Allstate announced Monday it had agreed to acquire Squaretrade, which sells warranties for electronic products online.  Squaretrade...

San Francisco based payments processor Stripe has raised a $150 million venture round valuing the company over $9 billion.  The...

New York based On-Demand insurance startup Slice Labs has raised $3.9m in Series Seed funding from Horizons Ventures and XL Innovate in...

RBC Wealth Management has integrated Chicago based portfolio company into its lineup of robo deals. This is the second deal RBC has...

Tel Aviv based social peer to peer payment platform PayKey has raised $6m in Series A funding led by e.ventures and Gaby Salem of Wharton...

New Delhi based micro-loan startup AyeFinance has raised $103m in Series B funding led by LGT Impact Ventures, SAIF Partners and Accion....

San Francisco based retiree focused fintech products startup True Link Financial has raised $3.6m in venture funding led by Kapor Capital...

The California Insurance Commissioner said in a statement that the fine was levied for circumventing education requirements for insurance...

FICO and fleet driver safety company eDriving plan to introduce a smartphone app that will turn your driving behavior data into a safety...

New York based digital wealth management technology platform Vanare has raised $20m in Series A funding led by WisdomTree. Jonathan...

Goldman has let its membership in R3 lapse, despite continued interest in leveraging distributed ledger technology to cut costs and...

Portfolio company Quovo has launched its RESTful API which allows developers to instantly connect to financial accounts and verify key...

New York City-basedCoverWallet, an online insurance manager, has raised $7.8 million in Series A funding.Union Square Venturesled the...

Renew.com, a senior benefits and pension platform has raised $3m in Series A funding from Venrock and Expa among other investors. 

Whilst the Chancellor of the Exchequer got quite excited some of the UK press commented that "Nutmeg is nothing special in technical...

According to corporate filings in several states, Renaud Laplanche has started a new online lender called Credify Finance. Mr. Laplanche...

The SEC is focusing on determining how robo advisers such as Betterment and BlackRock’s Future Advisor provide customers with enough...

U.K. online lender Zopa seeks a banking license in a rare move for the peer-to-peer lending sector. The move would help it diversify its...

PeerStreet allowsaccredited investors to crowdfund loans for real-estate projects around the country. Local real estate lenders source...

The Swedish central bank is looking into whether it should issue an electronic currency "e-kronor". The Riksbank’s deputy governor...

The head of wealth and investment management at Wells, said the partnership with SigFig will “mark an important step forward in...

The city state's central bank plans to launch a pilot project with the country's stock exchange and a consortium of FIs including BAML,...

Blythe Masters and DAH had another crack of the technology whip this week with the launch of their Global Synchronization Log "GSL". You...

The CFPB is ramping up its efforts to ensure bank customers can freely give their account data to online lenders, financial planners, and...

Portfolio company Vestwell has announced its debut white-label partnership with Kovack Advisors, Inc. Vestwell, the industry's first and...

InvestmentNews has highlighted the possible hurdles the incoming Trump Administration would have to conquer in reversing the Labor...

Portfolio company Artivest has continued strengthening its team, announcing two new key hires. The investment platform has appointed...

While most sectors of the market have rallied sharply post Trump election, technology shares have bucked the trend on speculation that...

Senior advisors to Trump believe that the Fed policies to date have been extremely harmful small business while benefiting larger...

Donald Trump inherits a 2,826-day-old rally in U.S. stocks that has defied history, overcoming anemic economic growth and a 15-month...

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is racing to complete a revamp of international capital standards before President-elect...

For more than two years, markets have priced in a lot less monetary tightening than was signaled by the Fed's "blue dots." This...

Moscow based Blackmoon has raised $2.5m in equity funding from A&NN Group, Flint Capital and Target Global. Blackmoon is a technology...

Dublin based peer-to-peer currency exchange marketplace CurrencyFair has raised $9 million in venture funding led by Octopus Ventures and...

Belgium based data management platform Teamleader has secured €10m in Series B funding led by Fortino Capital. Teamleader’s cloud...

Vancouver based relationship bank software provider raised a $10m venture round led by Vistar Capital Partners and Beedie Capital Partners.

Singapore based cross-board payments startup Toast raised a $1.5m Series Seed led by Aetius Capital.

Singapore-based mobile payments process MC Payment raised a $3.5m venture round led by 2W Group.

PayPal has introduced Siri support, allowing users to send and request money using voice commands.  Apple added Siri support earlier...

FTC portfolio company Vestwell was recently featured in an article by TrustAdvisor. The publication sat down with founder Aaron Schumm to...

Shares of Lending Club jumped 18% on Monday after beating expectations for Q3 and announcing a partnership with the National Bank of...

Dublin based invoice financing startup Arex has raised €3m in venture funding led by Lifeline Ventures. “We solve cash flow problem of...

San Francisco based commercial insurance startup Indio has raised $2m in Series Seed funding from backers including NEA, Compound, Merus...

John brings a wide range of applicable experience in cryptography for distributed systems and Stephen brings more than 20yrs of...

Institutional Investor highlights how Nadir Khan's Qineqt will use big data and fundamental analysis to help hedge funds and other...

New York based trading compliance startup Droit has raised $16m in funding from backers including Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and DRW...

From 2000 to 2009, American death rates improved three times faster than they did from 2010 to 2014. The 2016 study turned negative, as...

San Diego based social enterprise fundraising platform classy has raised $30m in Series C funding led by JMI Equity. As part of the...

London based provider of digital fundraising solutions for the education and nonprofit sectors, Hubbub, has earned $1m for placing runner...

UK auto insurance firm Admiral has devised a new algorithmic assessment of Facebook profiles in order to determine potential insurance...

SoFi is solidifying its plans to launch a life-insurance product by acquiring state licenses in CA, AR, NY, FL, MA and SD and setting up...

Edinburgh, Scotland based cloud accounting platform FreeAgent has announced its plans for an initial public offering on the London Stock...

California based risk alignment software firm Riskalyze has raised $20m in Series A funding led by FTV Capital. Financial planners use...

Without saying how it might oversee financial-technology firms in the future, the OCC is setting up an innovation office in Washington,...

Riskalyze, a Sacramento-based risk analysis technology firm, announced a $20 million influx from FTV Capital. It was Riskalyze’s first...

Alibaba's Ant Financial is counting on partners outside China to bring its model of online finance and local services to emerging Asian...

Cross River Bank closed a $28M round of investment led by Battery Ventures. Andreessen Horowitz and Ribbit Capital also participated. CRB...

Days after the launch of Zcash, the newly released digital currency (ZEC). was trading at roughly twice the price of bitcoin! Zcash’s...

Indio, a commercial insurance platform for brokers has secured $2 million in seed financing from NEA, Compound, Merus Capital, 500...

Analysts at the SEC mine 16yrs and 10B rows of trading data via a home-grown program called Artemis backed up by a $90M 5yr contract with...

Sanford Bernstein's new research note asked "How big a threat are the new batch of robo-advisors to traditional active fund managers?" 

A terrific long form read on the scale of US Govt. regulation. Dodd-Frank, which not only created a powerful agency called the CFPB also...

After AIG paid out promptly after the Virgin Galactic disaster, an impressed Sir Richard Branson approached them about doing business...

The UK insurer is analyzing social media poststo determine who deserves a lower premium. People who seem cautious and deliberate in their...

For financial advisors making the transition to compliance with new DOL fiduciary rules, robo advisory could be a compelling option....