Josh Brown, CEO of Ritholtz Wealth, sat down with Vestwell's Aaron Schumm to discuss how advisors can leverage the right tools to take...

This is why portfolio company Vestwell has partnered with OnPay, a payroll software company, to give plan sponsors access to a seamless...

New York based Better Mortgage has raised a $75m Series C from American Express Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Goldman Sachs and others.

Bloomberg is now making alternative datasets available to customers through the company's Enterprise Access Point.  Some of the...

Congrats to Bryan Birsic, CEO of solar financing company Wunder Capital, and his team for being named by Fast Company as one of the most...

While the target size for the VC fund is $175m, Pantera new fund is targeting to support 30 to 50 companies and expects a huge shift to...

Paris based health insurance startup has raised $45m of Series B funding from Index Ventures and DST Global.

SF based blockchain and cryptocurrency security firm has raised $15m in equity funding led by Aspect Ventures, with participation from...

Austin based construction finance platform has raised $8m in Series A funding with participation from Goldman Sachs, QED, and Camber Creek.

UK based platform for SMB accountants to access analytics and resources has raised $4.6m in a Series A funding round led by QED with...

In a nation where more than half the population is unbanked, Mexico's new leftist government recently announced it is planning a digital...

As the world moves towards cashless payments using cards or mobile devices regulators in several US states are pointing out that an...

The raise was made up of a £20m series D equity funding round and £130m in debt capital.

Back in 2011 the computers used by the “flash boys” took around five millionths of a second to cut a trade. Today, the data is moving 60...

Great NY Times history lesson of how NYC became a tech town post financial crisis with some great stories on Tim Armstrong, Mike...

The unsecured personal loan market in the US increased 17% last year, reaching $138b. Fintech companies issued 38% of all U.S. personal...

Apple and Goldman hope to lure cardholders by offering them extra features on Apple's Wallet app.  While Apple already takes a small...

Alex Sunnarborg, co-founder of Tetras Capital, a NYC based crypto HF with ~$30m in AUM, is not convinced by this week's 20%+ crypto...

As part of its effort to offer more diverse crypto assets across borders and become the "Google of Crypto," Coinbase has acquired...

Looking to expand beyond lending, Business Insider reports the $4bn SF fintech that got its start in grad student financing was in talks...

With access to detailed information and data on each seller, Amazon is able to lend quickly and effectively while mitigating risk to its...

Bethesda based maker of point-of-sale solutions for restaurants raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Cota Capital.

San Mateo based provider of consumer behavior analytics raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners and...

New York-based provider of cryptocurrency compliance solutions raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Accel.

London-based digital wallet startup raised $40 million in Series B funding co-led by Stripe and General Catalyst.

Acorns will be featured for multiple races in 2019, making its debut with the Ryan Newman behind car No. 6 Ford Mustang at the Atlanta...

Schwab and Fidelity are making hundreds more ETFs free to trade on their platforms.  Fidelity specified that it would expand its...

New York based commercial auto insurance platform has raised a $7m Series A led by Munich Re.

Jase Wilson the CEO of Neighborly uses a thankfully absurd, but fun, analogy to highlight how America's community broadband is broken and...

Visa and MasterCard are mulling increasing interchange fees (which merchants pay to issuing banks) as well as fees that card networks...

Courtney McColgan, CEO of portfolio company Runa HR, will be speaking at South by Southwest on the rise of the tech startup ecosystem in...

In the saturated stable coin market, JP Morgan is rolling out a coin that is redeemable for fiat and powered by its private permissioned...

Courtney McColgan, Founder and CEO of Mexico City HQ'd Runa, will speak at SXSW (03.08.19) about how a new generation of LATAM...

UK based challenger bank has raised £75m ($97m) in Series C funding from Merian Global Investors and existing shareholders.

Morgan Stanley is shelling out $900m to acquire Solium, which manages the stock that corporate employees receive as part of their pay....

