Some interesting stats about the gift card market and how it has evolved and grown massively! Interesting numbers on how we all purchase...

Congrats to FinTech Collective portfolio company, NextCapital, on raising $16m in Series B funding led by new investors AllianceBernstein...

Gyft get's hacked highlighting the companys lack of security. Gyft’s user platform suggests the company does not yet offer two-step...

This is for sure one of the best (fintech) christmas jingles we've heard.  Very happy to be mentioned next to Andreessen, Kliener...

NextCapital raises $16m from VC Rt66 and investment managers Alliance Bernstein and John Hancock.  

Two things make NextCapital...

As shoppers continue purchasing gift cards for friends and families, the growing market is of course attracting scam artists who try and...

A recent survey analyzed consumer shopping trends for purchasing digital and physical gift cards from websites and mobile devices....

KPMG released its Top 100 list of fintech global innovators. The report does a good job at highlighting the success of fintech companies...

The SEC gave Overstock the green light to issue publicly traded shares on the blockchain-based technology. Overstock built its technology...

Target and Walmart are both jumping into the crowded mobile payments business in a bid to gain the upper hand from the tech giants Apple,...

Sberbank quietly shuttered their $100 million corporate venture arm this week having invested $47 million into 11 startups. According to...

New York based online lender for millennials, Pave, just secured $300m in debt and equity from New York hedge fund Seer Capital, along...

For those of you who love TV commercials Bank Innovation put together a Top 20 list of the best  TV commercials by Banks in 2015.

Another CVC has fled to start-up land. James Stickland (HSBC) has joined Red Deer Systems, a big-data start-up that helps...

The Linux Foundation, announced a new collaborative effort to advance the development of blockchain technologies. The foundation has...

There's a boom in challenger banks in Europe, with Atom Bank, Mondo, and Starling in the UK, Lunar Way in Denmark and #26 in Germany....

The pioneering Silicon Valley RIA, cofounded by Bill Harris and Rob Foregger in 2009 is apparently for sale for $500m. The robo advisor...

As expected the FOMC increased interest rates by 25 basis points. Online lenders argue that this rate hike won't impact their business in...

Fortune, updates and summarizes the battle between the incumbents and millennial focused finance platforms that are trying to take over...

New Jersey operating, Clover secured a $35m Series B. The round was led by Sequoia with participation from First Round. Clover Health is...

India based, Chillr raised closed a $7m Series A from Blume Ventures, Uniqorn Ventures, and Sequoia  Capital. Chillr helps customers

Two payments processors to combine forces. Global Payments is planning to buy Heartland Payments Systems,for $4.3b. 

Several new startups have launched with the intent of lending to borrowers based on data gathered from a borrower's phone. This trend is...

Max Levchin, a founder of PayPal, resigned from Yahoo's board to focus his attention on Affirm, the small business lending startup he...

What Stripe did for easy payments, Robinhood is doing for free stock trading. This week the brokerage startup collaborated with...

Transferring the technology that underpins bitcoin from a power point presentation to a prototype is challenging the world’s largest...

It is not clear what will ultimately emerge from Goldman’s 1.5bn lines of code in production, or the 90 market infrastructure patents —...

ETFs have been traded for the past 23 years, they're low fees and liquidity have made them a very popular financial product. That being...

Mike Cagney, SoFi's CEO has grand ambitions and more than $1b in funding to make them a reality. Business Insider interviewed Mike to...

Student debt levels have sky rocketed over the last decade. Fast Company provides an interesting perspective on which cities and states...

New York's Department of Financial Services is looking to strengthen its anti-money laundering (AML) polices. The Department outlined its...

Curve, the Payments and loyalty startup secured a $2m seed round, led by Speedinvest and Seedcamp. 

Boundless opportunity for banking services in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In a country with a population between 60m-80m people...

If she were president would Hillary Clinton create or restrict opportunities for fintech startups and incumbents? In an op-ed for the NY...

Forbes released its inaugural list of the 50 most innovate fintech companies in 2015. The list includes a few head scratchers, but it's...

