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Kantox, the currency exchange fintech company based in Barcelona, has closed a $11 million Series B round led by French VCs Partech...

LendKey closed an $8M venture debt line from Silicon Valley Bank. The company's lending platform connects borrowers with credit unions...

Lyzico's goal is to become the Stripe of the Middle East. The company believes the region's unique market dynamics will help them fight...

Klarna processes 30% of all online purchases in Sweden. Last year it processed $9b worth of transactions globally. Now the company wants...

An old IBM mainframe was setup with the SHA 256 hashing algorithm. It took around 80 seconds to complete one hash. To put that in...

Docker has quickly become the go to resource for container images, but some of their official images may have serious security...

We know we shouldn't, but most of us do it anyway: access the Internet on Wi-Fi networks at coffee shops and airports, knowing full well...

Google has confirmed that it is to introduce a "buy button" to its search results imminently. The button would give Google Search users...

Yard Club charges a transaction fee for connecting renters and owners. It also provides a standard rental agreement and makes sure both...

Ready to pay by phone? Here's the 7 things you need to know: 1) A fingerprint scan isn't required. 2) Tokenization keeps your money secure.

Google announced the arrival of Android Pay and a revamped Google Wallet today. The NYTimes provides a great primer for both.

This Recode article provide a solid, but concise review of the new Android M operating system announced today. Included in the update...

Bitcoin keeps getting more legit as Xapo announced this week that former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, ex-Citigroup Inc....

"8 Now!" allows customers to begin investing in a global portfolio with as little as $88 and only a 0.88% service fee. Investors have the...

Another insurance company is buying a financial services technology startup. John Hancock announced Tuesday that it acquired Guide...

Forrester Research predicts mobile payments will balloon to $142 billion by 2019 in the US. As both Google and Apple approach their...

Beacon tech has had a few notable boosts recently as retailers try and use the tech to connect online behavior with offline sales. The...

Goldman research analysts called for JPMC to be broken up into 4 parts earlier this year based on their lacklustre ROE. They are not...

As banks are increasingly unwilling to act as market-makers due to financial and regulatory pressures on their balance sheets start-ups...

20 years after her first report on "Internet Trends" Mary Meeker presented her latest vision for the biggest tech trends in 2015. The...

As Quartz highlighted this week Pope Francis has brought the Vatican Bank back to life. Profits have skyrocketed at the holy bank as it...

Quovo's CEO, Lowell Putnam, chimes in on the conversation that is developing among investment advisers about which CRM tool to back if...

A few hours after Newsweek released its story about the man it alleged to be Satoshi Nakamoto, in March 2014, Goldman Sachs invited Barry...

Bloomberg published an expansive report on the future of bitcoin this week. TradeBlock provided the data and charts and commentary came...

Raspberry pi, the easily programmable 35 dollar computer, has been hugely successful, and has found its way into everything from smart...

Stripe, known for its developer friendly payments SDK, is another billion dollar start-up that continues the trend of Unicorns raising...

Culture, culture, and culture. With the recent rash of banking malpractice, it's hard to believe that they are all "Isolated rogue...

For the first time cash transactions have been overtaken by electronic payments in the UK. Regulators are watching to make sure further...

There were some pearls hidden in the 1 million + emails and recorded telephone calls gathered during the recent Forex manipulation...

NYC's bitcoin cop, Benjamin Lawsky, who became one of Wall Street’s toughest critics, is leaving government to start his own law and...

A powerful investment consigliere; a Facebook Inc. insider; the ex-wife of comedian Eddie Murphy: this story has all that, and more.

With filipinos crowned as the worlds most engaged social media users, the Philippines regulator is to start formally monitoring social...

Stephen Bell spent seven years hunting for bargain investments among the startups founded by China’s entrepreneurs. Now he’s packed his...

This NYT SundayReview section about "wife bonuses" last weekend got a lot of people buzzing and generated a few twitter wise cracks:

JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS have plead guilty to rigging the currency markets. Unlike...

Sophisticated quant funds have been deploying AI and its subset, machine learning, for years. Now data shops are leveraging the power of...

A look at Bitcoin from a historical perspective. We have always made incremental progress on game changing technologies, this article...

FTC Capital led the $40m Series D Round for the 6 year-old company, which to date has raised a total of $75m in venture funding. WePay is...

The NYSE launched a bitcoin index Tuesday. The index is named NYXBT and it will reflect data from the Coinbase bitcoin exchange, which...

Bain Capital led a $13M Series B round. In total, the company has raised $20 million in three rounds since 2013. Justworks, is an HR and...

The CFPB filed a complaint against PayPal, Inc. for illegally signing up consumers for its online credit product, PayPal Credit, formerly...

Branch.co is launching in Kenya (with m-pesa as a data input) and will analyzes details like: how much a user spends on a typical day,...

You will need to settle in for this article - it's a long one, but bloody brilliant! If software is truly eating the world, wouldn't...

Two weeks after Ripple Labs was fined by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) for violating the Bank Secrecy Act the company...

David Klein, the CEO and co-founder of CommonBond, a student lending platform, provides his insights on how and why banking is changing. ...

MasterCard Send will enable customers to move funds into debit accounts in a half-hour or less, compared to the one to three days that...

Details of the most secretive and well funded bitcoin start-up, 21 Inc., have finally been revealed by chairman and CEO, Balaji Srinivasan,

The payments startup Clinkle, led by the 24 year old CEO and founder, Lucas Duplan, continues to struggle. The company most recently...

