Should children as young as eight be allowed to have their own Visa or MasterCard so they can shop online (see the funny tweet attached...

Across North America, Starbucks has almost 12 million active users of its mobile app. The reason adoption is high? Rewards.

Their...

PayPal has partnered with Rabobank Bank-backed MyOrder to allow PayPal users to pre-order and purchase items prior to arrival at a...

At FinTech Collective we never had a strong conviction that payments alone would drive broader NFC adoption. Moving the Oyster Card to...

Waitrose, one of the UK's biggest and most innovative supermarket retailers, is making plans to put mobile technology, including QR...

The Japanese startup Exchange Corp. has launched a new up-front payment service for online retailers called Paidy. Paidy is a...

Facebook wants to help other businesses sell things, so it’s done selling its own. Facebook Gifts will shut down on August 12th. The...

Apple started removing bitcoin apps without explanation last year, it was seen as a huge setback for bitcoin's acceptance. Wallets...

“socially useless” - thats strong language!! Another article, this time out of the UK, about how naughty bankers should repent and do...

Financial inclusion in India got a boost when governor Raghuram Rajan proposed these radical reforms to address the problem that more...

A terrific re/code article that points out that by simply firing up your SMS app in rural Africa you can buy something. The merchant...

This Wired article provides a great overview of why Stripe has been so successful at getting folks like Lyft, Instacart and other tech...

Samsung has already partnered with PayPal to allows Galaxy S5 owners to pay for items by authenticating with a fingerprint. Will Apple...

Building on the rumours that Apple could eventually make a broader play for iTunes-powered mobile payments, this ability to reload your...

My LendingTree experience is using a bunch of non traditional data sets to provide completely free credit scores, access to monthly...

Robo advisors are here to stay and gaining in popularity. Will robo advisors completely replace human advisors? This article makes a...

Mobile-payments solution firm LoopPay, whose technology allows users to pay via smart phones at most merchants’ existing point-of-sale...

Truepanion has 19 rivals, but differentiates itself with a data-driven approach to insuring pets. Venture firm Maveron held a 25% stake...

All a bit hush hush, but as spotted by TechCrunch, Amazon has launched Amazon Wallet in Amazon's App Store and Google Play.

The app...

David Shillingford, a founding Collective member and insurance industry veteran, was in the WSJ today promoting this weekends annual...

Both Panera and Chili’s have turned to tablets to help streamline their service. If you have followed our blog over the last 6 months...

Techcrunch fire up their tableau and dig into the CrunchBase data around recent payment company funding. It is indeed interesting that...

According to Rupert Keeley,CEO of PayPal Europe, in a chat with the BBC, small businesses will not require a credit check, and pay a...

Already, machines are learning to do certain jobs that once seemed confined to humans, from elder care to wealth management to art. The...

Both Larry Page and Richard Branson have surprisingly similar views on this.... Split one job into two!

It's an interesting...

A new startup named EatRight Rewards is encouraging healthy eating among employees by offering cash to those that buy fruit and...

Another UK FinTech deal this week. Crowdcube boasts 80,000 users and has helped raise more than £30 million for more than 130 start-up,...

There are now more than 90 tech hubs in across Africa, according to the World Bank. This article lists the 12 hottest African Tech...

The Brits are coming! Funding Circle, which uses consumer savings to fund business loans, claiming to offer better rates for both than...

The plan was for Kang Gao to do his exit interview with Two Sigma Investments LLC, a $21 billion quantitative hedge fund and jump to...

First David Marcus (Zong, PayPal) moves to run Facebook's messaging platform and now this.. Speculation had been that Snapchat's route to

The deal doesn’t necessarily mean real-time shopping is coming to Twitter anytime soon. It will be more like real-time deals to be...

App55 brings one-click payment technology to the masses. “With Amazon or Paypal, they ultimately want to convert your customers into...

Our portfolio company APDS is busy taking wired, hardened android devices into correctional facilities here in the US. Wouldn't it be...

We are not sure that a former bank robber is the ideal candidate to set up a prison banking service. However do believe that improving...

Let's face it working in finance is not as "cool" as working at the next big technology startup. Banks are struggling to hire and...

With mass incarceration in the US costing the US Taxpayer $83bn per year we need to (in the good words of a State Governor) "figure out...

Our portfolio company American Prison Data Systems (APDS) is attacking this problem head on and we're extremely proud to be involved.

Morgan Stanley beats earning estimates, much of the success is attributable to the stunning growth of its wealth management division....

Some staggering data in this article. E.G. of the 100 million Facebook users in India, 84 million access the site through mobile phones...

We are extremely thrilled to be joining a16z, our friends at Devonshire, Barry Silbert and others in helping Greg and Jeff build the...

Richard Branson recently attended the TEDX at Ironwood State Prison (one of the most forward thinking correctional institutions in the...

The data science courses currently provided require advanced degrees or a plane ticket to international campuses, but with the hyper...

Obama has launched a new program named SupplierPay to ensure that large corporations pay small contractors in a more timely fashion to...

A new startup named Upside has built a white-label platform through which investment advisors can offer automated investment services....

Congrats to the team at Cover on closing their A Round. FinTech Collective has used the app numerous times and enjoys the friction free...

Pollen is a new startup out of London, that pays mobile app developers 95 percent of their receivables every seven days, in exchange...

Beepi is a new peer to peer car marketplace that accepts virtual currencies. What's the incentive to use a virtual currency to buy a...

Car insurance companies are increasing their use of telematics to write better insurance policies. Progressive has done it for years,...

VC funds are excited by real estate startups because it still exists in a largely pre-technological world, which makes it ripe for...

ATM skimmers are becoming more difficult to detect and more effective at stealing your account info. Some skimmers even have mobile...

Draper plans to use the bitcoin to help grow one of his bitcoin portfolio companies, Vaurum. Only 20% of the bitcoin that was seized...

Guevara is an insurance startup from the UK that lets customers take advantage of P2P group payments only with people they trust.

Uber is starting a price war with NYC Taxis. Not everyone is a fan and while the price cuts might be temporary, many believe this is...

Good old Cap One! He'll be based out of Capital One's Lab in SFO that sits above the old ING Cafe - Makoski had been head of design...

On my recent travels through Spain I bumped into "The Pigs". A photo album with its title a reference to the unflattering acronym used...

Do a Google search for ISIS and the Militant Group appears above the US based Mobile Wallet of the same name. Now that is an SEO pain..

As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago in this post the UK regulators costly, long-winded and bureaucratic application process has come...

Bitcoin helps Afghan girls preserve their wages and keep them safe. With bitcoin, no one other than the payee has to know that she has...

An interview with President Obama from this week, provides a good summary of the problems that Obama sees with Wall Street and the...

I'm not sure the UK's new "right to be forgotten" law is producing the outcomes that the government intended. The latest censoring...

Keeping with the theme of the Fourth of July - New York is putting up a good fight against London as the hub of Fintech...

Great summary by Bloomberg explaining the history behind Phyllis Borzi's fight to regulate retirement accounts and 401k plans.

Pile on additional regulation for banks: Finra's Comprehensive Automated Risk Data System (CARDS) proposal will require member firms to...

The $100m fund will be run out of London, but will make investments globally. This announcement comes on the heels of HSBC's recent...

As expected Yodlee filed for its public offering. Except for 2010, the company has lost money every year since its inception in 1999. ...