Kansas City based IoT platform and service provider pepper has raised $8.5m in Series B funding with investments from Leawood Ventures,...

Though biometric security is becoming increasingly commonplace, it was the stuff of science fiction movies not long ago - having played a...

The German P2P bitcoin online lender Bitbond has teamed up with PSPBitPesa to improve access to financing for small businesses in...

The service, whose portfolio management will be done by SigFi algorithms, will be targeted a younger age group who don't have an existing...

Beijing based online payday loan platform Yongqianbao has raised $68m in Series C funding led by Golden Brick Capital and CICC Alpha....

Nearly a year after pulling its last attempt to go public, the online lender plans to ride the wave of renewed vigor in the space to IPO...

Paris based bitcoin hardware startup Ledger has raised $7m in Series A funding led by MAIF Avenir. Ledger produces hardware where users...

In a new 50 page report entitled "Keeping America Safe," MIT cybersecurity researchers conclude that the most critical infrastructure in...

San Francisco based bond startup Neighborly has partnered with Burlington, VT's local government for Burlington's 10-year, $27 million...

As tech driven automation is set to eliminate nearly half of the worlds job's by 2055 including bank tellers, insurance underwriters, and...

Kent Collier, CEO of FinTech Portfolio company Reorg Research, was part of one of the DataDisrupt Financial Services panels this week....

San Francisco based startup accelerator Alchemist Accelerator has raised $2m from GE Digital to launch a new accelerator program for IoT...

Switzerland based blockchain asset exchange platform ShapeShift has secures $10.4m in Series A financing led by Earlybird Venture...

Palo Alto based payments solutions startup Emergent Payments has raised $5m in Series D funding from previous investors and Responsible...

Nigeria based credit and financing startup Lydia has secured $1.25m in Series Seed funding led by Accion Venture Lab. Lidya's algorithms...

San Francisco based scholarship startup Raise.Me has secured $12m in Series A funding led by RedPoint. Raise.Me offers...

The bank has made a concerted effort to limit the potential for its ads to appear next to fake news or offensive content.  It has...

This long form article by the WSJ highlights that with Chinese banks holding a staggering $20 trillion in deposits (more than a third...

The BBC explores financial services tech start-ups claims that mobile banking, money transfer services and other innovations have changed...

After years of sluggish gains by its stock pickers, Blackrock is firing more than 30 people in its active equities group.  The...

The store in Amazon’s hometown of Seattle uses cameras, sensors and algorithms to watch customers and track what they pick up and then...

The British property market is increasingly reliant on the “bank of mum and dad”. 34% of first-time buyers relied on family help in...

Tania Das Wright, COO of portfolio company Artivest, sheds some light on the sobering statistics related to female employment in both...

Beijing baed online brokerage firm Tiger Brokers co has secured $14m in Series B funding led by China Growth Capital. Tiger Brokers...

Irvine, California based mortgage automation startup Cloudvirga has secured $15m in Series B funding led by Incenter. Cloudvirga's...

Jakarta based cash back/consumer data platform Snapcart has raised $3m in pre-Series A funding led by Vickers Venture Partners. Snapcart...

Concerned that AI and self-improving machines could accelerate and go astray, potentially undermining humans, Elon Musk has started a...

Portfolio company Quovo recently presented at FinDEVr, focusing on their product and the next generation of wealth management.  

As the FT points out, thinking of innovation as purely a positive thing is probably a little naive. As any police officer will testify,...

An FT expose on the how money launderers have adapted and are exploiting merchant acquirers and the ineffective anti-money laundering...

Tandem bank has lost its banking licence (for now) after China’s Sanpower failed to close on its £29m investment following concerns that...

Today, many Americans say they fear outliving their savings more than the premature death of a major breadwinner. And industry sales of...

New York based personal finance app Clarity Money has raised $11m in Series B funding led by Citi Ventures and RRE Ventures. Clarity...

Shenzhen, China based real estate financing company Dadao Financial has raised $29m in Series B Funding led by China Renaissance Privare...

