I need to test drive this...

UK Banks could be required to refer small businesses to alternative funding providers under proposals being considered by the UK...

I stumbled across a new term today - The "Brexit" (rather than the Grexit).. There clearly seems to be growing debate in Britain about...

No one wants to be told to each their vegetables.

Targeting financial applications to consumers for spending and investing has to do...

Nasdaq is creating an exchange that will enable LPs to sell their investments before the fund matures. This market will also help...

Stay tuned to see how an infamous hacker shorts the market. Andrew Auernheimer, who was previously arrested for releasing thousands of...

Israel crowdfunding platform, OurCrowd, announces it has raised an additional $25M in funding. Is this all equity financing? Some...

The move appears to be a response to lessons learned during the Waking Shark II security response exercise last November. The exercise...

An easy and engaging read that helps you get past the "bitcoin is just a currency that will probably disappear" conversation... Like I...

Gemalto built a few of these for a bank in the Middle East a few years back.. They came complete with an ATM in the back!

I stumbled across this blog and have only read the interview with Carl Anderson, Director of Data Science at Warby Parker (and...

Really very interesting.. Well done to our friends at Devonshire Investors for getting involved early..

The Nasdaq outage last summer prompted U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Jo White (pictured below) to demand market...

Hot on the heels of the last post - Switzerland's position at the top of the table for offshore private client wealth is coming under...

Aite Group published a report late last week that shows us where the worlds wealthy are parking their cash.. Whilst under pressure from...

The Guardian Newspaper ran an article this week highlighting that an independent Scotland would need the support of the UK Treasury and...

According to Perez Hilton (yup the ever reliable source of grot), Chase Bank recently sent letters to hundreds of porn performers...

As noted here by VentureBeat, Apple may be gearing up to build its own proprietary mobile payment system.

That’s according to a study...

OnDot is a startup out of San Jose, CA that works with banks to add features, security, and services to a customer's credit cards via...

I have recently re-discovered podcasts for my commute to work.. Here Andreessen Horowitz’s Chris Dixon, Balaji Srinivasan and...

Here is a link to a great 20 minute podcast from Freakonomics that captures both sides of the bitcoin argument. They talk to bitcoin fan...

Avoid hanging out at the liquor store and casino if you want an online loan in Russia. Bank's are starting to use location tracking...

As banks struggle to adjust to new regulations and grow revenues the regulators are being compensated nicely for their misery. Should...

Must be nice to have Ed Norton (Yes, the Ed Norton from Fight Club) as one of your founders. Ed and his co-founders conceived the idea...

I ate two of these today and they are indeed one of Britain's finest exports.. Some would even call them "the dog's back wheels..."...

Large retailers continue to provide banking products. Walmart views money transfers as an indirect revenue driver because their "banking...

Quovo is a financial technology company that reimagines sophisticated portfolio analytics and data management tools for investors.

TRADEBLOCK graduated from Y Combinator in SF and are heading back to New York. Greg is HUGELY credible on the topics of distributed...

China continues to provide an interesting reference point on the dominant and trusted tech brands launching a broad range of financial...

"What's your interest in Bill and Ben in the pick?"

As the FCA in London digs deeper into their foreign exchange investigation Banks...

Lending Club expands its capabilities and further builds value in preparation for a rumored IPO.

Often the last-mentioned segment when talking about "FinTech", Insurance holds a treasure trove of opportunity. But...be prepared, it...

The struggle for banks to successfully defend on all fronts (shareholder, customer, regulator, competitor, disruptor) is real.

And the...

We don't get to write many news updates on firms disrupting the insurance space. it's a space we are keenly watching and are actively...

This week, it was Big Deal Tuesday as LearnVest and Betterment raise a total of $60M

Angel List, FundersClub and CircleUp have led the charge. However the big boys like Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz's...

Marc Andreessen and other VCs are keen to invest in a disruptive bank. Jack Gavigan outlines what he believes this bank should look like.

Teenagers are now spending as much, if not more, on food as on clothing, according to Piper Jaffray’s semi-annual report on teen...

European retailers are developing their own mobile payment options to help capture more data on their customers, reduce the queue...

Companies have always needed to be diligent in keeping ahead of hackers — email and leaky employee devices are an old problem — but the...

The BBA recently published a dissertation arguing that “A revolution is underway in how people spend, move and manage their money....

A fascinating piece of research from PEW.. They cover the Demographic transformation that is happening in the US right now, both of...

It seems everyone wants to be in the payments business, Facebook is the latest entrant.

Now that's not a headline I expected to see! Maybe the hot water they landed in last week with the UK Advertising Watchdog got them...

HBS Prof. Clayton Christensen is best known for his widespread study of innovation in commercial enterprises. His first book, The...

Interesting payments capabilities coming out of Amazon. They have all the personal information (credit card and address) the question...

As trading volumes at investment banks decrease, they are increasingly looking for ways to address the high fixed costs and lower...

The Partnership for New York City, a nonprofit membership organization comprised of a select group of two hundred CEOs from New York...

A comic strip adds humor and simplicity to the complex topic of bitcoin.

Huge congrats to the Kabbage Team..

Commerce features highly in our FinTech thesis and as Tom Bulgin, one of our old Multex Colleagues, is busy building his own super...

Mercaris was co-founded in 2012 by two entrepreneurs who were both previously working at the Chicago Climate Exchange. Small for now,...

We like friction-less payments, but paypal should be aware (i am sure they are) that there are quite a few start-ups chasing that...

More sh*t for 8 largest US banks to worry about this week.. Some worry that this new move by the regulators to force an increase in...

Wonga just got into trouble in the UK with this advert, but... Using a bank overdraft can be as expensive as a payday loan. According to...

Social scientist Heather Schlegel is a futurologist. She recently funded (via Kickstarter) a TV series called "The Future of Money"...

Squeezed by falling revenue on deposit accounts, banks are turning to a familiar source of income: overdraft fees.

No magic formula exposed here, but a good article from Anna Irrera with quotes from a number of the people involved in FinTech...

Another key Executive leaves Google Wallet.. Peter Hazlehurst’s departure comes hot on the heels of Philippe Dauman who recently left...

Ooops! The 12-year-old software powers more than 95 percent of the world's cash machines and MSFT will end support of it on April 8th,...

Simple started out 4yrs ago to "build a bank that doesn’t suck".. Now that BBVA own it will the two become a new powerhouse bank?

What is Goldman Sachs up to? When Michael Lewis unveiled his book Flash Boys, the bank discreetly lent him support. Then it emerged...

Some folks are now saying Square's growth is starting to plateau (the IPO has been put on hold). However, no one can deny however that...

Naval goes deep with his description of the "Fifth Protocol".. Some interesting comments in there too from folks like Fred Wilson.

The peer-to-peer lender is getting into mortgages and personal loans.. The new capital comes from the hedge fund Discovery Capital...

Originally a predominately African based service mainly targeted toward the unbanked, M-Pesa has now come to Europe.. The Romanian...

Eric Schmidt (Google) has said before that data can change Insurance, As this rather expensive $900 report points out "Google’s rapid...

An interesting new twist for the UKs hugely profitable payday loan market.

The Wunderkinds Joe Lonsdale, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Ashton Kutcher have just invested $40M in a growth round at VICARIOUS to...

Our friends at Next Capital give RIABiz an overview of their business