Not fintech specifically, but fun non the less!

In his attempt to overthrow global capitalism, Russell Brand has called for an “orgy...

Socure offers online identity verification solutions that protect enterprises against identity fraud. The company combines structured...

Personal Capital has raised $50 million in new funding, the second big deal announced this week in the digital advice market.

Online marketplace Etsy will start offering free credit card readers to some of its U.S. sellers as part of an effort to extend its...

Reddit is starting to monetize its 115 million unique monthly visitors. The company plans to launch a virtual currency and a...

A little bit of press this week in prep for Money2020 and bingo.. The Hackers turn up!

Poynt is a “future-proofed” payment terminal that combines an Android-based tablet with a hardware docking station, and includes...

Jonathan Shieber at Techcrunch has filled this article with some solid data from the Crunchbase database. Big numbers are being thrown...

Brooks weighs in on this timely Financial Times article on Banks needing to pay board level attention to cyber security.

Can't wait to see how cr*p this is at Money2020 next week.

Is Bitcoin winning over the bankers? “I believe – and this is my personal view – that blockchain technology will not only change the...

building a social media community in banking is hard. Very hard. Capital One who lead the charge have 3.2M likes (0.5M more than Chase...

One of the many remarkable stories coming out of this company. Financial literacy and disrupting the money transfer business into jails...

Politicians’ pronouncements are often evasive but when George Osborne declared his hopes for the future of financial technology in...

Are the markets suffering from Ebola fear mongering? It's clear the market doesn't know how to react. The market is placing bets on...

Banks and the EU are becoming interested in currencies such as the Bristol and Brixton Pound, but what is the point of them?Although...

He's the Chief Scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation and the last known person to communicate with Satoshi Nakamoto. As such Andresen is...

Over half of the customer traffic to the website of John Lewis, the UK department store chain, comes from mobile devices, overtaking...

Mohamed El-Erian, the former Pimco chief executive, is moving into the peer-to-peer finance industry after leading a $12M equity raise...

London is making a big push to claim the title as the fintech capital of the world. At TechCrunch Disrupt London, three executives...

Could it be possible that people are too lazy to use the closest ATM? A new startup from San Francisco named Nimbl is making ATM-style...

The Australian Taxation Office’s decision to define cryptocurrency Bitcoin as a commodity has had a fatal ripple-on effect for some...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has predicted that savers could pump as much as £50 billion into UK housing over...

It's nuanced, but the PayPal-eBay breakup means that 70 million underbanked Americans are losing an unlikely champion: new PayPal...

Apparently not yet!

He co-founded PayPal, helped launch Yelp, and his new startup wants to make the credit card obsolete. With Affirm, Levchin is returning...

Another good artcile putting Apple Pay into perspective. Food trucks and startups that rely on Square or Amazon or PayPal to accept...

It launches tomorrow (10.20.14), but you have to ask - Will consumers find Apple Pay handy enough to convert from credit and debit cards?

In the past year only a handful of VC's have raised capital via general solicitation. On the other hand 4,700 companies based in the...

According to Andreessen, Paypal's spin off from eBay could be the first of many large technology institutions that will be forced to...

Well done boyos. The App works a treat!

A great HBS Blog on Beacons.. imagine walking by or into a store and receiving a text message triggered by a beacon at the store...

A bank that adopts more sweeping image technology such as facial recognition or fingerprint identification and uses it to replace...

If you're in San Francisco, perhaps you waved your smartphone over a payment terminal; if in London, maybe you momentarily tapped your...

Android phones have had NFC since end of 2010, and Google Wallet was launched in the US in May 2011. But how many are actually using it...

Is the KYC industry getting "Striped"? BlockScore helps any money transmission business easily complete AML reports. This includes...

Know your Customer (KYC) and Anti Money Laundering (AML) are big problems that start-up financial services firms (and market places)...

