4/30/2014 10:27:27 PM Square Now Lets Merchants Collect Payments Offline And In Advance For Order Pickup By Gareth Jones I need to test drive this...
4/30/2014 10:20:36 PM UK High Street banks could be obliged to name alternative lenders for small businesses By Gareth Jones UK Banks could be required to refer small businesses to alternative funding providers under proposals being considered by the UK...
4/30/2014 10:13:20 PM EU exit could wreck UK financial capital, says City lobby group By Gareth Jones I stumbled across a new term today - The "Brexit" (rather than the Grexit).. There clearly seems to be growing debate in Britain about...
4/30/2014 10:12:06 PM Manipulate Me: The Booming Business in Behavioral Finance By Brooks Gibbins No one wants to be told to each their vegetables. Targeting financial applications to consumers for spending and investing has to do...
4/30/2014 2:32:39 PM PE funds are increasingly looking for ways to allow new investors into their funds By FinTech Collective Nasdaq is creating an exchange that will enable LPs to sell their investments before the fund matures. This market will also help...
4/29/2014 11:19:11 PM Infamous hacker starting a hedge fund named TRO LLC By FinTech Collective Stay tuned to see how an infamous hacker shorts the market. Andrew Auernheimer, who was previously arrested for releasing thousands of...
4/29/2014 1:58:14 AM That is a Big Crowd By Brooks Gibbins Israel crowdfunding platform, OurCrowd, announces it has raised an additional $25M in funding. Is this all equity financing? Some...
4/28/2014 1:22:39 AM Bank of England seeks 'HACKERS' to defend vaults against e-thieves By Gareth Jones The move appears to be a response to lessons learned during the Waking Shark II security response exercise last November. The exercise...
4/28/2014 1:06:54 AM How The Creator Of Bitcoin May Have Stumbled Onto Something Much, Much Bigger By Gareth Jones An easy and engaging read that helps you get past the "bitcoin is just a currency that will probably disappear" conversation... Like I...
4/28/2014 12:57:29 AM Money on wheels: Banking gets seriously mobile By Gareth Jones 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!
4/28/2014 12:41:06 AM Data Science Weekly - Interviews with Data Scientists By Gareth Jones I stumbled across this blog and have only read the interview with Carl Anderson, Director of Data Science at Warby Parker (and previously...
4/28/2014 12:24:57 AM Tradier Nets $3.1 Million in funding to Build A Software Toolkit For Financial Services By Gareth Jones Really very interesting.. Well done to our friends at Devonshire Investors for getting involved early..
4/28/2014 12:15:18 AM Backbone of U.S. Stock Trading Is Poised for Upgrade By Gareth Jones The Nasdaq outage last summer prompted U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Jo White (pictured below) to demand market...
4/27/2014 11:06:26 PM The US$530BN Offshore Private-Client Transfer By Gareth Jones 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...
4/27/2014 10:48:56 PM Country hot-list in offshore wealth revealed By Gareth Jones Aite Group published a report late last week that shows us where the worlds wealthy are parking their cash.. Whilst under pressure from...
4/25/2014 1:13:42 PM Ratings agency: banks in independent Scotland risk Iceland-style meltdown By Gareth Jones The Guardian Newspaper ran an article this week highlighting that an independent Scotland would need the support of the UK Treasury and...