8/29/2014 12:57:59 PM Amazon quietly hires Visa credit card boss to expand little-known lending business By FinTech Collective Amazon hired Visa's North America credit card head Nick Talwar to run its new lending business. Amazon is beginning to provide capital to...
8/29/2014 2:38:00 AM RBS and Lloyds ‘squeeze customers hardest’ By Gareth Jones Could it be that Her Majesty The Queen own's them or are they just pulling a fast one? Figures show the state owned banks are guilty of...
8/29/2014 2:33:57 AM Apple’s New Digital Wallet Patent References ‘Virtualised Currencies’ By Gareth Jones Everyone expects Apple to make a statement around mobile payments at their Sept 9th shindig. In advance of that it's interesting to see...
8/29/2014 12:01:38 AM MBA Talent Flees Wall Street for Tech By Brooks Gibbins In the last six years, theirs been a 32% decrease in the number of graduates from Stanford and HBS going into finance. Where have they...
8/29/2014 12:01:34 AM Did Russia hack JPMorgan and other banks? By Gareth Jones In April, JPMorgan was singled out for criticism when it blocked a payment from a Russian embassy to the affiliate of a U.S.-sanctioned...
8/28/2014 11:39:02 PM How do you insure in the sharing economy? By Gareth Jones Interesting question right? This article starts to ask the question by re-telling some of the problems founders in the sharing economy...
8/28/2014 11:28:52 PM In Africa a Bright Idea in Banking Leaves a Trail of Ruin By Gareth Jones Leon Kirkinis co-founded African Bank in 1999 and built it into an African powerhouse on the back on uncollateralized loans. This week...
8/28/2014 11:05:56 PM Twitter Is Working With Stripe on Its Commerce Initiative By Gareth Jones Re/Code broke the news that Twitter was in discussion with Stripe to allow users to make purchases right from a tweet! Whilst Stripe is...
8/28/2014 10:54:44 PM A healthy economy and modern offerings have boosted Poland’s banks By Gareth Jones With no decades old banking infrastructure as baggage this Economist article points out nicely that Poland's banking system has become...
8/28/2014 10:42:20 PM Kiwis Build Digital Banking's High-Speed Rails By Gareth Jones Westpac in New Zealand is overhauling its IT infrastructure as it tries to become the No. 1 digital bank in that southwestern Pacific...
8/28/2014 10:38:56 PM Man refused overdraft extension is Tasered by police after brandishing a flamethrower By Gareth Jones A man was Tasered and arrested by police in Norfolk (UK) after he burst into a bank with a makeshift flamethrower and threatened to burn...
8/28/2014 10:26:34 PM PayPal spinoff would slice eBay in half By Gareth Jones EBay CEO John Donahoe has resisted demands by activist investor Carl Icahn to hive off the payments service, saying PayPal was integral...
8/28/2014 4:28:29 PM Lending Club, the world’s largest peer-to-peer lender, files for an IPO By FinTech Collective LendingClub has filed for an IPO to raise $500M. It will be interesting to see where the valuation lands, considering that the...
8/27/2014 11:42:37 PM Xignite's lessons about fintech API design By FinTech Collective Xignite discloses their API best practices for fintech developers. Poorly designed software never stands the test of time. APIs are no...
8/27/2014 7:56:40 PM Coin announes additional delays, backers not happy By FinTech Collective What is the best way to upset backers of a crowd funded project? Do what Coin did last Friday. Coin – the credit card to replace all...
8/27/2014 7:38:12 PM Square Is raising $200M at a $6B valuation By FinTech Collective Square is cashing in on the tech funding boom. The company is clawing its way towards profitability, but the competition is strong with...