Think Advisor chronicles different fintech companies breaking into the retirement space, including portfolio company Vestwell. CEO Aaron...

In this article Bloomberg highlights the seemingly apparent correlation between year end credit scores and likelihood of finding a...

Portfolio company Neighborly is inviting potential investors to help fund sustainability projects in California through the company's...

Berlin based digital insurer Coya has raised $10m in Series Seed funding led by Valar Ventures. Coya aims to become Europe’s leading...

From insurance to banking and payments, technology for  capturing and analyzing data from images will enhance the ability for FIs...

Portfolio company Embroker was included in benziga's list of 5 up and coming InsurTech startups in the San Francsico bay area. Embroker...

New York based online loan guarantee platform Suretly has raised $2.9m through its Initial Coin Offering. Suretly is the first...

San Francisco based consumer lending technology company Blend has raised $100m in Series D funding led by Greylock Partners. Blend builds...

Two surveys published in the UK this week by VC firm Blumberg Capital and EY reported that only 4-7% of UK adults had used alternative...

After three years of research, the World Economic Report has released this report in collaboration with Deloitte.  

Credit Suisse says technology has taken the average life span of a S&P 500 company to under 20 years today, down from 60 years in the...

The European Investment Fund (EIF), the EU agency that backs many first time European VC funds, has now effectively turned off the tap to...

The pilot could start as early as the fall with interest rates that range from 10% to 30% per month, but without late payment fees. This...

San Francisco based decentralized prediction market platform focusing on Chinese market Bodhi has raised $10m in token presale ahead of...

Beijing based online insurance platform Baozhunniu has raised $14m in Series B financing led by Marathon Venture Partners. Baozhunniu is...

San Francisco online vehicle financier AutoFi has raised $10m in Series A funding from investors Crosslink Capital, Ford Motor Credit...

Hong Kong based mobile payments company Pundi Pundi has raised $4m in Series A financing from undisclosed investors. Pundi Pundi offers a...

Edinburgh based personal finance software developer Money Dashboard has raised £1m in equity crowdfunding with 6 days of the crowdfunding...

Singapore based money transfer firm SingX has raised $4.5m in Series B funding from investors including senior bankers and high net worth...

New York based digital investment platform for women Ellevest has raised $32.46m in new venture funding from undisclosed investors. The...

India based enterprise payments solutions provider Ezetap has raised $16m in Series D funding led by JS Capital Management. Ezetap makes...

San Francisco based insurance marketplace and advisor Gabi has raised $2.6m in Series Seed funding from investors including SV Angel,...

A new US report measures how long $1M would last for retirees 65 and older state-by-state and it isn't great news. The main upshot is if...

Palo Alto based blockchain-based identity management system ShoCard has announced $4m in Series A funding led by Merado Venture Partners...

Online credit card company Nubank, personal finance management app GuiaBolso, online insurance broker Bidu and Orama, an online broker...

The FT's "Big Read" this week covers the fascinating (analogue) international money transfer game Isis is engaged in.

Spotify's direct-listing plan has drawn scrutiny from regulators who have asked for more details on the plan by the world’s largest paid...

Fortune's great article - "Everett’s cell service abruptly shut off, and as he rushed to his computer, he saw himself being robbed in...

Switzerland based mobile payments company MUUME has raised €5.3m in Series B funding from undisclosed Swiss investors. MUUME is a...

UK based cryptocurrency invoice platform Hive Project has raised $8.95m through its initial coin offering. The company boasts itself as...

UK based international student lender Prodigy finance has raised $240m in new funding, with $40m coming from a Series C round led by...

India based online lending platform Capital Float has raised $45m in Series C financing led by Ribbit Capital. Capital Float is an online...

Switzerland based Ethereum blockchain powered, renewable asset investment platform Mybit has secured $2.8m in funding through a 30 day...

Alipay is losing ground fast to Tenpay. From a near-stranglehold of 80% of China’s mobile-payments market, Alipay’s share has steadily...

A unit of Fisco, the Tokyo-based financial information provider, issued three-year debt worth 200 bitcoins in what likely is the first...

Mercator Advisory Group’s 14th Annual Prepaid Cards Market Forecasts has been published and it forecasts that growth in the US open-loop...

After the disappointing stock performance of Blue Apron and Snap, two companies with share structures that deny voting rights to...

ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits) are designed to perform a single function extremely efficiently and have been pushing...

China's two biggest bitcoin exchanges, Huobi and OKCoin, invested about $150m of idle client funds into risky high-yielding investments...

Hackers have been calling Verison, T-Mobile, and others asking them to transfer control of a victim's phone number.  Once they...

The SEC asked to meet with the digital music behemoth to obtain details on the company's plan to list directly on the New York Stock...

Goldman Sachs has expanded its algorithmic corporate bond trading program, more than trebling the number of securities it quotes since...

Consumer fintech startups such as Transferwise are finding in increasing ROI on their subway marketing spend relative to other...

Payments is again a hot sector as companies rush to take advantage of the potential growth from the global shift towards digital and...

Portfolio company Artivest has announced a partnership with Altegris, a leading provider of alternative investment strategies. The...

San Francisco based decentralized exchange protocol Ox has raised $24m in an initial coin offering with participation from Polychain...

San Francisco based digital wallet breadwallet has raised $7m in new venture funding from investors including DAS Capital, East Ventures,...

Switzerland based supply chain blockchain startup Modum.io has announced a pre-sale ICO of $1.25m which was oversold in a matter of...

London based financial technology software provider Options has raised $100m in undisclosed funding led by Bregal Sagemount. Founded in...

With access to a fully-automated industrial drone system, Farmers will be able to quickly and safely gather rooftop imagery and data,...

Since launching its fingerprint authentication to log into its app, half of B of A's customers have evolved to using it.  The Tier 1...

Forbes believes last week's announcement of a partnership between Clarity Money and Acorns is just the beginning of fintech companies...

The former Paypal COO believes cyrptocurrency is fulfilling the company's original vision of a database of money where it never left the...

With the directive coming into effect in the next six months, the choice is either to pay the costs to brokers themselves or pass the...

As the U.S., Canada, and Mexico look to renegotiate NAFTA, standardizing regulatory standards for fintech has become an item on the agenda.

Renaissance Technology's Medallion Fund, an employees only offering, recently allowed employees to increase their stake by 50%....

Workday, the $20b enterprise financial management and HR software company, has acqui-hired Pattern for an undisclosed amount.

Indiana based software billing API Cheddar has raised $1.25m in Series Seed funding led by M25 group. Cheddar is one of the first...

Quantified Ventures, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Neighborly have launched an Environmental Impact Bond (EIB) Challenge in Burlington...

Portfolio company Axoni has announced Joseph Ratterman as a new independent member of the company’s board of directors. Joseph was a...

The WSJ reviews how drones and AI are making the insurance claims process faster and more convenient for customers. 

The price of bitcoin soared past $4k over the weekend and approached $4,300 on Monday, gaining about 20% since Friday.  Many...

Quartz explores how the electronification of payments in Africa is helping to spur commerce of all kinds across the continent.

The WSJ reviews how the tech profile of the next billion will differ greatly from the last billion.  These users are  hooked on...

Microsoft plans to offer "Coco" a technology that would make it easier for firms to control who can see what on a network without making...

In a move consistent with the broad deregulatory agenda of the Trump administration the DOL has filed to delay the date for implementing...

A recent survey from J.D. Power shows the continued pain points SMB's have with their incumbent insurance providers. Embroker to the rescue!

Tim Buckley, Vanguard’s new president and incoming CEO has , said the company will keep lowering fund expenses as it grows. "If other...

Paypal has acquired online lender Swift Financial, which had raised a $30m Series D in 2016, in order to offer loans to the larger...

Fintech visionaries once dreamt of individuals lending money to each other. Lending Club just reported results that show how far the...

The CFPB also noted that the average amount of money consumers go overdrawn by is about $24, but that banks charge fees of around $34 for...

What threatens to kill off the salesman for good, is a change in European regulation due to arrive in little more than 150 days’ time:...

According to Bloomberg's analysis of company filings over the last 2 years, at least 12 large companies, from Verizon to General Motors,...

San Francisco based digital currency trading startup Coinbase has raised $100m at a $1.6b pre-money valuation, led by Institutional...

New York based digital identity verification startup Socure has raised a $13.9m Series B led by Commerce Ventures with participation from...

Burlingame, CA based retirement investing startup Guideline has raised a $15m Series A led by Felicis Ventures.

