 Sequoia invited their founders to a frank meeting outlining the new global reality and counseled them to “batten down the...

When winter comes to Silicon Valley, we’ll see cheaper office space and maybe even more affordable engineers! We'll also be able to see...

BNY Mellon caused a stir among big money managers when its' accounting software provided by SunGard crashed. This forced fund sponsors...

Noted investor Mark Suster shared his two cents on the latest market drops and the effects on venture financing in the near and...

A day after Mark Suster posted about the public market effects on the VC ecosystem, he reached out to the entrepreneurial community,...

European mobile card payments processor iZettle, raised $67m in Series D financing led by Intel Capital and Zouk Capital LLP. iZettle's...

Overstock has acquired SpeedRoute. Overstock used its crypto currency subsidiary t0 to make the acquisition. t0 develops technology that...

After AmEx lost its' partnership with Costco, it's now facing another harsh loss. Fidelity, a 6 year partner of Amex, has been seen...

The Brazilian personal financial management startup, GuiaBolso, has raised a $7m Series B. The company is helping Brazilians control...

Bitcoin continues to be legitimized, the latest example coming from academia, where top ranked schools develop curriculm on...

You wouldn't expect that Consumer Reports would recognize a robo advisor for its customer service, but Betterment has succeeded in...

Economic data is produced on a delay, “Right now, we rely very heavily on this peculiar process where we forecast an estimate of the...

Guideline Technologiesworking with SMBs to make 401(k) plans affordable for employees. Busque believes there are three steps required...

Avant, the online lender, has raised $139m in debt led by Jefferies and another $200m in debt co-led by J.P. Morgan and Credit Suisse.

Over 100 companies presented over two days at this years Y Combinator Demo day. The number of fintech companies continued to grow. For a...

Less people are invested in the stock market today than at any time in nearly the last two decades. The impact of the market might hurt...

Salesforce has decided that it too wants a cut from the wealth management space, launching a cloud based solution intended to help...

Digital currency may be in the midst of an evolution after the recent proposal to "fork" the currency into a new version. As the...

Very good development for FinTech Collective portfolio companies:

• NextCapital (robo for 401k, B2B2C, open asset allocation architecture)

It's not all dark skies for community banks. Emerging fintech services will enable community banks to reduce their cost base, market in...

Kansas based working capital marketplace, C2FO, recently closed $40m of Series D financing led by Temasek Holdings from Singapore. The...

Online mutual funds investments platform, Scripbox, aims to simplify person finance through higher levels of transparency and scientific...

Y Combinator startup, Tesorio, incentivizes companies to immediately pay their vendor, freelancer and supplier. The seamless payment...

Goldman Sachs has accelerated its move into the consumer lending market with the acquisition of GE's online deposit platform. Goldman...

Credit card loans differ from alternative lending and P2P platforms by offering ease of access, revolving line of credit, simple money...

Reorg Research, a FinTech Collective portfolio company, is the market leader in distressed debt research, analysis and news. This week...

A handful of private equity firms (including Bain Capital, Blackstone, Goldman PE, KKR, TPG, SilverLake) teamed up to buy SunGard back...

Apple's CEO Tim Cook mentioned recently that he expects China to become the company's biggest market, but as the Yuan plunges, Apple...

PaidEasy is a new mobile payment app that is aiming to eliminate friction in spending. This app raised 2 million dollars in funding in a...

Japan based bitFlyer is slowly proving that even after the collapse Mt. Gox, the Japanese exchange, and the recent incarceration of...

The People's Bank of China (PBOC) has been showing signs that it is not a promoter of the Yuan depreciation, apparently asking Chinese...

The question analysts have been toying with, "When will the Federal Reserve finally raise interest rates?" has become more difficult. As...

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In a recent report by BBVA Research US, the bank noted the potential disruption of the blockchain technology could reach far beyond...

Capital One has agreed to buy General Electric’s health-care finance unit for $9b. Capital One is buying loans ranging from hospitals to...

Goldman is shifting its view on sharing its software. The company will start providing a new open source platform allowing clients to...

Asia Pacific (APAC) region is showing strong demand for analytics tools to help banks manage operational decisions. As internal...

Ukraine Hackers allegedly infiltrated the computer servers of PRNewswire , Marketwired and Business Wire, over a five-year period, stealing

Wesley Edens, Co-Founder of Fortress, has turned a $124 million into $3.5 billion through his majority investment in Springleaf Holdings,...

In a surprise move, Google announced that it is reorganizing into a holding company called Alphabet. The core "Google" business will be...

Yodlee agreed to sell itself to Envestnet, a provider of financial services for financial advisors, for approximately $660...

Great news for international students from Africa and Asia looking for a way to pay for business school, Prodigy Finance has raised £100...

iBeacons seem to be finally set to make an enterprise appearance. With a lot left up to the developer be sure to constantly asking...

The WSJ digs into Yodlee's "side business" and asks the question: Are analysts able to “re-identify” people in anonymized Yodlee data...

The Indian mobile payment startup has secured $23 million in series C funding from Horizons Ventures, Capricorn Investment Group, and...

In 2014, consumers spent a whopping $6 billion on electronic gift cards, while total gift card sales were roughly $124 billion. CashStar...

Bruce Wallace (COO Silicon Valley Bank) is planning to release new API banking services over the coming months. The Standard Treasury team

The FT poses an interesting question which needs to be asked. "What exactly is PayPal these days? Is it a money transmitter as per what...

The press may have been highly focused on Betterment and Wealthfront, who now each hold over $2.5B AUM, but there are many other...

The tech world couldn't help but react to Wealthfront CEO Adam Nash's accusations of competing robo-advisor Betterment's treatment...

Wealthfront recently lowered its account minimum to $500 as its CEO, Adam Nash, attacked Betterment. Jonathan Stein, the CEO of...

With only twenty-nine percent of insurance consumers saying they are satisfied with their providers, we know the insurance industry...

The 13-week program based in London and NYC is intended to guide innovative fintech startups through the process of growing and...

Lowell Putnam, the CEO of FinTech Collective portfolio company Quovo, was once again recognized for his achievements in wealth...

Brazilian online lending startup BankFacil closed a $3M Series A Round from Redpoint eventures and Frontier Investments Group. By...

SavingGlobal just raised €20 million in a Series B round led by Palo Alto-based Ribbit Capital and Index Ventures. SavingGlobal runs an...

With already some of the harshest Internet restrictions in the world, China has recently announced that police will be placed in-house at...

Toronto robo-advisor Nest Wealth has found both a strategic partner and capital provider in Metroland Media. Metroland Media has agreed...

The former head of bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox, Mark Karpeles, lost about $387 million while Mt.Gox was in business. Now he's in a Japanese...

A business taking a loan from Square pays the loan off automatically from future daily sales using Square. Interestingly, Square says it...

Lending Club’s results this week showed a 90 per cent increase in Q2 loan origination to $1.9bn. However regulators are starting to ask...

Facebook has recently obtained a patent that has a variety of use cases. One that has been quite controversial is regarding a technology...

Similar to the restrictions US regulators instituted during the 2008 financial crisis, China has placed restrictions on short selling....

The driver-less car that may have once been a fantasy is now becoming a reality. Insurance companies are feeling the pressure as experts...

Tujia, China's Airbnb, has raised $300 million at a valuation of more than $1 billion led by All-Stars Investments. With currently 300K...

Is the US government making a big mistake turning a blind eye to money that could be used to build roads and other infrastructure? Two...