Gemalto have manufactured and deployed over 4 billion EMV cards worldwide. This 2 minute video explains what it is all about.

Proud to be the judge of the fintech category this year. Really high calibre entrants. It will be a tough to pick the winner between...

Bloomberg takes US consumers through what the EMV migration means for them in this easy to digest article. For example EMV should provide...

The UK has 30,000 independent financial advisers with opinion split on whether robo-advice will make them redunadant or complement them....

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) hosted a robo-advice forum this week. One complaint highlighted during the forum was the...

German based online banking startup, Kreditech, has raised $92m in Series C funding from investors such as Peter Thiel. Kreditech's focus...

As world leaders converged on NYC this week, one of their most important tasks was adoption of a new set of sustainable development goals...

With a focus on retirement assets and a natively institutional approach, NextCapital pulls the wraps off of some of their proprietary...

PYMNTS.com has released its latest Financial Inclusion Tracker report. The tracker is designed to provide governments, financial...

Filmmaker and charity activist, Richard Curtis helped put together a free Global Citizen Festival in Central Park for Sept. 26 to support...

The World Bank's latest report on financial inclusion found that 700m adults worldwide became bank account holders between 2011 and 2014.

The equity and FX markets were the first to be overrun by computerized trading strategies now the $12.7t Treasury market is feeling the...

Business Insider interviewed CEOs from the top fintech startups to get their opinions on how Wall Street is changing. Answers varied but...

Allstate Business Insurance recently released a new mobile app - Commercial Locker, allowing SMB owners to easily create an online...

DriverUp is a Dallas, TX based online marketplace that allows investors to buy auto loans. The company has raised a $20m Series B.

Dataminr

, a $700m startup, analyzes social data and turns it into useful information and reports for companies, has hired former Googler...

The three year old startup Onfido, has hired Google executive, Ed Ungar, to be its new chief commercial officer. Onfido is a London-based...

Velocity, the restaurant payment app based in the UK, has acquired its US competitor Cover (Terms were not disclosed). Cover had raised...

Clover Health raised $100m of equity and debt funding to expand its presence across the U.S. The round was led by First Round Capital....

Although Hong Kong is among the top three global financial centers in Asia, its investment in financial technology (FinTech) doesn’t...

5 years ago people were excited about the idea of using tech to borrow things like power drills and parking spots. There was just one...

In an effort to unseat PayPal Barclays has struck a deal with the payments tech firm Verifone to enable faster mobile payments across...

Goldman are helping to list the Fund that will target a dividend yield of 6-7% per annum on the LSE. Retail investors will be able to...

It is estimated that Banks and merchants lost an estimated $16.3 billion last year globally on fraudulent transactions, with America the...

Bulge bracket financial institutions are all over "blockchain tech" making multiple bets in the space. Some are more vocal than others...

We are used to learning the pertinent details of the latest funding rounds at startups via CrunchBase---so it is a strange twist to see...

Mumbai based online loan marketplace for individuals and SMEs has secured $3m in Series A funding led by Kalaari Capital. The company,...

San Francisco based economic data tracking platform Premise has raised $50m in Series C funding from Social + Capital Partnership and...

We have all heard the adage that "you are never too old to learn something new"----but how about when that something new is coming from...

Dan Ciporin, a GP at the Canaan Partners, was one of Lending Club’s first investors and has since served on the boards of a number of...

It appears that consolidation in the food services/restaurant industry is well underway---and given the sheer number of startups...

Fundera, the online credit marketplace for small businesses, has announced a $11.5m Series B funding round led by Susquehanna Growth...

Prosper announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire BillGuard, a personal finance analytics company that develops popular apps...

Interesting writeup on how fintech startups have adapted the "hacker" mentality and how crucial it is to maintain a story, keep...

CoverHound, the auto and property insurance startup has sold 50,000 policies in the last two years. The companyhas raised an additional...

Great video by Quovo's CEO Lowell Putnam, where he highlights that as the advice industry has realized having more client data can deepen...

We're so proud of what the team at Mighty are doing.. Read this medium by Joshua Schwadron (CEO) in full and you'll get the picture.

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Symphony continues to attack Bloomberg. The startup is now collaborating with content/data providers to seamlessly deliver timely...

Aspiration, brings a social conscious to finance. The financial advisor combines making money and making a difference. Aspiration closed...

ZenPayroll changed its name to Gusto. The company is also branching out from just payroll services and is now looking to provide benefits...

