11/28/2014 6:33:09 PM Sydney fintech hub coming in April By FinTech Collective Next year Syndey will open a new fintech co-working space, which will be modeled off of London's Level 39. A consortium comprising...
11/28/2014 6:25:14 PM S.E.C.'s delay on crowdfunding may save it By FinTech Collective While the S.E.C. dawdles, states are rushing to adopt their own crowdfunding rules. Ironically, it might be the one thing that saves it...
11/28/2014 6:13:51 PM Apple Pay competitor Android Pay is coming to China By FinTech Collective It looks like Apple Pay will soon face some competition in the mobile payments space from its biggest competitor, Android. Android Pay...
11/28/2014 5:49:26 PM Laughing All The Way to the Un-Bank By Gareth Jones More Americans own and operate a cellphone (90%) than have a bank account (80%).The underbanked market is a vast with a buying power of...
11/28/2014 4:25:43 PM Clinkle Startups Mobile Payments Troubled Mobile Payments Startup Clinkle Is Giving Away By Gareth Jones Much derided mobile payments startup Clinkle has unveiled its customer acquisition strategy: bribing students with $20 bills from a...
11/26/2014 9:27:09 PM Michael Dell's WSJ Op-Ed - Going private is paying off for Dell By FinTech Collective Michael Dell wrote a great article for the WSJ. Dell gave his opinion on the importance of investing in the future and believing in the...
11/26/2014 9:01:17 PM eToro, the social trading platform from Israel raises $15m By FinTech Collective eToro enables retail traders to invest and share their trades, performance and strategies online. Social traders can “follow” each other...
11/26/2014 3:15:56 PM Goldman leads a $15m investment in Kensho By FinTech Collective Kensho wants to replace equity analyst with software. The cloud-based software can answer more than 65 million question combinations by...
11/26/2014 3:05:46 PM Lending platform Mirador Financial to white-label its technology for banks By FinTech Collective Congrats to Mirador on their $2m raise. Earlier this year, FinTech Collective spent time looking at this Portland based startup. ...
11/24/2014 1:36:59 AM UK ‘fintech’ start-ups race for US expansion By Gareth Jones British tech start-ups like WorldRemit, TransferWise and Azimo are focused on cracking the multibillion-dollar global remittances market...
11/21/2014 3:01:16 PM Regulators fine Royal Bank of Scotland ₤56m for IT failure By Gareth Jones During the disruption in 2012 caused by a faulty batch processing scheduler customers could not: Use online banking facilities to...
11/21/2014 2:53:12 PM 16 Bitcoin startups investor Tim Draper has personally funded By Gareth Jones He's definitely keen! Tim Draper admits to having personally backed 17 bitcoin start-ups so far. VentureBeat could only find 16 of them...
11/21/2014 2:46:18 PM A Windy City Provider of Trading Software Acquires a Chicago-Based FinTech Startup By Gareth Jones Chicago fintech got a boost this week with two firms based in the city joining forces. OptionsCity Software, a global provider of...
11/21/2014 2:37:09 PM Y Combinator-backed Sliced Investing nabs $2M for its hedge-fund-by-the-slice service By Gareth Jones Hedge funds managed $2.82 trillion as of the end of Q3 2014 but some investors are pulling back. due to high expenses and lower returns...
11/21/2014 2:29:30 PM Wonga loses third chief executive in disastrous year By Gareth Jones The interim chief executive of troubled UK payday lender Wonga, who was appointed to bring stability while the firm searched for a...
11/21/2014 2:26:03 PM Snapcash: Snapchat introduces mobile payment system to make your money disappear By Gareth Jones This video explains the service with all the pizzazz and panache of a 1950s musical.. Square and Snapchat are however going to have to...