China based online insurance company Xiaoyusan has raised $14m in Series B funding led by Matrix Partners China and Tianshili Capital....

Australia based financial planning and advisory app Investfit has received $1.5m in Series A funding led by Sapien Ventures. Investfit...

Malaysia based fintech solutions provider Jirnexu has closed a $4.5m Series A round led by DMP VC. Jirnexu’s full stack technology...

Ottawa based agriculture tech startup Farmlead has closed a $6.5m Series A funding round led by Monsanro Growth Ventures. Farmlead has...

Brooklyn, NY based digital life insurance startup Fabric has raised $2.5m in Series Seed funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Fabric...

Tokyo based personal finance app startup Moneytree has raised $9m in venture funding led by SBI Investment. Moneytree is a lifestyle...

Atlanta based provider of digital growth solutions for banks and credit unions Gro Solutions has raised $4.25m in venture funding led by...

New York based financial and data analytics platform Ravenpack has raised $5m in venture funding from investor Draper Esprit. RavenPack...

Austin, Texas based cash back startup Dosh has raised $2m in Series Seed funding led by undisclosed investors. Dosh is a free new app...

The mobile payment market in China has taken off way quicker than the U.S. ($5.5tn versus $112 bn last year). But it is becoming more and...

An old school bidding war is on!  Ant Financial has conviction it will be approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the...

The investment bank, who has shown it is not scared to build its own online lending platform (Marcus), is now eyeing an in-house...

Some of the UK's best-known banks, as well as Citibank and Bank of America, processed about $740m in a massive Russian money laundering...

The IRS filed new documents in federal court this week, requesting the data under the belief that there might be wide-scale tax evasion...

Want to really lever up and trade a volatile asset class?!? Eligible traders can now trade up to 3X leveraged orders on Bitcoin, Ethereum...

The 2017 InvestmentNews Adviser Technology study reveals advising firms are increasingly using digital signatures with clients, account...

London based house selling platform Nested has raised £8m in venture funding led by Passion Capital. Nested guarantees an owner that...

Mumbai based payment service provider Airpay Payment Services Pvt. Ltd has raised $36.7m in Series A funding led by by Kalaari Capital....

Morgan Stanley interviews Lin Manuel Miranda on financial literacy and advice.

The manual lays out how fintech companies can seek a charter and how the OCC will review applications.  The special-purpose charters...

GSV reviews the insuretech landscape, including the key financings of 2016 and trends across verticals, including healthcare, auto, and...

New York based internet of Things (IoT) smart products platform Evrythng has raised $24.8m in Series B funding led by Sway Ventures....

A recent study from the London School of Economics explores the emerging trend of the 'family office,': the name given to private, full...

Having been forced to resign from his founder position at Zenefits last year, Parker Conrad has founded a new venture named Ripple....

Google has announced that it will launch a machine learning competition for its own startups. Google will partner with seven different...

Singapore based early stage technology venture capital firm SeedPlus has secured a $2m equity investment from IFC. SeedPlus looks to...

Berlin based insurtech startup Simplesurance has secured €30m in venture funding led by Japan's Rakuten. Simplesurance provides software...

Utah based tax management startup Canopy Tax has raised $20m in Series B funding led by Pelion Venture Partners. Canopy Tax's platform...

Cambridge, MA based car insurance startup Insurify has raised $4.6m in Series A funding led by MassMutual Ventures and Nationwide...

Deutsche Bank's 15th annual survey of the industry reveals that half of the top ten most in-demand strategies were systematic, with a...

Leslie Baccini brings a wealth of knowledge from a career in hedge fund strategy communication and equity research sales into her new...

Numerai has went ahead and issued 12k data scientists 1m crypto-tokens to incentivize the construction of its AI hedge fund. The thesis...

Pool Re, Britain's $7.3 billion terrorism reinsurance fund hopes to extend its coverage to include cyber threats on property. The fund is...

Quovo, alongside its partner SoFI, will demonstrate how developers can quickly call Quovo’s Authentication API to instantly connect...