The large amount of financial data captured on small businesses has allowed new service providers to become lenders. Intuit's QuickBooks...

Pymnts.com highlights the trends from this year's Finovate NYC conference. The two day conference showcased more than 70 companies that...

Tencent is helping its customers get personal loans via WeChat. The new feature allows WeChat users to borrow up to 200,000 yuan...

18yrs after it was founded and 2yrs after Goldman Sachs took a stake in the UK motor insurer Hastings, Goldman are on track for a return...

MarketInvoice, the UK based peer-to-peer business lender, announced that it has facilitated over £500 million in funding for high-growth...

Douglas Flint, the Chairman of HSBC, pointed out this week that regulators in China and elsewhere are increasingly considering regulating...

AlphaClone has raised $2.25m in Series A financing, led by fintech focused venture firm Operative Capital. AlphaClone enables users to...

Bloomberg News has decided to lay off as many as 90 journalists as part of its strategic decision to reorient its efforts on business,...

A number of fintech vendors, data providers, service providers and accelerators, have partnered together to launch the...

Moody’s has warned that the marketplace lending industry bears some similarities to mortgage lending leading up to the 2008 financial...

Congrats to Josh and team at Mighty! FinTech Collective invested in Mighty earlier this year and is very excited to be involved. Mighty...

Interesting read from Business Insider, putting together the opinions from 17 global tier-one banks as to when they believe the Federal...

Texas based software company, Solera Holdings, reached an acquisition agreement with private equity firm, Vista, for $6.5b including...

Marketplace lending platform, CircleBack Lending, raised a $17.4m Series A round of equity financing led by Pine River Capital...

Fines, rising costs and increased regulations have caused Deutsche Bank to reduce the company's headcount by 25% or 23k jobs. Most of the...

Accounts payable and payment automation firm AvidXchange raises a $225m Series E led by Bain Capital. Other investors in the round...

Poor performance, lack of communication, corruption, and high fees are just a few reasons why investors fire their financial advisors.

PeerIQ, the Wall Street-backed startup is a credit risk analytics firm that helps institutions analyze, access and manage risk in the...

The world's biggest banks are working together to figure out how to use the blockchain. The banks are working with R3, a New York-based...

Tech IPOs in the US market has fallen to a 7 year low. Year to date, only 11% of IPOs in the US involved tech companies for comparison...

Jack Dorsey’s two companies: Twitter and Square are now working together to enable Twitter users to make donations to presidential...

Neighborly has raised $5.5m from Joe Lonsdale’s Formation 8 and Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures. The company is aimed at helping communities

This past April, Oscar raised $145 million at a $1.5 billion valuation in a bid to reimagine health insurance. Today, the company has...

According to Venture Beat's Ruth Reader, bitcoin is at an important crossroads that could determine the future relevancy of the...

Business are estimated to lose a staggering $400bn this upcoming year due to cyber attacks. And 60% of business leaders recognize cyber...

Although it has already been running in beta mode at some of the world's largest investment banks over the past year, the public is set...

John Stein and co announce a secret squirrel plan, hatched after Betterment tried to get a 401(k) plan for its employees from Vanguard.

Stripe is rolling out a new way to do e-commerce on the on the web. Check out this tweet by @WarbyParker for an example. This is a...

CircleUP, the equity crowdfunding platform that targets consumer facing companies in the US, has launched a secondary market for...

Alan Patricof, co-founder of venture capital firm Greycroft Partners, agrees with Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff on an important...

Silicon Valley based remittance service app built on the blockchain, Abra, raised $12m in Series A funding. Investors include Arbor...

In one of the biggest fintech funding weeks in history, 18 companies raised a total of $208m of funding. Without a doubt, the fundings...

Former chairman of the SEC, Arthur Levitt, is an adviser to fintech startups: SoFi, PeerIQ, Mirror, Motif Investing and Promontory...

Bloomberg's terminal business generate 75% of the company's revenues. These revenues are under attack from startups such as Symphony and

The Washington Posts does a deep dive on the approval process of getting a mortgage. The article looks at what FICO scores are most like...

Google Wallet beat Apple to the payment game by a couple of years, but Apple Pay was ultimately a bigger success. The new Google Wallet...

Charlie Hallac was BlackRock's first employee and the creator of Aladdin. In a 2013 article by the Economist, the magazine explains...

FeeX raised a small $2.75m Series B2 led by Collaborative Fund. Since 2012 FeeX has raised a total of $12.1m. The company helps...