The general banker consensus that banks can offer their corporate clients dynamic discounting with e-Invoicing is that there is an...

Quantopian has raised a $15 million Series B round to develop a new type of hedge fund, one that essentially crowdsources the...

A recent study by McKinsey, "Global Payments 2014" provides a great overview of how the payments industry is changing and the impacts...

A recent survey of retail bankers cited that online and mobile platforms are the leading focus of technology investments. Some of the...

Could a PayPal acquisition be the exit that Square investors are hoping for? The companies most recent valuation was $6B, which means...

Big Data, Bitcoin and flummoxed regulators all get an airing in this latest Andreessen interview by Bloomberg. I particulalry enjoyed...

This article provides a good counterpoint to Marc Andreessen's position on Bitcoin. With the IRS suggesting that Bitcoin miners, who...

Starting a bank is sodding hard. Moving a start-up bank onto a platform like BBVA looks like it's even harder!!

Perhaps we need to see less headlines about Bitcoin’s price, and more headlines about Bitcoin-based innovations and applications.

CoinDesk have produced their 69 page "State of Bitcoin" Q3 report. It makes for pretty interesting reading on the back of the recent...

We are extremely excited to announce that Brian McLoughlin is joining FinTech Collective as a Venture Partner based on the West Coast. ...

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) announced this week that it had led a $9.7M round of funding in payment network Dwolla. Is the...

Last year global private fintech startups raised nearly $3 billion. The startups that are receiving funding are disrupting or...

Bitcoin is having a rough week as the price plummeted over 20% to it lowest price point of the year, however that has not stopped...

With the inevitable rise of mobile web browsing, Apple ramped up Safari's HTML5 capabilities with iOS 8. This should be a boon for...

The best and the absurd of Silicon Valley can be seen in a new company named Make a Stand. The founder, Vivienne Harr, is a 10 year...

It was riddled with bugs and was over 5GB in size. Could this be why that only 47% of Apple mobile devices are running the new OS? 8.1...

Is it all about price, price, price or will consumers in New Jersey be lured in by modern tech, connectivity to specialists, doctors...

Collective member Mr. Shillingford sent in a good insurance "what if" story this week that had caught his eye - what if Google and...

Launching initially in Europe, Neptune is the latest in a string of U.S. and European attempts to make corporate-bond trading more...

Clipp, the Aussie version of Cover and Dash here in NYC just closed a deal with Woolworths' $1.5 billion pubs business (ALH Group) that...

Is this David Marcus' move into mobile payments at Facebook? Similar peer-to-peer payment services like Venmo, PayPal and Square Cash...

Both Snapsheet and Estify are emerging disruptors in the car insurance space. Snapsheet recently raised a $10M series B.

A number of folks over the years have had a crack at creating a Bloomberg "lite". Can Mr. Downey succeed where others have failed?...

Australia has historically been a good pocket of fintech innovation. A new report crystallizes the opportunity to take action....and...

Lloyds which includes the brands Halifax and Bank of Scotland has already shed as many as 37,000 jobs since its bailout in 2008. The...

The Center for Public Integrity traveled around the U.S. to investigate the growing web of prison bankers, private vendors and...

We have bumped into a couple of start-ups innovating around this space. This ACE report suggests that based on data from BuildFax, a...

We continue to be interested in how emerging markets and the blockchain might provide the most interesting use case for Bitcoin. Here...

Profits at payday lender Wonga have fallen by more than half, forcing them to ditch their sponsorship of Newcastle United FC. In the...

The current protests / riots in Hong Kong may help Shanghai strengthen its position as China's financial center, however talent is wary...

A jury in Brooklyn found that Arab Bank knowingly supported terrorist activities during the second Palestinian intifada (2000 to 2005),...

Post financial crisis, the regulators have successfully argued that banks should be run as utilities, not casinos. As such banks have...

With capital from three unnamed providers, Kabbage has entered the consumer lending space to compete with Lending Club and Prosper. To...