Houston based bill payment processor Noventis has raised $4m in debt financing from SVB Financial Group. Noventis develops innovative...

South Korea based public blockchain project BOSCoin has raised $3m in an undisclosed funding round. The funding will further help to...

London based stock trading app Freetrade has raised £1.1m through crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. Freetrade is a mobile app...

South Africa based fintech AI developer FinChatBot has raised $122,250 in Series Seed funding from Richard Marsden, CEO and founder of...

Ghent, Belgium based accounting platform Silverfin has raised $4.5m in Series A funding led by Index Ventures. Silverfin offers a...

Buffet's S&P 500 index is outperforming a "fund of hedge funds" by a wide margin - 65.7% to 21.9%.  One key reason why the...

Israel based security startup Dyadic Security has raised $12m in Series B funding from investors Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic...

Seattle based payment management startup Switch has raised $400,000 in angel investment from various undisclosed investors. Switch allows...

Berlin based digital financial platform solarisBank has raised £22.9m in Series A funding led by Arvato financial...

Los Angeles based farmer financing platform ProducePay has raised $77m in equity and debt funding led by CoVenture. ProducePay reaches...

InsuranceAge profiles portfolio company Embroker's relentless focus on bringing innovation to commercial insurance brokerage, with the...

JPM is switching up the way it employees can evaluate each other, introducing a mobile tool that lets workers across the organization...

After a slow start to the 2017 IPO season, the big data company for real-time decisioning is following in the footsteps of Snap to go...

The big Wall Street trading firms are now following the start up blueprint for floor plan layouts! Both GS and Citi are tearing down...

The ETF pioneered by the Winklevoss twins could have increased liquidity for the bitcoin market and made exposure to the currency easier...

Consistent with last week's newsletter on the unbundlig of sell-side research, Macquarie is now offering asset managers the option to...

A rise in default rates has surprised investors in a securitized offering.  Should default rates continue to rise, cash flows to...

McKinsey has the counterintuitive view that the digital dawn in insurance actually destroys value---transferring power from the carrier...

Aaron Schumm, Founder and CEO of portfolio company Vestwell recently chatted to Asset TV on how he sees the changing landscapes of...

Disruption of a non-tech variety - Families with nine-figure fortunes are increasingly investing through unregulated firms (aka family...

Financial data aggregation was for a long time confined to powering digital personal financial management tools. Firms like Quovo are now...

Online venture capital funding platform FundersClub is set to introduce new features to its portfolio platform. The company will add...

They were all hit by the same glitch at Global Processing Services (GPS), a Dubai-based firm that helps firms like Monzo, Revolut, Curve...

Chicago based Raise (acquired portfolio company Slide) allows individuals to sell their unwanted gift cards for cash and as a result...

Malvern, PA based Meridian Bank looks set to acquire fellow PA based HJ Wealth Management. This acquisition will allow Meridian Bank to...

With Mifid II forcing asset managers to start paying directly for research will small, highly specialized, independent research teams...

London based payments engine Currency Cloud has raised $24.4m in Series D funding led by Google's GV. Currencycloud provides currency...

The buy-side and sell-side are locked in fierce negotiation over how much the buy-side should pay for sell-side investment research....

The key parts of Mifid II that are making the buy-side uncomfortable are the regulation's impact on how they pay for sell-side research,...

Toronto based payment cloud operator Dream Payments has raised $10m in Series A funding led by FairVentures Inc. The capital infusion...

New York based online bank and transaction processing platform PayQix has raised $11m in Series A from undisclosed investors. Proceeds...

Korea based fintech app developer Viva Republic has raised $48m in Series C funding led by Goodwater Capital. Viva Republic makes Toss, a...

Atlanta based small business lender Kabbage has secured $500m in fixed-rate, asset-backed notes from Guggenheim Securities. Kabbage will...

San Francisco based payment service provider Veem has raised $24m in Series B funding led by National Australia Bank Ventures. The...

