With the IPO in its rear-view mirror, LendingClub needs to look strategically ahead to find ways to increase its loan portfolio....

This weekend the Seahawk's will duke it out against the Patriot's in the Super Bowl. But which city - Seattle or Boston - boasts a more...

The Super Bowl might be too close to call right now, but numberFire, a big data analytics company, believes it can predict the winner. ...

As global central banks weaken their currencies to stimulate economic growth and the usd continues to strengthen, investors look to...

With over 70% of the world un-scored, most banks don't have the tools or the capacity to assess the creditworthiness of most people...

USAA is one of the first incumbent traditional financial institutions to publicly embrace and invest in Bitcoin technology. It will be...

The startup Metromile looks to cover Period 1, the time between when an UberX driver turns on his app and when a passenger indicates...

Yahoo is taking advantage of a loophole in the tax code to spin off its $40 billion stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba to...

Recent attacks on high profile targets such as Sony and JPMorgan have raised Cyber Security awareness in Europe. However, industry...

Western Union will now accept Apple Pay as a funding mechanism for money transfers and in person bill payments at more than 7,600...

In his 2015 annual letter, Bill Gates focuses on the underbanked. He believes the key to helping this demographic is the mobile phone.

Earnest is aimed at providing loans to millenials. The company, similar to other online lenders, uses alternative data sets to derive...

With Quovo's help, the Canadian company Croesus Solutions ("Croesus"), a provider of portfolio management and CRM solutions, will...

Insurance brokers selling personal lines of property/casualty insurance collected over $50 billion in commissions in 2013. Now Google...

Prosper acquires American Healthcare Lending LLC- an originator that offers loans for elective medical procedures, mental health...

Monolithic code bases are everyone's worst nightmare. Microservices don't offer a cure-all for all large scale applications...

Openfolio helps the everyday investor benchmark his/her portfolio against different peer groups. The opportunities for comparison using...

The secondary market is exploding. Total volume hit $49.3 billion last year, a 37 percent increase from 2013. A total of 1,270 were...

Orchard, a NY-based startup, is enabling institutional investors to scale their investments in online marketplace lending platforms...

Lending startup Earnest has raised $17 million in venture capital. Maveron led the Series A round, and the funding underscores the...

Tired of hearing about credit card fraud? Final is on a quest to stop it by letting you use a unique credit card number on every...

Transferwise' latest investment round will help it continue to disrupt the money transfer business and expand to additional countries....

Aspiration is a new breed of robo-advisor. The company gives the investor control when deciding what to pay for management fees. The...

Kreditech is a Germany-based consumer finance startup that focuses on lending money to consumers with little or no credit history,...

Bitspark, an Asia-based crypto currency platform, is diversifying its service offerings by providing remittance services to the...

Peter Renton, p2p lending advocate, looks back at the previous year and gives his thoughts on 2015. Peter, an avid blogger, became a...

Lending Robot's investment platform allows for automated loan selection and investment into the two leading P2P platforms, Lending...

Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz shared 16 things that will shape how we think about technology - and the world - in 2015. These...

This years Future 100 deck from JWT is worth a quiet read. Some trends for 2015 that hit our radar include: incremental savings and...

This blog post from Fred Wilson was widely re-posted around the web just after the holidays. Here he shares his thoughts on what will...

Great news for our portfolio company Slide. This is a real validation that you can still build billion dollar businesses in prepaid.

Less than six months after a $40M raise, Taulia the supply chain finance company have taken on another $15M from Zouk Capital.

It's good to bump into articles or blog posts that remind you to look outside the major fintech centers like London and New York. Here...

Antuit is a big data startup that is headquartered in Singapore and was founded in 2013. This week Goldman Sachs led a $56 million...

In 2014, the average investor was up 5.2%.However the S&P 500 was up 13.7%. Our portfolio company Openfolio has again shown us the...

Some quick predictions for Fintech in 2015 from HedgeThink: Mobile payments explode, Dark pools get darker!; bitcoin transforms;...

2014 was a busy year for the "disrupter" as this great long form FT Article points out. From Uber to Alibaba, Tesla, Xiaomi and Bob...

Renren CEO Joseph Chen believes financial technology could represent a future business model for the company.

Many congratulations to Steve Weiner and Daniel McAuley for getting on with it and creating possibly the first MBA FinTech club in the...

As the value of bitcoin declines, the computer systems supporting the blockchain are struggling to profit. The network of miners has...

Originally (and unfortunately) called Isis, Softcard, has had hundreds of millions of dollars pumped into it by it's JV backers...

Uber doing good? Maybe? Pretty interesting view into the potential power of the data the Uber team are collecting as we zip from A to B.

Estimates on the number of Twitter users in India vary from 82 million users to about 33 million active users. Today ICICI Bank...

When bankers of the future decide whether to make a loan, they may look to see if potential customers use only capital letters when...

A great article on how two young Russians ended up masterminding a conspiracy that pillaged 160 million credit card numbers, targeting...

