San Francisco based tech platform for global trade has raised $100m in funding from SF Express, the leading courier company in China. 

Los Angeles based insurance product for the rental market has raised $10m Series A capital led by Wildcat Venture Partners, with...

Austin based cashback app Dosh has raised a $44m Series A at a $240m post-money valuation, led by PayPal and Goodwater Capital.

An eye opening read from Inc. Magazine - When Ethan Bloch launched Digit, he was sure chatbots were the next big thing. Now he thinks...

The 1st generation of chatbots in financial services has yet to win over the majority of consumers. But as the technology improves...

Felix Salmon digs into the not so recent trend of technology companies not adhering to the normal rules of Wall Street. When Spotify...

Mick Mulvaney, the interim director of the CFPB, told banking industry executives that he did not see anything under the 2010 Dodd-Frank...

Gemini, the bitcoin exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, has teamed up with Nasdaq to beef up its defenses against market...

PIMCO used to rely heavily on one man to make many of its key investment decisions. Now it’s betting a big part of its future on millions...

Arizona based student financial services platform has raised $55m in growth equity funding led by JML Equity. CampusLogic works with...

Celent, a leading global financial services and advisory firm, has announced that MoneyLion has won the award for demonstrating...

This great, but terrifying, Bloomberg tear down on Palantir is a long read, but is instructive on how, as a former JPMorgan cyber expert...

The development of consumer lending in China has hit a speed bump as the P2P industry falls foul of a regulatory clampdown on borrowing...

Veteran Wall Street analyst and hedge fund manager, James Waggoner recommends investing in IOTA as it offers investors the opportunity to...

Binance founder Zao Chanpeng is being sued in Hong Kong court by Sequoia who claims he violated their exclusivity agreement when Zao...

Bangalore based online lender has announced a $22m Series C extension from Amazon.  This is an extension of its $45m Series C raised...

Portfolio company Moneylion has announced a long term deal to utilize Cambr (Q2 and StoneCastle's joint product) to power its deposit...

The privacy-centric cryptocurrency project raised $30m in an pre-ICO round led by Binance Labs, the major blockchain incubator associated...

Justin Schmidt, former quant trader at Seven Eight Capital and WorldQuant, will help GS client's gain exposure to cryptoassets....

A couple of Domain Name System registration servers for MyEtherWallet (MEW) were hijacked and redirected users to an unsecure, phishing...

New York based digital credit card startup has raised a $3m Series Seed led by Point72, with participation from Plug and Play and...

New York based digital asset trading platform has raised a $10m Series A from SBI Holdings and Raptor Group.

San Francisco based bitcoin rival, developed by the founder of BitTorrent, has raised a $3.4m seed round led by Naval Ravikant and joined...

Stockholm based wealth management startup Qapital has raised $30m in venture financing from Swedbank Robur and Northzone.

The 23.96 year old Russian / Canadian coder gets interviewed over lunch by the FT on the highs and lows of being at the helm of one of...

Data compiled by CryptoCompare shows that trading activity on crypto exchanges has halved to $9.1b from its December $17b peak as retail...

When Amazon Go opened to the public in January there was, as one senior retailer put it, a collective sigh of embarrassment "because here...

The story is a familiar one: we are moving ever closer to a cashless world, as “disruptive technology” comes along that allows us to pay...

The website of Frankfurt-based cryptocurrency startup Savedroid, which is said to have raised $50m in funding from its recent ICO went...

In a move to lower its cost base, Transferwise has become the first non-bank payment services provider to hold a settlement account in...

LendAcademy provides the highlights from the many keynotes and more at LendIt Fintech USA 2018 held in San Francisco April 9-11....

New Jersey based stable cryptocurrency has raised $133m in a private placement from Bain Capital, Lightspeed, A16Z, Foundation, and Valor.

San Francisco p2p crypto goods marketplace has raised $6m from Spark Capital.  Rare Bits has eight employees and the founders...

Canada based instant payroll lender has raised $11.4m of capital led by TTV.  Instant Financial's mission is to "empower millions of...

Huge congrats to portfolio company Wunder Capital and its CEO, Bryan Birsic, on a successful Series B fund raise led by Cyrus Capital....

Some on Wall Street are speculating that VIX, the CBOE's volatility index, may be manipulable after some unusual price swings just as VIX...

Adyen, the high-growth European payments processer, revealed that it generated over $1.1b of revenue for 2017.  Adyen is eyeing a...

The complex financial product has been used by, as one banker put it, "Oligarchs use this product; a lot of Russians and Ukrainians" with...

The plan is part of a broader digital push by ANA, which hopes to build on data collected from the 31m users of its airline miles to...

In an Alphaville guest post an investment banker argues that fintech valuations will fall steeply across the board this year. The article...

Los Angeles based micro lender for emerging markets has raised $50m of Series C financing and $15m of debt capital, led by Revolution...

The reported fine of about $1 billion is related to misbehavior with regards to recommending auto insurance and mortgage rate locks their...

San Francisco based startup building technology to tokenize ownership of illiquid assets has raised a $28m venture financing, led by...

Portfolio company Vestwell has a new distribution in Namely, a leading HR platform for mid-sized companies.  The new offering...

Goldman Sachs has acquired personal finance startup Clarity Money, which now has about 1 million users, for a sum that is reportedly in...