Social media isn't just for pet peeves anymore – new hubs, like FinTech Collective's portfolio company OpenFolio, make it possible to...

The on-demand economy needs a fintech boost as well. Uber just partnered with SocietyOne, an Australian peer-to-peer marketplace lender....

This certainly isn't the first time a publication has purported to know the true identity of the mythical Satoshi Nakamoto. Earlier this...

ThinCats, a UK based peer to peer lending platform focusing on SMEs, has been acquired by European Specialty Finance (ESF) Capital who...

Millennial's are well known to dislike credit cards however Backed has entered the market with a somewhat unique spin - reduce the...

The latest company facilitating payments and credit and debit card acceptance in emerging markets is the Mexican startup, Clip, which...

With much excitement we welcome FinTech Collective's new portfolio company tackling the commercial property & casualty space -...

Sequoia Capital just joined the growing trend of Venture Capital funds interested in taking a crunch at the insurance sector. The fund...

ItBitis now utilizingTradeBlockas the order management system and execution tool for its over-the-counter middle and back office bitcoin...

Number26, a Peter Thiel-backed German (Berlin based) challenger bank, has announced a major European expansion today, as it launches in...

Bruce Wallace, chief digital officer of Silicon Valley Bank, was interviewed by the WSJ and asked to expand on his concerns around how...

Amid a crowded field, Atom Bank has managed to mix hipster with grey hair pedigree to raise a total of ~$230M. It's founder is...

Goldman snags Greg Berry from Ondeck. At Goldman Greg will become the bank's chief architect. Are banking jobs becoming cool again?

Citi fights back and steals Carey Kolaja from PayPal. Carey will join Citi to help improve the bank's mobile banking experience. Kolaja...

If you're a founder of a startup you should read this survey from First Round. The survey included responses from over 500 founders who...

Startups are using new datasets to assess your credit worthiness.  New lenders are using information pulled from your social...

Norway has theof financially-literate people worldwide, while Yemen has the least financially literate population. The UK ranked 6th,...

Clearpool Group secured an $8m Series A, led by Edison Partners. The New York based Clearpool is an electronic trading software...

Uri Levine (co-founder of Waze) has not retired, but is back in the start-up game with several start-ups including 2 that could be...

Federal Reserve officials voted 5-0 this week to downsize the Fed's emergency lending powers, in order to prevent the central bank from...

Portland based Lending-as-a-service provider, Mirador, raised $7m in Series A financing led by Core Innovation Capital. Mirador is not a...

Slice Intelligence, which gathers e-commerce data from receipts noted that Amazon dominated online Black Friday sales,...

A very innovative development coming from UK's Financial Conduct Authority - a "regulatory sandbox" for companies to test out their...

The market for U.S. home loans is $1.45 trillion. Nonbanks were responsible for 37.5 percent of U.S. home loans made last year,...

OnDeck is going to be providing the technology and the underwriting, while JPMorgan is going to serve up its Chase banking brand, its...

Congratulations Kent on this terrific spread in the FT! FinTech Collective is proud to have been one of the early investors helping you...

Smartphones can dramatically reduce the cost of lending, experts say, because the apps they run generate huge amounts of data—texts,...

Mr. Dimon is pushing JPMC (the biggest US bank) to follow in the footsteps of several other banks like RBS, Santander, Citi and WestPac...

Westpac has been quietly piloting a partnership with new Aussie online small business lender Prospa for the past few weeks. 

Prospa –...

IBM Watson ranked the hottest 100 consumer electronics, toys and health and fitness products on Black Friday by scouring 10,000 sources...

Clicks beat Bricks, but did overall spending in the US decrease this year? One report pointed out that consumers are not spending as much...

Shoppers in the UK spent a record £1.1bn with UK online retailers on Black Friday, with analysts forecasting another £934m in sales for...

Last week Coinbase introduce the first US-issued bitcoin debit card, the Shift Card. The Shift Card is a VISA debit card that currently...

The launch of Apple iBeacon two years ago was supposed to change shopping. What happened? While the GPS on your phone could reveal a...