Fidelity Investments, BlackRock, Bank of New York Mellon, Capital Group, Invesco, JP Morgan Chase, MFS and State Street and T Rowe...

Real estate crowdfunding has landed in the UK with Property Partners. Some of the US sites have come in for criticism about the...

How many have you come across? iZettle; Eris Industries; Derivitec; Landbay; FinGenius; Azimo; Borro; Flattr; Aire; WorldRemit;

The price of bitcoin is plummeting, down almost 47% in the last month. On the other hand the currency is experiencing record...

If you've built a site recently you might want to check in on your development team and see what their roadmap looks like. Google's...

Zenefits has grown its revenue from $1m to $20m in less than 12 months. With this trajectory the company should grow to $100m in...

FinTech Collective's platform had its first run in with Docker this week and we quickly became container converts. Containers are the...

Docker has established itself as the incumbent in the rapidly emerging market of containers and lightweight VMs. Now that the company's...

Google launches its very own domain registration service. If you have ever had the unpleasant experience of trying to navigate...

Companies have been asking for an enterprise version of Facebook for years. The wait is over, Facebook At Work has arrived. Facebook...

The continued drop in value made the currency one of the absolute worst things to own in 2014. Over the last 12 months bitcoin’s dollar...

Interestingly the first war game will involve the Bank of England and commercial banks, targeting the City of London and Wall Street,...

Is Bitcoin suffering a deleveraging shock like the one that hit our economy in 2008, but without a Federal Reserve to cushion the blow?...

It was high stress at some of the biggest banks on Wall Street this week as staff were told how big their fabled “number” would be this...

Regulations around Bitcoin are still very much in flux between jurisdictions. This week the Russian telecommunications...

The banking industry is at the very beginning of a massive shift towards cloud customer-facing and internal applications. Shifting to...

Graph database technology is allowing enterprises to surface connections within previously disparate sets of data. Industries from...

Remortgage your house in 25 days without talking to a broker.. Now that's brilliant! A great founding story too - The founder was...

Wealth advisory clients are not the only victims of scam artists, scammers are now impersonating and stealing from wealth managers. ...

The combination of three major trends: mobile, 'bring your own device' and cloud delivered applications, is changing how enterprises...

The trail of Ross Ulbricht the alleged founder of the bitcoin fueled, dark web marketplace Silk Road starts today. He was nabbed 15...

Boston-based PeerTransfer is making it easier for international students to pay for their tutition in the USA. It just raised $22...

Level, an elegant app for tracking your spending, has been acquired by Capital One. It is a young company so it was likely not growing...

A quick scan of the SEC's Investment Adviser Public Disclosure tools and some quick maths by these guysputs the total combined...

The launch of Google Compare in the US hasn’t been easy (it has been live in the UK for 2yrs). Even though US insurers have been...

It has been almost a year since Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion in stock and cash.WhatsApp now has 700 million users...

This was no Ocean’s Eleven. The hackers were not trying to empty a vault of cash, nor were they after customer credit card data, This...

Our portfolio company Openfolio were featured on Yahoo! Finance this week. The article dug further on some of their earlier research...

Yinon did a terrific pitch for Openfolio on Fox Business "After the Bell" this week. According to David Asman, he also caught the...

Congratulations to Reonomy on a successful Series B fundraising. The company raised $13 million, which was led by Bain Capital and...

Bitcoin had a breakout year in 2014, for both good and bad reasons. Coindesk interviewed CFTC Commisioner Mark Wetjen covering its...

The wide availability of mobile devices is changing the landscape for financial services in emerging markets. In countries lacking...

A high profile hack of Target in 2014 may have resulted in more than $146 million in damages to the company and consumers. With more...

While Sony was under-fire, what technology of yesterday did they use to communicate? Smoke signals? Telegrams? Walkie Talkies? With...

Box has today set a price range for its IPO. The cloud-storage and enterprise collaboration software provider previously postponed its...

The last generation of Wall Street was dominated by 800-lb gorillas like Goldman, Citi and Morgan Stanley, the next looks to be the age...

Vouch looks at a number of explicit and implicit data points to determine what interest rate it offers a borrower using this social...

Could 2015 be the year cyberinsurance goes mainstream? After the Russians broke into JP Morgan Chase, hackers cracked Target, Home...

Personal Capital, the digital wealth manager, has crossed another milestone: one billion dollars in assets under management. This...

What a fascinating read about an industry with some astronimical profit margins - the numbers speak for themselves. From 2006 to 2009,...

Two Wharton professors warned that this would lead to the Super Bowl being cancelled due to the unwillingness of insurers to cover the...

More than 1 million UK borrowers benefited from the Jan 1 regulations introduced by the FCA. Payday loans will now be capped at 0.8% a...

Welcome news for the all cash, legal marijuana industry here in the US. Here's what it will mean for those business owners.

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A little insight into where some of the current tech hubris is coming from.. Silicon Valley’s largest tech firms are now among the...