9/29/2014 3:01:58 AM Ireland flexing its claws to go after FinTech By Brooks Gibbins ...a shame about the photo they picked. not exactly ferocious. A point of note, emerging payments player, Stripe, moved to the US...
9/28/2014 2:17:14 PM Millennials will bring impact investing mainstream By Brooks Gibbins A convergence of factors drives this including: Millennials being a global generation Advances in models for doing good and making...
9/26/2014 7:49:24 PM jQuery.com compromised to serve malware via drive-by download By Doug Binder After last week's security themed newsletter, it seems right to highlight another breach. jQuery is arguably the most popular javascript...
9/26/2014 4:16:03 PM Traxpay raises $15M, teams with MasterCard to be the PayPal of the B2B world By FinTech Collective PayPal has become one of the de facto standards for small merchants collecting payments from consumers, or consumers sending payments to...
9/26/2014 4:05:20 PM With $13 Million, Robinhood wants to make trading stocks as easy as posting selfies By FinTech Collective “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...
9/26/2014 3:17:59 PM Finance Startup Nubank Nabs $14.3M In Sequoia’s First Brazil Investment By Gareth Jones Did Sequoia just rip page out of the Rocket Internet playbook? David Velez spends two years scouting ideas for Sequoia in Brazil and then...
9/26/2014 2:31:09 AM Facebook gets a "Buy" button By Gareth Jones 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...
9/26/2014 2:23:07 AM Citizens Financial Group makes tepid market debut By Gareth Jones 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 ,...
9/26/2014 2:18:25 AM Could 'front running' be the next banking scandal? By Gareth Jones Banking regulators are looking at the way important financial benchmarks have been calculated, amid allegations that they have been...
9/26/2014 2:01:58 AM FinovateFall 2014 Best of Show Winners By Gareth Jones 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...
9/26/2014 1:52:38 AM Meet the rats that trade better than humans By Gareth Jones April fool? Watch "Lehman" the rat trading gold futures and USD at Rattraders.com. According to the site rats outperform most human...
9/25/2014 10:24:41 PM Taulia grabs Another $13M From Singapore’s EDBI And BBVA Ventures By Gareth Jones We are watching a good amount of activity and innovation in factoring, supply-chain finance and other forms of SME lending. These guys...
9/25/2014 3:17:42 AM Mobile Wallet Laughingstock Clinkle Finally Launches To Let You Pay Friends And Earn “Treats” By Gareth Jones Wow is that it? A $30M prepaid card program run through Bancorp? What a load of old cobblers
9/25/2014 2:54:34 AM Wal-Mart teams with Green Dot on checking account By Gareth Jones Wal-Mart and Green Dot take aim at both traditional financial institutions and some money management start-ups by keeping fees low and...
9/25/2014 2:34:42 AM Regulator sees cyber attacks on banks causing ‘Armageddon’ By Gareth Jones New York's financial regulator has said that his agency will focus on cyber security over the next year. Apparently the possibility of a...
9/25/2014 12:06:41 AM Millennials will play a large role in shaping housing demand, reports The Demand Institute By FinTech Collective Interesting report from the The Demand Institute on Millennials and the opprortunities and challenges they face in achieving home ownership.