New York based children's debit card startup Current has raised $3.6m in Series Seed funding led by Expa and Human Ventures. Current...

San Francisco based identity protection cloud service Okta has made a partial acquisition of San Mateo based User Management API...

The hedge fund's new venture arm will be focused on fintech deals.  The fund disclosed a first close of $20m from LPs including Thai...

The struggling financial services company is battling back to use analytics to identify and “suppress” gamers, while creating offers that...

Fidelity has cut its commissions to trade stocks and mutual funds to $4.95 from $7.95, a 38% reduction for its retail clients. In short...

A new report from The Intercept details the new intelligence system called Investigative Case Management (ICM), built by Palantir, that...

The new service, which will be available on iPad and iPhone, was developed by the RBC Digital Innovation Lab and will automatically debit...

Using account aggregation offered by Quovo, customers of PeerStreet can now view their real-estate backed positions within the context of...

Simple Innovation Change sat down with Dee Choubey to discuss how MoneyLion is bringing back the same trust and relationship that many...

New York based banking app Qaptial has raised $12m in Series A funding led by Industrifonden. Launched in 2012, Qapital is an...

In response to potential delays in the DOL fiduciary rule, Vestwell founder and CEO, Aaron Schumm has published a special op-ed....

After dissapointing results and the departure of its CEO, John Vitalo and Chairman Arnold Ekpe, Atlas Mara has tapped existing investors...

IEX has written to the SEC criticizing a proposal for a new way to submit stock orders by Nasdaq, saying it would enable “predatory...

In advance of the Lendit conference in NYC next week, two deals put Prosper and SoFi on firmer footing after a rough patch for broader...

The platform is called "COIN" (Contract Intelligence), and it can parse commercial-loan agreements in seconds vs. the 360,000 hours...

Durham, UK based banking app Atom Bank has raised another £83m from existing investors, led by BBVA. Woodford Investment Management,...

Renewable Energy Magazine has published an interview this week the the founder of portfolio company Wunder, Bryan Birsic. Founded in...

San Francisco based middle class-focused lender LendUp has gained $100m in debt financing from Victory Park Capital. LendUp’s mission is...

San Carlos, Ca based online lender Upstart has raised $32.5m in Series D funding led by Rakuten. Upstart prides itself on quickly...

This week Snap Inc, creator of mobile messaging platform Snapchat, saw an impressive trading debut on the New York Stock Exchange,...

Snap Inc, owner and creator of messaging platform Snapchat, does not seem to share the concerns that some of its investors may be having...

The Chinese central bank required bitcoin exchanges to suspend withdrawals until compliance systems were updated. Trading on the...

As the FT points out, the real puzzle comes when when you try to figure out how the ideology leads to the fund’s actual investments. E.g....

A superb long form read in the Atlantic on how DLJ's IPO in 1970 changed Wall Street from a series of relatively small, undercapitalized...

If you reply "Yes" then they will retrain you for another role at the firm. Oxford University recently warned that 35% of jobs in the UK...

Toronto based receipt management platform Sensibill has raised $17.3m in Series A funding led by Information Venture Partners and...

New York based commercial real estate financing company Ladder Capital Finance has secured $80m in private equity financing from Related...

Redwood City, Ca based small business financing startup BlueVine has secured a $75m debt facility from Fortress Credit Corp. BlueVine...

London based property investment platform BrickVest has raised £2m in Series A funding from investors including Jean Romain Lhomme....

New York based consumer financing startup Zibby has raised $150m Series B led by Victory Park Capital. Zibby provides retailers with a...

Chennai, India based online lending platform CreditMantri has raised $7.6m in Series B funding led by Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund....

London based stock trading app Freetrade has raised £300,000 in equity crowdfunding through the Crowdcube platform. Freetrade describes...

Paris based wearable payment startup PayinTech has raised €2.5m in venture funding led by Caisse des Dépôts. PayinTech offers wearable...

London based financial agreement automation service Dealflo has raised £10m in Series B funding led by Holtzbrinck Ventures. Founded in...