New York based smart contract language startup has raised a $12m SAFT from Devonshire Investors, SIG, Asimov Investments, Multicoin...

NYC based Orchard, a provider of lending data and services for institutional investors, is set to be acquired by SME lending platform...

Rob Foregger, co-founder of portfolio company NextCapital and previously the co-founder of Personal Capital, recently reviewed the need...

The FT conducted a survey of 30 leading banks’ use of AI and revealed that despite the hype the reality is much more complicated with an...

According to SEC documents, the agency has started proceedings to determine whether to approve a rule change that would allow two ETFs...

The now shuttered coal-fired power station on Australia's east coast will offer cheap power prices to blockchain operators. What is the...

As the WSJ points out, until AI can learn on the fly as our brains do, it will never be truly intelligent. One avenue to teaching AI to...

A great long form read on the life and times of "the Forrest Gump of bitcoin" Mike Novogratz who graciously spoke at our annual LP/ CEO...

Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) released domestic cryptocurrency trading statistics for the first time. Data points to 3.5m...

In a sign the old guard can't get ignore the budding crypto space, Venrock has partnered with Brooklyn based cryptocurrency investor...

France based health insurance startup Alan closed a $28.3m Series A round led by Index Ventures.  Alan wants to make health...

New York based technology platform for open communication between companies and their owners has raised $8 million Series Seed funding...

UK based small business lender has raised £57.5m in total funding from British Business Investments, Paragon Bank, and BCI Finance. 

The financial services group that was carved out of Alibaba seven years is prepping to raise $9b in private funding at a valuation of...

After two years of development, Santander Group is launching a blockchain-based app, built on Ripple's tech infrastructure, for...

With 30m in the US without a bank account, PayPal is expanding into traditional banking through partnership with smaller banks to offer...

Using anonymized customer data to determine where people were most likely to request a fraud alert be placed on their cards, it is not so...

Silicon Valley has given its two most noted fintech outcasts a second chance. Lapanche (Lending Club's ousted founder and CEO) new...

NYC based proxy vote startup has raised an $8m seed round led by Point72 Ventures.

Palo Alto based secure communication platform has raised $67m of Series D capital from Barclays, Bpifrance, and CLSA.  Symphony’s...

San Francisco based independent contractor payment and lending service has raised $5m of Series A capital led by Mosaik.  The...

We are super proud of Moneylion's mission to rebundle the bank for those who need it most (America's middle class) - offering premium...

Portfolio company Quovo is launching a new product, Income + Expense, that equips lenders with insights to streamline origination,...

The company, which operates a lending platform that enables retailers, health-care providers and home contractors to offer loans to their...

CNBC dissects the considerations in choosing a robo provider from access to a human financial adviser, potential for investment vehicle...

This week the NY Fed is introducing SOFR, it's LIBOR alternative, ahead of LIBOR's scheduled 2021 demise.  Unlike LIBOR, SOFR is...

SoFi's half a million members will now have access to Korn Ferry's online assessments, resume reviews, and career coaching as the student...

NYC based asset-backed lender for SMEs has raised a $150m credit facility from MidCap financial.

The iShares MSCI USA Small-Cap ESG Optimized ETF, which will start trading April 12, will track investment results of an index that is...

Chinese regulators are using the Chinese Depository Receipt to entice mainland technology giants, who left for broader access to global...

Shares in Monex Group closed near a 10-year high today after the Japanese online brokerage firm said it would pay $33.5m (¥3.6bn) for...

In a recent trip to London Mr. Dorsey explains that while many tech firms brag about trying to destroy the banks “That’s not our...

CivilisedBank, a UK challenger bank, that was aiming to start lending to British businesses in the coming months has given up its banking...

The head of macro investing for Soros Fund Management has received internal approval to trade digital assets - though they have not made...

Having been on the ground there and with two portfolio companies in Lagos (Mines.io and a yet to be announced second portfolio company)...

Oh dear! America should get out and about a bit more!

Los Angeles based real estate loan investment platform has raised a $29.5m Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Portfolio company Neighborly describes how, in addition to the potential social impact, ESG investments are important to reduce...

Los Angeles based identity verification startup Spring Labs has raised a $15m Series A, led by August Capital.

By investing in other crypto businesses, including some that may become competitive with Coinbase, the company hopes to further seed the...

Users will be able to make deposits into an account where they will earn interest and won't incur fees when transferring money to other...

Though the number of ICOs completed fell by more than 20% in Q1, the amount of capital raised actually increased from about $3b in Q4 to...

New York based cyrptocurrency forensic intelligence platform has raised $16m in Series A capital from Benchmark.  This is the first...

Fundstrat Global Advisors has a new thesis for the crypto selloff and its just the good old Tax Man - it estimates that US households had...

Hong Kong trading platform OkEx experienced an "irregular" sell-off that plunged its bitcoin futures to $4,755, while the regular Bitcoin...

New Jersey based investment API provider has raised a $21m Series B led by Point72 Ventures.

San Francisco based bitcoin payment processor has raised a $40m Series B led by Menlo Ventures and Aquiline Technology Growth.

Boston based digital gift card startup Nift has raised a $16.5m Series A from Spark Capital, Foundry Group and Accomplice VC.