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Young People Are Risky Investors — And It Isn't Paying Off
Openfolio open their data set again to provide more interesting insights into investor trends. This time they pair off younger vs....
TradeBlock Welcomes Jeff Ward as Lead UI Enginee
Jeff's primary responsibility will be the optimization of human-computer interactions on the TradeBlock Professional platform. Jeff has...
Alternative lenders are hot -- especially among Millennials
Alternative lending platforms are catering to Millennials. This generations trusts and understands the power of social platforms. A
LendingClub and billion dollar valuations are just the beginning for online lenders
Last week LendingClub was the first online lending platform to go public. The industry is growing rapidly and aggressively trying to...
Early gamble in OnDeck pays off big for VC funds
When OnDeck raised a Series A in 2006 the company was valued at $2.5 million today it is valued at more than $1.7 billion. Many...
UBS turns to artificial intelligence to advise clients
UBS is tackling its big data problem and using some Silicon Valley tactics to do it. The Swiss bank launched a hackathon ("The...
A day at Betterment's HQ
RIABiz provides some interesting insights on the culture, business model and growth strategies for the robo-advisor, Betterment. With...
The list of fintech focused accelerators is growing
BankInnovation highlights 8 fintech focused accelerators and identifies what makes each one good, bad and different.
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Many Accelerators are domain agnostic. I have already reviewed the Fintech output from Y Combinator, which is generally recogised as the...…
Bitcoin falls even as some Russians turn to cryptocurrency
The recent slide of Russia's currency has led to a large spike in the Ruble-to-Bitcoin volume with the number of trades growing a...
WeWork to raise $300-$400 million with a valuation around $6 billion
WeWork is about to close a round of private equity financing between $300-400 million that will value the startup at around $6 billion....
FinTech Collective featured on CBinsights
FinTech Collective was added to CBinsights' Periodic Table of Fintech. The table provides a great visulaziation of 178 companies,...
NextCapital's hybrid offering helps FAs compete with rival robo-advisor platforms
NextCapital's EVP, Rob Foregger, compares the digitalization of client advice to the advent of online banks. NextCapital believes there...
KPMG's report on the 50 best fintech innovators of 2014
Good overview of the big brand name fintech startups of 2014. KPMG Australia, the Financial Services Council (FSC) and AWI ventures,...
Charitweet lets anyone donate to charity with a tweet
Charitweet is a new platform that is facilitating small donations to any charity on Twitter. Twitter users simply create a new tweet...
Medigo is a marketplace helps patients find better healthcare abroad
Medigo is a Berlin-based company that helps users plan medical tourism trips. The company recently secured EUR 5 million in funding...
UBS Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Advise Clients
UBS Group, facing the threat of competition from non-bank players, has turned to Sqreem Technologies, a Singapore-based technology...
The Murray Inquiry Into Australia's Financial System Is Out
It’s been 16 years since Stan Wallis led a similar inquiry and 32 years since Sir Keith Campbell undertook the first major...
Vanguard quintuples assets in robo-adviser, leapfrogging competitors
Assets in Vanguard Personal Advisor Services grew to $4.2 billion at the end of the third quarter, At the end of 2013, the pilot...
The current state of Machine Intelligence - A Bloomberg study
Many technology companies are now focused on a new kind of method for making sense of data: artificial intelligence, machine learning,...
Is LendingClub a financial company or a technology firm?
If LendingClub is primarily a technology company, then its projected valuation of $4.3 billion to $5 billion seems entirely plausible.
An InsurancCompany Will Pay You to Use Your Fitness Tracker
How it works - Customers who buy health insurance through Oscar (available in NJ/NY), are given a free Misfit step tracker. The tracker...
Ex-JPMorgaExecutive to Join Circle, a Digital Currency Start-Up
As Blockchain.info, the world’s most popular web-based Bitcoin wallet, suffered a security lapse that resulted in the theft of about...
FinTech Collective Leverages Investor Network To Back Investment Networking Firm Openfolio
A good bit of publicity this week for FinTech Collective and Openfolio.
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“We think there’s value in bringing a small group of investors to the table,” says Brooks Gibbins, one of the firm’s co-founders. “in all...…
Wealth Management and Newspapers - an unlikely pairing?
Wealth management is increasingly seen as a profitable new arena for non-wealth firms. Media companies in the UK that are known for...
ICAP brings BrokerTec and EBS under one roof
Brokerage giant ICAP shook up its electronic-trading business this week with Gil Mandelzis being tapped to run the combined ICAP...
MasterCard Opens A Financial Inclusion Lab in Africa
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has partnered with MasterCard to open a lab for financial inclusions in Nairobi, Kenya to...
NACHA kind of moves on "same day" ACH
The Electronic Payments Association formally sought feedback on Same Day ACH. acknowledging that “In today’s environment, everyone...
BehavioSec lands €5 million from Northzone and Octopus to fuel international growth
Used by some of Europe’s largest financial institutions and millions of consumers every day, BehavioSec’s technology supports secure...
Snapchat poaches Credit Suisse's tech banker, Imran Khan
The latest example of bankers fleeing Wall Street to join tech companies comes via Snapchat's hire of Imran Khan. Khan, a...
The rise of the rich man's subprime
This article makes interesting comparisons between the popularity of securities based lending and the credit crisis. Wall Street's...
A bitcoin battle Is brewing
There are die-hard advocates of bitcoin, alt coins, colored coins, sidechains and alternative blockchain applications. This article...
Gentleman hacker returns stolen bitcoins to Blockchain.info
A security vulnerability was found by hackers during an update to Blockchain.info's wallet service. Luckily, these hackers, who stole...
How is Oscar, the hipster health insurance company, performing?
Oscar is the tech-based health insurance company founded by Josh Kushner (Thrive Capital). The company raised a healthy $80 million...
What Airbnb can teach banks about branding
Airbnb has an amazingly engaged community. This article highlights three practical ways that banks can learn from Airbnb and better...
Cleveland startup, Segmint, building off a hot fintech market
Segmint builds products to help banks better understand their customers. Segmint raised $9m to take advantage of the banks ever...
Silicon Valley's hottest startup is scaring insurance brokers and fighting regulators
Zenefits’ software helps small businesses manage all of their human resources functions in one place, such as health insurance,...
Uber adds an additional billion dollars to its coffers
Uber’s ascent is one of the most rapid by a start-up in years. Five years ago, Uber was just an app that allowed customers to summon a...
AvantCredit secures a $225 million Series D funding
AvantCredit, which offers installment loans and lines of credit to borrowers just below prime at higher interest than ordinary rates,...
Why Node.js is facing a possible open-source schism
The Javascript community has been a buzz with criticism of Joyent, the benevolent dictator of Node.js. Five of the top seven...
Quovo's Lowell Putnam: 3 ways to attract millenial clients
Lowell Putnam from Quovo provides advice to investment advisers on how to communicate and attract millennial clients. He's a natural in...
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