The CEO of ICE announced that the firm's digital asset platform which was expected to launch at the end of 2018, will now be expecting a...

Coindesk highlights some bizarre activity around QuadrigaCX as it looks to follow the crypto trail prior to the exchange founder's death.

Oaknorth, the fast-growing UK bank that specialises in lending to small and medium sized businesses, is raising $440m from Softbank’s...

Visa International trumped Mastercard’s £233 million offer today for a small British fintech with a £247 million counter-bid, in a battle...

London-based start-up Bud had an embarrassment of riches last week when it announced a $20m fundraising round supported by no fewer than...

Tink, the European open banking platform HQ'd in Sweden, raised €56m from U.S.-based Insight Venture Partners.

Jetty, a startup that provides renters insurance, deposit, and lease guarantees raised a $25m Series B led by Keith Rabois of Khosla...

Founded in 2015, Bink’s Payment Linked Loyalty platform allows customers to link payment cards to loyalty programmes, enabling them to...

Raisin, the pan-European fintech marketplace for savings and investment products has raised $114 million in Series D funding.

Personal Capital announced that it has raised $50 million in a Series F funding round led by IGM Financial, the largest investor and...

The Crypto Facilities acquisition means Kraken is the first crypto exchange to offer both spot and futures trading in currencies like...

The FTs "Big Read" this week starts by explaining how a jovial 33-year-old Indonesian accountant for the global payments group Wirecard,...

Chase hopes to increase its share of the global treasury services market by almost 50 per cent in the “next few years” by merging its...

Suspects are always told to put on a smart suit and a humble manner for a court appearance. It’s not so different for bankers facing...

Portfolio company Reonomy is highlighted as an important part of the CRE tech stack for investors interested in Opportunity Zones.

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has begun the process of defining which cryptoassets it will be regulated by opening a...

According to Bloomberg, the prevailing vibe at the Paris fintech summit was that there’s plenty of action in banking, lending and...

Bloomberg details the rise of XP Investimentos, now the leading retail brokerage in Brazil.  The company was most recently valued at...

Forbes highlights the bright future ahead for portfolio company Plaid after its recent acquisition of Quovo.  Plaid and Quovo are...

London based B2B open banking startup has raised a $20m Series B led by HSBC and Goldman Sachs.

San Francisco based protocol for decentralized lending has raised $7m in Series A financing led by Green Visor, with participation from...

San Francisco based cryptocurrency exchange services provider, Kraken, has acquired FCA regulated crypto futures provider, Crypto...

The biggest news in crypto this week is the sudden death of QuadrigaCX's 30 year old founder from Crohn's disease, leaving 115k clients...

Congratulations to portfolio companies Axoni and Plaid for being highlighted in the Forbes "FinTech 50" for 2019!  It appears the...

Congrats to portfolio company Axoni on making the Fintech 50 list as it works to replatform traditional capital markets alongside the...

Despite crypto prices falling off a cliff in 2018, the U.S. dollar value of crypo stolen from exchanges or investors surged by more than...

Despite the infamous shutdown of the Silk Road in 2013, Darknet Activity has continued to climb in recent years.  In 2018, $603m...

Stripe announced it raised an additional $100 million from Tiger Global Management this week, boosting its valuation to $22.5 billion.

Portfolio company TradeBlock has found the transaction volume on the top four digital stablecoins (based on on-chain volume) is now...

Six years after being acquired by PayPal, the cherished app of millennials is finally generating solid revenue for its larger, older,...

Visa and Mastercard share a common frustration: Neither is doing business in China more than a year after both companies submitted...

Cryptocurrencies stolen from exchanges and scammed from investors surged more than 400% in 2018 to around $1.7b, according to a report...

Two groups of highly sophisticated cyber criminals have likely stolen $1B+ in cryptocurrency hacks. Alpha group is “a giant, tightly...

VC backed financial technology companies raised a record $39.57B from investors in 2018. The surge in funding was due in large part to 52...