10/30/2015 10:07:26 PM Exchange Operator ICE to Buy Interactive Data for $5.2 Billion By FinTech Collective This acquisition is a bet by ICE that corporate bonds will increasingly be traded on electronic exchanges. Meanwhile investors remain...
10/30/2015 7:18:43 PM Electronifie is latest bond trading startup to win some big-name endorsements By Sean Lippel Electronifie has added Troy Paredes, a former commissioner at the SEC, and Max Kamhi, entrepreneur and former CFO of hedge fund Jamison...
10/30/2015 3:19:26 PM The technology behind bitcoin could transform how the economy works By FinTech Collective The Economist explains the difference between bitcoin and blockchains. The article argues that bitcoin's underlying blockchain...
10/30/2015 2:12:41 PM Online Direct Lending - a 32-page market overview By FinTech Collective Fintech analyst, Cormac Leech's, presentation at LendIt Europe has been made public on Liberum's website. The presentation provided a...
10/30/2015 2:04:35 PM RAZORPAY RAISES $9M TO REVAMP PAYMENTS IN INDIA By FinTech Collective YC graduate, Razorpay, has raised $9m in Series A funding, led by Tiger Global and joined by Matrix Partners. The India based company...
10/30/2015 1:45:09 PM Robo numbers don't add up By FinTech Collective Startups typically describe their growth with exponential, not arithmetic, rates. Last year Wealthfront and Betterment's AUM grew by over...
10/30/2015 1:01:33 PM PayPal reveals how it will finally cash in on Venmo By FinTech Collective Paypal announced during its earnings call, that it would begin to monetize Venmo through a new feature named “Pay with Venmo.” Venmo,...
10/29/2015 9:52:33 PM Mobeam Secures $6.2 Million in Series B Funding By Sean Lippel Palo Alto based barcode payment POS provider Mobeam has raised $6.2m of Series B funding, led by yet2Ventures. Mobeam touts an impressive...
10/29/2015 9:32:18 PM Swiss Mobile-First Insurance Broker Knip Gets $15.7M Series B By Sean Lippel Zurich based digital insurance manager Knip has raised $15.7m of Series B funding, led by Route 66 Ventures. The company's goal is to...
10/29/2015 4:52:53 PM Zebit Launches To Provide No-Cost Financing To The Underserved By Sean Lippel London based short-term lender to the financially underserved has raised $10m of Series A financing, led by Crosslink Capital. Zebit's...
10/29/2015 4:43:01 PM MasterCard, Bain Capital Ventures, New York Life Invest In Bitcoin Company Digital Currency Group By Sean Lippel New York based bitcoin incubator and venture investor Digital Currency Group has raised an undisclosed amount of capital from investors...
10/29/2015 4:10:58 PM PayPal Misses Earnings, But CEO Defends Strategy By Sean Lippel Are we witnessing an unexpected role reversal? Since the split, EBay has topped earnings estimates and raised its outlook while PayPal...
10/29/2015 3:52:15 PM CME teams up with Dwolla to bring real-time exchange payments By Sean Lippel CME Group and Dwolla, a digital-payment network, have struck a deal that will allow the option and future exchange's participants to send...
10/29/2015 3:13:01 AM The Bitcoin Startup Boom Comes Back Down to Earth By Sean Lippel After an aggressive start to 2015, venture capital flowing into bitcoin startups has slowed substantially. The $85 million in bitcoin...
10/29/2015 2:42:07 AM The Problem With Chase Pay, The Bank's Forthcoming Apple Pay Competitor By Sean Lippel JP Morgan Chase has unveiled its plans to roll out Chase Pay in mid-2016 with the support of retailer-backed mobile payments consortium...
10/28/2015 10:57:35 PM Buy vs. Build – The Debate Is Over With Analytics 3.0 By FinTech Collective A new report from Harvard found that by 2017, firms using predicative analytics will be 20% more profitable than those that don't. So how...