...a shame about the photo they picked. not exactly ferocious.

A point of note, emerging payments player, Stripe, moved to the US...

A convergence of factors drives this including:

• Millennials being a global generation
• Advances in models for doing good and making...

After last week's security themed newsletter, it seems right to highlight another breach. jQuery is arguably the most popular...

PayPal has become one of the de facto standards for small merchants collecting payments from consumers, or consumers sending payments...

“The goal (of Robinhood) is to make the process of a trade as simple as hailing an Uber or posting a picture on Instagram,” said...

Did Sequoia just rip page out of the Rocket Internet playbook? David Velez spends two years scouting ideas for Sequoia in Brazil and...

Twitter has got one already and now facebook has one too. The "Buy" button is powered by Stripe and is not the first time the two...

Despite the rip roaring IPO of Alibaba last week Royal Bank of Scotland's US arm, Citizens, had a slow first day of trading today ,...

Banking regulators are looking at the way important financial benchmarks have been calculated, amid allegations that they have been...

I must have been at a different show as I am not sure Finovate Fall had (as they would claim) some of the most innovative new tech out...

April fool? Watch "Lehman" the rat trading gold futures and USD at Rattraders.com. According to the site rats outperform most human...

We are watching a good amount of activity and innovation in factoring, supply-chain finance and other forms of SME lending. These guys...

Wow is that it? A $30M prepaid card program run through Bancorp? What a load of old cobblers

Wal-Mart and Green Dot take aim at both traditional financial institutions and some money management start-ups by keeping fees low and...

New York's financial regulator has said that his agency will focus on cyber security over the next year. Apparently the possibility of...

Interesting report from the The Demand Institute on Millennials and the opprortunities and challenges they face in achieving home...

A year after presenting at the Value Investor's Congress (VIC), Winklevoss Capital releases its primer on Bitcoin and provides an...

A consortium of banks and money managers led by Goldman Sachs are expected to announce a deal to buy the instant-messaging company Perzo

Visa, the patron of the mobile payments specialist Monitise has decided to reduce its investment stake and focus on its own in-house...

Mr. Del Rey at Re/Code gets the scoop again.. Iain Kennedy, a six-year veteran of Amazon who ran a set of payment related products...

About 8% of U.S. households are unbanked and another 20% are underbanked (FDIC). However Underbanked consumers are adopting mobile...

Why are the number of cybercrimes increasing? This article highlights three new reasons. 1) An explosion of data, connections,...

The current cybersecurity technology defenses aren’t working and startups are being created to fix the problems. Venture funds are...

JPMorgan was among 5 US banks to experience data breaches that were caught and reported in August. Since then, the FBI, NSA and US...

VMs (Virtual Machines) are much easier to manage than their cold steel counterparts and more companies are opting to use a virtual...

Mobile payments is arguably one of the hottest topics at the moment, and LightSpeed, a company that builds point-of-sale software for...

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) announced that it no longer investing in hedge funds, the goal being to...

Indiegogo is expanding beyond temporary crowdfunding projects and into permanent crowfunded businesses. Forever Funding will allow...

A new startup, Spring, is bringing Tinder functionality to shopping. The mobile app has simplified online shopping by making purchases...

A website, named InternetLiveStats, tracks internet usage. One of the metrics that the site tracks includes the number of websites...

What a surprise! Launched in 2012 - Dead in 2014.. Vodafone, EE and O2 were apparently unable to agree on standard functionality of the

Will this be a replay of the trick Apple played on the music industry? Bring 'em in close and then slaughter them!! Apple will...

What started out as a sketch on the back of a napkin in Dallas TX over several fabulous bottles of red in 2007 turned into a GREAT...

TeraExchange launched a swap based on the bitcoin virtual currency late last week and became the first to receive approval from a U.S....

While it's easy to let engineers be engineers, it can payoff to take risks and push them outside of their comfort zone. Since Node.js...

Alibaba's massive IPO will impact the timing, size and valuation of many other companies who are expected to IPO in the coming months.

A recent poll of Americans by CreditCards.com found that those between the ages of 18 and 29 hate cash so much that 51% of them will...

As expected Apple's 9/9 event caused plenty of fintech buzz. It's unknown what impact Apple Pay will have on merchants, banks and...

Fitch, the ratings agency, provides an opinion on the upcoming Lending Club IPO and the impact that it will have on the P2P market.

It should come as no surprise that FinTech Collective's very own Gareth Jones was featured by AlleyWatch as someone in the NY fintech...

Paul Brody from IBM thinks that the data spinning off of the Internet of things in a few years may not be worth sending and storing in...

A great bit of research demonstrating why individuals pay more attention - and are compelled to act - when looking at something in...

Money2020 organizers take the light-side of the end of cash and the proliferation of cashless payment options.

...with a cameo by...

The team are super smart, proven entrepreneurs and have a distribution strategy that is unlike any of the other digital advice...

Congrats to NextCapital on closing their $6m Series A round. FinTech Collective is very excited to participate alongside Transamerica...

The 49ers announced their participation 3 weeks ago. This weeks blog post from Wealthfront gives us a deeper look at their revised...

What the #%@& next?!? That must be the question these guys are asking themselves? Apple and MCX mobile payments announcements can't...

Mobile payments may be the least interesting thing the NFC capability in the iPhone 6 does. Will it help you pair your phone with your

Nudy photo's getting stolen from iCloud, reminding merchants to turn on the NFC capability in their POS systems and educating the

Dozens of big retailers like Walmart, Target, CVS and Best Buy banded together in 2012 to create their own smartphone payments network...

Indonesians can now buy Bitcoin at over 10,000 Indomaret stores in the country. With a population of 238 million and with more than 200...

Fans can now donate directly to their favourite YouTube creators while watching their videos. YouTube is taking a 5% cut and you can...

There are a host of companies attempting to make settling your bill at a restaurant ‘waiter-free’. These include PayPal, with its ‘Pay...

Britain’s high street banks are making a push to be the repositories of more than just money: they want to be the safe place where...

Are cloud services secure enough for corporate use? It's a question bankers have pondered for at least a decade and Apple's iCloud...

The new iPhone will make mobile payment easier by including a near-field communication chip. For Apple, the push to create a mobile...

Home Depot's stolen credit and debit card data could extend back to April 2014, if this is true the breach could be many times larger...

Upstart trading venue IEX Group has raised $75m to help fund its efforts to become a registered U.S. stock exchange. IEX was featured...