5/30/2014 10:12:45 PM BlueVine raises $4 million to help businesses receive timely payments By Gareth Jones The Palo Alto startup is launching a platform that helps small business owners get immediate payment for invoices regardless of when...
5/30/2014 9:57:09 PM Here’s Mary Meeker’s Big "UGLY" Deck On Key Internet Trends 2014 By Gareth Jones Not as much content on Financial Services this year as in years gone by, but a good slide on "are we in a bubble"? If we are then she...
5/30/2014 9:25:55 PM Startup Financial Services Companies Raising Significant Sums By Gareth Jones A Crunchbase blog post that highlights (using their database) some of the more significant venture rounds in FinTech.
5/30/2014 3:41:47 AM Simple, The Startup That's Supposed To Revolutionize Banking, Only Has 33,000 Active Users By Gareth Jones Banking services provider Simple was purchased by BBVA, the second largest bank in Spain, for $117 million a few months ago, but new...
5/30/2014 3:01:55 AM Thomson, Fidelity to Create 'Sandbox' for Fintech Startups By Gareth Jones Great news David Jegen - one of our lovely co-investors!! Well done for starting to stitch this together..
5/30/2014 2:51:33 AM Whither the mobile wallet? By Gareth Jones 700 mobile payments start-ups on Angel List, ISIS adding 20,000 new customers per day in April, Apple rumours of NFC in the next iPhone.....
5/30/2014 2:40:51 AM Payments Firm Swipely Raises $20M More As Its Processing Tally Crosses The $2B Mark By Gareth Jones Swipely (a Square competitor) just raised $20M to expand product and marketing. Swipely offers merchants a simple way to understand...
5/30/2014 2:29:36 AM Digital LATAM - Understand digital consumers in Latin America By Gareth Jones This edition is the first in a series by JWT that looks to understand digital consumers in Latin America. Banking gets looked at in some...
5/30/2014 2:18:11 AM Uncovering Data For Credit Worthiness Earns DemystData $5 Million By Gareth Jones We are yet to meet Mark (the Founder of DemystData), but have heard good things from several people. He's an Antipodean now based in NYC....
5/30/2014 2:09:09 AM Barclays introduces digital experts By Gareth Jones 7,000 "Digital Eagles".....oh dear! The twitter-sphere disagrees with me and thinks they are FAB...
5/30/2014 2:03:57 AM How Wal-Mart and Google could steal young customers from traditional banks By Gareth Jones We've blogged a lot about this, but there are some good charts and some easy to digest stats in this well writen Washington Post article.
5/30/2014 1:58:29 AM Modi's To-Do List: Priorities For A New India By Gareth Jones Forbes notes that Financial Services reform makes it onto Modi's to-do-list..
5/30/2014 1:50:40 AM It has been 20yrs since the WSJ went online! By Gareth Jones Seems like yesterday.. Hilarious reading this today and seeing quotes like "updates will be refreshed periodically" and "will provide...
5/30/2014 1:42:28 AM A Sad Day For Patent Reform. A Bad Day For Innovation. By Gareth Jones Mr. Brin was right, but sadly the Troll's had a win this week with the news that the bi-partisan patent reform bill won’t be moving...
5/30/2014 1:36:04 AM Google’s Brin Wants to Ban Patent Trolls By Gareth Jones Having been sued by a patent troll I couldn't agree more with Mr. Brin..
5/28/2014 6:00:16 PM Intuit buys Check for $360 million By FinTech Collective "Intuit said Tuesday morning that it had acquired Check, a company that makes a mobile app that lets its customers track and pay for all...