Paris and Washington D.C. based business decisioning platform has raised $13.3m in venture financing from Japia.

Minneapolis based health insurance startup has raised a $200m Series C from Bessemer Venter Partners and other investors.

New York based loan origination and syndication platform has raised a $6.5m Series A led by Valar Ventures.

The Alphaville team give eToro some heat for their most recent advertisement on Mumsnet, the UK parenting website.

In Europe, b2b fintech start-ups have attracted less investment than their consumer-focused rivals, but the gap is starting to close. In...

US consumers purchased more than $2 billion of goods straight from their phones on Black Friday.

VanEck, SolidX and the Cboe BZX Exchange met with SEC staff earlier this week to present a new argument centered around the idea that the...

Despite millennials' much maligned, unofficial hipster status, the Fed's study indicates they're pretty mainstream and quite poor!

Hong Kong based mobile lending and financial inclusion platform has raised $105m in equity capital from Berjaya Group, JG Summit, and...

Boston based lending-as-a-service and marketing platform for community and regional banks has raised an additional $8m in financing led...

Boston based educational fintech startup has raised $2m of Series Seed funding from Sound Ventures (Ahston Kutcher) and Marc Benioff....

Philippines based mobile wallet provider has raised $215m from Tencent and IFC.  The business was started by telecom operator PLDT...

Index funds have grown at tremendous pace, now totaling over $6 trillion and representing more than 17% of total stock market value....

California based tokenized securities platform has raised a $12.75m Series A led by Blockchain Capital.

Moody's is planning to complement its credit ratings business with a rating on risk from cyberattacks.  The initiative may help...

After a bearish year of price swings that culminated in a tightly wound sideways movement, the bottom dropped out for the crypto market...

Florida based crypto network activity tracker has raised $4.5m Series Seed capital from DCG, Coinbase Ventures, and Castle Island Ventures.

Steemit, the social media platform built around the STEEM digital asset, is reorganizing its structure and downsizing 70% of its workers....

San Francisco based digital bank and credit card provider has raised $16m of venture financing from Eniac, NEA, Nyca, and Silicon Valley...

The explorer is a tool designed to offer a more complete picture of economic activity for crypto assets beyond just price.  For...

AllianceBernstein's virtual assistant "Abbie" can now suggest the best bonds to buy and sell based on price, ease-of-trading and risk.

Portfolio company Quovo has become the first US-based financial account data provider to join the Open Banking directory - which is...

Palo Alto based connected commerce platform Poynt raised $100 million in Series C funding from Elavon and National Australia Bank.

HSBC has joined portfolio company Axoni's Series B, bringing the total financing to $36m and total funding to date to $59.  HSBC and...

We are super proud of the achievements of our very own Founding Partner! Gareth will be receiving the leadership award from the St....

Greg and Jeff Schvey, founders of portfolio company Axoni, have been recognized as two of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2018...

A Chinese headmaster has been fired after a secret stack of crypto-currency mining machines was found connected to his school's...

Neighborly received 100+ applications from advocates and elected representatives to participate in their broadband accelerator and will...

Portfolio company MoneyLion, America’s most powerful financial membership, announced a multi-year partnership with Team Penske, beginning...

Wall Street’s quant wizards often argue that many of their math-driven strategies are designed for the long-term, but with global...

Really? TechCrunch speaks to the founders of Brex about the challenges of scaling quickly, how a Brex card compares to traditional...

Credit Karma has made an acquisition to help it kick-start its first overseas expansion beyond the US and Canada by acquiring Noddle, a...

A comic article by the FT pointing out that it was tempting to hear echoes of Ricky Gervais’ sitcom office manager in Lloyds Banking...

The FT explores how AI and blockchain are moving relatively fast in an industry bound by tradition with the launch this year of "Portion"...

At Devcon IV, the annual Ethereum gathering, the suits of Wall Street that had plagued the event last year were noticeably absent with...

Jeff Garzik started writing software code for Bitcoin in July 2010. In this article he speculates on who Nakamoto really is and explains...

According to the WSJ advisers with under $100 million AUM represent 70% of the addressable market which makes good business sense for the...

The deal would split Amazon's long awaited second headquarters between Long Island City (across the Hudson River from Manhattan) and...

Though Amazon's new Long Island City hub is stealing the headlines, Google is also quietly planning a major expansion in Gotham....

A token curated registry - or publicly available list than is generated by participants who stake their tokens - can be a valuable...

The DTCC has announced that it is performing industry-wide testing on its project to re-platform its credit derivatives TIW ("trade...

The UK peer to peer lender has closed £60 million of fresh equity financing from undisclosed investors. The company is intent on gaining...

Germany-based challenger bank N26 is bringing its services to Denmark, Norway, Poland, and Sweden - this news comes just weeks after the...

Zachary Coburn, founder of Etherdelta, is paying the price for operating a DEX (decentralized crypto exchange) within the US.  DEX,...

Israel based securities lending platform has raised $5m of equity funding from Blumberg, Maverick Ventures Israel, Target Global, and...

San Francisco-based blockchain hardware and software provider has raised $80m led by Korea's Naver Group, with participation from Galaxy...

To top off a solid week that saw JPM reveal it had created an enterprise version of ethereum blockchain, Vitalik announced in Prague that...

Morgan Stanley has come out and official said crypto is a net new institutional asset class.   It estimates that there are now ~220...

In order to drive mainstream adoption, Blockchain and the Stellar Development Foundation will be doing the largest crypto public give...

The mid-term elections have seen Augur's open interest in betting contracts rise to 10,134 , or just over $2.1m, with the most popular...

Recode provides an overview of one of the nation's most competitive congressional battles.  Josh Harder, a former VC for Bessemer,...

African farmers comprise $100b of the continent's GDP.  Now technological innovation is starting to help these farmers boost...

James Waldinger, Founder and CEO of Artivest talks to the Bank on it podcast about how he was able to raise a $2,000,000 seed round with...

Congratulations to the 5 FinTech Collective portfolio companies Axoni, Reonomy, Neighborly, Quovo and MoneyLion who all made it onto CB...

Helped by some regulatory clarity, Israelis are less than 0.1% of the global population, but are comprising between 3 to 5% of global ICO...

The FTC claims that since atleast April 2016, Social Finance has been promoted false statements about loan refinancing savings in TV,...

A short but important reminder of the cost of starting a company - your mental and emotional well-being.

Berkshire's newest industry bet appears to be on payments. In addition to the start-ups revealed this week, Berkshire Hathaway has a...

In a departure from company’s usual penchant for blue-chip companies in steady businesses, Berkshire invested around $600 million in...

In what might be the ultimate contrarian move, the UK's largest robo advisor Nutmeg is launching a service to provide financial advice...

On the bleeding edge of fraud detection, some Chinese banks are scanning customer facial expressions (with tech developed by Ping An) to...

Education researcher Erin Dunlop Velez crunched data that was recently released by the Department of Education, and found that only half...

As quant funds compete away alpha in the US, some are looking to foreign markets to bring their craft. The FT highlights how Schonfeld is...

Bitcoin celebrated is tenth birthday on Halloween - and in its first decaded of existence has gained tremendous reach and $100b in market...

San Francisco based life insurance startup has raised $35m in venture financing led by Accel.

Vancouver based blockchain gaming startup (famous for Cryptokitties) has raised a $15m Series B led by Venrock.