Over the last few years, online marketplace lenders have enjoyed "regulatory arbitrage" over incumbent institutions. Going forward, that...

Robo advisors are becoming commonplace thanks to their considerably cheaper offerings than those provided by human wealth managers. The...

Vouch uses and analyzes data from borrowers' social graphs to establish their creditworthiness. In addition, it also asks members of a...

Launched in 2013, Alibaba's money market fund manages over $100b, making it the fastest growing mutual fund of all time. Other Chinese...

Node's more advanced fork, Io.js is going to be merged back into Node. If you were an early adopter of the tech, you should be extra...

As a cheeky response to the "full-stack" startup, USV has coined the term "no-stack" startup to label the bevy of companies...

Twins from Harvard (no, not the Winklevii) have launched Camino Financial to help Latino's in the US boost their credit score and...

The 401(k) industry is changing. U.S. retirement assets total more than $24.7t with $706b in target-date funds (TDF). The problem with...

NerdWallet, the online tools platform that helps customers understand how to make better financial decisions, has raised $64m in a...

Square's financing arm, Square Capital, aims to provide cash advances to businesses unable to secure loans from traditional channels....

While personal finance startups have mainly focused on helping people manage their money and investments, Credit Sesame has instead...

Innovate Finance's founding CEO Claire Cockerton is handing the reigns over to Lawrence Wintermeyer. Wintermeyer brings over 20 years...

Over 40% of online transactions in Japan are non-credit card purchases. Paidy facilitates online transactions by guaranteeing the...

As internet and tech companies acknowledge financial services as a big growth opportunity, the world's third-largest smartphone maker...

Here's what Betterment, Wealthfront and 3 other robo advisers picked for a moderate US investor. Interestingly the portfolios varied...

Samsung paid $250M for Massachusetts based LoopPay, the tech platform that will power mobile payments on Samsung's Galaxy phones. Jason...

Nasdaq will pilot the project in Nasdaq Private Market, which launched in January 2014 to handle pre-IPO trading among private companies.

Last week bitcoin markets saw relatively dramatic price movement across the major exchanges and TradeBlock's XBX Index was there to

Finance Logix, the financial planning software provider, was acquired by Envestnet for $30m. The transaction marks a new trend that...

Kate Aronowitz, Facebook's former design director, joined Wealthfront last week and told FastCompany why finance, of all things, had...

The Economist has just published a special report on fintech. According to the report, the fintech revolution will reshape finance by...

What is the immediate impact of the fine? Most probably it will cause at least a few potential bank partners to pause. On the other...

Visa has opened a new international fintech accelerator in London, the Visa Europe Collab. This so-called innovation hub will aim to...

Charlie Shrem, the 25-year-old founder of the bitcoin exchange BitInstant, began his 24 month prison sentence last month. Shrem was...

The regulatory response to prevent another 'Flash Crash' is behind schedule. A lack of consensus of who should pay for the $500m...

After the success of betting websites (DraftKings and FanDuel) there are now companies developing fantasy games focused on stock...

Openfolio was featured in US News this week. Openfolio, which brings the power of social networks to personal investing, is focused on...

Robinhood, the mobile-first financial brokerage, is leveraging technology to allow users to buys and sell stock without being charged a...

We're excited to announce that our portfolio company, Artivest, has raised a $15m Series A round led by the private equity firm KKR....

It's good to know that for all the press Ripple is getting for its AML/KYC compliance problems, the overall reaction amongst the public...

itBit has been one of the bitcoin companies to watch over the last year because of how fast they've acquired capital and their rapid BD...

Affirm, the company that Max Levchin started to provide installment loans to consumers at the point of sale, has raised $275 million in...

The first working draft started circulating mid April but there are plenty of revisions still to come. The payment processes...

The San Francisco-based provider of automated savings tools raises $11.3 million in a Series A round. The company helps consumers save by

The $4.5b valuation represents a 9x jump over its last round of funding, which happened just one year ago. The company is growing so...

Big news today that could materially effect Ripple's ability to continue its strategy of selling into banks. Ripple has responded with...

Are US regulators stifling innovation in the US? Amazon clearly thinks so as it bypasses what it sees as a lethargic approach by US...

Summary: The financial services industry has seen the buzz over artificial intelligence (AI) before, but will the result be different...

October will soon be here and the Payments Liability shift is due to take place in the US.

As global losses due to financial fraud...

CEO of Capital One, Richard Fairbank is encouraging his bank to think more like a technology company and less like a financial...

The round was led by a USAA subsidiary and Tokyo-based VC Digital Garage. The company has raised a total of $50m in funding.

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As more retired individuals outlive their money, choosing the optimal retirement financing option is key. Enter Abaris, the only...

Rob Forreger is the co-founder of Personal Capital and NextCapital. In this article, Rob provides perspectives on what the emerging...

There was a change of leadership at MCX, the mobile-payments effort backed by major merchants including Walmart, a day after member...

SRB has invited quite a cast of characters to his Caribbean bolt hole to discuss Bitcoin. Some on the list are the real deal, others...

Even by Silicon Valley standards, Secret’s arc from next big thing to yesterday’s news was breathtakingly fast (just 16 months)!...

This is an interesting exploratory piece by Lendit organiser Jason Jones. He put pen to paper after being asked the question "Where...

Sell by fear! This recent patent filed by Bank of America describes a tool that "ages" a current picture of you in the hope of scaring...

Many smaller financial services firms, registered investment advisers, insurance agents should pay attention to this important change....