In a Q&A sent to clients, Goldman Sachs Group acknowledged the need for institutional investors to pay attention to the...

Mills has a successful track record delivering client-facing and trading software solutions to the financial services industry across the...

Des Moines, Iowa based agriculture insurance startup Crop Pro Insurance has raised $8m in Series A funding led by Finestere Ventures and...

New York based rental insurance startup Jetty has raised $11.5m in Series A funding led by Valar Ventures.

Following the deal, the company will be called Worldpay and have a pro forma enterprise value of approximately $29b.  The Vantiv and...

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) discusses its efforts to turn ISDA agreements into smart contracts.  The...

According to a recent report penned by the law firm Cooley, median pre-money valuations increased across all deal stages in Q2.  The...

IEX, the startup stock exchange made famous by Michael Lewis's Flash Boys, has won regulatory approval for a process to open and close a...

LendingClub posted earnings on Monday, surpassing Wall Street expectations and exhibiting 35% year-over-year revenue growth and 10%...

Bloomberg covers the Collison brothers, who built payment processing platform Stripe Inc. in 2010. Stripe has gone on to be one of the...

CB Insights chronicles many potential changes that the insurance industry may come to face. In this report various industry CEOs are...

In its latest partnership effort Paypal has teamed up with Skype. The pairing will allow Skype users in 22 countries to send payments...

London based lending platform Neyber has raised £21m in Series C funding led by Wadhawan Global Capital. Neyber provides a financial...

UK based financial services group 1st Stop Group has raised £120m in debt financing from Citi Ventures. The 1st Stop Group Limited offers...

Shanghai based p2p lending platform Dianrong has raised $220m in Series D funding led by GIC. After launching its platform in 2012,...

Toronto bases p2p lending platform Lending Loop has raised $2m in venture funding led by MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund. Lending Loop...

California based digital wealth management platform Personal Capital has raised $40m in Series E funding led by IGM Financial. Personal...

San Francisco based financial inclusion startup Juvo has raised $40m in Series B funding led by Wing Venture Capital and New Enterprise...

Chicago based insuretch company Kin Insurance has raised $4m in Series A funding with investors including Commerce Ventures, Omidyar...

Toronto based point-of-sale financing and payments technology company Flexiti Financial has raised $6.25m in debt financing from...

San Francisco based payments company Flutterwave has raised $10m in Series A funding led by Greycroft Partners and Green Visor Capital....

Vancouver based rent payment processor RentMoola has raised $5m in venture funding led by TriView Capital. Solving the age-old problem...

New York based online purchase financing solutions company Bread has raised $126m in Series B funding led by Menlo Ventures. The company...

India based SME lender Lendingkart has raised $10m in debt financing from Kotak Mahindra Bank, Aditya Birla Financial Services, Tata...

Atlanta based SME lender Kabbage has raised $250m in Series F funding led by SoftBank. Kabbage was an early mover in the concept of using...

The CBOE which oversees the largest U.S. options exchange, has entered an agreement with brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss that paves...

Tradeweb, owned by Thomson Reuters and 11 of the biggest investment banks, has submitted an application to the Dutch regulator to...

Prospet's new $50m financing round will value the company at $550 million, down from around $1.9 billion (2015). Prosper has also reduced...

Matt talks about what made him change career trajectories and start Embroker, about challenges in insurance and disrupting the insurance...

A few days in crypto land is an age, but this TechCrunch article from Tuesday does a good job of simply describing the creation of...

Box Options Exchange, an all-electronic equity options market, has won regulatory approval to set up an open-outcry exchange in Chicago...

Xero has announced a new integration with Stripe for its 1-million+ small business subscribers. For Stripe merchants, the reconciliation...

The TXN consumer spending insights app looked for recent trends in Amazon shopping patterns. Key Observations they found: 1) Prime...

Krebs on Security provides a fascinating profile on a new type of card skimmer that fraudsters are using in NYC gas pumps. These skimming...

The divergence in assets is just the latest evidence to show how individual and large investors are changing the way they put money to...

The new self-service API from Quovo allows developers to easily access and manage API tokens directly through the Quovo site....

The SEC ruling that tokens can be regulated as securities has not inhibited plans for new ICOs.  20 new ICOs have already been...