MyCheck’s $5m Series B will help the company accelerate its international expansion. The Israel based company is providing an "Uber" like

TransUnion's previous IPO plans ended with private-equity takeovers. Last year, the company’s revenue increased by 10% from a year...

AvantCredit recently rebranded to Avant in hopes of no longer being recognized as just a lending service. The 3 year old Chicago based...

Apple Pay must clear regulatory hurdles before entering the China market, but the company is very late to the payments game with...

One of the biggest problems in the digital currency world is the lack of a "closed loop" that permits employers to receive revenue in...

More leading indicators that bitcoin is playing an important role in financial innovation.

Comparing Kenya's storied money transfer service with Bitcoin

Cohen's Point72 has started a unit called Honeycomb Ventures that will mainly invest in growth equity opportunities. Point72 (the...

Last year, SoFi moved beyond the student lending space and entered the mortgage market. To complement this move, SoFi launched its...

On the heels of the Lending Club and OnDeck IPOs, UK-based mortgage marketplace platform LendInvest is slated to debut on the London...

The FinTech Sandbox, an accelerator aiming to promote financial innovation, was officially launched on March 26. The day before, it...

Goldman Sachs recently released its research report on the Socialization of Finance. According to Goldman, over $4t of revenue from...

Will increased regulation be enough to encourage more mainstream adoption? Will current users exit given the increased supervision?

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Kreditech, which uses big data to create a live credit score for micro-loans, was compromised last November after hackers posted the...

The latest YC Demo Day included 114 companies of which 9 were fintech. Though less than 10% of the companies presented were...

Square Cash will now allow you to pay businesses and non profits in addition to your friends. Square has also introduced a feature...

Accenture just released its latest fintech report. Some of the juicier findings include: fintech investments tripling in 2014,...

Morgan Stanley’s Ruth Porat becomes the latest finance executive to migrate to Silicon Valley. Her hiring could signal a new era of...

Stripe launched a new product, Stripe Connect, this week. The major API update will enable marketplaces to expand into a new region...

re/code has reported receiving a document detailing Pony Express - a google project that enables Gmail users to receive and pay bills...

The business loan platform Kabbage is moving into the asia pacific region by powering third parties such as Australia's Kikka Capital.

After 6 years of operation, LearnVest, the New York startup was acquired for roughly $250 million. Not bad when compared to Mint.com,...

Slack is currently valued at $2 Billion, and adding $1 Million in ARR every 12 days. These huge numbers can directly be attributed to...

LendingHome disclosed it raised $70 million in new funding for its online platform which allows individuals and institutions to invest...

Australia's financial regulator said last week that it was assessing the practices of lenders to decide if any supervisory action will...

Ed Conway (The Times) points out quite nicely that Currency has proved useful but it has just about passed its sell-by date. The...

Demand for Java developers isn't going to disappear anytime soon. The language is associated with monolith companies, that are still...

Not everyone thinks Apple's Touch ID or Qualcomm's 3D fingerprint reader are the future of bank security. A German hacker recently

The FT pointed out this week that smaller investors are turning into a muscular force in the global commodities markets controlling a

Facebook is now officially in the payments game. Rather than partnering with another player such as PayPal or Square, in the same...

Capital One built on the hype of SXSW and ramped up their recruiting process. Talks from their Head of Product, and Technology Director...

Is SXSW losing it's edge? Some of the top SXSW parties this year were hosted by major institutions such as McDonald's and Goldman...

The Chancellor George Osborne has outlined changes to pensions that could affect millions. The biggest change are around annuities

A wide ranging article covering mobile payments, mobile money and cryptocurrencies by BNY Mellon (who have an amazing museum with some...

The UK government received over 120 responses to its initial call for information on cryptocurrencies (we participated). This document...

Chancellor George Osborne reiterated in his budget speech his desire to see the UK become the world's fintech capital “The government...

In a report published alongside George Osborne's annual budget, the UK Treasury said the new regulation would support innovation and...

Salesforce ventures has invested an undisclosed amount in North Carolina-based nCino, a banking SaaS firm. The recent financing will...

The bull market is six years old this week and a recent study has added to the considerable body of evidence that suggests most people...

March Madness, the NCAA basketball tournament, has returned. This year more than 60 million employees are expected to watch the games...

Fundbox, a company that loans businesses money for outstanding invoice payments, has raised $40 million. The Series B round was led by...

By 2020 the UK plans to move from end-of-year paper tax returns to "real-time" online accounts. Businesses and individuals will be able...

Big data firm Dataminr has raised a Series D to fuel its expansion into additional verticals. The New York-based startup uses complex...

Facebook is giving its 500 million Messenger users the ability to send money to each other. Snapchat, Venmo, Square Pay and others all...

Data is core to many businesses in financial services. The demand for professionals with skills in data and analytics continues to...

SXSW kicked off last Friday, the 13th. This year a number of panels were focused on Bitcoin. This article provides a great list of...

In the exchange traded fund (ETF) industry, alternative or smart-beta ETFs have experienced a rapid ascent as investors capitalize on...