MBA students are hungry to get involved with fintech companies. Wharton and MIT were the first two Universities to create formal clubs,...

Interesting read on the up and coming leaders and companies in the insurance industry. According to McKinsey the average age of...

Trading Ticket closed a $4m Seed Round from Valar Ventures (Peter Thiel's fund) and Citi Ventures. The company allows users to quickly...

Seems that the recent debate regarding the implementation of the blockchain ledger by global banks may be near its end. San Francisco...

New York based online lending marketplace, Orchard Platform, raised $30m in Series B funding led by Thrive Capital. Another huge step...

This has been a big week for online lending fundraising! San Francisco based lending service, Fundbox, raised $50m in equity financing,...

Bloomberg's Jeremy Kahn flew 70 mins from London to an island that has welcomed digital currencies like no other place on the planet. He...

Online student loan marketplace, CommonBond, raised $35m in Series B financing, led by August Capital. This is a great indicator of the...

Long gone are the days of a JPM or BOA branch on every corner. Commercial bank branches edged lower in 2014 as consumers are continuing...

Online credit tools and solutions company, NEFT LLC, raised $10m in Series A funding from prominent investors John Sculley, former...

“Silicon Valley has entered its political adolescence.” The tech industry employs millions of people, accounts for some of the most...

Uber’s new-business unit, known internally as UberEverything, has been pressured by CEO Travis Kalanick to to sign up a large group of...

The Clearing House, an advocacy group owned by the world’s largest commercial banks, has its gun sights on payment startups. It's a sign...

Using a good dose of fairy tale language this Re/Code article explores the differences between "straw", "stick and "brick" unicorns.

Some home grown start-ups and some foreign imports are tackling this fertile ground. According the World Bank, only 51%, of all adults...

San Francisco based online marketplace for used car sales, Shift, raised a $50m Series B financing round, led by Goldman Sachs...

UK based claim processing services company, Innovation, was acquired by the buyout group Carlyle for $772m. Innovation offers its'...

Amsterdam based investment gamification app raised a $1.7m financing round, led by Initial Capital. The company is trying to make...

Top tier Universities conducted a study on adult savings habits, reaching the conclusion that people today are well aware that they are...

According to a recent survey on consumers' perceptions of various industries, including banking, there was (yet again) a rise in...

Barclays and the bitcoin startup, Safello, will build a program that allows charities to accept bitcoin. Safello went through Barclays...

Bloomberg Business interviews 4 leading fintech entrepreneurs on their companies and their contributions to the fintech revolution. The...

New York based mobile loans app, InVenture, raised $10m in Series A funding led by Data Collective, along with other noted investors....

Australian financial insights mobile app ,MoneyBrilliant, raised $1.5m from local wealth management giant AMP. The investment is...

Why wait till regulators come knocking on the door? As startups begin lean and adaptive, they are capable of building systems that fit...

More exciting news from FinTech Collective's portfolio company, Quovo! The company announced a partnership with financial services...

UBS has joined the trend, now building their own virtual coin. The Swiss bank has partnered with a London-based startup to develop the...

Australian based online small business lender raised $60m in a Series B financing round led by Carlyle Group and Ironbridge Capital....

Paris based bitcoin payments startup, Paymium, raised €1m in Seed funding from Newfund and Kima Ventures. Co-founder Pierre Noizat...

Robo's pride themselves on providing a great product with super-low fees. Low fees are possible with ETFs and the elimination of high...

Betterment, Wealthfront, and other robo advisors acknowledge that client accounts were negatively impacted by the recent market dip, but...

Market volatility has caused many to voice their concerns with robo advisors. For the most part all retail investors were hurt by the...

The millennial generation has been the target market for many new FinTech solutions, especially in the wealth management space. Known...

The FT does a terrific job in this article of not only profiling a great start-up (we know a few of the folks involved), but also...

After reports stated that Citigroup built its' own bitcoin currency, the global bank seems to be looking at incorporating the...

As if competition between US payment providers wasn't fierce enough, now, giants like PayPal and Stripe have to face a new European...

We love sales-led companies.

But, we love companies who sell to enterprise clients, with no salespeople, even more. That's what...

Austin based collaborative lender, Able, raised $6m in Series A funding led by Blumberg Capital and RPM Ventures. The company's...

We've been waiting to rip the covers off this news!! Lowell, Niko, Michael and team are building a deeply exciting business and we're...