Manny Roman, CEO of Man Group PLC, unsurprisingly believes that quant is the future of asset management, at the level of both

Chancellor George Osborne is set to allow up to five million existing pensioners to swap their fixed annual payments for cash in this...

EU regulators voted overwhelmingly in favor (621 to 26) of placing a fee cap on consumer cards. It's estimated that once implemented...

Update on the boom of fintech and the latest startups and buzzwords in the industry.

Openfolio has found from their 20,000 users that the investment performance and strategy of Teachers makes them great investors. Last...

Security will always be a battle ground for tech. Australia's biggest banks are starting to leverage real time data analytics to flag...

Are schemaless backends a fad? If you buy into the "javascript everywhere" mantra, it seems like a no brainer. Mongodb definitely has...

With the prospects of Greece leaving the European Monetary Union last most, could swapping the euro for bitcoins be a viable way to...

Not long ago, IBM announced it's Etherum-driven IoT protocol named "ADEPT". Adding to its blockchain explorations, IBM now appears to...

Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, RRE Ventures, and Qualcomm, 21 has just raised $116m - the largest round in venture funding received by...

Kili technology joins the likes of Caviar, BookFresh, and others on the square team. Kili is made up of payment industry veterans, and...

Financial services developers have come out with the first set of apps for Apple's new watch. The watch will be available in April...

Chargebee, an Indian billing startup, has raised a substantial series B led by the New York-based investment fund Tiger Global. The...

Financial Solutions Lab is looking for innovative fintech startups that help consumers manage their household finances. The Lab,...

The technology-entrepreneurs are gearing up to launch a fully regulated bitcoin exchange named Gemini. They have touted it as the...

Citi and IBM have collaborated to create the Citi Mobile Challenge. IBM will provide participants with access to Bluemix, IBM's...

Re/Code breaks down the steps to use Apple Pay on the new Apple Watch

Blockchain/bitcoin utilization makes an important, if inevitable pivot with companies like DAH using it to optimize securities trading....

Max Wolff, economist and managing partner at Manhattan Venture Partners, talks about the dynamics and recent history of digital wallets...

That 80% of BTC may be traded for Chinese currency is interesting for a number of reasons. Officially, the Chinese government prohibits...

Trading under the ticker BIT, Silbert's Bitcoin Investment Trust is poised to beat the Winkelvii and others to become bitcoin's first...

This is not another story about a novice trader who has unlocked the secrets of the stock market. Quantopian is lowering the barrier...

The tax prep industry is likely to continue to thrive, but tax professionals at both large and small firms can expect competition to...

Where are the robo advisors when it comes to tax preparations? For a majority of American's, the decision to have their taxes done by a...

Google has launched its new car insurance price comparison tool. This move has long been rumored after the company launched a similar...

Abra (A Better Remittance App) is a new wallet and money transfer application. The CEO, Bill Barhydt, is a former director at Netscape...

More commonly filled with gold, the vaults of Spanish bank BBVA are safeguarding swaths of data. BBVA has established itself as one of...

According to Kenya's central bank, in 2014, Kenyans abroad sent home a record $1.4b, an 11% increase over 2013. Remittances are a major...

Goldman Sachs predicts that the competitive landscape for banks will change significantly over the next 5-10 years. More stringent...

For the first time since the Central Bank started stress tests in 2009, no major bank fell below any of the main capital thresholds.

According to a Burning Glass Technologies report, ~80% of middle-skill jobs in today’s workforce require tech skills. That encompasses...

Order and purchase a pizza from your car's dashboard. Pizza Hut is using beacon technology to help customers increase the convenience...

Alibaba has made a commitment to support the startup community first in Hong Kong with a $129 million fund and now in Taiwan with a...

Mobeewave turns NFC-enabled phones into secure contactless payment terminals that can receive payments from any NFC wallet without any...

As taxpayers file with the help of TurboTax, online fraudsters are looking to rob them of their refunds. The Washington Post examines...

Officially launching on March 26, FinTech Sandbox will offer startups free access to data feeds and APIs from providers such as...

Competition in the mobile payments space continues to heat up as Japan's most popular smartphone messaging app enters the market. Line...

Investments into the AI space more than tripled in 2014 compared to the previous year. These companies include natural language...

Georgia Tech just received a commitment from Worldpay to fund a new fintech accelerator at their Advanced Technology Development...

The estonian founders behind money transfer startup TransferWise led 200 demonstrators clothed only with underwear through a frigid...

Financial firms and technology companies have joined to develop the first fintech hub in Sydney. Stone and Chalk will be a physical...

With the announced $280m acquisition of Paydiant, PayPal is sending a direct message to Apply Pay. Paydiant is the developer behind the...

While the price of bitcoin remains lower than at the beginning of 2014, emerging use cases for the block chain are beginning to...

The average employee lives longer and this reality is a substantial burden to corporations with legacy pension plans. While defined...

As vehicles emerge that allow institutional investors to access Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as an asset class, will we see...